July 2010
97 posts
The 100 best magazine articles ever: an ongoing collaborative list http://su.pr/26OXAF (via @GOOD)
need my intelligence cap for today’s future journalism project interviews ~ bill grueskin (columbia/wsj) & josh cohen (google news).
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.
.@10000Words happens with academic research and citations too.
privacy and security, not facebook’s strong suit ~ 100 million users’ personal info ends up on file sharing site: http://bit.ly/c1u7mF
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)
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
evening humor ~ the very sad tale of missy the missing cat (aka, don’t mess with designers): http://bit.ly/b5P3Vh
great work by @eff in winning DMCA exemptions for jailbreaking phones and accessing DVD content: http://bit.ly/9lAJli
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
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 has a plan, a very interesting plan: http://jr.ly/n89s (h/t @jayrosen_nyu: )
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…
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…
president wyclef? ~ RT @lksriv: Wyclef Jean to run for Haitian presidency http://bit.ly/ancquU
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
nice ~ cpj adds secure pages to “help protect our readers who are at risk of surveillance and censorship.” http://bit.ly/9l4BdN
forensic audio repair. hate doing it but it’s what my afternoon’s about. using bias’ peak and all sorts of plugins. blech.
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
since brietbart has demonstrably proven he’s an editorial assclown, can we agree to ignore him when he next crawls out from his cave?
worth it? ~ google’s back in china, promises to “avoid linking to material deemed a threat to national security…” http://bit.ly/ajXy6W
you want the subscribers or the traffic? ~ times traffic drops 90% after paywall goes up: http://bit.ly/aqPLc0
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
waste not, want not ~ china now the world’s largest energy consumer: http://bit.ly/c0CBNm
and? ~ shut down blog network said to have unknowingly hosted “al qaeda” content: http://bit.ly/dAmvmb
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…
signal, meet noise ~ we see 1,800 online ads per day (forrester research, 2009). how many do we actually remember?