April 2010
107 posts
logical? leonard nimoy retires. hanging up the spock ears - http://bit.ly/bBGSMg
napolean: “three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 1,000 bayonets.”
cuban: FB is apple and google’s biggest threat but needs a mobile platform. enter msft who should buy it - http://bit.ly/ceWIMj
riding Amtrak up the ct & ri coastline today. very beautiful.
Band: If You Want To File Share Our Music, Cool, But Please Share It Widely - http://tinyurl.com/2g7ny3c
mcluhan: “true social and political navigation depends upon anticipating the consequences of innovation.”
ReadWriteWeb: How to Delete Facebook Applications (and Why You Should) - http://tinyurl.com/26y2aet
White House releases some of its #drupal modules back to the community - http://tinyurl.com/2av4dlf
April 22, 2010. 11:30am. my trusty macbook pro is dead. may you travel well to the great silicon in the sky.
once again, it’s all about the benjamins ~ Rejoice America, we got new 100 dollar bills! http://wpo.st/fBs (via @anupkaphle)
nice ~ Solar-Powered Death Star: http://tinyurl.com/y6fdxry
things abrewing at my alma mater. @emilybell to head columbia jschool digital program. well done. http://is.gd/bCkWZ
mike chambers outlines how adobe will shift its focus to android - http://tinyurl.com/y5jmx97
a pew study says teens would rather text than talk on the phone except when it comes to their parents. a survey of me reveals the same.
may the mashups begin ~ world bank releases open data sets covering 209 countries from 1960 to 2008 - http://bit.ly/9UNEUM (via @ScribeLabs)
6 million views on that Gizmodo iPhone story? Best $5,000 they ever spent (via @averybooker)
oddity - amtrak to run its texas-oklahoma trains on cow fat. serious. http://bit.ly/d1TIOM
blog post: Are video games art? Or just a root solution to saving the world? - http://bit.ly/bXhZIj
Are Video Games Art? →
I don’t write nearly as much about games as I should. Considering they incorporate the audio, visual and tactile sensory goodness I hold dear it’s more than an oversight on my part.
Perhaps…
i see the android robot commercial a lot. it’s horrifying, and not in a that was a great horror film type of way.
shame: Gang Starr’s Guru Dead At 43 - http://bit.ly/boZ69l
so you’re saying lindsey graham’s politics are against “real america” because he’s gay? http://bit.ly/deqmZ4 #bunchofnutters
saved by the cloud: evernote desktop crapped out on me. uninstalled, reinstalled, synced and am good to go.
am working on a gaming piece and came across this onion video. fun times: http://onion.com/ajTyMd
opera iPhone browser is great *except* if a site throws a pop-up ad. then you’re in a hole you can’t browse beyond. this is a problem.
RT @anupkaphle Must Read: Studies in Crap presents 1965 ‘Your Career in Journalism’ http://bit.ly/b0T45G (via @karn_dhingra)
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but can’t get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple’s satire police http://bit.ly/drj9aq (via @10000Words)
not surprising ~ ceo changes, now this RT @paidcontent: Ning Cuts 40 Percent Of Staff; Goes All Paid http://cnt.to/ko7 (via @sdkstl)
got me. i’m amused ~ I’m The Guy Who Smokes, Plus I Got Depression — http://www.theawl.com/?p=34550 (via @Awl)
RT @clairecm: Wow, someone tweets an NYT link every 4 seconds, says @harrisj, who started the @nytimes account in 2007 #chirp (via @Chikodi)
with continued protests in the street, thailand cracks down on FB and twitter: http://bit.ly/br4NGC
RT @scribemedia: what did they say? google replay lets you search for social conversation at specific points in time: http://bit.ly/bb2BJc
played with opera for the iPhone. takes a few minutes to get used to but then two thumbs up. speedy and doesn’t have safari’s reload issues.
~@atlantic_online takes a stand re: journo biz models. “whatever is left standing will be the model that works.” http://bit.ly/9BVplR
good for them: instead of rushing to patent, indian scientists open source their tuberculosis genome work - http://bit.ly/9x1iPj
feds question big media’s piracy claims. says data used to measure economic impact isn’t quantifiable: http://bit.ly/b84Xgs
but will it be sexy? linux WePad set to launch in july. is an open system so will be interesting to follow - http://bit.ly/b9mGRs
some afternoon wu: Is Net Neutrality Dead? http://bit.ly/aHO9nc (via @superwuster)
we get it bill, you really, really really want to bomb Iran: http://bit.ly/cCsRYj #kristolfetish
currently listening: “nobody is talking about chocolate like people are talking about wine…” http://bit.ly/bJVmyZ
don’t tell Texas but it’s Thomas Jefferson’s bday today.
conan goes to tbs: http://nyti.ms/bHrjcE
video & interview: Pacman as Torture Porn Psycho Thriller - http://bit.ly/boyDw0
blog post - to create or aggregate, that’s not the question: http://bit.ly/aK7KHb
To Create or Aggregate, That’s Not the Question →
Ant Boxing. TruShu via Creative Commons/Flickr.
Last week my Internets got caught in the crossfire of an online journalism spat.
Seems Sharon Waxman had enough of Michael Wolff. Specifically, Waxman, a former New York Times entertainment reporter and now editor of The Wrap is pissed that Wolff, a Vanity Fair columnist and founder of Newser.com, is “stealing” her content. She
Pacman as Torture Porn Psycho Thriller →
We here at ScribeHQ like our Pacman and like our videos. Combine the two and there’s a whole lot of love going out to the comedy-production group Therefore You.
In the…
crowd wisdom comes through. was recommended i do an smc reset and my macbook is quiet again: http://bit.ly/9uLnBH
wikipedia cofounder writes FBI, says he believes the site is hosting child porn - http://bit.ly/c5kiKQ
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