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Four short links: 17 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 17, 2009
Digital Natives (Ze Frank) -- digital natives have grown up in a landscape where access to information and influence has been flattened. they have watched media distribution bottlenecks in the form of networks and studios lose influence to youtube and independent production houses. They have watched companies bow down to viral video critiques, and watched political systems get hacked...
Four short links: 22 October 2009
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 22, 2009
Eight Billion Minutes Spent on Facebook Daily -- you weren't using that cognitive surplus, were you? How We Made Github Fast -- high-level summary is that the new "fast, good, cheap--pick any two" is "fast, new, easy--pick any two". (via Simon Willison) Isaac Mao, China, 40M Blogs and Counting -- Today, there are 40 million bloggers in China and...
Why Posterous Is a Smart Tool For Informal Government Blogging
By Mark DrapeauOctober 19, 2009
For a few weeks, I've been testing a tool called Posterous, and I've come to like it a lot. You can see my account here. If you're not familiar with Posterous, it is essentially a very simple blogging platform. It may in fact be the most simple one; yet it is very feature-laden. And it has one relatively unique feature...
Excerpting Best Practices Hinge on Intent
By Mac SlocumMarch 2, 2009
A piece in the New York Times reignites the fair use debate by asking: How much excerpting does fair use cover? It's a reasonable question, particularly since Google News, the...
As the Internet Rewires Our Brains
By Kurt CagleMarch 1, 2009
The Internet, ironically, has been abuzz this week with dire news about how the Social Media and the Internet itself is stunting our mental growth, is turning us into idiot savants, Aspergers and reverting our brains to a more primitive state. The first such statement came from Lady Greenfield, an Oxford University neurologist, baroness, and director of the Royal Institution in England, who warned that sites such as Facebook and Twitter were contributing to the decline of critical skills in children who used them heavily, claiming that repeated exposure could effectively rewire the brain.
Four short links: 10 Feb 2009
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 9, 2009
Happy Monday! Kid coding and web-powered political transparency form the artisanal wholewheat organic bread slices around a sandwich filling of meaty (or tofuy) web travel APIs and blogly angst: Art and Code -- conference on programming environments for "artists, young people, and the rest of us". Alice! Hackety Hack! Scratch! Processing! And more! March 7-9 at CMU. Want! (I've written...
Four short links: 19 Jan 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 22, 2009
Hello from Whakapapa, a ski resort in New Zealand. These four links come to you via the wifi at the "highest hotel in New Zealand", which serves as a useful reminder that no matter how unremarkable one might seem, anyone can have a claim to fame if only they work at it. Apple Show Us DRM's True Colors - the...
Zine: Python Blogging Software by Armin Ronacher
By Noah GiftJanuary 12, 2009
Attention, users of Blogging Software, like Word Press, there is now a serious Python competitor, Zine. The lead developer is Armin Ronacher, a wunderkind Python developer it seems, he is still in college, yet has written an amazing slew of...
Conversation is the New King
By Mac SlocumJanuary 5, 2009
Kate Eltham calls out publishers who blog through a PR lens and points the way to publisher blogs that fully embrace the medium: It used to be common wisdom...
How Terrorists May Abuse Micro-Blogging Channels Like Twitter
By Nitesh DhanjaniDecember 18, 2008
In this article, I want to further the discussion on how micro-blogging channels may be leveraged by terrorist organizations to obtain real time surveillance and intelligence of their efforts.
[TOC Webcast] Social Media for Publishers
By Mac SlocumDecember 12, 2008
Tools of Change for Publishing will host "Social Media for Publishers," a free webcast with presenter Chris Brogan, on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. eastern (10 a.m. pacific)....
Why Blogging and Social Media Shouldn't be Ignored
By Mac SlocumNovember 19, 2008
Consistent blogging and Web-based interaction often fall by the wayside when other projects demand attention, but venture capitalist Fred Wilson makes a compelling argument for keeping connectivity on the...
TOC Recommended Reading
By Mac SlocumSeptember 25, 2008
Direct-To-Fan: Radiohead, Marillion And The End Of Labels (Robert Andrews, paidContent.org) 80s rock group Marillion, hardly a Top 10 draw nowadays, engages its fans so closely that they funded...
Blogging on the QT
By Kurt CagleSeptember 4, 2008
To me, though this is one of the journalistic quandaries of the twenty-first century. Where is the dividing line between news and opinion, between the article and the blog, because objective reporting and subjective editorializing? Is one better than the other? Is one more ethical than the other?
Lessons on Blogging from Jon Stewart
By Tim O'ReillyAugust 27, 2008
Why the NY Times profile of Jon Stewart holds lessons for bloggers and journalists about the future (and heart) of their medium.
Twitter: Tweeting from your Mac
By Todd OgasawaraMay 28, 2008
Twitter is probably the most beloved unreliable web-service on the net. That said, if it is running (even with some features turned off), I tend to be using it. Here are some Mac clients I've been using with it instead of the default web interface.
How I Used Flickr To Power My Blog and Got 1,496,603 Visits
By Harold DavisJanuary 27, 2008
Why do I show my work on Flickr? There are a number of reasons, but they boil down to 1,496,603. Let me explain my affair with Flickr. When I started Photoblog 2.0 in May 2005, I made the decision to serve my photos out of Flickr. This means that the several thousand photos in my blog are sitting on Flickr's...
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