Wednesday, May 16, 2012 
BTW, Flipboard should thank Tony Kahn, the visionary who introduced podcasting to public radio.
en.wikipedia.org 
I'm proud to announce that my river includes NPR content! Could be a gamechanger. (It has since 2004, btw.)
daveriver.scripting.com 50 Must-Read Higher Education Technology Blogs. (This defines a river.)
edtechmagazine.com Citizens United: Justice David Souter's dissent in the Supreme Court's momentous campaign finance case.
slate.com Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don't talk about raising taxes.
washingtonpost.com Google Revamps Search With Massive 'Real World Map of Things'.
wired.com The ad world celebrates itself at the Clios.
slate.com Tried to enter the url of my linkblog into a new blog aggregator, got an error. Not cooool. RSS is pretty easy.
scripting.com One thing to be thankful to Twitter for is that it enforces a basic level of civility, thanks to its Block command.
You should learn enough about anything to find out if you love it.
scripting.com Judge Alsup told the court he had learned to code in Java for the trial.
wired.com Chris Bosh was the long overlooked member of Miami's Big Three, until he was injured against the Pacers, that is.
nytimes.com 14 Photos Of The Subway System Under Construction, 1901-1931.
gothamist.com Morgan Freeman has been warned by a shareholder not to use the promotion of The Dark Knight Rises to forward his own political agenda.
guardian.co.uk Why is Paul Krugman Misrepresenting the Demise of a Wall Street Funded, Right Wing, Entitlement-Bashing Front Group?
nytexaminer.com EV Grieve: 36th annual Ukrainian Festival is this weekend.
evgrieve.com New Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement.
fastcompany.com
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'.
rollingstone.com If we elect the insane version of the Republicans, we deserve what we get.
scripting.com Speaker John Boehner pushed the country to the brink of default last year and now wants to do it all over again.
nytimes.com Flipboard sells innovations of RSS from eleven years ago.
techcrunch.com Drug crime sends first-time offender grandmom to prison for life w/o parole.
chron.com Americans See Obama as Solid Favorite to Win Election.
gallup.com I wonder if Romney knows that #Hitler is an Internet meme?
buzzfeed.com One Thing Hitler Did Right, According To Mitt Romney. (Not great PR, btw.)
buzzfeed.com Dvorak: What is Wrong With Firefox?
pcmag.com Wes Anderson on why he loves stop-motion animation.
slate.com How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.
gizmodo.com HowTo: EC2 for Poets. (If you're thinking about learning to code, do this first.)
poets.scripting.com How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2. (Sweet.)
kottke.org When podcasting was booting up we had a slogan: "Users and developers party together." It's good to remember that.
google.com BTW, the social web sucks. You'd be smart to fear it. :-)
BTW, I don't think Keen fears the social web. He's actually a comedian. If you don't get the joke, he says, you're the victim of the joke.
CJR: Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web. (Reviews like this sell his book.)
cjr.org Hybrids are so quiet that pedestrians never hear them coming.
slate.com Twitter Blog: The best of Twitter in your inbox. (Like flipboard via email.)
blog.twitter.com The problem for Quora is there's an over-supply of corporate blogging silos to deposit ideas in.
jacksonmohsenin.com South Dakota: More Job Losses for Producer of 'Pink Slime'.
nytimes.com Quora gets $50 million. Q: Why? A: Because it can.
gigaom.com The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death.
guardian.co.uk
Monday, May 14, 2012
Twitter tiptoes further into the media business.
gigaom.com Rex Hammock will speak tomorrow at Techville in Nashville.
rexblog.com Why Tech CEOs Seem So Dumb. (It's a trick question.)
buzzfeed.com Rackspace has a cloud server API. That's cool cause I have a few servers there.
docs.rackspace.com Obama's team of tech gurus to unleash 'Holy Grail' of digital campaigning?
guardian.co.uk Can we please agree to stop trying to bury people alive?
gawker.com The problem with nerd politics is everyone is out for their own glory. There's very little sense of teamwork.
Cory Doctorow: The problem with nerd politics. (Or learn to work with your allies Cory.)
guardian.co.uk John Robinson to newspaper publishers: "It would be gutsy to take Dave up on his offer. Gutsy and smart."
johnlrobinson.com Spiegel: Why Greece Needs to Leave the Euro Zone.
spiegel.de
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Thread: JPM's $2 billion loss? I don't get it. (Lots of good comments, I think I now understand why it's news.)
threads.scripting.com My mom is a capitalist. She always boasts how much money I made her. Apparently I was a good investment. :-)
evespeeves.wordpress.com Next question after Scott Thompson's departure: what is Yahoo actually for?
guardian.co.uk Women are better than men. (I love my mother, but that's a crock of you know what.)
blogs.suntimes.com Why are people seriously thinking that the copyright industries have the final say in shaping society?
torrentfreak.com The role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.
technologyreview.com Wall Street is capitalism in its purest form, and capitalism is predicated on bad behavior.
nytimes.com Europe's rush to austerity will have severe consequences.
slate.com Moving To Chrome, Goodbye Firefox. (I will be doing that too now that they force users into their beta program.)
browserfame.com
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Tea Party candidates for Senate hope to infuse upper chamber with conservatism of House.
nytimes.com Google's head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo.
gigaom.com The court debate over the new health care law offers yet another example of worrying about imaginary risks.
nytimes.com Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: I don't have broadband at home. (We should fix this right away.)
guardian.co.uk What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.).
pandodaily.com Paywalls remove efficiencies. It's hard to see how, long-term, that can be profitable.
scripting.com The British Ministry of Defense has notified residents of some buildings that it might install air-defense systems on roofs to protect the Olympics.
nytimes.com After nine dropped cell phone calls for help, couple dies.
news.cnet.com No one is saying this kind of stuff at the "future of news" conferences they have. And politics and news -- same thing really.
scripting.com Mathew Ingram: 3 reasons I don't like newspaper paywalls.
gigaom.com For Mother's Day this year, stop being your parent's tech support.
theverge.com Obvious if Dems didn't plant the story about young Mitt bullying the gay kid, at least they knew it was coming.
guardian.co.uk
Friday, May 11, 2012
First picture downloaded from Canon 320 over wifi and uploaded to Flickr, and then archived on photos.scripting.com.
photos.scripting.com I charged up my old iPad, so it would serve as a backup, next time the battery ran down on the new iPad.
scripting.com On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data. (They compare them to the Beatles. Sigh.)
businessweek.com Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO. (Tax dodge?)
bloomberg.com Re ObamaCare: "The rebates will average around $127 for the over 3 million individuals who receive them directly."
thepage.time.com Michele Bachmann renounces Swiss citizenship. (A true patriot.)
politico.com Maybe it's time for Pres Obama to have a talk about climate change with Malia and Sasha.
nytexaminer.com Scripting News: Blogging and Kickstarter go together.
scripting.com Germans Can't Fathom US Aversion to Obama's Healthcare Reform. (Neither can this American.)
spiegel.de Banks prepare for the return of the drachma.
reuters.com
Thursday, May 10, 2012
My apps will never integrate with Facebook unless they support open formats and protocols, in which case they will.
buzzfeed.com Jeff Hellman got his Canon 320 to connect with his Mac via wifi. I'll run through his howto tomorrow.
jeffhellman.org New York Knicks' Mike Woodson says team will 'absolutely' re-sign guard Jeremy Lin.
espn.go.com Perhaps the President wants to make climate change a serious campaign issue.
nytimes.com Gmail is nice to have, but I don't want to blur the line between private email and public writing.
scripting.com "When I see a massive number of new investors and carpetbaggers coming in, it's time to get out."
wired.com Gawker: Equality is not a state-by-state issue.
gawker.com
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Slate: Why Obama's approval matters so much to gay people.
slate.com Looks like it's over for the Knicks for 2012.
Fake tweet stops #Nashville doctor's lecture, plans for cruise
0al.blork.ly Is the State of New York just asking for help working around a glitch in Twitter's software?
scripting.com The Essence of Walt Frazier, Captured on Twitter. #knicks
nytimes.com Ah, Santa has come early this year... What did he/she leave for us? Oh.
evgrieve.com Farhad switched to Bing for a week.
slate.com Walmart to Rip DVDs for Consumers With TV/Film Industry Partnership Ultraviolet.
adweek.com Klout In The Airport: A High Score Gets You Into Cathay Pacific's SFO Lounge. (Thought that said SEO at first.)
techcrunch.com What do dogs think she's doing when she picks up the prizes they leave in the park?
scripting.com What Are The Best Audiobooks For A Road Trip?
theawl.com Slate: Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein's ideas won't solve Washington's gridlock.
slate.com Economist: The tea-party movement is still brewing.
economist.com In the old days companies offered the same deal to everyone.
scripting.com Even when they say something is "not dead." I want to tell them, do you know what dead *is*?
When people use "dead" to talk about inanimate things, they are fouling sacred feelings. They must never have lost anyone.
Scripting News: Can you tell if a company is crazy?
scripting.com Is the State of New York just asking for help working around a glitch in Twitter's software?
scripting.com
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Cameron says Euro needs single government: report. (It's kind of obvious.)
reuters.com Why emergency rooms don't close the health care gap.
cnn.com North Carolina polling stations report confrontations over Amendment 1.
guardian.co.uk Re how fluid things are, I had to think if davewiner.com was on Amazon or Rackspace and couldn't remember.
davewiner.com Worknotes: Editable menus in static files. (This is what the new blogpost template looks like in real life.)
worknotes.scripting.com It would be easy to compete with Amazon on price and performance and I hope lots of vendors do.
I use a lot of Amazon's cloud services and don't see any lock-in. I would tell you if I did.
gigaom.com Ze Frank raises $750k to kickstart his media empire.
gigaom.com Heidi Roizen's top tips to take the pain out of networking.
thenextweb.com ACLU: Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users.
aclu.org "It's a big universe for one guy to manage. It's no wonder my back hurts!"
scripting.com Maurice Sendak, Children's Author, Dies at 83.
nytimes.com No joke, sounds like @arrington wants the top job at Yahoo.
uncrunched.com How many Repubs know the Statue of Liberty, that famous American symbol of freedom, was a gift. From France!
en.wikipedia.org
Monday, May 07, 2012
China expels first foreign journalist in 13 years.
reuters.com "We don't hire based on resumes. We hire on Klout scores. Arrington is a 68. That sold us."
mockcrunch.com Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents Over Previous Praise Of Ayn Rand.
thinkprogress.org As you may know I've been tinkering with new format for blogposts. This one is inspired by @om's personal blog.
worknotes.scripting.com Forbes: Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Venture Capitalists.
forbes.com Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet.
techcrunch.com Funding "No-Idea" founders is like giving a mortgage to someone who doesn't have a job.
adii.me Talking parakeets: Why do they mimic human speech?
slate.com Finally, a Spray That Gets You Instantly Drunk for Just a Few Seconds.
newsfeed.time.com Today's ride. Feeling great. I'm no longer the slowest one on the hills! :-)
maps.google.com Is This the Most Boring Election Ever? (I must be bored, I read the whole thing. Every word.)
rollingstone.com Yahoo hires new CEO: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. #heh
mockcrunch.com Stallman on football brain injuries. See how simple things are when you just say what's true.
stallman.org GeekWire: The venture capital model is broken, and this damning report explains why.
geekwire.com Great photo of the Enterprise approaching NY over the Hudson.
flickr.com A Yahoo employee lecturing me (a customer, among other things) about criticizing his CEO for lying.
twitter.com This is my personal river. It includes lots of feeds from people who read my blog. Always open to adding more.
daveriver.scripting.com City gearing up as more cyclists commute to work and ride for fun.
amny.com Yahoo, this isn't how you handle a management crisis.
twitter.com Technology Review: Why Publishers Don't Like Apps. (Read it to the end for a surprise.)
technologyreview.com
Sunday, May 06, 2012
George Lindsey, who played Gomer Pyle's cousin Goober, died at 83.
nytimes.com Jeremy Lin could return for Game 5 after Baron Davis carted off.
espn.go.com Nationals Fail to Halt Invasion of Phillies Fans. #outrageous #hilarious
nytimes.com Real-time Facebook 'likes' displayed on Brazilian fashion retailer's clothes racks.
theverge.com "Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939."
cnbc.com Flickr: Central Park from the sky. Taken with the new Canon 320, through a dirty window. :-)
flickr.com TorrentFreak: Unblocking Pirate Bay with a proxy is too boring, so just for fun let's go the hard way round.
torrentfreak.com Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
nytimes.com I've been to one game at Yankee Stadium. Game 4 of the 1976 World Series. I wanted to see the Yankees lose, and I wasn't disappointed! :-)
en.wikipedia.org Quite a few tickets still available for New York Knicks vs Miami Heat today at 3:30PM here in NY.
stubhub.com If VLC can ship a free DVD player, why can't Microsoft? (Licensing fees.)
zdnet.com NYT list of the most powerful people in NYC.
nytimes.com Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?
wired.com American lifespan by county, another gap that's going in the wrong direction.
tobiasbuckell.com
Saturday, May 05, 2012
End Is Likely for Knicks; Stoudemire Is a Maybe.
nytimes.com Why does Romney need a Swiss Bank Account. Hedging his bet on America? Doesn't look good.
huffingtonpost.com LeBron James says there shouldn't be asterisk by eventual champion.
espn.go.com A blog that's dedicated to "fonts, typefaces and all things typographical." Every post has a different layout?
ilovetypography.com With A Talent War In The Valley, Perhaps Romania Has The Answers?
techcrunch.com Breaking: World's largest pink stretch Hummer spotted on Avenue B.
evgrieve.com NASA Langley deploys jet to North Pole to collect data on climate change.
dailypress.com NYT: Coining Terminology for Life on the Web.
nytimes.com It's Not About Losing Weight but Eating Healthfully. (Written by my mom, she knows a lot about this.)
evespeeves.wordpress.com Zsa Zsa Gabor: "I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house."
guardian.co.uk Seth Godin: A simple antidote to a corporatized, unfeeling, profit-maximizing world.
sethgodin.typepad.com
Friday, May 04, 2012
GOP's Violence Against Women Act Would Open Up Undocumented Victims To More Abuse.
huffingtonpost.com I'm looking for examples of beautiful, simple, efficient, fast loading, easy to read designs for blog stories.
threads.scripting.com Dish threatens to drop AMC cable channels. #breakingbad #madmen
theverge.com What Corporate Governance Experts Are Saying About Yahoo's Chief. (My own take, he can't stay.)
dealbook.nytimes.com WNYC: Using NYPD Warrant Squads to Monitor Protesters May Violate Constitution.
wnyc.org Dan Farber: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's pinata party.
news.cnet.com Secret service prostitute says secret information was easily accessible.
guardian.co.uk Sports is our simulation for war, in a day when wars are fought by drones...
scripting.com Flickr: NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center.
flickr.com What if our most talented people think it's a waste of time to accumulate more wealth than a person can use?
nytexaminer.com A New Pair of Shoes for America's Tallest Man.
en.rian.ru You can't put a coward on the bench, a pretender, alongside heroes, and expect to win in battle.
scripting.com Scripting News: The Knicks season ended last night.
scripting.com
Thursday, May 03, 2012
NYT: Home is where all of the Knicks are likely to be headed soon. (I'm afraid he has a point.)
nytimes.com Tampa's Plea for a Bit of Disarmament? Rejected.
nytimes.com Hard-hatin gun-totin Repoobleeekan crazy man Ted Nugent carries the torch for looney toons politics.
nytimes.com Yahoo admits CEO falsely claimed to have computer science degree, calls it 'inadvertent error'.
theverge.com Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video).
engadget.com iOS Dropbox app #kerfuffle ends, but highlights confusion about guidelines.
arstechnica.com Proof that Republi-cons are crazy wacko out of their minds.
news.yahoo.com EBay puts down roots in NYC with data-focused tech center.
gigaom.com They commit suicide with a shot in the chest so doctors can autopsy their brain.
nydailynews.com Osama bin Laden considered rebranding al-Qaida, documents reveal.
guardian.co.uk Peter Rojas started a thread on gdgt to try to figure out how to get the Canon 320 wifi working.
gdgt.com Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate).
torrentfreak.com Chris Bosh of Miami Heat returns home to be with expectant wife.
espn.go.com
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Peter Rojas: Would Facebook let me pay them $5?
roj.as NRA ends silence and comes out fighting for stand-your-ground laws.
guardian.co.uk April 18: Rebooting the Internet dev process. #rerun
scripting.com Ryan Tate has a plausible theory why journalists playing themselves in movies feels icky.
threads.scripting.com ACLU: Thousands of Pennsylvanians at Risk of Losing the Right to Vote.
aclu.org Thousands join girl in urging Seventeen magazine to publish unedited images. #amen
guardian.co.uk Stoudemire has forgiven himself, fine -- but do not put him in a Knicks uniform in the Garden.
espn.go.com "I think you're an okay person, I don't know why people say you're such an asshole."
scripting.com Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses.
nytimes.com Stoudemire was supposed to set an example for the rookies. #knicks
scripting.com Lonely? Get a cat. They live 13 years. Get another...
imgur.com The dirty secret behind the incubator boom. It's made of hamsters.
venturebeat.com
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Frontline: Money, Power and Wall Street.
pbs.org Romney's Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality.
nytimes.com How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan.
buzzfeed.com Maybe @amareisreal will donate his $60 million salary to a deserving charity.
nbafrontpage.com Stoudemire has a $60 million three-year contract. He injures himself, now he doesn't even have to play.
nbafrontpage.com Twitter Is Exploring a Premium Version, CEO Suggests. (A premium version would have no ads.)
mashable.com Obama's decision to go after Bin Laden: how the president overruled advisers in ordering the assassination.
slate.com Stoudemire to miss remainder of series.
nba.com Analytics Reveal 13 New Basketball Positions.
wired.com Mitt campaigns with Rudy in NYC at firehouse. Guess what the message is! :-)
thehill.com What if in addition to being a great painter or musician, you also had to look great in a suit and have an MBA?
scripting.com Slate: Spain, Greece, and Portugal Should Quit the euro. It's the only way to save their doomed economies.
slate.com Dick Costolo Doesn't Want You to Worry About Twitter's Business. (Users want to know what Twitter will look like.)
wired.com You might not be a journalist, but you play one on Twitter.
niemanlab.org Watch The Williamsburg Bridge Blow Up In The New Dark Knight Rises Trailer.
gothamist.com Apple to crush carriers, become direct service provider.
bgr.com Shutting Down Cell Service During Protests: The Constitutional Dimension.
aclu.org Stoudemire will never live down what happened after last night's game.
espn.go.com In an ideal world, no one would know you've been acquired.
thenextweb.com
Monday, April 30, 2012
Tea Party Congressmen Accept Cash From Bailed-Out Bankers.
bloomberg.com Thieves Steal 10-Ton Railway Bridge in Czech Republic.
en.rian.ru Whoa somehow I missed that MSG is doing the Knicks game. Clyde! Moving and grooving!
en.rian.ru Texas law's exclusion of Planned Parenthood blocked by federal judge.
guardian.co.uk Private Prisons Are the Problem, Not the Solution.
aclu.org They could have called this ad "Republicans are creeps."
adage.com I'm following ESPN's NBA feed. So far it's given me some pretty good stuff, esp about Rondo suspension.
sports.espn.go.com Why news on Internet is stuck: Two dominant products in RSS, Google Reader and iTunes. Neither is moving.
scripting.com Olmert, Ex-Premier of Israel, Assails Netanyahu on Iran. (Good cause no American pol is going to say it.)
nytimes.com Developers Still Waiting Each Other Out on Central Park South. (Fascinating story.)
ny.curbed.com Rex: The White House situation room photo, one year later.
rexblog.com Michelle Malkin Is Not Ready To Surrender Facebook And Twitter.
buzzfeed.com
Sunday, April 29, 2012
I'd give $100 to a SuperPAC to get his guy ou of the House.
nytimes.com Krugman: Young people, even with a college degree, are entering an economy that just doesn't seem to want them.
nytimes.com The scoop on dispute betw Oracle and Google. Google implemented Java APIs w/o a license. Oracle sued.
threads.scripting.com Corporations are not people and they do not have the right to spend money to buy our politicians.
wolf-pac.com 1 World Trade Center Will Reclaim the Sky in Lower Manhattan.
nytimes.com There's another perspective. Are new companies creating products that make money, and are they going to last.
nytimes.com Chris Dixon looks at the bubble hypothesis from an investor's viewpoint.
cdixon.org I would support a nonpartisan superpac whose mission is to fight voter suppression.
theatlanticcities.com Obama Campaign Confronts Voter ID Laws. This part of the Obama campaign is worth supporting.
nytimes.com Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, we're going to crash'. (A tragic, deadly story of UI design.)
telegraph.co.uk Krugman says we're doomed. What else is new. Luckily no one listens to the pundits on Sunday morning TV.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com Gosling says Google "slimed" Sun re Java, but doesn't explain how.
nighthacks.com Gizmodo -- Canon Powershot ELPH 530 HS -- Now With Wi-Fi Inside.
gizmodo.com Canon finally has a wifi-equipped point-and-shoot camera.
amazon.com Apple's Tax Strategy Aims at Low-Tax States and Nations.
nytimes.com
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Facebook "likes" aren't speech protected by the First Amendment.
arstechnica.com Knicks' Iman Shumpert Out for Season with Torn Knee Ligament.
nytimes.com Knicks' Tyson Chandler Loses Battle to Flu and Fatigue.
nytimes.com Brutal analysis of Knicks game. Heat doubled on Melo. Knicks had no Plan B.
nytimes.com Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: Display dollars aren't coming back.
paidcontent.org "The Heat were clearly determined to contain Anthony and let anyone else beat them."
nytimes.com EV Grieve: East Village resident injured by falling air conditioner remains missing.
evgrieve.com Dropbox Matches Google Drive Storage Offer.
tech.li Pete Fornatale, a Pioneer of FM Rock, Dies at 66.
nytimes.com Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City.
dailymail.co.uk Berkeley: Hit-and-run driver who struck two cyclists is arrested.
berkeleyside.com
Friday, April 27, 2012
Tyson Chandler May Miss Knicks' Playoff Opener.
