Detroit Journal - Seeking a Future for a Symbol of a Grander Pas. Share photos on Twitter. MIT Unveils New Digital Sandbox - Digits. Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print - Bits Blog - N. Craigmod.comCraig Mod discusses a series of book “interfaces” that could make the transition from print to digital. A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple’s iPad. Mr. Mod summarizes his argument in the subtitle of his post: “Print is dying. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. Good riddance.”
Duke of Wellington pub grub is nom. The Duke of Wellington, Dalston :: London, UK. Roger Ebert goes freemium with The Ebert Club | Blog | Econsulta. Merlin Mann: RSS drives engagement, tra... - Roger Ebert's Journal. When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960). Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. That would have been sometime in the 1970s. Maybe the 1980s.
For sure, the 1990s. Without a doubt, before he made his Cannes entry, "Film: Socialisme. " The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away. Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today. " Continue reading → Thank you. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → A rare peek inside Google's HQ | Technology. To visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet. The natives wander about in T-shirts and shorts, zipping past volleyball courts and organic-vegetable gardens while holding their open laptops at shoulder height, like waiters' trays.
Those laptops are gifts from the company, as is free food, wi-fi-enabled commuter buses, healthcare, dry cleaning, gyms, massages and car washes, all designed to keep its employees happy and on campus. Engineers – who make up half of the 20,000 employees – are granted 20% of their time to work on any project that strikes their fancy. A non-engineer attending engineering meetings would be wise to come with a translator: participants may as well be speaking Swahili. Even in a recession, Google's business grows. The seeds for Google's success were planted by Page and Brin when they met as graduate students at Stanford in 1995. They spoke of changing the world, of making all of its information available to everyone. Jon Stewart Plays Chatroulette With Keith Olbermann & Kat.
Watch now. Join us. YouTube Jobs. Sarah Palin and entourage descend like 'locusts' on Oscar swag s. Reinke/AP An entertainment website is reporting that Sarah Palin and her entourage descended like 'locusts' onto an Oscar swag suite. Sarah Palin and her entourage descended "like locusts" on the Oscar swag suite, scarfing up freebies in a binge that "practically cleaned the place out," celebrity gossips reported Thursday. The former Alaska Gov's Wednesday pigout included jewels from Pascal Mouawad, watches by Skagen and a fancy new hairdo for her daughter Willow. The new coiffure came courtesy of Erick Orellana, Jennifer Aniston's longtime hairstylist, witnesses said. The Los Angeles Times reported Palin was supposed to donate all of her gift items back to the Silver Spoon Oscar Suite for auction, as well as $1,700 of her own cash, in support of Red Cross efforts in Haiti and Chile.
But E! Online insisted, "we can assure you she did not give up any of her swag. " The entertainment news outlet quoted an unnamed vendor who said that as many as 20 people from the Palin camp swarmed the event. Scam-Trafficking Games Company Insists Its Haiti Charity Was Not. Okay, I get that this is a BLOG, and so maybe the top standards and best practices around journalism don't quite apply.
But the title of this article itself - immediately calls into question whatever is written in it. Did you look at the screenshots? There are clearly labels indicating: 1) How much is actually going to charity. 2) There's also an ACCEPT/DECLINE button The user is presented with a clear description of the offer and a choice whether they want to take it or not. How much more can we dumb this down so as to avoid "confusion" FYI, I have no stake in Zynga and have no reason to want them to fail OR succeed. I just get tired of this type of uninformed "mob hate" that turns into misrepresentations of facts.
Maybe they've done some questionable things in the past - we all heard Pinkus give that talk at Berkeley. James H. Bing's Virtual Bling Buys Facebook Fans. Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores | FlowingData. FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One maps shows total number of bars, but the interesting map is the one above. Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their drinking seriously. Of course there are plenty of possible explanations for the distribution. Maybe people get all their food from superstores like Walmart in the red dot areas, so there are fewer gigantic stores than there are small local bars.
