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Insiders: Pentagon Should Not Offer Bailouts to Keep Defense Companies Afloat - Sara Sorcher - NationalJournal.com

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:02:11 -0500

Insiders: Pentagon Should Not Offer Bailouts to Keep Defense Companies Afloat - Sara Sorcher - NationalJournal.com

Pressly Goes DIY: Will Turn Tumblr, WordPress & Twitter Into...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:51:08 -0500

Pressly Goes DIY: Will Turn Tumblr, WordPress & Twitter Into Touch-Friendly Websites
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/13/pressly-goes-diy-will-turn-tumblr-wordpress-twitter-into-touch-friendly-websites/

High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:42:03 -0500

High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html

In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them | Raw File | Wired.com

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:23 -0500

In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them | Raw File | Wired.com:

As far as I can tell this is the future of image making. It may not be the only future. I say — not so much to my students but to my colleagues — ignore this at your own peril. It’s not interesting because it’s a new technology, it’s interesting because it is really changing the way the world consumes and considers, lives and swims in imagery.

One of the things I love about teaching is to put things in front of students they might not necessarily have thought of yet. I’m doing a digital photography class but I’m making it as much about digital culture.

I had them pull the last five digits of their student IDs (which are random) and had them look up where the zip code was in the U.S. They had to investigate that place purely through online imagery. Google Street View, Flickr, poking around Facebook, looking at the websites of businesses in the area. They were really puzzled, like, “What does this have to do with photography?”

[Regarding others’ photos] it seems to me like a sea change has begun. Maybe Sultan and Mandel fired the first shots 40 years ago. And they weren’t even the first people to say, “Aren’t other people’s pictures interesting?” Think of Andy Warhol and John Baldessari.

"If you want to get to half a million pageviews, you’re always much more likely to get there with a thousand blog posts than you are with a single swing for the fences."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:27 -0500

"If you want to get to half a million pageviews, you’re always much more likely to get there with a thousand blog posts than you are with a single swing for the fences.":

shortformblog:

Reuters’ Felix Salmon discusses the changing nature of Web journalism, where the SEO-friendly days of yore are starting to get a bit more social, which is good for high-quality but much-more-expensive reporting. Salmon’s point? The commodity approach, which has the side effect of diluting quality brands, is still easier, though it’s far more me-too in nature. (ht Matt)

For writers and editors...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:50:44 -0500

For writers and editors...

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:55:59 -0500

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

- Wayne Gretzky

"Rather than learning from or trying to emulate HuffPo’s hugely valuable editorial technology, then,..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:43:56 -0500

“Rather than learning from or trying to emulate HuffPo’s hugely valuable editorial technology, then, the NYT is sticking its head in the sand and retreating to a defensive stance of trying to make as much money as possible from its core of loyal readers. There’s no growth in such a strategy. Indeed, the opposite is true: the NYT is making it both hard and expensive to become a core, loyal reader. Meanwhile, the open web will become ever more accessible and social, with friends pointing friends to news in a site-agnostic manner. The NYT is distancing itself from that conversation, standing proud and aloof. It’s a strategy which is doomed to fail.”

- Why The New York Times Will Lose to The Huffington Post | Epicenter | Wired.com Comment: totally agreed! (via mediafuturist)

"Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can it be like..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:56:32 -0500

“Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can it be like that?” because you will get “down the drain,” into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”

- Richard Feynman

fastcompany: Tips from an expert on how to master the chaos of...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:05 -0500

fastcompany:

Tips from an expert on how to master the chaos of smartphone app placement. Your fingers (and brain) will thank you. Read on—>

17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using (and Why)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:42:31 -0500

17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using (and Why):

Metrics, damn it! Metrics!

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:39:29 -0500

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.””

- —George Orwell
(via thefreestyle)

How Sharing Disrupts Media - Felix Salmon via Wired

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:06 -0500

How Sharing Disrupts Media - Felix Salmon via Wired:

futuresagency:

Felix Salmon considers new media platforms like Twitter, Tumblr and Wordpress — companies that aren’t seeking to vertically integrate all elements of a media stack, especially not wanting to own the ‘content’ — and he contrasts those with Rupert Murdoch’s empire, based on owning all layers of its stack and zealously guarding them, leading to a great line:

The content creators with the broadest reach will be the ones who care the least about protecting their copyrights.

Hashdoc blog: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:05 -0500

Hashdoc blog: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk:

hashdoc:

Corporations have anointed an Open Leader, the Social Strategist. In our research, we found that this emerging role is critical in the adoption of new media for corporations. Over 41% of Social Strategists reported to the Marketing department. Primary responsibilities included leading the social…

"Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means that they’re really..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:43:18 -0500

“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means that they’re really bad at seeing the value added by curating and reblogging.”

- Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)

"The Internet is a revolutionary instrument that permits the receiving and transmission of ideas, in..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:43:06 -0500

““The Internet is a revolutionary instrument that permits the receiving and transmission of ideas, in both directions, that is something we should know how to use,” Fidel Castro told a crowd of supporters on Feb. 4, according to the state-owned Cuban newspaper Granma International.”

- Fidel Castro Loves the Internet | TechPresident (via infoneer-pulse)

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:31:04 -0500

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Media Maven: Social Media Addicts Drive Innovation

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:26 -0500

Social Media Maven: Social Media Addicts Drive Innovation:

How addictive is social media? According to a soon-to-be released study from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, it is more addictive than alcohol or tobacco.

The school conducted an interesting experiment in Germany wherein it asked participants to describe their recent urges at regular intervals and gauge them based on how strong the urge was.

Guess what? Social media interaction was at the top of their list of strong urges.

Fortunately, social media has not yet been proven to cause cancer or any other debilitating illnesses. In fact, short of the after-effects of a “drunk Tweet” or posting embarrassing photos of yourself on Facebook, this addiction doesn’t represent too great a risk to your well-being.

nprfreshair: This animal yoga thing is apparently a...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:27:11 -0500

nprfreshair:

This animal yoga thing is apparently a ‘thing’

Yoga Elephant

Yoga Seal

Yoga Fly

yoga bear (by _meta_)

"l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message about job..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:11:31 -0500

“l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message about job growth and the spirit of America. … If Obama or any other politician wants to run with the spirit of that ad, go for it.”

- Clint Eastwood • Speaking to Bill O’Reilly about the “It’s Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad he did for Chrysler, which has sparked speculation as to whether he intended a specific political endorsement for the ad. He did not. It’s worth noting that, no, he did not support the auto bailouts, and he’s a lifelong Republican who has only voted for one Democrat as far as he can remember: Former California Gov. Gray Davis in 1998. The effective ad, a political fireball reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s “It’s Morning in America Again” ad from 1984, has drawn scrutiny from some on the right — Karl Rove suggested the Obama administration was using Chrysler to make indirect political ads for them. With Eastwood’s comments, it’s clear things are more complicated than that. (via shortformblog)