nytimes.com David Peel Sang Once for Lennon, Now for Occupy Wall Street.
nytimes.com If the Internet is a chaotic cacophony of the free and brave, why is it that one person can turn off Wikipedia?
scripting.com Problem is "tech giants" aren't run by visionaries, they're run by PHBs who hire Dilberts to make them feel good about themselves.
scripting.com I suspect the "tech giants" have as much of a clue about news as they did about user file systems. Dropbox caught them dreaming.
scripting.com How tech's giants want to re-invent journalism (but the article never says how they want to do it).
paidcontent.org I've been thinking fear of death, like almost everything else about us, comes from the natural selection process.
scripting.com Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Raise $1.5 M. for Massive 'Jews Against the Internet' Rally At Citi Field.
betabeat.com Owning Your Words: Personal Clouds Build Professional Reputations.
wired.com Students Push for Tech Entrepreneur Lab at NYU.
betabeat.com View of Space Shuttle Enterprise flying over NYC from the Municipal Building.
twitpic.com Note to the Feed Validator people. I think my valid RSS 2.0 feed should validate without warnings. Thanks.
feedvalidator.org Today's headline would make a good synopsis for a Kurt Vonnegut story.
scripting.com Humans urged to find new planets to live on.
abc.net.au Dutch cannabis cafe owners fight changes.
bbc.co.uk "Can The Knicks Beat The Heat?" Sure. No matter what I'm glued to this till it's over.
avc.com
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Knicks to face Heat in first round after dropping Bobcats.
nj.com People have telling Google they don't like GMail interface, but it doesn't seem like Google has been listening.
jonoscript.wordpress.com Techdirt: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote.
techdirt.com Catholic protesters greet Rep. Paul Ryan.
m.upi.com Hello, and Welcome To Gawker's New Commenting System. (I tried to sign up but clicked on the wrong thing.)
gawker.com Susan Crawford: The Cableization of Online Life Is Upon Us.
wired.com Facebook IPO: How much money does the social network make off each user?
slate.com Massive collection of old NYC photos put online.
kottke.org
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Chris Dixon: The risks of being a small investor in a private company.
cdixon.org Could the NYT make money from its scoops? (Wouldn't other pubs just run stories about the Times story?)
blogs.reuters.com The "fundamental fact" of the election of 2012 is: 1. Barack Obama is cool. 2. Mitt Romney is not.
scripting.com Dropbox fires back at Google; launches Search Engine. :-)
mockcrunch.com Google thinks Drive is all about Google Docs, just like Microsoft in 1995 thought the web was all about Office.
allthingsd.com Harvard University to become a beacon for open access.
h-online.com Koss Striva headphones stream music over Wi-Fi for $500.
theverge.com "Well-balanced meals every day that we deliver straight to the office..." great idea.
blog.munchery.com To @ezraklein, if we wanted an election about policy where would we turn? The press is all touchy-feely.
washingtonpost.com Debt Collectors Take Places Alongside Hospital Staffs.
nytimes.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Harvard puts metadata for 12M library items into the public domain.
hyperorg.com The best way to preserve Internet freedom is to use it.
scripting.com Oy. The Local East Village blog is behind the NYT paywall now.
scripting.com Scripting News: Hacking society notes. #hacksociety
scripting.com One World Trade Center could become the tallest building in the city by early next week.
amny.com A picture in the public folder of my Dropbox account. Let's see if you all can access it at the same time. :-)
dl.dropbox.com Theoretically, this folder, which is part of my Google Drive™, is visible to everyone.
docs.google.com Google doesn't like the version of Firefox I use, so they're nagging me every time I check mail.
scripting.com Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web.
hanselman.com Scripting News: McLuhan was as prescient as Postel.
scripting.com It's not enough to understand how computers work, because you have to understand people too.
scripting.com How much does an appendectomy cost? Somewhere between $1,529 and $186,955.
washingtonpost.com Rex Hammock says "Yes, the web and mobile apps are like TV shows (and magazines)"
rexblog.com Scripting News: Study English and Computer Science.
scripting.com It's great that so many NYers use Central Park, but it's esp nice when it's empty, like yesterday.
flickr.com
Monday, April 23, 2012
This is my idea of what the Times Wire would look like. Faster, more utilitarian, less in your face.
nytimesriver.com If The New York Times Was A Giant Twitter Stream. (Been saying that since the mid-90s.)
buzzfeed.com 1996: If instead of crippling each other with fear, we competed to empower each others' creativity.
scripting.com Flickr: Central Park was nice and empty today.
flickr.com Krugman says Romney is an asshole. Expect to hear a lot more of that in the coming months.
nytimes.com Bet the Prez wishes he had used the 14th Amendment to STFing Repubs up last August. At least he's got some cojones now.
nytimes.com Europe Caught in Vise as Austerity Weakens Economy.
nytimes.com Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors. (They've been saying that since I was a kid. It's not true.)
bloomberg.com Ukraine Wants to 'Revitalize' Chernobyl Area.
en.rian.ru NYT: Shift on Executive Powers Let Obama Bypass Congress.
nytimes.com
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Jon Huntsman Trashes GOP, Expresses Campaign Regrets.
buzzfeed.com N.Y.C. Map Shows Many Proposed Bike-Sharing Sites.
nytimes.com This guy fires bullets into everyday objects and captures them exploding in slow motion with a high speed camera.
flickr.com World Peace was ejected for a vicious elbow to the back of James Harden's head while celebrating a dunk.
nytimes.com Delta's TV ads, black-and-white, voiced by Donald Sutherland, are old-school, and great.
youtube.com University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets.
forbes.com Keith Olbermann: Dog-Gate Exponentially Raises 'Absurdity' of Campaign.
abcnews.go.com Will Denton open the Gawker platform so that anyone can write for it?
scripting.com BBC: Millionaire leaves his company to benefit the community.
bbc.co.uk
Saturday, April 21, 2012
An apartment for free, no rent. One condition -- we record and publish everything you do. Yes?
threads.scripting.com NYT: Therapy should focus on goals and outcomes, and people should be able to graduate from it.
nytimes.com Mike Conigliaro: Initial Thoughts on Migrating from Amazon EC2 to Rackspace Cloud.
conigliaro.org "...interacting with people through computers, a concept that has given me a lifetime of great stuff to work on."
scripting.com Nick Denton wants to turn the online media world on its head.
gigaom.com Now this guy looks like a for-real CEO, someone who likes to hack corporations as opposed to products.
bloomberg.com My latest bubble piece was chosen by the WSJ as a "must-read." Thanks! :-)
online.wsj.com We were promised a global village; instead we inhabit drab cul-de-sacs, endless freeways of a suburb of information
theatlantic.com Fred Wilson asks a good question -- do tech companies come with expiration dates?
avc.com Top Apple exec: Instagram has 'jumped the shark'. (By porting to Android.)
cnn.com
Friday, April 20, 2012
Joe Nocera on the power of columnists in the 1960s.
nytimes.com Anontune: The New Social Music Platform From Anonymous.
wired.com Space Shuttle Enterprise's Trip to J.F.K. Is Delayed.
nytimes.com Some 659K Macs are Still Infected by Flashback Malware.
thenextweb.com How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death.
nytimes.com Stallman is pleased by Twitter's new patent policy.
stallman.org The <blink> tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags.
montulli.org Pelosi: Amend the First Amendment. (Good idea.)
cnsnews.com Mitt Romney's 'Obama Isn't Working' Banner Evokes Racial Stereotypes.
mediaite.com
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Another bubble sign: A pointless pipeline. The pipeline to nowhere.
nytimes.com Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies.
npr.org When a company says their patents are only defensive, that's probably not the full story.
scripting.com Jay asks a trick question. The reason people don't trust the press is they aren't trustworthy. Imho.
pressthink.org Here's what Apple told users about viruses on the Mac.
bing.com Google shutting out rivals, claims Russian search engine Yandex.
guardian.co.uk Mac OS X invulnerability to malware is a myth, says security firm.
arstechnica.com How to get a part in a Woody Allen film.
kottke.org Flickr: This is the problem Ikea hopes to solve.
flickr.com
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
EV Grieve: Just another photo of a couple pushing a made bed down Second Avenue.
evgrieve.com GeekWire: Twitter's patent pledge not what it seems.
geekwire.com Knicks are playing the Nets tonight, in NJ. One of their last games before moving to Brooklyn next year.
readability.com Dick Clark, 'Bandstand' Host, Dead at 82.
npr.org First-to-file means the end of any semblance of open development.
freakonomics.com Don't the Repubs say they're going to get government off business's back? Heh. Replace them with lawyers.
freakonomics.com The patent system in the US is about to change from first-to-invent to first-to-file.
freakonomics.com How expanding Twitter's pledge could end the patent wars.
news.cnet.com Amazon's Secretive Cloud Carries 1 Percent of the Internet.
wired.com IPhone Boom Mic Adds Sound-Sensitive Proboscis To Your iDevice.
cultofmac.com Just got a pair of Beats headphones, the big ones. Lovely.
amazon.com ACLU: Say No to For-Profit Prisons.
aclu.org Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook. (Or never put the data in there in the first place.)
guardian.co.uk Scripting News: Rebooting the Internet dev process.
scripting.com Brooke Baldwin is CNN's "View-From-Somewhere" Anchor.
scripting.com Brent Schlender: Lost Conversations From Steve Jobs' Best Years.
fastcompany.com Forbes takes a contrarian view of Twitter's new patent policy.
forbes.com
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Kickstarter game projects: Where does the money go?
itworld.com To say that political discourse takes place at the intellectual level of baboons would be an insult to baboons.
economist.com If You Build Bike Lanes, They Will Ride.
good.is So can we stop talking about bloggers vs. journalists now?
gigaom.com Brooke Gladstone has been dishing and swishing with Walt Frazier. Me too! He's fantastic.
onthemedia.org If Google is going to continue to thrive, so must the open web.
scripting.com
Monday, April 16, 2012
McDonald's, Wendy's, Intuit, Mars, Kraft, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo -- companies that back Stand Your Ground laws.
nytimes.com TSA Douche Caught Lifting iPads from Luggage.
dvorak.org Only on CNN: Buffett Rule Fails Senate Vote. (By 51-45.)
scripting.com When I ask why Google isn't leading, this is the kind of stuff I'm thinking about.
scripting.com The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage.
nytimes.com
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Why are game designers so scared of 'persistence' in games?
cimota.com NYU's entrepreneurs-in-residence. This is a new idea. :-)
stern.nyu.edu Embeddable Hacker News vote/counter button.
github.com NYT: At Tribeca Film Festival, Porous Borders on Display.
nytimes.com Mitt Romney flashback: Stay-at-home moms need to learn 'dignity of work'.
washingtonpost.com Video: Here's that great Nokia smartphone ad.
youtube.com Scripting News: Knicks vs Heat on my second monitor.
scripting.com Michael Fraase summarizes the Brin interview.
farces.com Guardian: Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin.
guardian.co.uk Do Republicans realize they've just called for the repeal of welfare reform? #assholes
patheos.com Om Malik quoting Marissa Mayer on burnout and resentment.
om.co Kaliya, a friend from Berkeley, is at a WEF event in Mexico.
twitter.com Interview: We chat with the producer of the upcoming Steve Jobs movie.
neowin.net Flickr: My Ride, ready for another year on the trail. :-)
flickr.com Flickr: New York Harbor, earlier this morning.
flickr.com Europe has an austerity strategy. It needs a growth strategy
slate.com How to teach someone how to prove something. (I wish we had this class when I was a math major.)
mathbabe.org For every soldier killed in battle, 25 veterans commit suicide.
nytimes.com Dinosaur Dig in China Turns Up Largest Known Feathered Animal.
nytimes.com The Photo App Facebook Didn't Buy: Hipstamatic.
inc.com
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The reality of being a tech entrepreneur. Read this if you're thinking you're the next Zuck or Instagram.
reddit.com N.R.A. Criticizes Trayvon Martin Media Coverage. (What an asshole.)
nytimes.com Mitt Romney's poor judgment is already undermining his candidacy.
guardian.co.uk New targeted Mac OS X Trojan requires no user interaction.
zdnet.com You can revert to the old Gmail look. Here's a screen shot showing how.
scripting.com Scripting News: Comments on a recent Chris Lydon podcast with Jay Rosen.
scripting.com Maybe in addition to fact-checking lies, we need another media function -- highlighting outstanding truthfulness.
washingtonpost.com "Beltway pundit Hilary Rosen committed a mortal sin of American politics: She spoke the truth with a microphone on."
washingtonpost.com NRA Calls Bloomberg "An Arrogant Bastard" for Anti-Gun Campaign. (Love it. Maybe so, but in this case, he's right.)
blogs.villagevoice.com RWW: Why Facebook Terrifies Google. (Including screen shots. Don't skip this piece.)
readwriteweb.com
Friday, April 13, 2012
"They don't give a damn whether innocent people are shot and killed." #nra
nydailynews.com Vintage Subway Ride to Ballgame Transported Fans to Another Time.
nytimes.com Death To The Gatekeepers: Bezos Talks Innovation In The Publishing Space.
techcrunch.com Einer Elhauge: If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did The Founding Fathers Back Them?
tnr.com Jay Rosen on our Media Malaise: Who Will Tell the People? #podcast #chrislydon
radioopensource.org Mitt Romney: "Hey if I were you I'd want my money too." #imaginary
scripting.com I still can't believe Amazon offers a free server for a year. We're going to look back on that as pivotal.
aws.amazon.com Bernie Sanders: Stop the nuclear industry welfare programme.
guardian.co.uk Apple releases tool to combat Flashback malware. (Too-slow malware response.)
bbc.co.uk Repubs love Diet Dr Pepper. (Makes me a Repub, I guess. It's my fave too.)
gigaom.com He spent his final moments on the Titanic leading the ship's seven musicians as they sank into the North Atlantic.
npr.org Cory Booker, Newark Mayor, Saves Woman From House Fire.
nytimes.com
Thursday, April 12, 2012
They don't do anything for hamsters that a hamster would want to do.
scripting.com Gov. Chris Christie and the Tunnel Project.
nytimes.com For Knicks, Eight Games and Lots of Questions Remaining.
nytimes.com Ann Romney, stay-at-home moms and the real facts about women at work.
guardian.co.uk Facebook has a motto "Stay Focused & Keep Shipping." My SV company had a similar slogan. "Management by shipping."
collectorsweekly.com Evicted From Park, Occupy Protesters Take to the Sidewalks.
nytimes.com The aspirin-between-the-knees guy has another good one.
latimes.com If Ann Romney wants to be sensible, responsible, reasonable, respectful, she's going to vote against her husband. :-)
firstread.msnbc.msn.com "Hilary Rosen clumsily suggests..." -- there was nothing clumsy about it. What a bunch of wimps.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Democrat Says Ann Romney "Has Never Worked A Day In Her Life". (I don't think she even denies it.)
buzzfeed.com Nice to see TechCrunch, after a change in management, care about the open web.
techcrunch.com And when a young woman texts, "It's 3 am and I think something's happening," Hillary snaps: "On it."
nytimes.com How Twitter accidentally fostered the universal presence.
theverge.com Ooops, looks like the new software from Google broke at least on developer.
m.google.com W3C: CSS Variables Module Level 1.
w3.org Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete.
slate.com Introducing The Listserve, a Giant List Only One Person Can Email Per Day.
betabeat.com How much does height cost in NYC real estate?
nymag.com
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Christie's speech was obviously the repub response to obama's excellent rally today in Florida.
nj.com Gov. Christie: Nation turning into 'people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check'.
nj.com Lawyers for Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman stand down.
guardian.co.uk How Twitter Saved a Kidnapped South African Man From the Trunk of a Car.
gizmodo.com Matt Groening Lets Three-Eyed Fish Out Of The Lake On Location Of Springfield. #oregon
gawker.com European stock markets rocked by panic selling as debt crisis reignites.
guardian.co.uk It's 2012, and Best Buy still doesn't get the internet.
buzzfeed.com Did Facebook just throw Instagram's rivals a lifeline?
gigaom.com "Instagram achieved what Flickr should have been able to achieve, if Yahoo had had any brains about mobile or apps."
gigaom.com New rss-apps mail list. "We should have a place to communicate openly about compatibility."
groups.google.com Repubs say debt is OK to destroy and rebuild Iraq, but nothing for infrastructure in the US.
nytimes.com Guardian: A star is reborn as 96-year-old Herman Wouk sells new novel.
guardian.co.uk Trying to save their orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly stumble into a murder plot and star in a reality TV show.
imdb.com Because of the Court's decisions, we cannot fix Congress without fixing the Supreme Court.
theatlantic.com
Monday, April 09, 2012
Carmelo Anthony, Playing His Style, Delivers as Expected. #knicks
nytimes.com Windows-on-iPad service goes legit as Microsoft licensing demands are met.
arstechnica.com Apple should have acquired Instagram. (Or Twitter.)
nikita.io Scripting News: The Darwinism of the tech food chain.
scripting.com Facebook is essentially about photos, and Instagram attacked Facebook's achilles heel -- mobile photo sharing
gigaom.com Greek protestors hurled eggs and yogurt at television anchor Panagiotis Bourchas.
politicalwire.com Unless the President runs an aggressive gloves-off campaign, I can't see being very enthusiastic about him.
scripting.com A photo of Bucky Badger in front of the Great Wall of China. $10 million.
twitter.com A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.
en.wikiquote.org It's conceivable that Romney will tell the Ayn Rand wing of his party to stuff it.
scripting.com Conservatives are unhappy because they prefer passive, intimidated liberals to the fighting kind.
washingtonpost.com Scripting News: Why "Social Darwinism" is just right.
scripting.com AOL to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion.
reuters.com Joe Biden, our Vice President, is being rebooted. I wondered he went to. Guess he crashed? :-)
twitter.com
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Neo-Nazis pledge to descend on Sanford, Fla., where Trayvon martin was killed, to protect 'white citizens'.
nydailynews.com Knicks' Jeremy Lin Is Encouraged by Recovery.
nytimes.com It's Okay -- Call Republicans Social Darwinists. How outrageous that they object!
nymag.com Anthony Has Final Say as Knicks Edge Rose's Bulls. What a game, shame ABC didn't show Knicks final possession.
nytimes.com Remembering Mike Wallace 1918-2012 - CBS News.
cbsnews.com Too bad investors only put down bets on young dudes.
42floors.com $50 AWS Credit for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on EC2.
aws.amazon.com How a life-size replica of the Starship Enterprise was almost built in downtown Las Vegas.
garygoddard.com Geoff Marcy on SETI: An astronomer joins the hunt for ET.
slate.com
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Sounds like Scoble killed Quora.
delw.in New revelations in science have shown what a strange and remarkable universe we live in.
latimes.com When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops.
blog.thephoenix.com
Friday, April 06, 2012
Celebrating Passover, and Bruce Springsteen, Too, at Madison Square Garden.
nytimes.com Now ordinary people can lose big investing in startups, too.
slate.com Occupy promises upsurge as activists prepare for 'summer of discontent'.
guardian.co.uk What If Ron Paul Stopped Working and It Didn't Matter?
theawl.com Walter Shapiro: The One Nice Thing About Rick Santorum's Now-Doomed Campaign.
tnr.com Nasa scientist: climate change is a moral issue on a par with slavery.
guardian.co.uk Is 0.99999.. (repeating to infinity) equal to 1? Apparently it is!
en.wikipedia.org
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Koch brothers and Shelly Adelson in their 70s and 80s. No matter how rich, have a life expectancy in single digits
scripting.com Photo: AOL founder Steve Case at the JOBS Act signing today.
scripting.com Keith Olbermann Sues Current TV -- $70 Million.
tmz.com Is It Wrong to Feed Pink Slime to Our Children in School Lunches?
theatlantic.com The JOBS Act, is now law. Let a thousand
flowers Enrons bloom.
news.cnet.com Arianna Huffington consolidates her power base at AOL.
gigaom.com Big Oil's Strategy for Jacking Up Gas Prices.
spiegel.de Disturbing: Apple could have prevented the virus outbreak, but didn't release the fix until yesterday.
extremetech.com How to find out if your Mac is infected with Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I.
f-secure.com Republicans Admit They Have No Health Care Replacement Plan.
nytexaminer.com
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet.
news.cnet.com CNN analyst: Would some in the GOP have broken ranks.. Sure. (Not true.) attn: @jayrosen_nyu
cnn.com For Bronx Science Players, Another Season of Home Field Disadvantage.
nytimes.com The 1918 Case That May Have Foreshadowed Obamacare's Demise.
tnr.com Online startup seeks to rival the Ivy League.
reuters.com CNN Loses Half Of Its Audience To The Interwebs. (They kept the crazy half.)
nyulocal.com Three male business students in Germany offering service to female students to improve grades thru active sex life.
spiegel.de Highly recommend this week's This American Life for a clue why we have already lost the election.
thisamericanlife.org Barack Obama flashing the Vulcan salute with the original Lieutenant Uhura. And so begins another day.
io9.com
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Russians Write Big Checks for Luxury U.S. Real Estate.
nytimes.com Photos: If you don't buy this magazine we'll kill this dog. (Probably the peak of the print magazine business.)
photos.scripting.com Transit Agency Chief Rules Out New York-New Jersey Subway.
nytimes.com How Apple and Google help police bypass iPhone, Android lock screens.
news.cnet.com Republicans Examine Alternatives to Obama Health Plan.
nytimes.com Obama Frames the Economic Choice for November.
nymag.com WSJ must not study American history, because the court has been abused by the executive all thru history.
online.wsj.com McCartney's Son Wants to Set Up Beatles 2.
en.rian.ru Weeks of talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has alienated women from the Republican Party.
outsidethebeltway.com BTW, my sideways slam of Philly was actually an inside joke, and an expression of friendship for @gruber.
threads.scripting.com
Monday, April 02, 2012
Tumblr Ready to Make Nice With Outside Developers, Seeks API Liaison.
betabeat.com Whether you like Instapaper or Readability is a lot like whether you like the Mets or the Yankees.
