July 2009
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“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape....”
– BBC NEWS Magazine: “Giving up my iPod for a Walkman” by Scott Campbell (June 29, 2009). The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
June 2009
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“Since the days of Un Chien Andalou and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, filmmakers...”
– BoingBoing / io9 : “Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie” by Charlie Jane Anders (Wed Jun 24 2009).
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““Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0...”
– Beyond the Beyond: “What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09” by Bruce Sterling (March 1, 2009). Learn more at the Webstock09 site. Watch the video of the conference on Vimeo.
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“If blogging is like being beaten to death with croutons, twittering is like...”
– Beyond The Beyond: “Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Has Moved Into The Flow” by Bruce Sterling (March 31, 2008). Beyond The Beyond is Bruce Sterling’s blog over at Wired Magazine.
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“Lifestreams uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of...”
– Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor by Scott Fertig, Eric Freeman and David Gelernter, 1996 [Full PDF]. More information at the Lifestream Project Home Page.
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WatchITO! on Vimeo: “OSM 2008: A Year of Edits”. About : “An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done...
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“In the last six months, Twitter has gone nuclear. There are three reasons why...”
– Micro Persuasion: “Twitter is Peaking” (March 17, 2009). Micro Persuasion was Steve Rubel old blog. He’s now using Posterous to run his new one (well, it’s less a “blog” than a “lifestreaming” plateform as I understand it).
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WatchTerry Timely on Vimeo: “Synesthesia” From Director File: “Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey, the two men who make up the directing team known as Terri Timely, are perhaps the most underrated music video directors today. They have laid out an impressive yet little-known body of work in the mere seven videos and several shorts and ads they have filmed. As with many great directors,...
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“Services like FriendFeed, Tumbler, and Posterous are essentially personal...”
– Internet Time Blog: “Streams, not blogs?” by Jay Cross. About Jay Cross: “(…) Jay Cross, has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. Jay helped spark the eLearning...
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“When did people find out? The distinction between respondents made above...”
– Bradley S. Greenberg, “Diffusion of News of the Kennedy Assassination”, Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 28, no 2, pp. 225-232, Summer 1964. Full text available via subscription or proxy. “almost 9 in 10 knew of the events within 6o minutes after the first [radio]...
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Who Killed Michael Jackson? →
The Awl: A Story In Verse by Balk “In the wake of the pop icon’s passing, the main questions emerging seem to center around responsibility and blame. But isn’t there enough of both to go around? As an answer and a valedictory, we offer you the following poem.
“Who killed Michael Jackson?”
“I,” said the Doctor,
“From my needle he got that last...
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“So why is Tweespeed important? Twitter’s activity is a reflection of people’s...”
– O’Reilly Radar: “How Active Is Twitter Now? Tweetspeed” by Brady Forrest, June 26, 2009. So quantity can be as important as quality (or to put it another way : Twitter’s quality could mainly be quantitative). This is an interesting observation to go along Matthew...
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“The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. That was why it was built in...”
– VentureBeat: “Michael Jackson is a test. He is only a test of the emergency broadcast system” by Dean Takahashi, June 25, 2009. About VentureBeat: “VentureBeat’s mission is to provide news about innovation for forward-thinking executives. Founder Matt Marshall covered venture...
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“A proper quote from me would probably have been something like: “The search...”
– Ethan Zuckerman’s blog : “Twitter and the news cycle, perfect together” About Ethan Zuckerman : “My main affiliation is with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Berkman is a remarkable institution - it’s a think tank for folks...
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