Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 22nd from 15:38 to 09:38:

• Fast Company –
• Tim Bray on Glass –
• Masturbation ‘at the root of culture wars’ –
• Inside Google’s Secret Lab – Businessweek –
• strat?chery by Ben Thompson | Yahoo, Tumblr, and the Signal-to-ads Cycle – "When you consider what has worked on other mediums – voiceover for radio, commercials for TV, spreads for magazines – there’s reason to believe [native advertising] is the future of online advertising. Tumblr is focused on native advertising, and Yahoo now has a toehold."