threads.scripting.com Philadelphia on Sunday announced a first -- a sidewalk lane for cellphone users. #smart
philly.com A helicopter has been dispatched to put out a blaze on the 67th floor of a skyscraper under construction in Moscow.
en.rian.ru Investors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the Thousands.
nytimes.com I'm a fan of @davidfrum, but today he's posting spoilers from #madmen and no joke, that's seriously bad.
twitter.com 2009: The imagination may be the most pleasurable or pleasure-seeking organ in the human body
scripting.com Newly published Kurt Vonnegut novella tops ebook charts.
guardian.co.uk
Sunday, April 01, 2012
A film crew in Tompkins Square Park today didn't appreciate photographers standing around this public space.
evgrieve.com Creative people look like freaks to the ops people. And the operators look like Stepford clones to the creatives.
scripting.com I think the problem is that we force creativity to flow through corporatism. The two are fairly incompatible.
scripting.com Signs of Supreme Court activism worry Reagan administration lawyers.
latimes.com Angry Birds animated TV series to premiere in Autumn 2012. (Get @keitholbermann to host.)
guardian.co.uk Photo Gallery: Meet Anori, a baby polar bear from Berlin. #goodmorning
spiegel.de
Saturday, March 31, 2012
It's kind of obvious that Ken Sunshine wrote his own bio on Wikipedia. Is he quote a "douche bag." I do not know.
en.wikipedia.org Computer Science for Non-Majors Takes Many Forms.
nytimes.com Lin to Have Knee Surgery and May Miss 6 Weeks. #knicks
nytimes.com With Advance Warning, Bracing for Attack on Internet by Anonymous.
nytimes.com For Occupy Movement, a Challenge to Recapture Momentum.
nytimes.com The Gravitational Force in Angry Birds Space.
wired.com A VC will come along, and fully embrace the technology process, and clean up the field.
blogs.law.harvard.edu It's not rational for VCs to ignore tech. It's as if an airline didn't concern itself with fuel. Airlines are *made* of fuel, economically.
blogs.law.harvard.edu To the VCs, and I mean this with no disrespect, the technology just shows up as if by magic. :-)
blogs.law.harvard.edu This piece by Fred Wilson is revealing. VCs and entrepreneurs, but nowhere in his thinking is basic technology.
avc.com Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.
norvig.com Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media.
guardian.co.uk Gulf's dolphins pay heavy price for Deepwater oil spill.
guardian.co.uk In Manhattan Pizza War, Price of Slice Keeps Dropping.
nytimes.com
Friday, March 30, 2012
These are cold-blooded people. Who hire marketing people who have them hold up banners saying they're compassionate.
scripting.com Lin to Miss Third Straight Game for Knicks.
nytimes.com Readability tweaks sharing feature in response to copyright theft accusations.
theverge.com Bill Gates could have done much more good as CEO of Microsoft than he can today as a philanthropist.
scripting.com The cranks who control US politics aren't concerned about climate change. They'll be dead before it kills the planet.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com Stuyvesant Seniors Make Video Pitch to Lin.
wnyc.org "A long, ugly process that ensures a very large uninsured population for decades."
washingtonpost.com Trayvon Martin: the criminalisation of black children must end.
guardian.co.uk
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era.
npr.org NY Makes 'Synthetic Marijuana' Illegal.
wnyc.org Foreign Lethal Injection Drugs Must Meet FDA Standards.
aclu.org Scripting News: Every news org should have a river.
scripting.com
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
I was going to apply for a Svbtle blog, but it felt like the SXSW application. "Why don't you know who I am!"
svbtle.com NYT editorial: Activism and the Roberts Court.
nytimes.com Slate: The Justices don't seem to like any of their options with the Affordable Care Act.
slate.com It was Carmelo's turn to shine, and he sure did. Wonderful game tonight!! #knicks
nytimes.com Anthony Takes Control, and Knicks Win Again.
nytimes.com "Congress never draws any serious conclusions from tragedies involving gunplay."
nytimes.com A collection of some of the greatest dystopian campaign ads of the last 50 years
slate.com Mitt Romney, Jay Leno discuss health care responsibilities. Illuminating.
boston.com Does Antonin Scalia Know What's in the Affordable Care Law?
slate.com "There are many things" that have "nothing to do with affordable healthcare". #irony
guardian.co.uk I love the icons in Bootstrap 2. But we need more. Described in a message on the Bootstrap mail list.
groups.google.com The Politics of Shitstorms: Is the Pirate Party Its Own Worst Enemy?
spiegel.de 10 Billion Earth-Like Planets May Exist in Our Galaxy.
wired.com Knicks' Stoudemire to Miss 2 to 4 Weeks but Avoids Surgery.
nytimes.com Farhad Manjoo: Why Microsoft, not Apple, will dominate television streaming.
slate.com
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
99dresses.com is not exactly my thing. But @scobleizer likes it. :-)
99dresses.com How the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World" Invented a Radio System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes.
brainpickings.org Richard Clarke: China has hacked every major US company.
zdnet.com A bike rider's open letter to Dick Cheney. It's not snarky, which is appreciated. :-)
superbiate.com 2011: You'll know the bubble is just about to pop when someone starts a Twitter lottery service.
scripting.com Supreme court justices raise serious doubts over health insurance mandate.
guardian.co.uk Google Drive: Finally coming in the first week of April. (Something fishy about the timing.)
gigaom.com EV Grieve: 10 businesses that I spent time in last spring, and how they look today.
evgrieve.com Brooks is so full of shit he should get to a doctor. Before the unelected Federal Death Panel rations enemas.
nytexaminer.com Branch Is Moving Back To NYC. (A nice anthem. Let's go for a walk when you get back. Even the park here is gritty.)
pandodaily.com The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
en.wikipedia.org Uninsured Americans each year use $43 billion of health care they cannot pay for.
nytimes.com
Monday, March 26, 2012
CSS is an unsung disaster for the open web, driving developers to corporate platforms.
scripting.com What You Need To Know About The Smear Campaign Against Trayvon Martin (1995-2012).
thinkprogress.org Awaiting a Ruling on the Health Law Mandate, and Reviewing Alternatives.
nytimes.com Twitter possibly used to target Vancouver restaurant shooting victims.
vancouversun.com Dick Cheney heart transplant: Can a new heart change your personality?
slate.com Wired: The Idea Shop Is Open. Lots of great thinkers guest-writing for them
wired.com Twitter Just Stopped Resolving t.co URLs Even in the Web Client.
web.bozho.net Five States Still Debating 'Stand Your Ground' Laws After Trayvon Martin's Tragic Death.
thinkprogress.org Scripting News: Grouping and alignment and the web.
scripting.com Welcome to Florida. Beware of gunmen standing their ground.
readability.com I want to do an ONA session on Rivers and Linkblogging. You can vote to help make it real. ;-)
reddit.com Is it okay for Hitler to endorse a Turkish men's shampoo?
spiegel.de The April Issue Of Fast Company Is Retina Optimized. (As is Safari, the web browser.)
fastcompany.com New iPad can be used as Verizon LTE hotspot for over 24 hours. (I have Verizon, but tethering is not enabled.)
theverge.com
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Who wants a great engineering team in Bucharest? attn @aquaminds
loiclemeur.com Dusty Springfield: You don't have to say you love me.
youtube.com Start-Up Chile's application process opens in search of next 100 global startups.
startupchile.org NYT on OMGPOP and Draw Something and $180 million.
nytimes.com How do cats survive falls from great heights?
bbc.co.uk NPR: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books.
npr.org Master growers cultivating a higher grade of marijuana.
latimes.com "I do realize that I have been on quite an extended vacation from my own life."
nakedjen.com I thought of school as prison. (But I'm glad I went to college.)
scripting.com Juliane Koepcke: How I survived a plane crash.
bbc.co.uk Knicks Rout Detroit, but Stoudemire Leaves With Sore Back.
nytimes.com Paul Ryan's budget-cutting has made him a hero to conservatives across the country. It's less popular in his home town
reuters.com
Saturday, March 24, 2012
NYC cops will hit you if you get in their face. They're not warm and friendly like midwest cops.
scripting.com Man Tries to Climb New York Times Building.
nytimes.com Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medallist in Kuwait.
bbc.co.uk Stewart has fallen into the trap of believing that Paul Ryan is something other than a charlatan and a political hack.
baselinescenario.com 45-foot paper airplane glides over Arizona desert.
latimes.com Space Station Crew Scrambles as Debris Passes Nearby.
nytimes.com
Friday, March 23, 2012
Photos: Central Park in snow. (This was the best the winter of '12 was able to muster.) #lame
photos.scripting.com My Flickr backup is working again. The nerds at Flickr are changing things. :-(
photos.scripting.com Svbtle : The essence of blogging. (Looks great. I'd like to use their themes in my blogging platform.)
svbtle.com BBC: Mozart piano composition uncovered in Austria.
bbc.co.uk ACLU: Is the NYPD Watching You?
aclu.org Knicks-Raptors preview: Is this a big weekend for New York?
nj.com How OMGPOP scaled to 36 million users in three weeks.
gigaom.com Google Hasn't Explained Why Users Would Want a Unified Online Identity.
allthingsd.com Puppy Photos Taken With A Camera From The Future.
buzzfeed.com Loving the new space version of Angry Birds. You'll understand science fiction in a whole new way. Wonderful.
buzzfeed.com Kevin Tofel's first week with the new iPad: It's hard to put down.
gigaom.com World Outline Podcast #8. How we use the world outline, answer user questions. Funny stories, I hope. :-)
wop8.blorkmark.com In today's podcast, coming soon, we talk about the icons in Bootstrap 2.0. Imho, important stuff. Here's they are.
twitter.github.com Flickr's new 'justified' view spreads to Favorites page.
theverge.com Dear NY Times. Please make me an offer for a full year. Forget about 12 weeks. Thanks, Dave.
scripting.com Amazon Man Questions Logic of Apple Solar Farm.
wired.com Pres. Obama To Heckler: 'You Can Hold Your Own Rally. You're Being Rude'.
mediaite.com iPads keep charging for up to an hour after display shows 100%.
arstechnica.com
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Congress probing iOS developers on user privacy, address books.
news.cnet.com Robert De Niro feels the wrath of an unamused Newt Gingrich.
theweek.co.uk Health law could hinge on wheat, pot and broccoli.
politico.com .NYC Domain Names May Finally Become a Reality.
betabeat.com 'Angry Birds Space' now available on iOS, Android, Mac, and PC.
theverge.com
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
MarketRiders, Betterment, and Personal Capital: Three sites that help you stop investing like an idiot.
slate.com Apple's New Fraud Problem: Cracked Walls and Broken Promises.
wired.com I've never believed there was just one way to be a fan.
scripting.com I can't stop reading this analysis of Gawker's editorial strategy.
niemanlab.org The Warriors have fallen just about as far as a franchise can fall.
grantland.com Trayvon Martin: Friend on Phone with Teen Before Death Recalls Final Moments.
gma.yahoo.com ACLU: Protecting the Right to Protest the President.
aclu.org 'It's akin to requiring someone's house keys': employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords.
theage.com.au When someone asks you to support the JOBS Act tell them it's "A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions."
baselinescenario.com 90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like.
thenation.com PubNub: Push Real-time Data to Mobile, Tablet, Web.
pubnub.com
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
ITV has a river-like news page. Every news site should do this.
itv.com Florida's self-defense laws have left Florida safe for no one -- except those who shoot first.
slate.com Draw Something, the amazingly addictive guess-my-sketch game.
slate.com $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms.
extremetech.com No, Paul Ryan Does Not Want To Strengthen The Safety Net.
slate.com What Scripting News might have looked like in 1995 if it was coded by a 13 year old.
wonder-tonic.com All of a sudden I'm getting followers on my Kickstarter account. The more the merrier! :-)
kickstarter.com A Colossal Mistake: The "JOBS" bill. Attn @fredwilson, @bijan, @stevecase, @johnbattelle, @biz, @naval.
baselinescenario.com Google and the 'this time it's gonna be different mentality'.
digitopoly.org
Monday, March 19, 2012
Discovery's Frozen Planet Will Blow You Away.
wired.com The spring 2012 hackNY student hackathon will be March 24-25.
hackny.org Woz supports Mike Daisey's message and says you should too.
news.cnet.com Greenwald in a Guardian Op-Ed on the removal of the accused shooter from Afghanistan.
guardian.co.uk Press release: Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program.
apple.com
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Mike Woodson Has Knicks Playing Effectively.
nytimes.com Esther Dyson on the lack of wisdom of the (Angel) Crowd.
om.co Israel shifts views on Iran. (So they set their hair on fire for nothing.)
politico.com New season of Mad Men starts tonight? (I wasn't paying attention.)
nytimes.com I've been working on a new modal dialog to plug into all the places where we prompt for a username and password.
worknotes.scripting.com Apparently VLC is no longer available for the iPad?
videolan.org Among tech people you won't find much questioning of the JOBS Act, you have to look for it.
scripting.com It helps if you talk like a computer. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
scripting.com This is dictated to the iPad voice recognition it's pretty good.
scripting.com Clever of them to call it the jobs act it is not about jobs.
scripting.com @biz, you're listed as a supporter of th JOBS Act. Aren't you concerned about fraudulent stock promoters?
csmonitor.com If you support the JOBS Act, read this -- and please think. It's a very very bad idea.
csmonitor.com
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Knicks Beat Pacers for 3rd Straight Win Under Woodson.
nytimes.com Two men thrown out of Santorum rally because they were kissing.
niles.patch.com Protesters back in NYC's Zuccotti Park for Occupy Wall Street anniversary.
guardian.co.uk Dear Arizona: Employers should stay out of their employee's vaginas.
nytimes.com
Friday, March 16, 2012
Instapaper 4.1 released with iPad Retina Display support, new fonts and features.
theverge.com Huckabee vs Limbaugh: Cumulus aims at Clear Channel.
reuters.com Goldman person leaked Apple, Intel secrets: lawyer.
reuters.com Carmelo Anthony And The NBA's One Percent Problem.
tnr.com New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson turning away from Jeremy Lin and toward Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire.
nypost.com Chinese microbloggers bemoan identity disclosure rule. (Via @r)
8b.blork.ly At 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2003, a Cuban gunboat quietly docked at the Hyatt Marina in Key West, Florida.
bloomberg.com Sixth "world outline" podcast w/ @adamcurry, recorded yesterday. Topics incl Bootstrap 2.0, the NY Knicks, Dvorak.
adam.curry.com
Thursday, March 15, 2012
For the Knicks, Linsanity Has Left the Building. #pathetic
nytimes.com Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience.
mauronewmedia.com Apple Stock Shares Now Cost Almost as Much as a New iPad. #greed
slate.com WNYC: Knicks Coach D'Antoni's Departure a Stunning End in New York.
wnyc.org The Return of the 'Rip-Off Factor' on Wall Street. (Finally the truth about the J.O.B.S. Act. A license to steal.)
nytimes.com Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley.
siliconbeat.com Brent Buford says that Google has jumped the shark. I hate to say it but if the story is true, so has Kevin Rose.
twitter.com Koding Raises $2 Million To Let Developers Program From Anywhere. (Sounds interesting, and similar to what we're doing.)
techcrunch.com After resting in Kentucky for 5 days, my iPad3 is moving again. Would be *great* if it got here today! :-)
scripting.com UN Rights Council Delves Into US Voter I.D. Laws.
foxnews.com John Hinderaker would have fit right in apartheid South Africa. What a disgrace for the US.
powerlineblog.com
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Scripting News: Knicks did the wrong, predictable thing.
scripting.com Some projects only work if you are systematic about note-taking. #outliners
scripting.com Spy Blimp Caught Rogue Soldier on Tape After Shooting Spree.
wired.com How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education.
wired.com Pogue: The New iPad Is Much the Same, Only Better.
nytimes.com Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica; Windows Did.
wired.com Scene-by-scene comparison of Sarah Palin to Julianne Moore's portrayal of same events.
78.blork.ly Without Walsh, D'Antoni's Clock Was Ticking. And a fresh perspective on Linsanity.
nytimes.com USA Today: Mike D'Antoni resigns as Knicks falling apart.
usatoday.com Someday you'll say something about Limbaugh and they'll say "Whodat?"
limbaughnazi.com Carmelo Anthony Insists He Does Not Want a Trade.
nytimes.com NewsCred wants to be the AP newswire for the 21st century.
niemanlab.org "I develop on my platforms too, and there never is a day when it's cool to have everything break."
scripting.com Apple makes Shaq and William Gibson wait until launch day, too.
theverge.com "Anyway, as we were leaving the restaurant, all of a sudden we're talking with Steve Jobs."
scripting.com Goldman Sachs director in London quits 'toxic' bank.
bbc.co.uk Scripting News: A heretofore untold Steve Jobs story.
scripting.com This 14-Year-Old Girl Just Bought A House In Florida.
npr.org Symantec's 'lost' smartphone stunt shows the snoopy side of humanity.
theverge.com Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi Primaries.
nytimes.com
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work.
wired.com Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now higher than at any time in the last 800,000 years.
abc.net.au Interesting to see what ticks off Fred Wilson.
avc.com I admit I hate the "America Is Back" slogan. I much prefer We Can't Wait.
nymag.com 2007: A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs.
nytimes.com Put Rick Santorum in a room filled with carbon dioxide and ask how dangerous it is.
huffingtonpost.com New iPad spotted in the wild, unboxing photos and video in tow.
engadget.com
Monday, March 12, 2012
Memeorandom thinks it's 2008. Headline story is about Geraldine Ferarro, who, unfortunately, is dead.
memeorandum.com Guy Kawasaki interviews Vic Gundotra at SXSW.
youtube.com Pre-existing conditions: The real reason insurers won't cover people who are already sick.
slate.com Lakoff reminds us why the idea of "President Santorum" isn't as far-fetched as you might think.
huffingtonpost.com "It's bloggers all the way down. No room for any committees."
gawker.com "A pew full of journalism church ladies is somehow going to do battle with the entire Internet."
nytimes.com Should readers of ebooks be taxed to subsidize stores that sell printed books?
rexblog.com Fear as death squads hunt Iraq's gays and emos.
reuters.com Privacy doesn't matter, you say. Can I have the password to your bank account? :-)
scripting.com Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place.
imdb.com Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules.
guardian.co.uk Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales becoming adviser to British government.
theverge.com Deciding Whether to Get The 16, 32, or 64GB iPad. (I got the 16GB version.)
zerodistraction.com The purpose of ObamaCare is to take the freeloading out of the system, to force people to pay for their own insurance.
scripting.com A NYer walking along the street is more likely to be killed by a stranger at the wheel than by a stranger with a gun.
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com China's Sina Weibo microblog nears identity deadline.
bbc.co.uk
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Ohio Bill Would Require Men Submit Affidavit From Sex Partner Confirming Impotence Before Receiving Viagra.
thinkprogress.org What might Ayatollah Ali Khamenei be making of America's noisy Iran talk this week?
economist.com Innovative blog design from Om. Really simple layout. Attractive. Makes me want to return and admire it some more.
om.co Nicest tweet of support ever from @JoeTrippi. Only a graybeard can understand this, imho.
twitter.com Existing news orgs will quickly be gobbled up by Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, even Groupon and Zynga.
threads.scripting.com Doc Searls takes the greatest photos from airplanes. Here's downtown Chicago, from 30K feet.
flickr.com Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S more than were in Stalin's gulags.
newyorker.com WSJ: Investors have realized that companies no longer compete with Facebook, they compete on it.
online.wsj.com US soldier's killing spree puts Afghanistan on a knife-edge.
guardian.co.uk Chandler Returns but Result Is Same for Struggling Knicks. #suckage
nytimes.com @adamcurry, this guy wants to know how old the MTV generation is today. You might want to help him out. #math
twitter.com A Year Later, Effects of Japan's Disaster Are Still Unfolding.
nytimes.com Dear friends in the political press. How do I join your conversation?
scripting.com Jonathan Haidt on morality and American politics.
slate.com FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves.
cnn.com The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything.
npr.org
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Note to Self: Siri Not Just Working for Me, Working Full-Time for Apple, Too. #hamsters
aclu.org When it comes to advertisers avoiding controversial shows, it's not just Rush.
radio-info.com Scripting News: Twitter could rake in big bucks during SXSW.
scripting.com Maybe they'll start listening to "All Things Considered" in the heartland?
thedailybeast.com Scripting News: Frictionless expectations of privacy.
scripting.com Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2.
pandodaily.com How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy.
theatlantic.com Worknotes: Rules from the glossary. (A fairly major milestone, but also very advanced stuff.)
worknotes.scripting.com At 12:45 am, police chief demands reporter make changes. #notgood
berkeleyside.com Some newspapers won't be running next week's "Doonesbury" strips.
jimromenesko.com
Friday, March 09, 2012
On 50-Year-Old Tape, Sounds of Mets' Awkward First Steps.
nytimes.com Readability for Android to be released Monday, Amazon Appstore-only for a week.
theverge.com Instapaper Placebo alleviates your link-saving guilt.
theverge.com Another test. Hopefully the last for this evening.
theverge.com Why the Web Lacks Authoritative Reviews of Doctors. (Doctors sue. So do lawyers, same deal.)
nytimes.com Apple has now completely sold out first online shipment of new iPads worldwide.
thenextweb.com Jerry Seinfeld & Alec Baldwin Strolling Down Broadway. #fairway
myupperwest.com Gawker got Twitter's financials leaked.
gawker.com Rush (the band) Tells Rush (the pig person) to Cease and Desist.
bloggingblue.com Limbaugh down to 1 paid advertiser in NYC; 90 percent of ads today were free PSAs.
americablog.com I Think It Would Be Fun To Run the New Republic: Chris Hughes as Charles Foster Kane.
wired.com Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Is Buying 'The New Republic'.
npr.org
Thursday, March 08, 2012
The Knicks are 2-5 since Anthony rejoined the lineup, after going 6-1 without him. (Everyone sees the problem.)
nytimes.com A hyper-intense, short-lived solar storm is making its way to earth.
scripting.com Farhad Manjoo: How Apple's tablet strategy parallels its unbeatable iPod success.
slate.com I had an idea for a scifi movie. Here's an outline of the plot.
scripting.com War with Iran is not inevitable, says Netanyahu. (Wow. This guy plays dangerous.)
guardian.co.uk Verizon will support Mobile Hotspot on the new iPad, AT&T still working on it.
engadget.com Limbaugh's AWOL Sponsors Open Way for Nonprofits.
adage.com Japan Shutting Down Its Nuclear Power Industry.
nytimes.com If you want to kill people in the name of justice -- you pay for it. Count me out. I have a moral objection.
scripting.com The biggest bug in the structure of the US govt is the way we allocate Senators and the way we define states
scripting.com Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?
chronicle.com Jonathan Franzen calls Twitter an 'irresponsible medium'.
theweek.co.uk
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Dilbertism corporate-think dismantled the charm of Linsanity, it's gone. Triumph of the mediocre.
nytimes.com With $1 Million On The Line, Chrome Finally Cracked In Hacking Competition.
forbes.com Frontline: The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video.
pbs.org The President didn't get the white supremicist vote in 2008, and isn't likely to get it in 2012.
breitbart.com Bill Maher is a slut and a Limbaugh-Nazi. (I'm sorry for calling Maher a slut and Nazi. Poor choice of words.)
thinkprogress.org The video Andrew Breitbart was dying to show you. Big news. The President is black, political, and a good speaker.
buzzfeed.com Limbaugh says everything's great. Lots of advertisers. Whores and sluts every one of em! :-)
rushlimbaugh.com Unable to buy an iPad through apple.com, I'm trying 1-800-MY-APPLE. On hold listening to music.
store.apple.com Now that we have a working URL shortener that returns hitcounts, my Top-40 page is working again.
static.scripting.com The ego of the designer vs the utility of the product. (Utility is more important.)
news.ycombinator.com The Hacker News thread on my piece about Bootstrap is a perfect demo of why Bootstrap is like the Mac in 1984.
news.ycombinator.com Scripting News: Why Bootstrap might be *very* important.
scripting.com Don't believe Coors and Budweiser -- cold temperatures ruin good beer.
slate.com Worknotes: A mess in urlShortenerLand. (Moral of the story -- new code has bugs. Same old same old.)
worknotes.scripting.com
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Slate: Israel may one day bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. But it won't be as soon as Netanyahu wants you to think.
slate.com Twitter Co-Founders' Obvious Corp. Announce Branch, A 'Curated Discussion Platform'.
pandodaily.com What I work on: Relatively normal people running their own servers.
scripting.com How has Oreo been able to dominate the cookie market for a century?
slate.com Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap. #cooooool
fortaweso.me Ohio Poised to Roll Back Dangerous Voter Suppression Law.
aclu.org Apple granted major patent for iWallet, drawings depict iPhone with NFC, transactions via iTunes billing backend.
