August 2012
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Crazy numbers associated with the Indian blackouts
Don’t know if anyone is paying attention in the United States, but right now, India’s power grid is having an epic meltdown.
Day one left as many as 350 million people without power, subways, street lights, air conditioning, etc. in the northern regions around New Delhi. Today, it’s even worse, with three different major grids all collapsing, leaving as many as 670 million...
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Qantas offers free iPads for all passengers, saves... →
Love this. They could also just make available a Qantas app for those already bringing their own iPad. That would give them a chance to add other functionality, like flight deals, direct booking, airport information, ground-transportation links, hotel and rental car booking and all the rest. They could private-label a big chunk of it and avoid re-inventing the wheel, and still build a stronger...
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What the Instagram backlash says about the future... →
Some good points here about the elitist carping of specialists upset about Instagram’s democratizing ease of production and distribution of photography (admittedly, much of it not particularly interesting or unique) and how the complaints have cropped up, oh, a few hundred millions of times before, with many kinds of creative technology.
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Barnes & Noble Nook for Web gives free access to...
Pretty cool stuff from Barnes & Noble, spotted by the redoubtable Tara Calashain on her indispensable ResearchBuzz newsletter/blog/whatsit:
Barnes & Noble has announced NOOK for Web: “… an innovative and free new browser experience that offers readers the ability to explore the hottest digital titles and bestselling books right from their computer – no sign-in, software download or NOOK...
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Can Tumblr’s David Karp Embrace Ads Without... →
Interesting NYT profile of David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, at a pivot time in the site’s evolution to big-boy status, as it considers how to incorporate ads into its large and highly engaged creative community.
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Gil Scott-Heron concert tribute this weekend in... →
This should be awesome: a tribute concert to the late Gil Scott-Heron as part of Grand Performances in downtown LA on Friday.
Brian Jackson - who collaborated with Scott-Heron on a series of amazing 1970s albums that combined poetry, politics and jazz into a combustible forerunner of hip-hop - will be leading a large group of performers.
I really can’t wait to see this.
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“I’m happy to tell you it’s the Republicans’ fault. The normal rule of democracy...”
– Gail Collins (via azspot)
God Bless Gail Collins…
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Click on the little box for a fun slideshow of...
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“The Internet is a calamity of norms. Too many cultures, too many localities, too...”
– Savvy observation from Joho the Blog, of the challenges we face just being decent to each other on the Internet, where lots of little universes with their own self-referential sets of behavioral norms are colliding sometimes calamitously (and frequently impolitely) against each other.
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