September 2011
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A Sculpture Park's Grand Illusions on the Hudson -... →
I love that this sort of “locative” art, which I was first introduced to in one of William Gibson’s recent books, is here turned into something “real” and certainly ambitious and substantive. Very cool.
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August 2011
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Tumblr Finds Sweet Spot in Fashion, Media Brands |... →
Interesting piece about how brands are using Tumblr to build awareness and connection to their products. I love the site, but it’s definitely still a work in progress in terms of how I might recommend it to clients for everyday use.
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“Here’s the solution: spin it off. Slate doesn’t deserve to be slowly whittled...”
– Paul Smalera, How to reboot Slate
I concur. Which probably means it won’t happen, and Slate will instead die the death of a thousand cuts.
(via stoweboyd)
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FREE ALBUM: SPIN's Dance Mix for Electric Zoo! |... →
Spin.com giving away 15 dance tracks in honor of this weekend’s Electric Zoo festival in NYC
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“Don’t expect anybody to throw a tea party, but Big Government finally got one...”
– Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, “Hurricane Irene and the Benefits of Big Government” (via inothernews)
Read Milbank - then read Decoder’s two part series on whether the US needs FEMA: part I, part II.
(via dcdecoder)
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D.C. Drama Has Been Very Good for Politico | The... →
And here’s a take on a very different news website model, for Politico, bolstered by a physical publication in the DC area. It’s thriving, in part because of the recent craziness on Capitol Hill. Nice to know SOMEONE is benefiting from all of that.
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Slate's Layoffs Signal Flaws in Web Model -... →
“Economic head winds” hit Slate, lead to layoffs of Jack Shafer and some other writers. Slate still hasn’t figured out sustainable model for web-only news site, despite its consistent excellence. Hope they figure it out soon.
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“I think readers can find, already, a dozen pieces that couldn’t get past the...”
– Tom Lutz, editor-in-chief of the L.A. Review of Books, in an interview with LAist. (via latimes)
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My YouTube Is Bigger Than Yours - Speakeasy - WSJ →
ComScore starts offering more granular information about which “channels” on YouTube are scoring the most viewers. This is a big and important shift for these subsites trying to attract advertisers and more viewers. Finally, they can point to a third-party measurement of their tremendous viewership.
That Vevo is No. 1 with its music video feeds is no surprise. But the huge viewer base...
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How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a... →
Scamming the scammers: how online vigilantes bait and humiliate 419 fraudsters out of West Africa and beyond. Very entertaining tales from the Atlantic on this Darwinian battle of scam and counterscam
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“Conrad thought that when one wrote, even in a realistic way, about the world,...”
– That Conrad was a bright fellow. Love this quote.
Jorge Luis Borges (via scipsy)
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A Sleep Battle of the Sexes - WSJ.com →
Good piece on gender differences in sleep patterns: women sleep more deeply, complain more about bad sleep. Men are stoic, but less sleep may contribute to shorter lives. Plus, some ways to trick the body so you sleep better.
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Down There by the Train: The Four Most Remarkable... →
Bill Bryson being brilliant about the importance of enjoying the heck out of that remarkable, evanescent thing known as life
downtherebythetrain:
Here are the four most remarkable facts I now know about nearly everything.
First, you exist. You’re alive. That’s really quite a marvellous thing to be able to say, when you think about it. For you to be here now, trillions and trillions of drifting...
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You Blink You Lose: National Geographic team... →
This is one way to end the day on an Up! note….
laudanumforbreakfast:
The team from National Geographic have built a house inspired by the Pixar movie Up! that can really fly.
Using 300 helium-filled weather balloons, a team of scientists, engineers, two balloon pilots and dozens of volunteers, they managed to get the small house 10,000 feet into the air.
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The American Prospect: Michael Bloomberg's Young... →
Bold and promising attempt by Mike Bloomberg and George Soros to help shift outcomes for poor black and Latino males. Hope it works, and becomes a useful guide for further efforts by others.
capitalnewyork:
His $127 million Young Men’s Initiative (YMI) has been called the “boldest and most comprehensive” plan to serve this population ever undertaken by a local government. Almost half of the...
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“Is this not nuts? There’s only one president at a time, occupying the toughest...”
– Give Obama a break - CNN.com (via mikehudack)
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The top 10 electric cars most likely to succeed |... →
Interesting list of the most promising electric vehicles hitting the market now. Lots of possibilities here.
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Google's Big Mistake - Buying Motorola to Save... →
This Forbes piece lays out a lot of my own thoughts on Google-Motorola. Hard to see how protecting one business that doesn’t make Google any money by buying another business that isn’t making any money ends up making Google any money. On the other hand, as the old joke goes, maybe they’ll make it up on volume.
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“The Tea Party is no longer about economics, not that it ever solely was. At the...”
– What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party (via azspot)
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Crashing the Tea Party →
So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest...
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Somebody's Got to Save This Country From Certain... →
Michelle Bachman makes her case in The Onion as a unifier of the country. There may be a few holes in “her” reasoning.
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Rick Perry’s War With the Bushies: Why Karl Rove... →
Some internecine nastiness rears its ugly head in the GOP, here with a scorching attack on Karl Rove by a former Bush/Rumsfeld speechwriter. Interesting to see it’s not only the Democrats who eat their own.
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“To understand this transformation of El Paso and Juarez’s interdependence, all...”
– Commuting to Drug War’s Stalingrad « Zócalo Public Square
Fascinating piece about a journalist in a war zone, only this one is across the Rio Grande River in Juarez. She stops at the Starbuck’s on the way to the latest senseless slaughter on the other side of the border, and sleeps...
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Age of Empires Online could make free-to-play... →
Oh man, this is like giving away crack all day to real-time strategy gamers. SO not fair. Must. Say. No.
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“Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher...”
– I think this is exactly the sort of thing I would do if I were writing about me to people of higher status. Like to all the people who aren’t me.
The Secret Language Code: Scientific American (via slantback) 