9to5mac.com I Sold My Soul to the Department of Homeland Security.
theawl.com I'd like to go to a tech conference where we chat and drink coffee and tweet about nice people who arent there.
gq-magazine.co.uk What "the right" misses in the Limbaugh mess is it isn't just "the left" who think he's got to go.
nationalreview.com What Janet Robinson's golden parachute could buy.
cjr.org The Times, as in the buildup to the war in Iraq, is fanning the flames of war with Iran, with non-fact facts.
nytexaminer.com Investors roll the dice as Apple's value booms.
reuters.com
Monday, March 05, 2012
News so good, no one is treating it as news.
rexblog.com Rush Limbaugh has seen significant erosion in his popularity with Republican voters over the last weeK.
publicpolicypolling.com Man dies trying to set live burial record.
abc.net.au Independent ex-governor Angus King could throw wrench in Maine Senate race. (I met him when he was governor of Maine.)
washingtonpost.com
Sunday, March 04, 2012
NYT: Limbaugh Advertisers Flee Show Amid Storm.
nytimes.com To @ev, Twitter has adopted some decentralizing tech, oEmbed, but it's only open to "partners."
beta.branch.com Senator Schumer asks FTC to probe Apple, Android.
reuters.com ProFlowers pulls out as a Limbaugh sponsor. It's unraveling. Being a total ass isn't such good business any longer.
hosted.ap.org Building Bipartisanship? Not Limbaugh's Problem.
npr.org Tajikistan blocks Facebook, news sites.
zdnet.com EV Grieve: Katz's annexes the Punjabi Food Express next door.
evgrieve.com AOL is still listed as a Rush Limbaugh advertiser.
reddit.com Here's What Massive Hits Like Facebook And Pinterest Have In Common.
sfgate.com Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming.
torrentfreak.com Court Filings Suggest Google Fighting Feds Over Megaupload Emails.
paidcontent.org Carbonite drops Rush. The CEO has daughters the same age as Sandra Fluke.
thinkprogress.org
Saturday, March 03, 2012
This guy is leaving Instapaper for Readability. (BTW, Readability is *not* venture-backed.)
agblog.com How Apple enforces rules about the web and porn inconsistently.
marco.org Wired: The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network.
wired.com Scripting News -- February 1997. (Cause @om asked.)
scripting.com The thing I'm most proud of re Scripting News is that it inspired many others to start blogging.
scripting.com If you want to get even with Rush Limbaugh, *listen* to what Sandra Fluke is saying. And let it sink in.
scripting.com Forgotten in all the nonsense about Rush Limbaugh is what Sandra Fluke was trying to say.
scripting.com Listen to Kim Dotcom. Sounds like he's got a fairly standard good defense. DMCA.
mdariani.tumblr.com Similar story about Robert Klein and Linsanity. The real story is great. But already it's being masked.
nytimes.com Great essay about Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke. Who don't we listen to. That's what everything is about.
zunguzungu.wordpress.com Answering @davewiner's question: WTF is a River of Rex?
rexblog.com A Lawyer Who Is Also A Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear.
sfgate.com Weird error message from Twitter saying my account isn't authorized to retweet. Screen shot.
scripting.com Yesterday's open challenge to PandoDaily. (Apparently they don't want to publish their address books.)
scripting.com 2011-12 New York's Second Warmest Winter In History, Warmest February Ever.
huffingtonpost.com Lots of reports in the last few days of people's accounts on twitter being suspended. Here's one.
walterhiggins.net
Friday, March 02, 2012
List of Limbaugh advertisers on Reddit.
reddit.com On the record: Rush Limbaugh ought to lose all his sponsors now. With an organized campaign this would happen. #boycottrush
reddit.com Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident.
torrentfreak.com The World Outline Podcast. Second episode, recorded today, where Adam and I talk about a successful bug hunt.
podcast.worldoutline.org 25 People Who Think President Obama Killed Andrew Breitbart.
buzzfeed.com Matt Taibbi called Andrew Breitbart a "douche." When did that become an insult?
slate.com What do Yelp and Twitter have in common? (Silicon Valley is a cowardly place. Great to see Om show some guts.)
gigaom.com Here Are Some Santorum Haikus Because It's Friday. #rotfl
nyulocal.com Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Sleep Train Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke 'Slut' Firestorm. #bestnews
huffingtonpost.com Change Is A-Coming (Or, as They Say in Oklahoma, "If I Wanted Government in My Womb, I'd F*ck a Senator.").
aclu.org iPads using iOS 6, high-res displays showing up in Ars server logs.
arstechnica.com If the PandoDaily reporters uploaded their address books, I bet we'd get Zuck's cell number. What else?
scripting.com Worker falls through subway grate in front of IHOP.
evgrieve.com Another tech pub that doesn't get why you don't want to give every app unlimited access to your address book.
pandodaily.com Georgetown Student Sandra Fluke Responds To Being Called 'Slut,' 'Prostitute' By Limbaugh.
mediaite.com
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Baron Davis Adapts to Limited Role With Knicks.
nytimes.com Steve Novak of Knicks Enjoys Hitting 3-Pointers.
nytimes.com Ze Frank has already raised over $112K. That's amazing. Giving me some ideas. :-)
kickstarter.com FWIW, putting a period at the beginning of a tweet was unforgivably dorky. No one cares about a reply to a tweet we didn't see.
kickstarter.com Summit Series Just Raised $40 Million to Buy That Mountain. (Or How To Tell When You Have Too Much Money.)
betabeat.com Watch out if you: 1. Use an iPhone. 2. Take pictures. 3. Use apps.
scripting.com Please stop embedding Bootstrap classes in your HTML! (I'm sure it's good advice, but I don't grok it.)
ruby.bvision.com I was looking for something I uploaded in August 2008 and found lots of funny stuff in the Scripting News archive.
scripting.com Dog Vacay Launches an Airbnb for Man's Best Friend. (Great idea.)
thenextweb.com Readability for iOS preview: a contender for Instapaper's crown?
theverge.com What's next for the Repubs? A return to Prohibition? Rescinding women's right to vote?
theverge.com President Obama Visiting The Upper West Side Today (West 67th Street).
myupperwest.com LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant.
bbc.co.uk
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
I've been watching Fox News for the last few weeks, and don't understand why people are so critical of it. Much better than CNN or MSNBC.
andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com I don't mind carrying something a little more clunky if it can be connected to something we haven't dreamt up yet
scripting.com Scripting News: The tech industry has been absorbed by the ad industry, and vice versa
scripting.com
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
EV Grieve: 'Linsanity' strikes the corner of Avenue A and Second Street.
evgrieve.com How you might ask did we find this out? We asked some iOS developers. :-)
torrentfreak.com Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos. (We had that on Scripting News weeks ago.)
bits.blogs.nytimes.com Will Twitter users revolt, as they did with the dickbar?
wired.com Martin Scorsese: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film.
fastcocreate.com Stratfor's CEO George Friedman is giving a talk at SXSW on March 13.
sxsw.com Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously.
theatlantic.com
Monday, February 27, 2012
Apple Developer IDs Bring Us One Brick Closer to an OS X Walled Garden.
gizmodo.com Ohio high school student killed in gun attack identified.
guardian.co.uk It's a good thing that Apple didn't buy Dropbox because...
scripting.com The average net worth of the 70 richest members of Chinese National People's Congress = $1.3B each.
marginalrevolution.com The US must stop the strategic blunder of an attack on Iran.
guardian.co.uk I think of RushLimbaughLand when I think of Tennessee.
rexblog.com
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Usually Farhad's reasoning is impeccable. But not here, re Dropbox.
pandodaily.com A Passion for Basketball, Made Even Stronger by Lin's Emergence.
nytimes.com Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development.
uxmag.com NYT Lets Unnamed Officials Smear Critics as 'Terrorists'.
fair.org
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Rick Santorum is an educated snob, with a BA, MBA, and JD. His father was a psychologist, mother a nurse.
en.wikipedia.org The strangest primary season in memory reveals a GOP that's tearing itself apart.
nymag.com Wouldn't it be cool if the public Internet were a sea of documents each with a name.
doc.mageddon.org For Romney, a Message Lost in the Empty Seats. (Great photo. Like Dukakis in the tank.)
nytimes.com BTW, according to Rudolf Ammann, a researcher on the history of weblogs, Scripting News was 15 years old on Feb 1.
tawawa.org If Jeremy Lin were Jewish, would I mind if Ben & Jerry made rugelach-flavored ice cream? Chicken soup flavor? Oy!
lhj.com
Friday, February 24, 2012
Lin's New Challenge - Media Onslaught at All-Star Weekend.
nytimes.com Jeremy Lin may appear to have developed his skills overnight, but he has put in plenty of hard work.
nytimes.com Woody Allen at the Oscars: His Classic Stand-Up Routine.
slate.com I did a podcast this afternoon with Adam Curry about the software I've been working on, that he's been using.
groups.google.com Jeb Bush eyed as latest 'white knight' candidate in GOP presidential race.
guardian.co.uk Hold on. Churches don't pay taxes. I had forgotten. This should be in *every* report about the contraception issue.
google.com Scripting News: Contraception vs the death penalty.
scripting.com John Paton to news execs: Abandon the gatekeeper model.
gigaom.com Marie Colvin was killed by Syrian forces acting on direct orders to murder Western journalists, it has been claimed.
telegraph.co.uk
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Looking for a 1986 issue of MacUser, the Eddy Awards announcement. (Long shot, but what the heck.)
scripting.com The Knicks have an oppty the size of Napster, but being the entertainment biz, they'll probably blow it with some form of paranoia.
scripting.com 58-year-old UWS lawyer is energized by Linmania. It's the biggest thing since the Beatles (he didn't say that I did).
myupperwest.com Nerdiest handshake: "Skimming through an imaginary book, taking off their glasses and then placing them inside pocket protectors."
mercurynews.com Scripting News: What I learned by turning off comments.
scripting.com State Ponders Turning Tappan Zee Bridge Into Walkway.
nytimes.com It's really simple. If you want people to know what you think, blog. You may be a source for journalists.
uncrunched.com How to Protect your searches from being recorded by Google's new privacy policy.
techieapps.com 1. There is no further entertainment value in the debacle of the Repub nomination process. 2. There is no #2.
slate.com
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Lin and Anthony Team Up as Knicks Beat Hawks.
nytimes.com Apple, Google, Amazon, smartphone makers sign privacy accord.
reuters.com iOS 5.0.1 bug bypasses security passcode to provide access to contacts and phone app.
theverge.com Tonight the Knicks are 2.5 complete teams. Blow out.
theverge.com Jeremy Lin Appears Unlikely to Make U.S. Olympic Team. (He might play for China?)
nytimes.com Apple Confirms Prineville Data Center Plans. #oregon
m.ktvz.com Knicks game starts at 7:30PM (MSG). Repub debate starts at 8PM (CNN). I'll "watch" the debate on Twitter, Knicks on TV.
m.ktvz.com Scripting News: Why I have never been to SXSW. (Fairly embarassing, but people ask every year around now.)
scripting.com Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush Rallies Kansas Business Leaders.
nytimes.com Scripting News: Working around a problem with the FreshAir podcast feed.
scripting.com The theme of the web is perhaps: "Why wasn't I consulted?" (Sounds about right to me.)
ftrain.com Jeremy Lin Rents a Furnished 2BR at the W Downtown. (Next -- girlfriend.)
ny.curbed.com Republicans Losing Interest in Presidential Race. (Everyone watching Jeremy Lin.)
politicalwire.com The Beatles' Ringtones are Now Available on iTunes. #hellogoodbye
thenextweb.com Sacha Baron Cohen warned not to attend Oscars as the Dictator.
guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tomorrow night tough call. Repub debate or J-Lin and the Knicks.
How about a Citizens United type PAC that runs ads smearing the reps of backers of the other PACs.
How linkrdr went semi-viral. (My feed is pretty good for promoting RSS-based products.)
jeffknupp.com Too much writing is of the form: "I have an opinion about something like this."
scripting.com Domestic Drones: Big Brother's Prying Eyes in the Sky.
aclu.org ''There is a perception that it's OK to offend Asian Americans because they simply won't fight back.''
latimes.com News industry bought expensive shitty CMSes. (This can be fixed. But you have to learn new skills.)
blog.publish2.com Carol in As Good As It Gets: "Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get?" #republicans
angelfire.com This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Mets existence. #amazin
blog.nj.com
Monday, February 20, 2012
Commenters told me schadenfreud had nothing to do with Mitt Romney. Oh how wrong they were! -->
tnr.com cdixon: "I like the idea of getting together to demo stuff you are working on more than hackathons."
news.ycombinator.com "Materialize out of thin air to flush out a fuel line clogged with the residue of hopeless mediocrity?" #letsgomets
nytimes.com Never mind the economy, stupid: this election is all about sex.
guardian.co.uk ACTA is part of a multi-decade, worldwide copyright campaign.
arstechnica.com What Jeremy Lin Teaches Us About Talent.
wired.com Bill Keller re (what else) Wikileaks and his personal dislike of Julian Assange.
nytimes.com Apple briefs bloggers, blanks New York Times.
zdnet.co.uk
Sunday, February 19, 2012
linkrdr is the "next generation feed reader."
linkrdr.com Video highlights of today's Knicks-Mavericks game.
youtube.com I created a GMail filter that moves comments from Google-Plus (that I never asked for) to the Spam folder. Every thing in its place.
BerkeleySide: Intruder assaults, kills homeowner on Grizzly Peak.
berkeleyside.com Just got back from seeing the Knicks beat the Mavericks at the Garden.
flickr.com Syria has made a curious transition from US ally to violator of human rights.
guardian.co.uk Scripting News: What if Jackson Pollock had comments?
scripting.com Hinderaker asks for sympathy for the Koch Bros. You got it. Now ask them to let democracy have a chance.
powerlineblog.com Hackathons are the marketing guy's dream of how software is made.
wired.com
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Drones With an Eye on the Public Cleared to Fly.
nytimes.com A parislemon post about RSS that I actually agree with and doesn't make me want to throw my shoes at him.
parislemon.com Mitt Romney faces defeat in his family's home state of Michigan.
guardian.co.uk "Last night, ESPN.com's mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET."
espnmediazone3.com Why is it that only pricks post comments? (I know I answered my own question.)
scripting.com There was a cell phone in our pocket, and a camera. Why not connect the two?
scripting.com "Jeb Bush," the former Florida governor? (Standing by for tap on shoulder.)
abcnews.go.com
Friday, February 17, 2012
Tech reporters explain tech companies as if they were run by Mother Teresa.
pandodaily.com Time Warner Cable and MSG Resolve Dispute. #yes!
nytimes.com "When I bought an iPhone, I didn't think I was singing up as an active recruit in Apple's war on the open web."
battellemedia.com William Carleton: Send Twitter $1.00.
wac6.com
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings. (Glad Apple is taking such good care of us.)
online.wsj.com The Alarming Rise of Jeremy Lin's Black Antagonists.
m.good.is BTW. I own a fair amount of Apple stock, for a number of years. No plans on selling. #disclosure
Apple is of course always playing "access journalism." (Apple doesn't like what the Times is writing.)
washingtonpost.com Scripting News: So good to have Apple watch out for us.
scripting.com Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN Conference About Wikileaks?
techdirt.com How Companies Learn Your Secrets. (Read this to understand why getting your address book is a big score.)
nytimes.com We must work on ease of use. Iterate. Bootstrap. Turn users into developers. Repeat.
scripting.com Most cool Jeremy Lin moment. (Watching him play is like the Harlem Globetrotters. Are the other guys just props?)
scripting.com Why all people who use Twitter and feel limited by 140 characters will be learning Chinese.
slate.com Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress Why It's Monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Blogs.
fastcompany.com Mountain Lion: Hands on with Gatekeeper. (Amazing. Just yesterday Apple said their protections don't work. Now this.)
macworld.com At least there's snow on the ground *somewhere*.
twitter.com Ryan urges GOP candidates to 'prepare the country' for tax, entitlement reform.
thehill.com Kickstarter: A Bike Headlight To End All Bike Headlights.
techcrunch.com Jeremy Lin is every bit as powerful as Occupy, in fact I see it as an extension of Occupy.
scripting.com "Developers have from now until Mountain Lion's launch in the summer to get their apps signed." #danger
extremetech.com Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion. (As long as they don't take things out of Mac OS, I'm happy.)
daringfireball.net It's a bad thing when Repubs interfere with Dem primaries. It's just as wrong when the Dems do it.
dailykos.com Those annoying ads for iPad apps take on a new level of depravity. Do they just want to harvest your address book?
technologyreview.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Everyone Has Been Moved Over to the new Twitter Design. (Not me.)
thenextweb.com It is outrageous that we can't watch the Knicks on TV in NY.
nytimes.com Electronic Cigarette Explodes In Man's Mouth. #nosmoking
hot.curry.com The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty. (Call it Bubble 2.0.)
zdnet.com Rep. Henry Waxman sends letter to Apple asking for explanation of its iOS app policies.
news.cnet.com Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet.
pastebin.com Santa Clara approves plans for 49ers stadium. (Great news for the valley and South Bay.)
sfgate.com Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission.
allthingsd.com Important Steve Jobs video. He says Apple provides privacy protection for users that it doesn't.
mmhd.ca When Harry Met Sally: "No you pretty much want to nail them too."
youtube.com Men have built (and destroyed) civilizations in order to impress women so that they might say yes.
psychologytoday.com There isn't room for every college undergrad to drop out and start a new company.
scripting.com My stand: It tech journalists don't focus on the issues we'll just route around them. I think that goes for VCs too.
digitaltrends.com The Coen Brothers are filming today in the East Village.
evgrieve.com A Finnish sci-fi comedy about Nazis invading Earth. (With a combo like that how could it go wrong?)
bbc.co.uk LA Times: Twitter's privacy policy does not disclose that Twitter downloads and stores user address books.
latimes.com
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Steve Jobs went on the record on the Address Book question, and Apple's software is not consistent with his answer.
mmhd.ca Once a switching control cente, a 32-story tower in Manhattan will reopen this fall as a home for data centers.
nytimes.com VentureBeat is going for it too. It's great to see tech reporters actually doing some tech reporting! :-)
venturebeat.com Jeremy Lin's stunning success with the Knicks has captured the imagination of China.
nytimes.com It took a week before someone in the tech press ignored the circus sideshow and got to the actual story. Thanks.
theverge.com The Verge: iOS apps and the address book -- who has your data, and how they're getting it.
theverge.com Poynter: Aided by Silicon Valley, U.S. government ferrets out journalists' confidential sources.
poynter.org ISS to Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg has too much power.
zdnet.com UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers.
torrentfreak.com The United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald's.
datapointed.net Other info any iOS app can access -- 1. Calendar (read/write) and 2. Cellular carrier info via CTCarrier.
scripting.com Users couldn't be more vulnerable. Th funny part is that the reporters and bloggers are probably ALL iPhone users.
Gotta say the tech press, including my friends at @wired, are completely blowing this one.
The way Apple ships iPhones and iPads is like a default config for a server with all ports open, no passwords required.
