January 2012
69 posts
The 'ME'dia Generation: The Top 11 Twitter Faux... →
briansolis:
The Hollywood Reporter ran an interesting slide show featuring the “11 Worsst Twitter Gaffes of 2011.” To make it easier to see and appreciate, I included them with THR’s commentary here for your review.
1. Alec Baldwin: “theresalwaysunited Last flight with American. Where retired Catholic…
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new...”
– Benjamin Franklin
December 2011
39 posts
USS NIMITZ (CVN 68): Guardians of the flight deck:... →
Commissaries to end magazine sales overseas →
infoneer-pulse:
Defense Commissary Agency officials have announced the end of magazine sales in their overseas stores beginning January 2012. This affects all commissaries in Europe, the Pacific (Japan, Okinawa, South Korea and Guam) and Puerto Rico.
The Defense Commissary Agency, or DeCA, will continue to sell the Stars & Stripes newspaper since they are printed in theater. Commissaries...
“My persistent concern is that I’ll become so busy producing media that I won’t...”
– David Carr (via aakruse)
(via nprfreshair)
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable...”
– Richard P. Feynman
“Our consciousness is so subjective that our own experience of sentience is all...”
– Untangling the web: attention | Technology | The Observer (via myserendipities)
The MacBook That Will Run For Weeks →
twotalktech:
one: According to some of the latest patents filed by Apple, the company is working hard at revolutionizing yet another field, going after the traditional battery cell.
Neil Hughes:
Apple claims that using hydrogen fuel cells to power portable electronics could allow devices like a MacBook to operate “for days or even weeks without refueling”.
Quite ingenious. A huge...
The Atlantic: How One Magazine Became Profitable... →
dbloom:
Love that the Atlantic, a 154-year-old publication, has figured out a way to not only survive but even thrive in the changing media landscape, mostly by strongly embracing a non-paywall-driven digital presence that is quite robust.
I didn’t realize that former Variety colleague Gabe Snyder is now editing the TheAtlanticWire, which has become a most interesting meta site for commentary...
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears...”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bon Jovi not dead: Rumor was Twitter fiction |...
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2011/12/bon_jovi_not_dead_rumor_was…
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How...
Amen! http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works
The Political Notebook: TPN's Picks for Best... →
thepoliticalnotebook:
(in no particular order)
Mujib Mashal’s piece for Al Jazeera English on Pakistan’s assistance to the government of Bahrain in its crackdown on protesters.
Jeremy Scahill’s reporting for The Nation on the CIA’s secret sites in Somalia.
McClatchyDC’s reporting on the Pentagon’s waste…
“People speculate whether Apple has a future without Steve Jobs. I’m not worried,...”
– Design legend Philippe Starck on Steve Jobs. Related, Starck’s TED talk is one of the finest, most compelling TED talks of all time. (via curiositycounts)
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the... →
Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
"We’re Trying To Answer the Question”' - slate
“We’re Trying To Answer the Question” By http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/google_s_eric_sch…
Reconstituting The Constitution: How To Rewrite...
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143354018/reconstituting-the-constitution-how-to-rewrite-it?sc=ipad&f=1001Reconstituting The Constitution: How To Rewrite It? by Margot Adler NPR - December 10, 2011 Most Americans haven’t read the U.S. Constitution in a long time, if ever. They may be able to tell you about the Second Amendment, or the Fifth, maybe even part of the First. But other than...
Let's Work Together...: Steve Jobs & the 7 Rules... →
hawaiiofficesupplies:
1. Do what you love - “People with passion can change the world for the better.” 2. Put a dent in the universe - Don’t lose sight of the big vision. 3. Make connections. - Don’t live in a bubble. Connect ideas from different fields. 4. Say no to 1,000 things 5. Create insanely different…
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Checklist for being a “real” journalist →
Been there and done that.
“Terry Gross: “Do you feel like, as a reporter who covers the business of media,...”
– David Carr, New York Times media writer, with “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross, National Public Radio
'Investigative blogger' doesn't get journalist's... →
Kind of creepy…
Pearl. Out of the morning sun, they came and a sleeping giant awoke.
Apple's internal employee social media policies... →
courtenaybird:
“In general, what employees do in their own time is their choice, but Apple states in its guides that:
The lines between public and private, and personal and professional are blurred in online social networks. Respect your audience and your co-workers. This includes not only the obvious (no ethnic slurs, personal insults, obscenity, etc.) but also topics that may be considered...
“I like to point people to articles and issues about the world outside the U.S....”
– Christiane Amanpour, anchor of ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour and board member of the International Women’s Media Foundation, lays out her media diet at The Atlantic Wire. Read more. (via theatlantic)
U.S. Military Press Office Iraq, Signing Off -... →
Sigh
“The architecture of the public square on the Internet is very similar to how it...”
– Al Gore on how technology and the Internet are changing the civic dynamic, one of several excellent quotes from this morning’s breakfast at Soho House (via curiositycounts)