Then again, the FloatingSheep guys did their homework and found, according to Census, that the number of drinking places in those red dots are really skewed compare to the average. Anyone who lives in the area care to confirm? [Thanks, Michael] Untitled. Inside the new Fortune magazine - (1) - FORTUNE. Hey y'all! So with all the attention we've been heaping on Fortune.com lately, we've also been waaaay busy over at Fortune the magazine. The new-look Fortune represents the latest iteration of the deep-dive business magazine founded by Henry Luce 80 years ago. Our flagship has changed many times over the decades to conform to the warp and woof of the business world and the way you interact with it. Regular readers will see that the changes we have made are substantial, yet evolutionary. Before altering course, we consulted extensively with current and potential readers alike--and then we did some serious soul-searching over what we think a business magazine today should be about.
It was clear that everyone still wants the big Fortune story, like this issue's look at the new business elite emerging from the nation's armed services. By Andy Serwer, managing editor NEXT: The cover. Feedly: a magazine-like start page. Audit of Political Engagement - Parliament & Government. Content Bridges: Why We Have a Hard Time Thinking of Yahoo as a. Carol Bartz runs one of the top three news sites on the web....and doesn't, well, like the news. In a rambunctious interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Bartz celebrated Yahoo's 15th anniversary and found herself asked a lot of tough questions by CNBC's Lunch Break team. Through that questioning -- which got the most press for her statement that she would have sold Yahoo to Microsoft had she been CEO at the time -- she hardly seemed like the proud captain of a news enterprise. You know, the news, it's just so negative, so ungainly, just too darn hard to understand.
On how to get the economy moving: "I think... if Washington would shut up occasionally, and let the consumer get his confidence back. It's a lot of negative news. On health care news: "You turn on the news every day, and there's another program. On her view of the health care legislation: "I don't even know what they're trying to pass. Adolph Ochs, she's not, Jim Batten, she's not.
Ack, bad news. So this is where we've come to. A Map of the Human Body - Underskin - Gizmodo. Gmail Gets a Slick Social CRM Tool. You’re Going to Like This. Despite rumours of a full featured CRM service from Google, we’re left in wait. In the meantime, a small UK-based start up called Rapportive is seeking to fill that void. Rapportive a new browser plugin, not unlike Xobni for Outlook, that adds dynamic contact previews to Gmail complete with profile picture, brief bio and links to their various social networking profiles. Part social, part CRM, Rapportive also features a minimalist notes area directly under the social profiles section of the sidebar.
These are very early days for the company but the basic concept, from what we can see, is that via a quick exchange of emails and little work, you’re immediately given an accurate (or as accurate as Social Media can be) overview of who the person is. Interestingly, Google Buzz could be seen as a competitor to the service. The Rapportive plugin is currently available for Firefox and Chrome only and only works with Gmail (Google Apps too but you need a start Gmail address book too).
Apple stepping up pressure on music labels to snub Amazon. Apple has allegedly been pressuring music labels to ditch Amazon MP3's "Daily Deal" promotions, lest they be excluded from being promoted through the iTunes machine. According to anonymous executives speaking to Billboard, Apple has always been uncomfortable with the labels double dipping with both iTunes and Amazon, but the company has ramped up its complaints lately in an attempt to retain its lead in the online music market.
Though Apple still remains in the number one spot among all music retailers, the move is indicative that Apple takes competition from Amazon very seriously. One unnamed music executive said that, when Amazon first launched its Daily Deal section in 2008, the labels weren't included in the discussion and no one was given any special privileges for being there. Nowadays, however, Amazon has asked labels to give the company a one-day exclusive before street date in order to be featured in the Daily Deals. New York Post Media Reporter Peter Lauria Bolts For Daily Beast.
ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project. An Initial Survey by Alex Leavitt & Tim Hwang with Patrick Davison, Mike Edwards, Devin Gaffney, Sam Gilbert, Erhardt Graeff, Jennifer Jacobs, Dan Luxemburg, Kunal Patel, Mike Rugnetta, & Karina van Schaardenburg This paper represents an initial study of ChatRoulette.com, conducted between February 6th and 7th, 2010 by researchers in attendance at Web Ecology Camp III in Brooklyn, NY.
We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender. We also conducted 30 brief interviews with users to inquire about their age, location, and frequency of ChatRoulette use. Summary • ChatRoulette represents an example of a probabilistic community: a community shaped by a platform which mediates the encounters between its users by eliminating lasting connections between them. Microsoft could still buy Twitter, says Ballmer - V3.co.uk - for. UK / Business - Broadband groups face ‘net neutrality’ scrutiny. Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas' A CNN photo illustration welcomes travelers to Topeka, which changed its name temporarily to attract a Google project.