Peeve: Article about an "upcoming" event that doesn't say, in the first sentence, when the event is.
news.yahoo.com Review of node.js. Quote: "I suspect that the founders hired a parasite/psychopath to build their product."
realfreemarket.org Tumblr's architecture: 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter.
highscalability.com PBS iOS apps provide a sneak peek at upcoming 'Clinton' documentary. (Does it access your address book?)
theverge.com
Monday, February 13, 2012
Which of the apps on my iPhone is transmitting everything I think is private and to whom are they transmitting it?
uncrunched.com NYT: Nielsen Chastises Oprah Over a Twitter Plea.
nytimes.com Which of the apps on my iPhone is transmitting everything I think is private and to whom are they transmitting it?
scripting.com Independents Abandoning Romney. (I don't usually point to "horse race" stories, but this one is interesting.)
politicalwire.com Slate: Francis Fukuyama Builds His Very Own Surveillance Drone.
slate.com NYT: Apartments Gain Vistas, but Not for Long.
nytimes.com Anyone who tells you repressive govts aren't hacking tech company servers to get info about dissidents is.. Wrong.
interactioned.com Chris Dixon: Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security.
cdixon.org I got a response from someone on Jobs's staff. They agreed to return the drive, and a few days later, got it back.
scripting.com An email to Steve Jobs at Apple I wrote in 2007, asking for Apple to return my hard drive.
flickr.com Path shows that you can't use an iPhone to store contact info that you want to keep private, and use apps.
bits.blogs.nytimes.com MG Siegler weighs in on the Path controversy with a perspective from the tech industry.
parislemon.com
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Ars Technica: Path addresses privacy controversy, but social apps remain a risk to users.
arstechnica.com What if Greece had to get a new currency?
bbc.co.uk Whitney Houston Star Spangled Banner Video.
youtube.com Al Qaeda declares war on 'cancerous' Syrian regime. #strangebedfellows
abc.net.au I'm going to see the Knicks vs Mavericks next Sunday with four NYC buds. Totally excited! :-)
stubhub.com Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It.
nytimes.com Google TV 'big announcements' coming on Monday.
theverge.com Saudi Arabian Journalist Faces Death Penalty for Tweets.
thenextweb.com The party went on at the Hollywood hotel Whitney Houston died at.
dailymail.co.uk
Saturday, February 11, 2012
NYT: Occupy Movement Regroups, Laying Plans for the Next Phase.
nytimes.com Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe.
bbc.co.uk How Bill Clinton betrayed us: allies speak out on Lewinsky affair.
guardian.co.uk MS has tried this before -- it was called .Net and it wasn't anywhere near as big a deal as its hype.
pandodaily.com Ebert: "Each and every change to my Twitter page is a Bad Idea. Did they go berserk?" (Effectively, yes.)
twitter.com Andy Baio: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox.
wired.com How a Birthday Party at the North Korean Embassy Started the Kim Jong-un Death Rumor.
gawker.com
Friday, February 10, 2012
Howevs the Prez didn't sing Al Green at the presser.
slate.com Slate: Obama punks Repubs on contraception.
slate.com BitTorrent Piracy Doesn't Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds.
torrentfreak.com Twitter, Weibo Spread Rumors of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's Assassination.
reuters.com To webmasters at NPR: The Fresh Air Podcast feed is going wild, with shows going back to 2007. That's too much!
npr.org "If someone hangs up on me, I don't have to call them back."
scripting.com "Bibi don't start a war with Iran until after Madonna's show on May 29." Srsly?
haaretz.com Syrian President Assad did just what Repubs do. Tell Americans a nice bedtime story and they'll be happy. It's true.
readability.com Sooner or later, Obama may encounter a crisis that can't be reversed at the eleventh hour.
tnr.com Yeah, our political/media system is bored, dumb and aimless. Greedy too. Corrupt. That's why I don't watch.
online.wsj.com This is what the southwest corner of 14th Street and Avenue C looked like on Feb. 6, 2012. #brilliant #idea
evgrieve.com Most of Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years.
motherjones.com
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Evidence of AWS service coming soon, previously unannounced.
imgur.com S.O.D. == Suspension Of Disbelief.
The Artist is the only candidate for Best Picture that is a BP. Th'others all flawed, not memorable, no S.O.D.
nytimes.com Scripting News: A core feature of MORE, on the web.
scripting.com A Texas Jury Now Deliberating Who, if Anyone, Owns the Web.
wired.com Some commentators claim discouraged people dropping out of labor force, making numbers look better. They're wrong.
economix.blogs.nytimes.com 16x16 Icons. Hot dam. The feature I'm working on eats 16x16 icons for breakfast! :-)
designshack.net Considering all politics is on twitter now, suggest th parties shorten their names. We must all surrender to Ev and biz. No exceptions.
'We don't have shared goals with the Democrats'. Feh. There isn't very much diff, except Repubs are more obnoxious.
firstread.msnbc.msn.com How AOL could have been Facebook. (MBAs didn't use the service the way users did. As always. Don't hire MBAs.)
online.wsj.com Why Midnight in Paris should win the best picture Oscar. (Summary -- Woody Allen is old.)
guardian.co.uk Mitch McConnell to assail 'liberal thugs'. (Unusual framing.)
politico.com Don't break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told. (Good to see mainstream media wising up.)
guardian.co.uk I've actually had people ask why I stopped blogging, people who depend on techmeme for tech news. I haven't stopped! :-)
I think it's cool that while my own articles never appear on techmeme, I'm often driving the stories that do appear there.
Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For "Application Privacy Summit"
techcrunch.com
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Josh Whalen: No one is ever going to get away with occupying a park for an extended period of time again.
occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com TechCrunch says Dave Morin didn't lie about retaining user's contact data.
techcrunch.com Scripting News: Take 3 on Path's love affair with our address books.
scripting.com Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free.
wired.com Morin lied about retaining data last year, when Gawker asked. Amazing.
gawker.com I forgot I wrote this piece last year, about Path. "The tech industry is a virus." Ryan Tate remembered.
scripting.com Game Developer Sentenced to Death in Iran Asks Obama for Intervention.
kotaku.com Lessons from Path and Pinterest: Tell users everything.
gigaom.com "Mitt Romney sure hopes there's a safety net. His campaign needs it." #heh
slate.com What other user data can random IOS apps transmit back to the mother ship without the user knowing?
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
A friend says my blog, scripting.com, is on the Wikipedia blacklist. Is there some way to find out?
en.wikipedia.org Privacy Death Stars Approved By Congress.
gawker.com Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers.
mclov.in What Wikipedia Won't Tell You. (The head of the RIAA makes some valid points.)
nytimes.com Israel Confirms Major Natural Gas Discovery.
nytimes.com The Jeopardy answer: More users will care over time, if this cycle is like previous ones.
gigaom.com Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable.
nytimes.github.com How to Create a Stylish Image Content Slider in Pure CSS3.
designmodo.com Spiegel: It's Time To End the Greek Rescue Farce.
spiegel.de Live video of the tickertape parade for the NY Giants.
nyc.gov Translation of the seductive Fiat SuperBowl commercial. "Do you feel lost thinking that I could be yours forever?"
theautoprophet.blogspot.com Why The Artist should win the best picture Oscar - video.
guardian.co.uk Former East German Leader's Wife Is Homesick. (She misses forests and mushrooms.)
spiegel.de
Monday, February 06, 2012
The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth.
guardian.co.uk The Times should have been the place where newsmakers go to make news.
scripting.com Some days Scripting News is all about football. Today, of course, is one of those days. :-)
scripting.com New England didn't lie down soon enough. (The end of last night's game is already legendary.)
slate.com Fiat Super Bowl Commercial 2012. #oooohlala
esquire.com City to fete Giants With Ticker-Tape Parade.
wnyc.org
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Rex Hammock: What time is the Superbowl and thoughts on Facebook and why I blog.
rexblog.com Joni Mitchell: You don't know what you got till it's gone.
youtube.com Firestone, Standard Oil and GM bought LA's streetcar system. By 1963 it was gone, replaced by cars and freeways.
en.wikipedia.org I'd rather work for a very small minority of free users, or make pottery in Italy or Slovenia.
scripting.com
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Scoble is trying for the top weekend spot on Techmeme. Wrong headline. "Facebook is dead" more likely to win.
scobleizer.com Andrew Shell wrote a WordPress Plugin that implements our proposed standard for cross-site RT'ing.
blog.andrewshell.org Walking by the Time-Warner building on Columbus Circle and there's @Baratunde. The man is everywhere these days! :-)
flickr.com The social media editor of the Times read my piece: "Great moments in hyperbole."
twitter.com For a distributed Twitter-like network, we must have cross-site RT'ing that's Really Simple™. Proposal:
scripting.com Greg Mathes gets it. The mission of tech companies is at odds with the mission of users.
gregmathes.com The Artist sparks Hollywood nostalgia boom for silent era.
guardian.co.uk Do the dead outnumber the living? (Yes.)
bbc.co.uk Seattle library lets man watch porn on computers despite complaints.
news.yahoo.com
Friday, February 03, 2012
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama.
huffingtonpost.com "If you need a nap room, please apply to work at the Huffington Post."
pandodaily.com Bulgarian MPs Wear Anonymous/Guy Fawkes Masks To Protest ACTA.
techdirt.com Apple to Authors: Content You Make in iBook App is Yours, Not Ours.
wired.com Thanks to James Fallows for climbing over the Chinese Wall that separates the tech and political blogosphere.
theatlantic.com What if Angry Birds was more competitive? What if the pigs shot back? What if a pig is a friend of yours? #mwahahaha
Bird flu virus could kill half the world, scientists warn.
guardian.co.uk EV Grieve: More photos of the apartment with the garage door for a living-room wall on East 14th Street.
evgrieve.com
Thursday, February 02, 2012
If a broker calls and says he can get a hundred million for all your stock, and you feel like taking it -- take it!
scripting.com Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business?
slate.com Rex Hammock: What Tumblr is doing is not new. It is smart, but it is not new.
rexblog.com John Battelle says we must fight for the open web, and I'm two-thumbs-up with that. Let's do it.
battellemedia.com Scripting News: Advice for new Facebook millionaires.
scripting.com Feds Arrest Streaming Site Operator for Copyright Infringement.
torrentfreak.com I love stories about dogs and kids. Like this one.
nytimes.com American researchers have determined that the majority of Tweets go unread or irritate people. :-)
telegraph.co.uk A Beautiful 1928 Letter to 16-Year-Old Jackson Pollock from His Dad.
brainpickings.org CJR on reporters running their own EC2 servers.
cjr.org
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Poetry: "Industrial rug cleaner mingling with Moscone Center hot dog water."
zdnet.com Taiwan ad featuring Steve Jobs as an angel in heaven. He loves his Android tablet from Taiwan!
youtube.com After Years Of Drilling, Antarctic Lake Will Be Reached.
bbc.co.uk Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself. (Really smart!)
nytimes.com Real estate marketing sites with drone-taken marketing aerial photos in LA.
suasnews.com Rachel Maddow is an idiot.
People laugh at the idea of "self-deportation" but the Repubs plan to run on it in the fall. Think Swift Boats.
google.com Facebook Reveals How Staggeringly Rich And Popular It's Become.
gawker.com Facebook is a family business. Nice story. :-)
tech.li Roger McNamee and Mike Maples, Jr on the next architecture for net apps.
rogerandmike.com Apple was working on higher quality music and hardware, says rocker.
arstechnica.com Romney says 'poor' comment needs context. (He also refers to the Democrat Party, which makes him an illiterate ass.)
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com Stanford Political Communication lab has a collection of 2012 Republican campaign commercials.
pcl.stanford.edu Mitt Romney heads to Minnesota amid talk of Michele Bachmann endorsement. #ohthehumanity
boston.com A new device for listening to audio, downloads content "while you're sleeping." Yo @adamcurry, sound familiar? :-)
guardian.co.uk "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it." #guesswho
politicalwire.com The Illusion of Privacy. Two examples of private info revealed publicly by Amazon and (of course) Facebook.
givoly.com
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Is there a site we can view all the commercials used in the Florida primary?
You hear this a lot -- I don't seek out the news, I assume if something is important it will find its way to me
scripting.com Congratulations. You just used 1/12th of 2012.
Set up a trust for the movie industry. An account we can deposit into but only movie-moguls can withdraw from.
scripting.com Why You Shouldn't Use Twitter Bootstrap. (I don't agree but it's worth considering what he says.)
vibhunorby.com David Brooks on our divided society in America.
nytimes.com Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?
bhorowitz.com Not surprised this piece didn't make it onto TechMeme. Need another channel for tech news, imho, about tech.
scripting.com Trying to order a new service at Time-Warner is nightmare. Maybe MPAA should work on that before they try to shut down the Internet.
A surprisingly balanced discussion of age issues in tech at Hacker News was deleted. Wonder why? Can't ask on the site.
news.ycombinator.com
Monday, January 30, 2012
New York City Weather: January Ends With T-Shirt Temperatures.
blogs.wsj.com Is it good for journalism when sources go direct? Are you kidding? It's great for journalism. No room in 140 chars to
gigaom.com MagicEdit is a powerful content management framework for web designers.
magicedit.com I've got widgets fighting on my blog's home page! :-(
scripting.com Brent Simmons is keynoting and independent Mac developers conference in Denver.
360macdev.com 2007: 'Old fuddy-duddy' fights back over Google sacking.
theage.com.au Dave Winer: Get The Tech Back In Tech. (My latest Wired piece, with a wonderful illustration.)
wired.com State Senator Behind "Don't Say Gay" Bill Refused Service At Restaurant. (Perfect.)
buzzfeed.com In 2008 Obama ran against the mandate. Remarkable. (No sarcasm.)
buzzfeed.com Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift. (Newsroom of the future for the age of Sources Go Direct.)
allthingsd.com This girl can say any word backwards within three seconds of being told the word. #amazing
wpix.com Thailand Is First Government To Welcome Twitter's New Censorship Policy.
mediabistro.com An important piece that ran on Sunday: Get the tech back in tech.
scripting.com If you're looking for a good series to get hooked on, Homeland is hard to beat.
tv.nytimes.com
Sunday, January 29, 2012
E.U. Leaders Set to Admit Austerity Is Not Enough. (Krugman vindicated.)
nytimes.com Republican desperation, part 2. Kansas Speaker O'Neal asks House GOP to pray for Obama's death.
m.examiner.com 100,000 years from now historians will debate the purpose of this street sign.
scripting.com [Google people] allegedly called him a poor "cultural fit," an "old guy" with ideas "too old to matter."
nytimes.com Flickr: Haiku street sign in Columbus Circle. #really
flickr.com Chomsky is
wrong right about Twitter. It's a medium of grunts and snorts. (But it could be more.)
salon.com I'm glad that "Get the tech back in tech" is being retweeted so much. Thanks! :-)
scripting.com Krugman: This is a time when government investment should be pushed very hard. Instead, it's being slashed.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com George Carlin: Nobody cares about you. (Video)
youtube.com Over the last few days the worldoutline got its basic macro facility.
scripting.com Police use teargas on Occupy Oakland protesters -- in pictures.
guardian.co.uk
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty.
hot.curry.com Police fire tear gas as Occupy Oakland marchers near convention center.
insidebayarea.com I haven't gotten an email on my Gmail account since 2:45PM. Think something might be wrong??
It's Not Silicon Valley Versus Hollywood -- It's Greed Versus Greed.
meganhannay.com Saving the Internet: Let a Billion Servers Bloom. (A cross-post of yesterday's piece about Twitter.)
technologyandpolicy.org EFF: What Does Twitter's Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?
eff.org Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered, "Am I the only one?"
herdict.org "Entrepreneur in Residence" -- Who are you kidding? #amen
brajeshwar.com Asus and Microsoft working on a Kinect-equipped laptop. (So glad to hear this!)
extremetech.com Flickr: I took this color picture of Central Park after the snow, but it looks black and white.
flickr.com Secrets of the billionaire bankrolling Gingrich's shot at the White House. (Adelson did Comdex for many years.)
guardian.co.uk Amnesty.org: Iran must halt execution of web programmer. (Site is 503 Unavailable.)
news.ycombinator.com Harvard Prof: MegaUpload Shutdown is an Attempt to Kill Technology.
torrentfreak.com Reporters Without Borders objects to Twitter cooperating with repressive governments.
en.rsf.org
Friday, January 27, 2012
Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard.
allthingsd.com Central Park Gets First East/West Shared Bike/Pedestrian Path.
centralpark.com Report: Facebook Files For IPO Next Week.
wired.com Bought a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's new graphic novel, A.D.D. Don't buy many physical books these days.
amazon.com Scripting News: Ask not what the Internet can do for you...
scripting.com Rather than discuss in 140-char soundbites, I wrote a blog post with bullets about Twitter's new filtering.
scripting.com
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry. Take me back to Tulsa la la la la.
bing.com Twitter will censor tweets, but will try really hard not to.
gigaom.com Twitter Announces It May Now "Withhold" Different Tweets In Different Countries.
techpresident.com Apple's record profits built on grinding employees into dust -- then blowing them up.
extremetech.com Flickr: A cold gloomy day, and an unusual emptiness to Central Park.
flickr.com Note to @jason: Ideas for movie moguls. (More good ideas in the comments.)
scripting.com If the governor of Arizona won't apologize, the people of Arizona should.
politico.com Would someone please tell he governor of Arizona you don't talk like this to the President of the United States.
cbsnews.com We Need to Empower Hollywood--Not Kill It.
launch.is Rolling Stone: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most important rock & roll album ever made.
rollingstone.com Possible new title for myself: Chronicler Of The Loops.
webmonkey.com Highly recommended -- Homeland series on Showtime. Shows terrorism as a two-sided story, not just good-bad.
en.wikipedia.org Highly recommended, podcast from T.A.L. explains how the Euro came to be and why it was doomed from the start.
thisamericanlife.org Running a server may sound hard. But in practice it's as easy as running a laptop.
scripting.com How Can We Clean Up The Japanese Tsunami Debris That's Coming To American Shores?
fastcoexist.com Some Mac APIs Available Only To Apps Sold Through Online Mac App Store.
mjtsai.com Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer: President Obama 'didn't feel I treated him cordially.' (Geez. Look at the picture.)
politico.com
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Forbes: Warren Buffett's Secretary Likely Makes Between $200,000 And $500,000/Year.
forbes.com Google's no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet.
washingtonpost.com Debunking the Manhattan skyscraper bedrock myth.
kottke.org AC: Jeb Bush will enter the race in the next few weeks. He is the chosen one. Pelosi knows it. #followTheScript
scripting.com Glyphcons is a "library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols."
glyphicons.com NYCinema. A perfect NY-movie-goers browser. An example of the kind of innovation that's possible in movieland.
nycinema.com What could Nancy Pelosi know? (#5. Newt is secretly Osama bin Laden's long lost brother.)
scripting.com I know the Repubs like to demonize Nancy Pelosi, but I really like her. :-)
politicalwire.com Imho, [DuckDuckGo is] inexorably on the same path that Google was on.
scripting.com
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
How about re-designing theaters. Let us bring headphones to improve the audio experience. Go to an Apple store. Make theaters that nice.
The movie industry might try upgrading the user experience at theaters, as a way to draw people there. Fewer commercials, to start.
"Google started out on the right path, but eventually they went wild and desperate."
scripting.com Reuters: Davos man weighs future of capitalism. (Do you think they take themselves too seriously perhaps?)
reuters.com Webmonkey: The Disneyfication of Tech. (Written by yours truly.)
webmonkey.com MPAA's Chris Dodd & NATO's John Fithian Face Sundance Wrath Over SOPA/PIPA.
deadline.com
Monday, January 23, 2012
Saul Alinsky: who is he and why does Newt Gingrich keep mentioning him?
guardian.co.uk Concerned White House Aides Say Obama Has Not Stopped Laughing Since Saturday Night.
borowitzreport.com The Hacker Olympics: NYC 2.18.12. (I solved the puzzle only to learn they were sold out. 0xFCUK.)
thehackerolympics.com Me: "There are times I don't want to be marketed to."
scripting.com Tracy Morgan Rushed to Hospital at Sundance Film Festival.
wpix.com WebFWD - Mozilla's Open Innovation program. (Not sure if it's an incubator or foundation or...)
blog.webfwd.org "Mitt's strategy for 2012 as for 2008 was to sit on his lead and run out the clock."
nationalreview.com Frum: "to nominate Gingrich is to commit party suicide" maybe that would be the best outcome for everyone
cnn.com Mitt Romney's attacks help Newt Gingrich. (I believe that. "Mean Romney" is not cool.)
guardian.co.uk TSA turns away Sen. Rand Paul at airport checkpoint.
cnn.com Scripting News: Google's feature-creep is creeping me out.
scripting.com Matthew Battles: It doesn't take Cupertino to make textbooks interactive.
niemanlab.org Scripting News: Writing good bug reports. (Programmers love great bug reports. Really.)
scripting.com Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action.
torrentfreak.com
Sunday, January 22, 2012
What will the liberal elites think of next! Answer: Saul Alinsky. A Jewish communist who fought "racism."
scripting.com If you can hear this you are decentralized. Twitter is down. But RSS doesn't have a fail whale. :-)
Amazon sells dog whistles. Republicans take note. :-)
amazon.com Repubs take a term no one knows like "Sharia Law" or "Saul Alinsky" use it as "evil." Really dog-whistles for Muslim and Jew.
What if Gingrich Wins Florida? (Even if you hate the Repubs, as I do -- you gotta feel just a little sorry for them.)
politicalwire.com Why the iPhone should have a dedicated physical shutter button.
thenextweb.com False Paterno death reports highlight journalists' hunger for glory.
poynter.org "[Gingrich] was not a candidate. He was a vessel for patriotic, Republican rage."
slate.com Newt's dog-whistle Saul Alinsky: "He was a Jewish guy who tried to help blacks," my wife said, after looking it up.
newyorker.com Uploaded.to blocked U.S. visitors as a response to the MegaUpload takedown.
uploaded.to
Saturday, January 21, 2012
NYT: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class. #mustread
nytimes.com Heilemann: USS Gingrich Now Boarding in South Carolinal.
nymag.com Kim Dotcom's Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror.
fastcompany.com Wonder if Newt Gingrich can sing Al Green?
mtv.com 2009: How Hollywood portrays bloggers. (Scripting News).
scripting.com MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought.
techdirt.com
Friday, January 20, 2012
+1 for Wordpress Reader -- it likes title-only feeds. Legal RSS, and common these days. Google Reader fails at this.
wordpress.com Maybe @arrington is having second thoughts about who he works for! :-)
Also funny that @arrington so openly tried to kill RSS when it's one of the few techs the govt is going to have a hard time shutting down.
