- Kicker Studio: Everything I’ve Ever Learned About Giving Design Critiques I Learned from Tim Gunn
You could apply these set of rules to any form of critique/review not just design, and you'd probably come out doing pretty well.
- The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics « Clay Shirky
Lots in here, but here's the key thing: "This re-engineering suggests that paywalls don’t and can’t rescue current organizational forms. They offer instead yet another transformed alternative to it."
- danah boyd | apophenia » Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
Not blogging this as an anti-Facebook thing, just as some interesting information about non-standard ways people use social networking software in a privacy intensive manner.
- EaaS (ECONOMY as a SERVICE) – Global Guerrillas
It's one way of looking at MMOs (and related industries), I guess. I'm aware that Warcrack has a GPD higher than some countries, and that there was a point (I haven't checked, it may still be true) where the virtual currency in Eve online was worth more that the currency of Iceland, where the game is based, but they're both entirely virtual, and I'm not 100% convinced that we're going to get the ability to rapid deploy and re-use these things in a full physical-world context (that a full EaaS would need) any time in the next five years.
Tag: journalism
Bookmarks for July 29, 2010
- erwtenpeller – War of the Worlds – SoundCloud
Dubstep remixes of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.
- Google Alarm | F.A.T.
Ever wondered just how much Google is learning about you? Turn this on, and see. I'm not posting this as a dig at Google, but rather just in a "be informed about what information about you goes where".
- Ping Pong Battle for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Requires an iPad and 2 iPhones to play. Suspect that it's not going to be set-the-world-on-fire exciting, but it's worth a look, I think, if nothing else than because it's a reasonable innovative idea that is bound to have other applications.
- Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever
I've been Instapapering stuff ever since I got my iPad for weeks now, and not quite finding the time to get it all read – to the point that when I'm done with my current book, I'll probably spend a week or two's commuting time catching up on them, rather than picking up another book. So obviously, what I need to make my backlog truly huge is a trove of excellent instapaper fodder. (If you are an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad user who isn't making use of Instapaper, you're missing out on one of the best things about them.)
Thursday 1st January 1970
- Osborne's first Budget? It's wrong, wrong, wrong! – UK Politics, UK – The Independent
|I imagine a few of you have seen this, but still: a nobel prizewinning economist delivers his verdict on George Osborne's benefit. Now, I imagine that a few of you are thinking "well, he's obviously got a bias". Yeah, probably true. But he's also got a fistful of examples, and I don't know about you, but I was always taught that a persuasive point was one that was backed up with examples.
- Young photojournalist detained for army cadet pics – British Journal of Photography
Good to see that the police in Romford have paid attention to their own guidelines on how to deal with photojournalists. Oh, no, wait, that's not what they've done, is it? They've done the other thing, haven't they? FFS.
Bookmarks for June 7, 2010
- Longform.org
Absolutely superb idea – I've been instapapering stuff left and right, thanks to the new toy, so a site that is geared to recommending good Instapaper fodder is a great niche.
Bookmarks for February 17, 2010
- Music Journalism is the New Piracy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The IFPI have sent a bunch of copyright infringement notices, and Google have killed a bunch of music blogs. Here's the thing: at least some of the blogs that have been taken down are not infringing. Even absent arguments like fair use, they actually had permission to post the MP3s. I particularly like Cory Doctorow's comment on this one: "IFPI will argue that it was just trying to help artists, that everyone makes mistakes, that copyright is complicated. But these are exactly the same arguments that the musicbloggers whose sites were vanished by IFPI's abusive lawyering would have made, if they'd been given a chance." We desperately need to stop the culture that an infringement notice constitutes legal proof that infringement is taking place – we need ISPs and bodies like Google to grow a spine and stop being evil. And if you think this is edge case stuff, I should point out that something like this happened to a friend of mine in the last month. It'll happen to you, too, just wait.
- What Grant Achatz Saw at El Bulli – Diner's Journal Blog – NYTimes.com
Alinea and The French Laundry are both only a step behind El Bulli as places I really want to go and eat, and it's lovely to see Achatz paying tribute to Adria.
Bookmarks for September 16, 2009
- Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization « Mediactive
Yes. This. Get to it, news organisations.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2009
- 1938_Phantom_Corsair.jpg (JPEG Image, 801×481 pixels)
Why do I not own one of these? Someone see to it at once!
- Sator Square – Wikipedia
I vaguely recall this from GCSE Latin. It is a rather more ace thing now that I'm not looking at it in a stuffy classroom.
- LOVE ME (work in progress) | Maisie Crow Photojournalist
Go. Look at this. Stunning, bleak, depressing photojournalism on poverty in America.
Bookmarks for May 22, 2009
- Tiny Art Director
I make absolutely not comment on any similarities that may or may not exist between the Tiny Art Director and our clients at work. I will, however note that to date, no client has ever requested a "poo-poo airplane" as part of any work I've done.
- Oh, for God’s Sake, Newspapers Should Go out of Business
I know I've linked to similar articles in the past, but I rather like the spin this one is using, and I particularly like the opening paragraph: "Newspapers stopped working a long time ago and a better means of doing their job is readily available. It’s an asinine debate. Who wouldn’t want their news delivered in a form that was searchable, saveable, resendable, which you can talk back to, which is linked to other relevant news, which allows you to read as lightly or as deeply as you wanted to, and which combines text, pictures, and video?"
- Infinite Summer
A challenge: Read Infinite Jest between June and September. I've been trying to do this for years, but every time I have a go at it, I find myself distracted by some other book, and not picking it up again. So instead of treating it like a normal book, and trying to read it to the exclusion of all else until I'm done, I think I'm going to try and do it this way, spread out over a three month period. 7 or 8 pages a day should be no problem, and I can read other books on the bus. At least until I become hooked on Infinite Jest, and feel the need to start carting a tome the size of my head around everywhere…
- BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: The harm caused by witnessing rudeness
Yes: that twat shouting at someone else on the bus really is spoiling your day. Yes: your rude and/or unpleasant co-worker really is lowering everyone's productivity. Yes: Bad manners really are contagious.
Bookmarks for March 16, 2009
- Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc.
Very pretty means of searching Flickr.
- Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com
Sit down, shut up, and listen to the greatest living Englishman.
- Innovation Forum: Conferences Redux (The Sense Loft, 4th Floor, 68/70 Wardour Street, London W1F 0TB)
I think I may have to get along to this.
- Heroku
A little slice of the future that will be incomprehensible/irrelevant to most of you. It's an app hosting environment for RoR developers that pushes the apps out into a computing cloud rather than relying on single/multiple servers. If there was a PHP version, that was as easy to set up, I'd be signing up right now.
- Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Yes, it's true. Newspapers are fucked. Hardly radical thinking, but a very cogent summary of exactly why they're fucked, and what we might, maybe, get instead. But here's the key bit: "When someone demands to be told how we can replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution." You could replace "newspapers" with "the music business", "the TV industry" or even just plain old "copyright" and still be on the money.
Bookmarks for February 27, 2009
- The Convention on Modern Liberty
Shit, the London event is sold out. Still, I suppose that might be taken as a good sign. Maybe.
- The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
Starts of with some talk of Dunbar's number as it applies to social networks, then gets into the much tighter sphere of the number of people we actually interact with.
- Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall
Really interesting look at how a group of volunteers in China translate each issue of The Economist.