Topeka, Kansas, renames itself "Google" for a month The unusual move is an attempt to get Google to invest in its broadband Google has announced a pilot program to speed up Internet access in the U.S. Topeka's mayor says the change will not be permanent (CNN) -- At 79, Bill Bunten doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him. But Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its name for a month. In a formal proclamation Monday, Bunten announced his city will be known as "Google" -- Google, Kansas. Mobile internet competing with print media consumption - Media N.
Interactive: America's Most Wired Cities - Forbes.com. Announcing The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit. Today ReadWriteWeb is announcing our second event, the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It will take place May 7, 2010, in Mountain View, California. The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends, both the technology and the emerging business applications. Registration is now open, at an early bird rate of just $295.00. As with our first event, the Real-Time Web Summit last October, the Mobile Summit will be in the 'unconference' format. As with our previous event, the Mobile Summit will be facilitated by Kaliya Hamlin, who in my opinion is the best in the business at this style of event. Mobile was one of our top 5 trends last year and continues to undergo explosive growth, so our aim with this event is to help you navigate the opportunities.
We will have two main tracks at this Summit, Development and Business. Geo-location services - what can you do using location as a platform? We hope to see you on May 7! Whether (or Not) - Times Topics Blog. Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. Whether [or not] they are professional writers, many people are confused about whether [or not] they should use the phrase “or not” after “whether.”
The answer is simple. It depends. In the sentence above, it’s yes in the first case and no in the second: Whether or not they are professional writers, many people are confused about whether they should use the phrase “or not” after “whether.” Here’s what The Times’s stylebook says: whether. Put more briefly, “whether” can generally stand alone when its clause is functioning as a noun, but not when the clause is serving as an adverb. Here are several recent lapses, erring one way or the other (thanks to a sharp-eyed reader for one example): Whether she ever runs for anything else, Ms.
It should be “whether or not.” Whether any such approach works, the founders would have expected us to do something about this unconstitutional filibuster. Ditto. No need for “or not.” In a Word. Facebook on Track for $1 Billion Revenue This Year. According to figures released today by the singularly focused blog Inside Facebook, the ubiquitous social network made upwards of $700 million in 2009 and is expected to reach a phenomenal $1 billion in revenues in 2010. Year over year, Facebook's revenues have typically doubled, from $150 million in 2007 to around $300 million in 2008 and so on.
The breakdown of revenue streams is fascinating, showing the extent to which well-targeted ads based on massive amounts of user data still drives how we monetize the Web. These data also show how much some have underestimated the market for virtual goods and the real-world value of virtual currency - as much as $10 million in 2009 alone, still in beta and just for one social network. Last year, brand advertising and performance advertising are estimated to have netted $225 million and $350 million for the company, respectively. Microsoft ads alone brought in $50 million.
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Why the New Caribou Coffee Logo Features Less Caribou. Facebook, social media juggernaut (infographic) The Forgotten World of the Web Introvert. Technology Review: Augmented Identity. The Almighty Dollar. Untitled. Bingo Paraphernalia. D.C. hospital fires 11 nurses, 5 staffers for snowstorm absences. Hawaii Tsunami Warning Information | Honolulu, Hawaii. Earthquake Chile on Twitter - Hawaii Tsunami. Chile Earthquake Recovery / The New York Times. Water is moving as fast as a jetliner toward Hawaii. Here is ... Earthquake in Chile. Téléchargement de photo Flickr : Earthquake Data, Feb 27th. The Wall Street Journal's play for local could steal New York Ti. Hawaii News Now - LIVE.
Variety Will Kill a Bad Review of Your 'Mediocre' Movie For Just. Afghanistan, February, 2010. Gatorade Drops Tiger Woods. Perkins invite pulled over 'Don't Ask' - Jen DiMascio - POLITICO. DoD releases new policy for the secure use of social media on NI. Web Strategy and Social Media Jobs. Yes, More Are Seeing A New Google Look-And-Feel. The New Atlantic.com - Culture. Our move to paid content | Zerochampion. Untitled. Gnews140: Gordon Brown, Cheryl Cole and middle class insults | W. Untitled. Annual membership options. Untitled. 91% Of iPhone Users Would Recommend Device Vs. 69% Of webOS User.