Funny that @arrington sees how wrong it is to get in bed with DC, yet he is in bed with the people who rush to get in bed with DC.
Expect to see the day when the DOJ shuts down a rogue site for publishing books not authorized by Apple.
venomousporridge.com In Wordpress's new RSS aggregator, apparently you can only subscribe to a blog, not to a feed. This is a problem.
scripting.com EV Grieve: Let's take a walk along Second Avenue in the East Village in 1997.
evgrieve.com
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Scripting News: Wordpress.com's new RSS aggregator.
scripting.com Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet. (Hah. The users don't get a seat at the table. Figures.)
nytimes.com Why Education Publishing Is Big Business.
wired.com You would have to be out of your mind to us Apple's new book authoring software. Mass creative indentured servitude.
venomousporridge.com There are plenty of 50-somethings like me, with lots of relevant experience who are looking for ways to contribute.
scripting.com Obama Worthless in the SOPA/PIPA Battle. (Absolutely.)
blogan.net SOPA & PIPA Blackout Day: Why We're Not Fighting for Enough Today - Punit Shah.
blog.punit.org Chinese bloggers: Americans should try a minute in our shoes before invoking online Armageddon.
latimesblogs.latimes.com Jaron Lanier: SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals of the Web.
nytimes.com The movie industry is here for the next ten days: Sundance Film Festival.
sundance.org No one go to movies this weekend, Jan 20th - 22nd! Boycott the MPAA! (Yes!)
reddit.com Hollywood's Obama Donors On President's Piracy Stand: Not Give A Dime Anymore.
deadline.com China to Expand Real-name Registration for Twitter-like Microblogs.
pcworld.com
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
I asked Doc Searls to sing me a song and this is what he came up with. (I heard Happy Dave is Here Again.)
youtube.com Zuck is: 1. Rich. 2. Young. and 3. Powerful, but... 4. He's not a friend of the Internet.
gigaom.com If NY or Calif had the next Repub primary we'd all be cheering Newt Gingrich cause he'd be singing our song.
slate.com Slate: Stopping online piracy would be a social and economic disaster.
slate.com NYT: Web Site Will Shut Down to Protest Antipiracy Bills.
nytimes.com The people who are giving us SOPA are meeting for the next 10 days here: Sundance Film Festival.
sundance.org I also am very ambivalent re protesting alongside VCs who are making us more vulnerable to predators with their centralized networks.
An army at war doesn't protest with a day of disarmament. Our network is our strength. We should be *building* it, not turning it off.
I don't think we're going to break the grip of the entertainment industry on Congress. But they could adjust their thinking about the net.
However, I do think there should be a protest in Park City, UT -- right now, and for the next ten days.
NPR: Wikipedia Editors Question Site's 24-Hour Blackout. (I agree. Wikipedia should not be blacked out now.)
npr.org scripting.com is blacked out. No explanations. No calls to action. Just black.
Why the Oscars should cast out The Help and welcome in Pariah.
guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Question: Are the torrent sites blacking out tomorrow too?
MPAA: Internet Blackout is a PR Stunt, Users Are Corporate Pawns.
torrentfreak.com CNN: Why Wikipedia is going down at midnight.
cnn.com Scripting News: SOPA's other message -- decentralize.
scripting.com "Rick Perry: what an idiot," tweeted Mustafa Akyol, a columnist with the English-language Hurriyet Daily news.
security.blogs.cnn.com NYT: Before Debate, Fox News Crafts a Sharp Script.
nytimes.com Announcing Lottery Details for 2012 TD Five Boro Bike Tour.
bikenewyork.org Fred Wilson wants to bring developer conferences to NYC.
avc.com
Monday, January 16, 2012
Guardian: Twitter boss slams Wikipedia's 'silly' Sopa protest.
guardian.co.uk Gawker: Tech Industry Buys Itself a Mouthpiece.
gawker.com Twitter's Dick Costolo calls Wikipedia SOPA blackout 'foolish'.
thenextweb.com Scripting News: Windows server for a year free on EC2.
scripting.com Amazon Adds Windows Server to AWS Free Usage. (Big news for EC2 for Poets.)
thenextweb.com
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Edge.org: What is your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?
edge.org AC uses the new WorldOutline/Bootstrap tabs feature for he show notes for his latest podcast.
374.nashownotes.com "It's just good manners to let the user of possible negative consequences of their action."
scripting.com Rupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama.
reuters.com "There are reasons why the iPhone rang even when it was told explicitly not to by its user."
scripting.com Is there a Republican debate today?
MPAA: It's Time to Stop Obstruction on Anti-Piracy Legislation.
reuters.com British govt wants a "global method of domain take-down and removal."
domainincite.com "Google has pretty much gamed its own search engine to insure Google+ will succeed."
battellemedia.com When does mute not mute, or the incredible lengths Apple fans will go to "prove" Apple right and the user wrong.
marco.org
Friday, January 13, 2012
Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA.
arstechnica.com Gingrich is setting the bar. We have a right to demand that Obama be as thorough vs his opponent.
firstread.msnbc.msn.com Most of Apple's $82 billion cash stockpile is 'trapped' overseas. (Why can't Apple pay income tax, like we all do.)
tuaw.com Author of U.S. online piracy bill vows not to buckle.
reuters.com Linkblog pointers by domain, 2012. (Scripting News, NYT, Guardian, YouTube, TechDirt, Slate, NextWeb.)
stats2012.davelinks.com Beijing's IPhone 4S Turmoil a Lesson to Apple, Say Analysts.
pcworld.com The untruths carried in the Times, such crucial ones, were the things they should have been watching for.
scripting.com How to make sense of Google/Twitter. They're not on the Internet. They were at one time. Now they're the Unternet.
interactioned.com
Thursday, January 12, 2012
A cellphone ring near the end of Mahler's masterpiece caused the conductor to stop until the ringing ceased.
nytimes.com Jay Rosen: So whaddaya think -- should we put truthtelling back up there at number one?
pressthink.org Ex-Apple boss Sculley sets record straight on Jobs.
bbc.co.uk Romney is just like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. Brutal! :-)
youtube.com Scripting News: Did the Times apologize for Judith Miller?
scripting.com Dear NYT -- if you're quoting someone who you know is lying, it's unethical not to say so. Right there. In print. Unambiguously.
Woman reportedly coughs up cancerous tumor.
cbsnews.com Bootbox.js - alert, confirm and flexible dialogs for Twitter's bootstrap framework.
paynedigital.com Scripting News: Could Bing seriously challenge Google?
scripting.com Is there a department of self-sabotage at Google that, seeing success, gets to work right away trying to erode it?
codeshal.tumblr.com Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them.
forbes.com Farhad: Google just broke its search engine.
slate.com Time Is Running Out For SOPA Opponents Congressmen Warn At CES 2012.
forbes.com If SOPA's Main Target Is The Pirate Bay, It's Worth Pointing Out That ThePirateBay.org Is Immune From SOPA.
techdirt.com
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You. (I deleted my Facebook account.)
readwriteweb.com As obvious as us electing a defense contractor VP in Y2K. (Followed by the Iraq war.)
guardian.co.uk Obvious idea -- bankersters are trying to buy the Presidency. (For a clue see the presumptive Republican nominee.)
guardian.co.uk It's time to place the web in safer hands. (I think he's right.)
readability.com Why Facebook doesn't have or need testers.
zdnet.com 2011: NY Times magazine on future-safe archives.
nytimes.com Don't forget the suggested user list, where insiders got millions of followers for being friends of @Ev and @Biz.
searchengineland.com Dave Weigel: Haven't We Lived Through This Primary Before? (Well done!)
slate.com WordPress: Blogging is a form of activism. You can be an agent of change. (That's very true. And I'm glad they're saying it!)
wordpress.org NYT: You have 5 of 20 free articles remaining this month. (Oh well, I guess we're about to part ways.)
scripting.com 1942: Gordon Hirabayashi was ordered to report to an internment camp in northern California. He refused.
aclu.org Another facet of "What is blogging?" -- I get to craft my own medium.
scripting.com Twitter Dumps on Google for Pushing Google+ in Search. (Now they know how Twitter devs feel.)
allthingsd.com
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Jabber Support at WordPress.com. They effectively provide an RSS interface to Jabber. Have to play with this.
en.support.wordpress.com Greg Mathes wrote me an email about commenting. I asked him to make it a blog post. He did. Worth a read and think.
gregmathes.com I used to think it was lame that the BART shut down at night. Now they're doing it in NYC too. Oy!!
nytimes.com Records: Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour pardoned dozens.
ajc.com Guardian: Shit Republican candidates say. /* I replaced their * with an i */
guardian.co.uk Guardian: Jodi Kantor's much hyped book about the Obamas is published tomorrow. Here are some of the juiciest bits
guardian.co.uk Rare Color Photos: Nazis on Parade.
life.com Lamar Smith's Head-In-Sand Approach To SOPA Critics Inspires 'Lamar Smith Can't Hear You' Anti-Campaign Poster. :-)
techdirt.com NYT: Fed Returns $77 Billion in Profits to Treasury.
nytimes.com "Don't waste your time worrying about getting old."
nytimes.com
Monday, January 09, 2012
Scripting News: Call for Upper West Side blogs. #uws
scripting.com Heard that my SOPA piece was shown to the US Ambassador to Spain. He wasn't impressed.
scripting.com Mitt Romney scores own goal with 'firing people' gaffe.
guardian.co.uk John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website.
guardian.co.uk 2007: Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation.
time.com BBC: China cuts entertainment TV by two-thirds.
bbc.co.uk Developing commercial quality code is not for sissies.
scripting.com Why isn't the source code as simple as the software?
scripting.com Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians.
extremetech.com Scripting News: The bosses do everything better. (Or so they think.)
scripting.com Finnish Operator Required To Block Access To ThePirateBay, Among Others.
arcticstartup.com
Sunday, January 08, 2012
How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law.
arstechnica.com The Restart Page: Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems.
therestartpage.com Jay-Z rented an entire floor of Lenox Hill Hospital for $1.3 million.
nytimes.com Alfred E. Neuman - "It's A Gas." (This single came with an issue of Mad Magazine. Great music!)
youtube.com What is the difference between <pubDate> and <lastBuildDate> in RSS?
stackoverflow.com Hacker News: List of every congressmember who supports SOPA, sortable by donations.
news.ycombinator.com Iranian cleric calls Facebook 'un-Islamic', membership a sin.
haaretz.com Scripting News: What I worked on over the holidays.
scripting.com
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Etsy Makes It Easy For Users To Post Items To Pinterest With New 'Pin It' Button. #smart
techcrunch.com SOPA should be issue #1 for political bloggers. It should be in the face of all campaigns, 24 by 7.
boingboing.net NYT: Candidates Crisscross New Hampshire, Making Final Pitches.
nytimes.com
Friday, January 06, 2012
Twitter, Facebook, Google endorse alternate online piracy bill. (If we don't organize corporations will decide this.)
thehill.com Scripting News: We could make SOPA a front-burner issue in the 2012 election.
scripting.com We need to merge the political blogosphere and tech blogosphere.
scripting.com NYT: Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World's Wireless Bandwidth.
nytimes.com
Thursday, January 05, 2012
BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing.
gigaom.com NYT: Students Jeer Santorum on New Hampshire Blitz.
nytimes.com Politico New Hampshire campaign schedule in right margin of this page.
politico.com Rex Hammock: What I told my congressman, a sponsor of SOPA.
rexblog.com It's at moments like these that I feel like the pawn that I am.
scripting.com The Grand Strategy Behind Obama's Recess Appointment.
nymag.com Scripting News: What I worked on over the holidays.
scripting.com If Libraries Didn't Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending?
techdirt.com Tubas in the moonlight playing for me all night...
youtube.com US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law. (Must-read.)
torrentfreak.com BBC: In-car internet 'to become norm' in survey about future.
bbc.co.uk
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
TechPresident: Is Tumblr Protecting Its Users From the Big, Bad Internet?
techpresident.com Slate -- Mitt Romney's the nominee: The Republican primary race is over.
slate.com Half the world's richest 1% live in the United States.
money.cnn.com EV Grieve: Why the East Village should fear NYU 2031.
evgrieve.com As Winter Arrives, Occupy Protesters Shift Movement To Saving The 99 Percent's Homes.
thinkprogress.org "We have nearly reached the Rubicon when the 'not Romney' crowd is pining for Jon Huntsman"
hotair.com
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
New Republic: Ron Paul Newsletters.
tnr.com Ron Paul: On to New Hampshire! On to South Carolina! On to the rest of the country! Arrrgggleeeahhh!!
Proof that while the Internet might not be SOPA-proof, it might have some resistance to legal hacks by the US govt.
scripting.com Emergency IP list in case SOPA goes through Congress. (scripting.com == 50.16.40.64)
pastie.org Why Twitter's "verified account" failure matters.
gigaom.com Scripting News: The internet is realistic. (And hard work.)
scripting.com Gingrich Calls Romney a Liar. (Why can't the press call Romney a liar too. Why let Gingrich get the scoop.)
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com Bonzo Dog Band: Tubas in the Moonlight. (To help get rid of the January 3 Blues.)
youtube.com Deficit hawks try to scare us about the debt we're leaving. That's economic nonsense -- unlike the costs of global warming.
guardian.co.uk New Steve Jobs Action Figure Is So Good It's Freaky.
gizmodo.com
Monday, January 02, 2012
Reports of Fidel Castro's Death May Actually be Computer Virus... Again.
therightsphere.com The tech and political dialogs are becoming the same. Need more listening, in both directions. See item #2 here:
scripting.com NPR: Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Trick.
npr.org "By signing into law the NDAA, the president has awarded the military extraordinary powers to detain US citizens without trial."
guardian.co.uk Asus In Hot Water Over Transformer Prime's Locked Bootloader.
thenextweb.com
Sunday, January 01, 2012
The Un-ternet. Apple is providing a bad example for younger, smaller companies like Twitter and Tumblr.
scripting.com NYT: Iran Says It Has Produced a Nuclear Fuel Rod.
nytimes.com NYT: NYPD Leaves Offenses Unrecorded to Keep Crime Rates Down.
nytimes.com Slashdot still drives a lot of traffic. And the commenters are still #dickheads. :-)
apple.slashdot.org Mitt: "The next election is about the soul of the country." (As if he hadn't sold his long ago.)
politicalwire.com The NYT is actually $8.75 per week or $455 for a year. A huge price increase for me. (Now I pay $0.)
scripting.com NYT digital subscription is $3.50 per week or $182 per year. Netflix is $8 per month, or $96 a year.
My choice for Blogger of the Year -- Seth Godin (with a nod for next year to linkbloggers).
scripting.com Before September the police didn't have occupations on the menu of things the NYPD could manage.
scripting.com Greenwald: Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies.
salon.com I stayed away from CNN or MSNBC for a while, then took a fresh look. They report as if they were theater critics, for everything.
Turns out I had the best seat for NYE in NYC and didn't even know it! :-)
Video: Faboulous NYE Fireworks over Central Park.
flickr.com
Saturday, December 31, 2011
ACLU: President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law.
aclu.org Ten People Who Should Quit the Media in 2012.
gawker.com As close as I dared get to Times Square. Wasn't sure there was a way out after you got in there. :-)
flickr.com Store Clerk Knocks Out Armed Robber, Then Makes Him his Bitch.
dvorak.org "This time, Apple has been the leader in the push to control users."
scripting.com 'Micro-lofts' are luxury shantytowns for hipsters.
grist.org People worry about SOPA, but you should also worry about the house-of-cards we've built around Twitter.
scripting.com Josh Whalen got an email from Anonymous implying they will shut down Manhattan and other major cities tonight.
occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com It's the Internet vs the Un-Internet. And the Internet, it seems, always prevails.
scripting.com "Once the users take control, they never give it back."
scripting.com David Karp discusses Tumblr's growing pains. (Including Missing E.)
blogs.reuters.com
Friday, December 30, 2011
Is there an explanation of what Tumblr doesn't like about "Missing E" -- from Tumblr.
google.com Rex Hammock: One of the things we were led to believe in 2011 was a myth about Steve Jobs being a perfectionist.
rexblog.com Norman Lear on fighting for the food fight.
latimes.com What if we had n election where we discussed what we're really doing around the world, without the bedtime stories.
thehill.com "I made progress bars using only CSS3. You can use them for free."
dipperstove.com Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship.
bbc.co.uk The best ideas are ones that initially seem insane, but in the end turn out to be correct. I call them "mind bombs" /cc @furrier @jeffjarvis
Ryan Tate: How Your Privacy Will Be Invaded in 2012.
gawker.com Pundits say Ron Paul can't win but I remember the 1969 NY Mets. :-)
economist.com Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs?
hashify.me Samoa cancels Friday 30th and travels one day forward in time.
nytimes.com
Thursday, December 29, 2011
5 more domains transferred today from GoDaddy to Hover. I think I'm just going to let the rest expire.
RSS has no advertisers, so it's safe for TechCrunch to criticize. Not many things left that they can be negative about.
scripting.com The year's worst tech trend: complexity.
slate.com SOPA opponents may go nuclear and other 2012 predictions.
news.cnet.com Ron Paul's Young Iowa Volunteers Clean Up for the Cause.
nytimes.com Scripting News: Linkblog pointers by domain, cont'd.
scripting.com
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Benjamin Walker plays the title character in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
nytimes.com 100 Things That Died in 2011. (As reported by tech bloggers, who are now, themselves, dead.)
betabeat.com BTW, when @arrington started hiring reporters, it stopped being a "tech blog" and became CNET competitor.
Breaking: Saying things are dead is dead.
The Iowa Occupiers' Chilling Plot to Engage in Participatory Democracy.
gawker.com Dear NY Times circulation dept. Bull Mancuso is not a subscriber. He's not even a real person. :-)
scripting.com Leo Laporte teaches us to close our chat windows before taking a screen shot. :-)
gawker.com I still get emails from Verizon addressed "dear customer." Closed the account, supposedly, three months ago.
Boston theaters to offer special seating for people who tweet.
bostonglobe.com Hacker News thread on "While we have GoDaddy's attention" -- worth a read if you're in the registrar industry.
news.ycombinator.com SF Chron: How long can Apple sustain Steve Jobs' patent war?
sfgate.com Time for GoDaddy to clean up its act and lead the registrar industry to a much-needed better place.
scripting.com
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Prediction: A big drop in links to NYT stories on Jan 1 as comp subs expire.
subtraction.com Who Will Be The First Politician To Be GoDaddy'd?
techdirt.com Khoi Vinh says subscribing to the NYT is as difficult for the customer as it appears to be.
subtraction.com University of Wisconsin: Deep freeze has yet to hit Madison lakes.
news.wisc.edu Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa 'was buried in cement at General Motors' HQ'.
my.butt.org Measure of Fear: Banks Bunker Hundreds of Billions in Deposits at ECB.
spiegel.de While Drafting SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent Pirates.
torrentfreak.com A VC: Mocked And Misunderstood. (Been there too.)
avc.com DNS is the front-line of SOPA, and GoDaddy is probably the largest commercial entity in the DNS world.
scripting.com Do we now need a REST over WebSockets specification?
kimchy.org
Monday, December 26, 2011
Ross Rader: Evolving The Domain Name Experience.
byte.org Hate to brag (no I don't) but I've been telling y'all that DNS has big unrealized potential l for a couple of years. :-)
scripting.com The Facebook Platform Is A Trainwreck, Example #871.
blorn.com Why Aren't Other SOPA Supporters Being Punished Like GoDaddy?
pcworld.com Is Ron Paul blazing the trail for his son in four years. And the son doesn't have the newsletters.
orgtheory.wordpress.com TechCrunch on the war of words betw GoDaddy and Namecheap.
techcrunch.com What a windfall for Namecheap. Maybe the problem with GoDaddy was some kind of glitch. Take the high road, I say.
community.namecheap.com Just transferred another 10 domains from GoDaddy to Hover. Doing my part. :-)
Frum on Ron Paul: Codger, crank or more?
cnn.com
Sunday, December 25, 2011
"Groklaw is a Facebook-free Zone, and it always will be."
groklaw.net Scripting News: How to move a domain from GoDaddy to Hover.
scripting.com Who Wrote the Meanest Review of 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'? (I predict I will.)
blog.moviefone.com Scripting News: Happy Christmas! (War is over. If you want it.)
scripting.com
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Here are the movies we'll see tomorrow for the @NakedJen Film Festvial 2011.
scripting.com I moved nine domains from godaddy to hover this evening. I decided it wasn't pointless after all. Let's make a point.
George Carlin on the American Dream. "You have to be asleep to believe it."
youtube.com GoDaddy Calling Customers to Reverse SOPA Domain Transfers.
pcmag.com Oy. If you have Disqus comments, it appears Facebook comes along for the ride.
screencast.com Throw the word "naked" or "nude" in a blog post or article and watch the clicks pile up.
takepart.com I've heard said I don't listen to people I disagree with. But I do. I like new perspectives and I am often wrong or change my mind.
Picture of a window in Tiffany's. The cool thing is the window is a window onto the windows of Tiffany's. #recursion
flickr.com Mark Zuckerberg is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?
fsf.org To @dangillmor, this is a good answer to question you asked yesterday. It's too early. It hasn't passed and likely won't.
blog.nearlyfreespeech.net
Friday, December 23, 2011
Wonder if Eric Schmidt ever talks with anyone who's not in the top 1%.
sfgate.com Brands are now an essential part of people's identities. #thanks #zuck
inessential.com The unemployment rate in Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley, is 9.5%.
sfgate.com I'm demoing Radio2 for NakedJen, that's why you're seeing some "extraneous" links right now.
NakedJen: "the six year old told his father quite seriously that i'm a bit difficult"
nakedjen.com I have not advocated moving domains off GoDaddy. Pointless act. There will be more meaningful forms of civil disobedience if SOPA passes.
