July 2010
94 posts
have to watch a few times to pick them out ~ 35 movies visually simplified and then re-presented in a two minute film: http://bit.ly/d0hp4g
i think my laptop just gave me the finger. is grunting and groaning over the size of the video i’m trying to export.
i’m sure I’ve written something that’d qualify ~ michael kinsley starts #mostboringarticleever contest. http://bit.ly/d4dUtL
and crappy cities? ~ A great city deserves a great newspaper http://post.ly/pCFG (via @AnnaTarkov)
privacy and security, not facebook’s strong suit ~ 100 million users’ personal info ends up on file sharing site: http://bit.ly/c1u7mF
.@10000Words happens with academic research and citations too.
got questions, what would you ask? interviewing google news on friday for the future journalism project. tell me what you’d like to know.
the morning WTF ~ man faces 16 years for filming police during traffic stop. charged with violating wiretap laws: http://bit.ly/dyv71I
great work by @eff in winning DMCA exemptions for jailbreaking phones and accessing DVD content: http://bit.ly/9lAJli
evening humor ~ the very sad tale of missy the missing cat (aka, don’t mess with designers): http://bit.ly/b5P3Vh
content farms are an evolutionary business model says @dbenk: http://to.pbs.org/cRXk1Y
when i think back to all the crap i learned in high school ~ last roll of kodachrome is shot & processed: http://bit.ly/bT2d9p
wikileaks has a plan, a very interesting plan: http://jr.ly/n89s (h/t @jayrosen_nyu: )
come gather round people wherever you roam ~ new afghan doc leaks called largest in history: http://bit.ly/b3szIt #wikileaks
firefox’s tab candy by @azaaza is a user interface win. in alpha now but looking forward to playing with it. http://bit.ly/dfF1jB
Wikileaks Afghanistan: What the NYT Says →
Via the NY Times:
Over all these documents amount to a real-time history of the war reported from one important vantage point — that of the soldiers and officers actually doing the fighting…
Leakage: Wikileaks Has a Plan →
Via Computer World:
Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal…
7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs →
Via Flowing Data:
Charts and graphs have found their way into news, presentations, and comics, with users from art to design to statistics. The design principles for these data graphics will…
A Beatles Hair Story →
Discovered via Flowing Data. Originally from Alison.
Created by mozzarellapoppy.
Saturday morning and I’ve arrived at what my brother affectionately calls nerd camp. it’s good to feel at home. #dcnyc8
classy ~ “Copyright Used To Silence 10-Year-Old Girl Raising Money For Charity” http://bit.ly/9NmMqO (via @CopyrightLaw)
anyone going to drupalcamp in NYC tomorrow? ping me if you are. would like to meet new faces. #dcnyc8.
cause, you know, who’d want a level playing field ~ GOP senators to block #netneutrality: http://bit.ly/bJWUuP
words i never imagined stringing together ~ you too can now drink a $765, 110 proof beer poured from a dead squirrel: http://bit.ly/cDTP76
forensic audio repair. hate doing it but it’s what my afternoon’s about. using bias’ peak and all sorts of plugins. blech.
nice ~ cpj adds secure pages to “help protect our readers who are at risk of surveillance and censorship.” http://bit.ly/9l4BdN
team building ~ experienced gamers “are the highest-level performers, [they] constantly… seek out the next challenge” http://bit.ly/9XOYsU
Sherrod achieves something almost unheard of in overheated DC: swift and utter vindication. http://bit.ly/c4Pra6 (via @ktumulty)
does slate’s article on how to improve al qaeda’s english magazine aid and abet a terrorist organization? http://bit.ly/9f8jR5
security geek says US lacks nerdpower: http://bit.ly/bzuaR4 #cyberwar
worth it? ~ google’s back in china, promises to “avoid linking to material deemed a threat to national security…” http://bit.ly/ajXy6W
since brietbart has demonstrably proven he’s an editorial assclown, can we agree to ignore him when he next crawls out from his cave?
you want the subscribers or the traffic? ~ times traffic drops 90% after paywall goes up: http://bit.ly/aqPLc0
and? ~ shut down blog network said to have unknowingly hosted “al qaeda” content: http://bit.ly/dAmvmb
waste not, want not ~ china now the world’s largest energy consumer: http://bit.ly/c0CBNm
i hope he keeps a goodly chunk of that ~ “Mike Allen’s Playbook… earns [Politico] $780,000 in annual ad-revenue.” http://bit.ly/dD3Mty
once upon a time “drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people.” http://bit.ly/azTS2f
wow. just wow. in RI, looking for a local movie theater and came across this… this… web site: http://bit.ly/ctFFgM
good morning from rhode island: http://yfrog.com/b5p7mkj
joy to take you into the weekend ~ princess leia apprehended on the subway: http://bit.ly/97lyYn
please forward/make suggestions about upcoming interviewees ~ crowdsourcing the future journalism project: http://bit.ly/caZVeZ
Princess Leia Apprehended on Subway →
Two days ago Improv Everywhere, New York City-based culture jammers founded by Upright Citizens Brigade’s Charlie Todd, released this glorious contribution to subway…
spent 20 minutes on @nytimes searching for a 1993 article. no luck. did one search query on google and it was the first hit.
this weekend’s @nytimes mag has a good profile of @StateDept’s digital diplomacy efforts - http://icio.us/2xt1gp
paper bans user anonymity ~ “This is a necessary step… if [we are] going to continue to provide a forum for comments” http://bit.ly/aBjMK0
Audio Narcotics →
America continues it’s dance with stupidity.
From Wired:
Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And…
in other news, the chicken came before the egg: http://bit.ly/ayHjob
from the onion? no. oklahoma ~ parents beware: binaural audio files are narcotic digital gateways to real drugs - http://bit.ly/cObYcD
signal, meet noise ~ we see 1,800 online ads per day (forrester research, 2009). how many do we actually remember?
remarkable ~ RT @marshallk: How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made http://bit.ly/bLcDrv