GoDaddy vs. Namecheap: Public Outrage & Successful Marketing.
cnbc.com The thing I like about New York is you can talk like a NYer and no one thinks it's weird. :-)
If Ron Paul was actually a racist, wouldn't there be some *current* evidence?
politicalwire.com The Third Kim: North Korea's Mysterious New Leader.
spiegel.de For Bloggers at Risk: Creating a Contingency Plan.
eff.org NYT interview with Meryl Streep re 'Iron Lady,' which opens today.
nytimes.com Step by step, the United States is becoming China...
scripting.com
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Go Daddy's Position on SOPA: "Online copyright laws won't prevent a flourishing Internet."
support.godaddy.com SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day. (Hollywood actors and musicians should be banned too.)
techcrunch.com BBC: US Navy women have first gay kiss.
bbc.co.uk How SOPA Creates The Architecture For Much More Widespread Censorship.
techdirt.com Matt Damon, no matter how many Oscars you get, if SOPA passes, you're being boycotted.
nydailynews.com Let our favorite actors and directors know that if SOPA becomes law, we're going to boycott their movies, by name.
canadianbusiness.com Toys "R" Us: Air Hogs Radio Control Camera Plane. $50. #drone
toysrus.com China dissident faces Friday trial for online essays.
reuters.com The WSJ says Ron Paul is a propagandist for their enemies. In doing so they lie about what he says. Makes them seem weak.
online.wsj.com Retired, Computerless Woman Fined For Pirating 'Hooligan' Movie.
torrentfreak.com
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
First day of winter, temp at 10:30PM is 61 degrees in Central Park. #climate #change
forecast.weather.gov Is websockets yet another API technology that doesn't define serializations for common datatypes, structs and arrays?
nbevans.wordpress.com The Struggle For The Occupy Wall Street Archives.
theawl.com Not impressed with demos that make a billion pages "disappear." If you want to self-immolate, do it right.
google.com Russian Billionaire's 22-Year-Old Daughter Buys $88 Million Upper West Side Apartment At 15 CPW.
myupperwest.com Here's the solution for the name-that-tune podcast, earlier. (Thanks @m_meir!) #spoiler
youtube.com It's true, lots of people hate Jamie DImon and everything he stands for. Here's why. (And it's not because he's rich.)
thereformedbroker.com December 2007: Seattle blogging pioneer Anita Rowland dies. (Accompanies last tweet, a short podcast.)
blog.seattlepi.com Three-minute podcast with an idea for Stephen King wannabes. A tiny tale of horror involving the Twitter website. :-)
static.scripting.com The RIAA just testified against itself in every one of their IP-address based lawsuits. Love it! :-)
torrentfreak.com RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses. #delicious #hypocrisy
torrentfreak.com Domestic Drones: Hear About Who's Watching You from Above. #zuck
aclu.org It's nice they're giving Ward Cunningham equal time with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia.
scripting.com Google Nexus tablet in next 6 months teases Schmidt.
slashgear.com Mozilla wants to lead in identity. Good idea, but too late. Should've tried when Firefox was ascendant. Before Facebook.
blog.ascher.ca Seth Godin: "Banks used to use marble pillars and armed guards to make it clear that our money was safe."
sethgodin.typepad.com How The Payroll Tax Fight Descended Into Chaos. (Smokescreen for legislation that turned the US into police state.)
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com NYT: Thousands of Women Mass in Major March in Cairo.
nytimes.com Facebook Frictionless Sharing boosts Yahoo traffic 3x. (The feature that got me to delete my FB account.)
techcrunch.com US Military using unmanned helicopters to supply frontline.
popsci.com
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk 'Imbecile' Attack on Top 1%. (Wonderfully senseless.)
bloomberg.com Newt Gingrich's minister: "You're looking at an amoral person, that's what you're looking at."
blog.niemanwatchdog.org U.S. officials debate charging WikiLeaks' Assange.
reuters.com Adam Curry: Help Design No Agenda News Network. (jQuery & a river of news)
blog.curry.com Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox.
blog.mozilla.com "Twitter has evolved from my social network to my RSS reader on a cocktail of crack, speed and steriods."
bryce.vc Archos launches 70b Honeycomb tablet, expected to ship next month for $199.
engadget.com Super-rich guy, re protesters: "Who gives a crap about some imbecile?" Marcus said. "Are you kidding me?"
bloomberg.com If I were the NYT CEO. (First priority would be to upgrade NYC's awful Internet service.)
scripting.com "Hollywood's normal way [of doing remakes] was more like what Salander does to her guardian with a dildo."
guardian.co.uk Christmas 2011 Movies. Attn @nakedjen, @arikia.
brusimm.com
Monday, December 19, 2011
Two days in the desert with Apple's lost founder, Ron Wayne. (In the karmic center of everything, Pahrump.)
engadget.com Great Leader, Dear Leader -- What's Next? (Obviously, the un-leader.)
slate.com Cornell Wins Science Campus Bid, But NYU's Downtown Brooklyn Plans Are Still On The Table.
nyulocal.com Wired: Can Cornell Build A Silicon Valley Culture in New York City?
wired.com NYT Obituary - Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Enigmatic Strongman.
nytimes.com Twitter + Saudi Arabia: It's not easy being a media entity.
gigaom.com Google search for "ny times bookmarklet".
google.com Some people equate "improve tech criticism" and "agrees with me."
niemanlab.org Dave Winer: We need to improve tech criticism. Here's how. (My end-of-year piece for Nieman.)
niemanlab.org Twitter Gets $300 Million Investment From Prince Alwaleed. (Wonder if they have any Israeli investors or plan to.)
adage.com I would love to pay for the NYT if they did something to improve the bandwidth situation in NYC.
scripting.com A moment of truth for me and the NY Times paywall. Dec 31.
scripting.com Developers: Are you working with oEmbed? I'm interested in your reaction to my conclusions.
scripting.com Daring Fireball Linked List: Why Dave Winer Uses Android. (Actually the fear of Apple is fear of losing our freedom, not control.)
daringfireball.net I brought the header graphics back on scripting.com. Today's graphic is a lovely spring street scene from Berkeley. Enjoy!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
People are doing layouts in twitter that re starting to look like ads. Expect more like this.
twitter.com Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994).
home.mcom.com Today I programmed in JavaScript and jQuery.
Reviewer says you can take screen shots on Android pressing the power and down-volume buttons. Doesn't work for me. :-(
chentir.com How would the Repubs be freaking out if they didn't have Romney or someone like him.
Four years ago, Romney said Dole "is the last person I would want to have write a letter for me."
feedproxy.google.com Vinod Khosla, as quoted in the Washington Post is wrong. I, myself, did some pretty disruptive things in my forties.
wadhwa.com SoundHound didn't find my song, prob because it's not popular music. So listen to this and tell me what. Thanks!
static.scripting.com I wish for a song search engine. Hum or whistle and tune. Tell me what it is. RIAA should make it. Earn our love.
Atlantic: A Photo That Encapsulates the Horror of Egypt's Crackdown.
theatlantic.com I want a really simple feature from @disqus -- the ability to limit the length of reader's comments. I want to experiment.
Guardian: A man is being questioned by police in connection with the death of a woman burned alive in an elevator.
guardian.co.uk
Saturday, December 17, 2011
NYT: Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos Talk Long Term and Mean It.
nytimes.com Chris Dixon on the sad state of Internet connectivity in Manhattan.
cdixon.org Iraq war ends with a $4 trillion IOU. (I'm glad someone thought to mention this.)
marketwatch.com I may not have the most people following me, but I *do* have the nicest! :-)
Now that it's out there that she hates Muslims, isn't it cool, now Bachmann has show how she *loves* Muslims. Brill! :-)
firstread.msnbc.msn.com Meet the 25 Most Viral People on the Internet. (Bummed I didn't make the list.)
gizmodo.com RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents. #prohibition
torrentfreak.com Idea for Angry Birds -- celebrity pigs. Pay $5 to have a pig with Richard Nixon's face who says I Am Not a Crook as he explodes.
"Internet service in NY, for the average home, on average, sucks."
scripting.com Mohamed Bouazizi's image has been used to inspire protesters throughout the Arab world.
bbc.co.uk Hubble Captures Violent Birth Pangs of Enormous Star.
wired.com Desmond Tutu urges Trinity Church to allow Occupy protester camp.
guardian.co.uk BTW, have heard nothing about SOPA or NDAA on TV news. That includes "the left" and "the right."
cbsnews.com Now that I understand oEmbed it's clear what an un-Internet-like silo Twitter has become. Need a new word for this.
scripting.com SOPA will be voted on on the 21st while people are drinking egg nog and wrapping presents. Our representatives. Yeah.
cbsnews.com
Friday, December 16, 2011
Example of a tweet with an embedded doc from Wordpress.com.
twitter.com Donations to Occupy Wall Street plummet (but they still have lots of cash).
salon.com How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website.
techdirt.com Finally a feature that makes sense on an iPad.
flickr.com I am fed up with Republicans lying about Nazis. Makes me wonder what they're up to esp with SOPA and NDAA.
thinkprogress.org The Greatest Photo of the "End" of the "Iraq War".
theawl.com SOPA votes derailed by politician's 'offensive' tweet.
news.cnet.com
Thursday, December 15, 2011
So far I like the new Galaxy Nexus. But I have to try out a bunch more things before "forming an impression."
Josh, I think the word you're looking for is "condescending." It's also ugly. (Snotty.)
theverge.com Scripting News: WordPress and Twitter connecting up.
scripting.com The plastic on the back of the Galaxy Nexus is the cheapest most flimsy p.o.s. imaginable.
The new version of Android changed many of the icons. Like changing the symbols on street signs.
Setting up my Galaxy Nexus. So far so good. :-)
Does Newt Really Want To Be President?
tnr.com Source Reveals Facebook Is Swimming In Cash.
gawker.com From brainstorm to outline: Why I use OPML. #excellent
macworld.com Salon: "Wolf Blitzer might be the single dumbest person on television."
salon.com An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress.
eff.org I could have titled this piece "You say Goodbye, and I say Hello." I wish there was more room at the top of the page for it.
scripting.com Wayne Gretzky: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
goodquotes.com French President's Residence 'Busted' For BitTorrent Piracy. (It's a lot like Prohibition.)
torrentfreak.com U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over. (If you believe it's actually over, I have a nice bridge to sell you.)
nytimes.com Amazon.com: Samsung I9250 Galaxy Nexus 16GB Unlocked. $759 with same day delivery in NYC. Works with T-Mobile?
amazon.com Galaxy Nexus now on sale from Verizon for $299.99. (I want but I don't do contracts anymore. Will wait.)
theverge.com
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
ACLU: Urge Congress to Stop SOPA.
aclu.org Gruber: "Maybe someday there will be a Daring Fireball app, but I still haven't thought of a reason to make one..."
daringfireball.net Poll: More Than Half of New Yorkers Disapprove of Bloomberg's Handling of OWS. (I'm one of them.)
blogs.villagevoice.com OMG: Woman Crushed to Death By Midtown Elevator, 2 Others Injured.
nbcnewyork.com Time's person of the year: The Protester. *goosebumps*
time.com
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Investors Were Kicked Off The Twitter Board "For The Good Of The Company".
techcrunch.com Scott Hanselman: Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web.
hanselman.com In 1997 did you use AOL? Then why are you using Facebook today?
inessential.com If the second coming happened right now, Jesus would probably show up as an app.
wired.com Shunning Facebook, and Living to Tell About It. (I deleted my acct a month ago. No regrets.)
nytimes.com Bottlenose Is a Web-Based Twitter Client for Power Users.
allthingsd.com Inclusion is a deeper form of linking that's hiding in plain sight, in OPML 2.0.
dev.opml.org Why We Should Stop Asking Whether Bloggers Are Journalists.
theatlantic.com I need a 16x16 icon of a mailbox-style flag in both states, up and down.
google.com I wrote this piece for Nieman at the end of last year. I said there was no good place for a Maginot Line in paywalls.
niemanlab.org FBI says hackers hit key services in three US cities.
bbc.co.uk
Monday, December 12, 2011
Newt takes no-adultery pledge. (I find this funny for some reason.)
politico.com Gillmor Gang is still there and still self-absorbed nonsense. #reassuring
techcrunch.com Why Twitter Engineers And Execs Keep Quitting -- One Insider's Explanation.
businessinsider.com What if lightning struck and the greatest entrepreneur who ever lived happened to be born in a female body.
scripting.com Several people reported formatting issues on scripting.com stories. Thanks to Daniel at Disqus, we have a fix.
worldoutline.scripting.com Amazon.com: Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy) eBook: Mira Grant: Kindle Store. (Check out the cover art.)
amazon.com
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Kindle Fire is great for reading books and watching movies.
nytimes.com Opposition grows to Occupy's port shutdown plan.
sfgate.com I just used "erotical" in #wwf.
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs. (Customers create jobs.)
businessinsider.com Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down. (Maybe we should do that here too.)
worldnews.msnbc.msn.com Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front. #fourthamendment
latimes.com Ad Age: Best Magazine Covers of 2011.
adage.com Latvia: People are lining up at ATMs to withdraw cash.
reuters.com If your app emits RSS, think about the title you generate for each user's feed. It's worth a little thought...
scripting.com Senator Wants Answers from DHS Over Domain Name Seizures.
wired.com Pulp Fiction in chronological order. (!)
waxy.org I now have a Pinterest account. I linked it to @bullmancuso on Twitter.
pinterest.com You can only use Facebook or Twitter to sign up for Pinterest. Guess I'll just create a fake Twitter account.
scripting.com Google's new floor in London office looks more like the Big Brother house.
dailymail.co.uk
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Ross Rader: Things I don't like about Twitter 4 for IOS.
byte.org New Haiku Signs Will Make NYC Streets Safer Through Power Of Poetry.
gothamist.com A quick 7-minute podcast to test a new feature in my podcatcher. Also, sorry for the m4a format. Having trouble with MP3 converter.
static.scripting.com Maybe Kermit sings one song that Miss Piggy used to sing.
scripting.com John Heilemann in NY Mag: A playbill for the GOP's midwestern gladiatorial showdown.
nymag.com If #newnewtwitter were a Muppet movie we'd be amazed they were calling it a new movie.
scripting.com If you wanted an "I Love RSS" t-shirt or coffee mug, this is the place. (I don't get any money from this, btw.)
cafepress.com Sorry Twitter, the new UI looks like re-arranged furniture. Dont see much simplification. Only had the new UI for a few hours though.
Beaver's Revenge is a super-tacky ripoff of Angry Birds, but I like it! :-)
twistedgames.com MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet Without A Problem, Why Can't The US? (BTW, he's a Democrat.)
techdirt.com
Friday, December 09, 2011
Americans Set "Rich" Threshold at $150,000 in Annual Income.
gallup.com Chinese Internet Users Relish Irony Of SOPA's Great Firewall Of America.
techdirt.com HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source.
hp.com NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water.
nasa.gov Indefinite Detention of American Citizens: Coming Soon to Battlefield U.S.A.
rollingstone.com If you're running a tech or media conference next year, please keep me in mind.
scripting.com Scripting News: NPR should get a Pulitzer for this.
scripting.com GOP Objects To 'Millionaires Surtax'; Millionaires We Found? Not So Much.
npr.org AOL's Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local.
adage.com NYU Offering Two Classes on Occupy Wall Street Next Semester.
blogs.wsj.com Five Apps Better Than Twitter's New Train Wreck.
gizmodo.com
Thursday, December 08, 2011
I just watched Twitter's movie of the new UI, all I can do since I don't have access. What a mess of clutter. Desperately needs blank slate.
Who do you have to know to get a first-hand look at the new Twitter web interface?
gigaom.com Twitter is making new features with their competitors in mind, not users.
Yale Environment 360: Rampant Marijuana Cultivation Is Damaging U.S. National Forests.
e360.yale.edu People don't put much effort into titling their feeds
scripting.com Atlantic: The Politics of Reddit and Rick Perry's Video Ad Fail.
theatlantic.com Jamie Dimon: "Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad, I just don't get it."
investorplace.com Reuters: Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply.
reuters.com Jamie Dimon Doesn't Know How Much He Pays In Taxes. (But he's pissed about it anyway.)
slate.com The Citizens Agenda: A Plan to Make Election Coverage More Useful to People.
pressthink.org
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Looks like high-speed rail isn't coming to Calif after all??
slate.com Needed an image of a "roach motel" so I looked it up on Amazon. Now they think my apt has bugs. Oy! (It doesn't, as far as I know.)
Downed CIA drone: Was it rigged to self-destruct?
slate.com Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents.
arstechnica.com Behind Closed Doors: Congress Trying to Force Indefinite Detention Bill on Americans.
aclu.org #OccupyData Hackathon: Data Mining and Visualization. (At MIT, other locations, all day Friday.)
civic.mit.edu Nasa's Voyager 1 in 'cosmic purgatory' on verge of entering Milky Way.
telegraph.co.uk High Line Section 3 Update: What's Next at Hudson Yards.
ny.curbed.com China's Hu urges navy to prepare for combat. (The only kind of stimulus Republicans like.)
news.yahoo.com Occupy -- word of the year.
npr.org Sneak a Peek at the Finished Apple Store in NYC's Grand Central Station (Photos).
gizmodo.com New feature today: Expand and collapse in the browsing interface of the world outline.
scripting.com Dear News Industry -- be careful. Facebook might be a roach motel.
amazon.com Facebook wants to privatize news. Oy. Maybe now (finally) the news industry will realize they need independence.
techcrunch.com A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society.
waldo.jaquith.org Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court--Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her.
blogs.seattleweekly.com Library of Congress, Twitter Record Life Today. (Totally wrong. Archive the open web.)
thenextweb.com Tennessee family home burns while firefighters watch. (They didn't pay the $75 subscription fee.)
news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
April 2011: I'll work for a Republican if I have to.
scripting.com Unemployed protesters stage sit-ins in dozens of lawmaker offices.
thehill.com Atlantic: When the Mainstream Media First Met the Blog. (Great to see interest in the origins of blogging.)
theatlantic.com Dropbox may be the answer to my Listening to Podcasts in Android conundrum.
scripting.com A free idea for airlines with wifi. Let people on the ground buy flowers for people on the plane.
India's parliament as broken as our Congress?
bbc.co.uk The internal dialog of NYC walkers: "It's a goddamn sidewalk. Walk already."
theawl.com Notable the level of respect between a movie producer and reviewer. If only tech were this grown up.
blogs.indiewire.com Gizmodo: In its Siri ads, Apple promises far more than it delivers.
gizmodo.com
Monday, December 05, 2011
What is the secret to getting the Music app on Android to notice new stuff you've put on the device??
Pelosi Threatens to Release Dirt on Gingrich. Gingrich says "Rules of the House" will keep the dirt from getting out.
politicalwire.com On the other hand -- perhaps the Google/Mozilla deal is still being negotiated?
internetnews.com Are urban bicyclists just elite snobs?
salon.com Perhaps the first news piece about blogging, in InfoWorld, 1997.
tawawa.org Coming next year: Ting, the less-evil mobile carrier.
news.cnet.com Apple's Grand Central Terminal Apple Store will open at 7 AM Monday-Friday to accommodate commuters.
9to5mac.com
Saturday, December 03, 2011
That Cain was taken seriously as a candidate says something bad about the competence of America.
washingtonpost.com #OWS: Josh Whalen loft-hunting in Brooklyn for a place to keep the 200+ occupiers who currently have no place to live.
occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com George Harrison: Living in the Material World, US TV review.
telegraph.co.uk Guardian: Programming should take pride of place in our schools.
guardian.co.uk
Friday, December 02, 2011
Here's How To Delete Your Gowalla Account (assuming you don't want Facebook to have it).
thenextweb.com Dave Winer: How can universities educate journo-programmers? #rerun
niemanlab.org Entrepreneur Max Levchin thinks there are too many incubators focusing on too many companies with small ideas.
sfgate.com "Bigfoot dressed as a circus clown would have a better chance of beating President Obama than Newt Gingrich."
washingtonpost.com Shows how tired the Republican idea is that a retread like Gingrich has the feel of something fresh and new.
scripting.com Why Did Steve Jobs Die? (Fascinating. He got cancer in his 20s. When discovered, it had already spread.)
drmcdougall.com
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Saw Hugo today. Sweet movie, not a Scorcese masterpiece, but nice movie, good for kids.
movies.nytimes.com Prediction: Newt will crash. The hardest you've ever seen anyone fall. And it'll be lightning quick.
abcnews.go.com Apple's Grand Central Terminal Store Opens December 9th, State Probing Lease Deal.
macrumors.com How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street. #mustread #ows
news.yahoo.com Der Spiegel: The Republicans' Farcical Candidates: A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses.
spiegel.de
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Video: Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich Commercial on Climate Change.
youtube.com NYT: Most of the biggest Occupy Wall Street camps are gone. But their slogan still stands.
nytimes.com Google Takes Central Park's Picture for Online Strolling.
nytimes.com Our Republican Party is a "A Club of Liars, Demagogues, and Fools," viewed from abroad.
harpers.org Is your phone telling the carrier everything you do?
gigaom.com Scripting News: Looking for a Broadway tickets web service.
scripting.com
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
"The Little Printer is comically asinine."
gawker.com Zawinski vs. Arrington: If life were only like this.
rexblog.com North Carolina Repeals Historic Legislation Combating Racism in Death Penalty.
aclu.org "A lot of young people are starry-eyed over the idea of being an entrepreneur."
scripting.com Scripting News: Here comes a "back in the day" story.
scripting.com YaCy -- The Peer to Peer Search Engine.
yacy.net Idea of civilians using drone aircraft may soon fly with FAA.
latimes.com
Monday, November 28, 2011
Nothing could more quickly radicalize America than the RIAA and MPAA disrupting the normal flow on the Internet.
dailykos.com Radiation Covers 8% of Japan, Fukushima Crisis "Stunting Children's Growth".
thinkprogress.org Scripting News: 4G service on month-to-month basis?
scripting.com Clouds and rivers go together.
Susannah Breslin: The Business About My Breasts.
forbes.com Rovio Said To Have Turned Down $2.25 Billion Acquisition By Zynga.
techcrunch.com Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13 Billion. #unmitigated #chutzpah
bloomberg.com Boston Globe: Barney Frank won't seek reelection in 2012.
boston.com Marco Arment: "You should use whatever works for you."
marco.org
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march.
boingboing.net In 2010, no crashes were attributed to people using technology on a plane. None were in 2009. Or 2008, 2007.
bits.blogs.nytimes.com ACLU: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a "Battlefield" They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window.
aclu.org Gingrich: Citizen juries should decide which illegal immigrants stay or go.
washingtonpost.com What Future Beckons for Failed Republican Rivals.
nytimes.com Comments establish a hierarchy. A river is more democratic. A level playing field, but different from a mail list. A real discovery!
One of the benefits of a community river is that the flow of interesting stuff is multi-way not just mostly one-way.
jarrettinteractiondesign.com My mom has told me a few times how much she liked Bitter Lemon. So I bought her a bottle and had it shipped.
evespeeves.wordpress.com NYT: For Companies, the Good Old Days Are Now.
nytimes.com AFP: In euro crisis, US gets crash course in EU bodies.
google.com WikiLeaks wins Walkley for revealing 'inconvenient truths' in global coup. (Bravo!)
theaustralian.com.au Scripting News: If the Euro fails, what does this mean for people who have their savings in Euros?
scripting.com
Saturday, November 26, 2011
North Carolina: Apple's $1 billion data center brings in just 50 new jobs.
washingtonpost.com Man Dies on Black Friday; Shoppers Unfazed.
wsaz.com Campers in Philadelphia and Los Angeles are facing evictions.
nytimes.com 18 Newt Gingrich Quotes That Disqualify Him From Ever Being President.
addictinginfo.org The surprising social nature of Dropbox.
979s.com An almost-40-minute podcast about development projects, a community river of news, and how the political process is changing in the US.
static.scripting.com BTW, I don't just code in outlines, I blog in them too. Here's a demo.
scripting.com Scripting News: Some of software projects I'm juggling.
scripting.com "Like Dave Winer, he's probably too old for this game." (Ageism is the one ism that no one seems ashamed of.)
getoffmyinternets.net The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy. (Must-read, esp people inside #ows.)
guardian.co.uk Why a different Time Magazine cover for USA? (Thanks @mickeleh.)
time.com 1,000 Workers At Apple's Keyboard Supplier in Shenzhen Walk Out In Protest.
cultofmac.com
Friday, November 25, 2011
Occupy Los Angeles to Be Evicted From City Hall Park.
nytimes.com Tom Wicker, Journalist and Observer, Dies at 85.
nytimes.com Hey I got a quote in The Atlantic, and it wasn't about tech. Glad, because there are ideas that need to be heard.
readability.com The Brian Lehrer Show: Justice Breyer on American Democracy. (Highly recommended.)
wnyc.org A Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving Gets Re-Dubbed With Fiery GOP Debate Dialogue.
mediaite.com Twice in the last couple of months I googled someone I knew to find out they had died a couple of days before.
NBC apologizes to Bachmann over song. (Now will she please just go away.)
cnn.com Disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback lands Kansas teen in principal's office.
kansas.com I wish I was still speculating in domains, cause isadick.org is available. Would be used like this: bloomberg.isadick.org.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Just finished Random Walk by Lawrence Block. Interesting timely book.
amazon.com I propose a new holiday -- Snark Friday. When we all make bad cynical comments about end of year commercialism.
How to End the Black Friday Madness. The 6-6-6 Plan.
nytimes.com I liked Mayor Bloomberg, I really did. Destroying books. A real low life thing. Americans don't do that, Mike.
occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com Prediction, soon many of us will be crafting "rivers of news" on the web for other people to follow. Here's mine.
daveriver.scripting.com Seymour Hersh interviews Scott Horton (Iran isn't developing nuclear weapons).
antiwar.com Danny Sullivan: The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia.
daggle.com Scripting News: Thanks for technology! (Warning: I sing.)
scripting.com My Thanksgiving podcast. Warning -- I sing (horribly out of tune). Goes with today's blog post (coming shortly).
static.scripting.com Bob Schieffer, Ron Paul and journalistic "objectivity".
salon.com
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Guardian: Destruction of Occupy Wall Street 'People's Library' draws ire.
guardian.co.uk Reuters: Disastrous bond sale shakes confidence in Germany.
reuters.com Jimmy McMillan, 'rent is too damn high' candidate, faces eviction.
nydailynews.com
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Oregon Executions to Be Blocked by Gov. Kitzhaber.
nytimes.com Tweader - A simple and elegant Twitter reader.
tweader.net It's a bubble on a bubble on a bubble on a bubble. When you dilute things that much, is there really anything left?
scripting.com Obama New Hampshire Jobs Speech Interrupted By Occupy Protesters.
abcnews.go.com Uncontacted Amazonian village spotted from the air.
abc.net.au Mathew Ingram: The future of news and why "digital first" matters.
gigaom.com NYT review of Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo,' With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. (I'm going to try to see this tomorrow.)
movies.nytimes.com "My guess is that he didn't put a lot of thought into the choice." To @leolaporte re Why Jobs chose Isaacson.
scripting.com Mashable: Grand Central Apple Store Not Yet Ready for Opening.
mashable.com Up To 30 Gbps: New Chip Enables Record-Breaking Wireless Data Transmission Speed.
techcrunch.com The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face.
blogs.plos.org A well-written post by Fred Wilson on writing. :-)
avc.com I saw Descendants with George Clooney yesterday. Very good. Great story, acting, location.
movies.nytimes.com
Monday, November 21, 2011
Constitution Hall to Host GOP Debate; First in D.C. Since Nixon-Kennedy. (With Wolf Blitzer.)
blog.heritage.org It might just be me, but everywhere I look the institutions I grew up accepting as constants are in pretty shaky condition.
scripting.com UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi's messages to campus, Nov. 18-20.
sacbee.com David Frum on the GOP's Lost Sense of Reality.
nymag.com Grand Central Apple Store, the biggest in the world, scheduled to be announced this Tuesday.
9to5mac.com Lukovsky is a *great* promoter. But not such a great shipper.
wired.com He's a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like. #gingrich
rawstory.com Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen: The Hillary Moment. (Nonsense, but read it anyway.)
online.wsj.com Was the New York Times Embedded with the NY Police Department Prior to the #OWS Raid?
nytexaminer.com
Sunday, November 20, 2011
What happens when you crack an egg 100 feet underwater?
geek.com Video: Great music at the Bloomberg drum circle.
flickr.com [UPDATE] 24-Hour OWS Drum Circle At Bloomberg's House Begins At 2 P.M.
gothamist.com Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?
gizmodo.com Podcast postscript to the Monday's Stack Exchange podcast. And why I was in a political mood when I got there.
static.scripting.com The Gmail of Archives: How USC is Turning IT Costs into Online Profits. (Very important for future-safing archives.)
wikibon.org NBC: Wall Street Protesters Plan 24-Hour Drum Circle Near Bloomberg's House.
nbcnewyork.com NYT: On the Move in New York's Thriving Tech Sector.
nytimes.com Alexis Madrigal feels bad for the pepper-spraying policeman. (He was just following orders.)
theatlantic.com Swiss party calls for Occupy from igloos at Davos.
reuters.com Type any_keyword.jpg.to in your address bar to get the image you want. E.g. apple.jpg.to for an apple image.
jpg.to
Saturday, November 19, 2011
U.C. Davis Launches Investigation After Pepper Spray Video.
nytimes.com Sept 24: Facebook is scaring me. (Seems like the tech blogosphere has caught up, 2 months later.)
scripting.com 24-hour drum circle and jam session starting Sunday at 2pm, outside Mayor Bloomberg's townhouse: 17 E 79th, NYC.
occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com Unhosted: Separating web apps from data storage.
unhosted.org Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed. (Ta dah!)
niemanlab.org I love My Kindle Fire. Don't understand yet why all the reviewers trashed it (didn't read the reviews, no spoilers.)
Daring Fireball: Getting Steve Jobs Wrong. (Gruber's last sentence is the story. He made it happen is what matters.)
daringfireball.net
Friday, November 18, 2011
Alexis Madrigal: A Guide to the Occupy Wall Street API, Or Why the Nerdiest Way to Think About OWS Is So Useful.
theatlantic.com Starz making streaming app, might not require cable subscription.
theverge.com NYT: Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Even in Churches, Can't Escape Watch of Police.
nytimes.com Young Barack Obama doing an infomercial for TBS in 1991.
youtube.com Got my Kindle Fire a few days after everyone else due to a UPS snafu. So far, setup is easier than iPad. No need to find a Mac to tether to.
Win a Free Pass to LeWeb 2011 -- you might even get to meet @loic! :-)
thenextweb.com 29 Tech Companies Back SOPA, including Microsoft and Apple.
thenextweb.com
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Why Google gets no respect. (Lock-in. Amazon and Rackspace are interchangeable. Google is not.)
gigaom.com Nancy Pelosi, Darrell Issa Both Come Out Against Online Piracy Act.
thewrap.com Farhad Manjoo: "Amazon's new tablet isn't nearly as good as the iPad. But it's good enough -- and really cheap."
slate.com Fox 5 live video of Brooklyn Bridge occupation.
myfoxny.com "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
guardian.co.uk The relationship between Readability and Instapaper. (Two NY-based developers.)
marco.org
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Occupy HTML -- The movement to rid the world of HTML purism. (Right on.)
occupyhtml.org Watch the US Congress scuttle the First Amendment using DNS. (Live video.)
mfile.akamai.com Scripting News: Google search on iPad is bad design.
scripting.com Site Shrugs Off Hollywood Shutdown Attempt, But Here Comes SOPA.
torrentfreak.com Gingrich Said to Be Paid at Least $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac.
bloomberg.com Google will finally search for what you type: Verbatim.
zdnet.co.uk Amazon's Kindle lending library is contract breach, say US authors.
guardian.co.uk Obama Asks for $671 Billion Defense Budget in Fiscal 2012.
defense.gov UC Berkeley: Use of police force draws fierce condemnation.
dailycal.org NYT: Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22.
nytimes.com "Pirate Wi-Fi" On NYC's Subway Not Just For Hooking Up With Hot Strangers.
fastcompany.com
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
EV Grieve: NYPD keeping a watchful eye on Tompkins Square Park.
evgrieve.com Chaotic scene today at Zuccotti Park on Vimeo.
vimeo.com The Supreme Court's unexpected and astounding reasons for wanting to hear a challenge to Obamacare.
slate.com Sean Parker: "Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded".
techcrunch.com I took pictures and a video at both Foley Square and Zuccotti Park today. The action is still at Zuccotti. #ows
scripting.com Dvorak explains how he builds flow with Mac users.
youtube.com New York May Become Newest Bike-Sharing Mecca.
npr.org Did you notice that "live" spelled backwards is "evil?"
Occupy Wall Street's Eviction Was a Lucky Break -- Now What?
theatlantic.com Another view of what happened: Mayor Michael Bloomberg Evicts Occupied Zuccotti Park, In Contempt of Court Order.
readability.com TweetPerView: Prompt viewers to tweet before they can watch your video.
tweetperview.com Newt Gingrich Looking at People Condescendingly.
nymag.com New Study Shows Majority Of Americans Against SOPA; Believe Extreme Copyright Enforcement Is Unreasonable.
techdirt.com PC Magazine: Best of the Year 2011.
pcmag.com TechDirt: Why All Filmmakers Should Speak Out Against SOPA.
techdirt.com Scalia and Thomas dine with healthcare law challengers as court takes case.
latimes.com Mayor Bloomberg is having a press conference now, live on WNYC.
wnyc.org NYT: Zuccotti Park Protesters - 'It's Happening'.
nytimes.com NYT: Police Move Against Occupy Wall Street Protesters in Zuccotti Park.
nytimes.com
Monday, November 14, 2011
Supreme Court: Pre-election health care showdown.
google.com First Amendment Expert Floyd Abrams Admits SOPA Would Censor Protected Speech, But Thinks It's Okay Collateral Damage.
techdirt.com When Techcrunch declares something else dead, it's a corner cut that illustrates how lifeless they are.
techcrunch.com When I was young, we marched in the streets because we were so unhappy with the world that was left to us. #boomers
scripting.com Herman Cain is hard to watch as he flails about on Libya.
jsonline.com Pelosi, Boehner, Bachus, Hastert, Other Congressional Reps Traded Stock On Inside Tips, But It's All Legal (!?!).
blogs.villagevoice.com Angry Residents, Businesses Plan Anti-Occupy Wall Street Protest.
nbcnewyork.com Gawker: Why Did This 22-Year-Old Entrepreneur Commit Suicide?
gawker.com Royal Pingdom: 10 inventors of Internet technologies you may not have heard of. (Thanks!)
royal.pingdom.com Homework and Jacuzzis as Dorms Move to McMansions in California.
nytimes.com
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Flash was never alive, so it can't be dead.
artman.fi What SOPA does is to make sure that the net and sharing can't coexist with Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.
torrentfreak.com EV Grieve: 3 months ago in Tompkins Square Park -- Planning for Occupy Wall Street.
evgrieve.com Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21.
techcrunch.com Another Iranian nuclear scientist murdered in Tehran.
haaretz.com Guardian: The Rolling Stones perform Beast of Burden in 1978 - video.
guardian.co.uk Not sure I understand dnsimple's new ALIAS feature. So I wrote it up and assume I'll be corrected if wrong. :-)
scripting.com Michael Lewis and Billy Beane talk Moneyball.
slate.com
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Google blocks my access to this page cause thy think I'm suspicious. Question is how did the get hooked in here??
google.com Guardian: If Assange were a print man, would he be called a terrorist? (The NYT should answer this question too.)
guardian.co.uk US court verdict 'huge blow' to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide.
guardian.co.uk An Open Letter to Occupy Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers' Association.
opoa.org Why is the New York Times so eager to pick a fight with Iran?
nytexaminer.com
Friday, November 11, 2011
NYT: CNN Documentary Sets Off Debate on Diversity in Silicon Valley.
nytimes.com Scripting News: An idea for Current TV. (cc @markos)
scripting.com James O'Keefe Is Capitalizing on the Cult of Journalistic Objectivity.
theatlantic.com NYT op-ed: To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan.
nytimes.com Occupy Harvard: A university for the 99% would implement a policy requiring faculty to declare conflicts of interest.
occupyharvard.net NYT: Twitter Must Provide Data on 3 Users, Judge Rules.
nytimes.com Guardian: The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo.
guardian.co.uk RSS is a family of syndication formats that traces its roots far back in the history of computer science.
scripting.com Brain freezes don't happen when you're really killing three huge govt depts. They do happen when reciting talking points.
economist.com Gerrit Eicker asked yesterday, in a comment, why I'm not using Diaspora. I explained, in a reply to his comment. -->
scripting.com NYU Local: How To Bike Like An Actual New Yorker.
nyulocal.com
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Reading about Occupy Harvard helps me realize that I love Harvard. It was very good to me and my causes. No joke.
adbusters.org Ashton Kutcher narrates his experience with Twitter in 2011. Fascinating story.
aplusk.posterous.com Fast Company: How Google+ And Other "Little Versions Of Facebook" Solve Social Media's "Big" Problem.
fastcompany.com James Fallows: Ford. Quayle. Stockdale. Now, Poor Rick Perry.
readability.com Since I can't use TechCrunch's comments (FB-hosted), I've just this once posted comments about the TC piece on G-Plus.
plus.google.com It would be great if people who posed as tech analysts actually had some tech knowledge. Or pretended they did.
techcrunch.com Occupy Las Vegas Splits over Corporate NPO Co-Opt.
occupylv.org Occupy Harvard sets up tents after massive march.
metro.us
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Lookwork is an RSS Reader built for artists and designers.
lookwork.com Correction. I had to log into Facebook to delete the account. They "welcomed me back" -- confusing at first.
scripting.com Computer scrollbars: Why is Apple eradicating a linchpin of user interface design? (Amen.)
slate.com Mapping New York's hidden gems: how crowdsourcing is taking the city back.
guardian.co.uk Wired releases all staff shot photos under Creative Commons license.
theverge.com
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Hey I got the new Twitter features just as I'm going out for the evening. Damn.
scripting.com Twitter begins rollout of new Activity and Username feeds.
theverge.com I was going to read a Slate article about how Google Plus is dead, but Slate is totally broken on the iPad.
touch.slate.com Gingrich Admits Deregulation Of Wall Street In The '90s Was 'Probably A Mistake'.
thinkprogress.org Researchers find federal prisons vulnerable to Stuxnet-like hacking.
theverge.com A billion years in the blink of an eye.
kottke.org Flickr: Bike riders in Central Park. Autumn scenery. Bright warm, sunny day.
flickr.com My next bike challenge is to get good at the 6-mile ride around Central Park. #hills
maps.google.com Did Sean Parker Just Get Access To A New, New Twitter? And Compare It To Facebook?
mediabistro.com Halting Iran's Nuclear Program: Former Mossad Chief Seeks to Avert Israeli Attack.
spiegel.de Photos: Visiting The Secret Train Platform Beneath The Waldorf-Astoria.
gothamist.com Fast Company: Will Google+ Pages Quit Flirting And Get Down To Business?
fastcompany.com Matt Taibbi: Why Mitt Romney's Entitlement-Privatization Plan is Crazy.
rollingstone.com Now that Scoble is posting on his blog more frequently, I am now following it in my river.
scobleizer.com Ezra Klein reminds that the market will literally pay us to borrow money for 5, 7 or 10 years. If we were smart...
washingtonpost.com EV Grieve: Behold the Steve Jobs memorial tree in Tompkins Square Park.
evgrieve.com Scoble wishes he had never heard of Google+'s brand pages.
scobleizer.com
Monday, November 07, 2011
This horrible ugly portrait of Herman Cain seems just right.
nytimes.com Apple Kicks Developer That Found Security Flaw Out of iOS Dev Program.
gizmodo.com Central Park at sunset. You can see autumn color is about to burst out.
flickr.com Nieman: Martin Nisenholtz, RSS, and the power of standards.
niemanlab.org Simon Johnson: We Are Looking Straight Into The Face Of A Great Depression.
seekingalpha.com Martin was instrumental in making RSS 2.0 a standard.
scripting.com 2004: RSS Feeds Can Build Web Traffic, but Fence Sitters Note Problems.
ojr.org Martin Nisenholtz made an important contribution to the web through RSS 2.0.
scripting.com Martin Nisenholtz, Senior VP of Digital leaving New York Times.
gigaom.com I finally figured out why the NYT is always smearing WikiLeaks. They don't like looking in the mirror and seeing what they see.
scripting.com
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Steven Poole: Whatever made you think it was your data anyway?
stevenpoole.net BTW, my source on Wikileaks as journalism is James Goodale, attorney who represented the NYT in the Pentagon Papers case.
en.wikipedia.org How the NYT has lost its way, they don't recognize WikiLeaks as the journalism it is.
nytimes.com It's not about serving the rich, Boehner says. (Yeah yeah, but note he doesn't actually deny that he serves the rich.)
politico.com
Saturday, November 05, 2011
A mushy love letter from the NY Times to Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn.
nytimes.com Scripting News: Why do platform vendors always eventually pick fights with their users?
scripting.com Google == Lucy. Users == Charlie Brown. (Users figure this stuff out every damned time. Wish tech biz guys would.)
ayjay.tumblr.com
Friday, November 04, 2011
Occupy Oakland: Second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes.
guardian.co.uk Occupy Wall Street Pays $8,000 for OccupyWallStreet.net
blogs.wsj.com Jack Schofield: Leave Richard Stallman alone.
zdnet.co.uk I'm learning about Olin College which sounds like a very interesting and different sort of engineering school.
en.wikipedia.org Apple spends lavishly on all stages of the manufacturing process, giving it a huge operations advantage
businessweek.com
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Apple to require sandboxing in Mac App Store apps as of March 2012. (Obviously they're migrating Mac apps into IOS.)
tuaw.com If you want people to like you, and who doesn't, try seduction.
scripting.com Scripting News: Why I don't like 'crowd sourcing' (re @acarvin's last tweet).
scripting.com
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
The new "Hours of Operation" sign on the Cambridge Commons. #ows
img.ly Political consultant Chris Wilson tells KTOK that he was at a restaurant when Herman Cain sexually harassed a staffer.
politicalwire.com I just got approved for AngelList. I think I applied for this a few years ago! :-)
angel.co NYT: Dismal Tale of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes.
nytimes.com Herman Cain Warns China Is Seeking 'Nuclear Capability'. (He makes Sarah Palin look like Henry Kissinger.)
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com House-cleaning of domains. I'm letting droidie.com go. If you want to buy it, make an offer, here:
droidie.com One more time, RSS wasn't invented. The real question is "who got the arguing to stop?" The answer may surprise you.
scripting.com Bloomberg Announces Seven Finalists For City Tech Campus. (Zuccotti Park?)
manhattan.ny1.com Frum debunks Repub mythology about the economy. Wonderfully brutally blunt.
frumforum.com The Guardian's "My favourite film" series. Today's film is The Big Lebowski.
guardian.co.uk The Economist on the euro meltdown, explaining simply why the Greek govt called for a referendum.
economist.com
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Former product manager of Google Reader reviews the design. "Boy is it a disaster."
brianshih.com Scripting News: Don't remove features from products.
scripting.com Nick Bradbury: Anti-social FeedDemon (Killing Features, Part II).
nick.typepad.com Dis is where hizonna became one of da lying bastards.
nymag.com An Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers' Association.
opoa.org Keith Teare hopes to present his stealthy new startup just.me at Le Web later this year.
youtube.com Bloomberg: 'Plain and simple,' Congress caused the mortgage crisis, not the banks. (Wow, just lost my respect for him.)
capitalnewyork.com Scripting News: Connecting RSS and OPML in a new way.
scripting.com Windows XP usage dips but it's still top OS. (Can you believe Microsoft wants to kill it.)
news.cnet.com A wifi pocket disk. An idea with some potential. #rerun
scripting.com "My Wireless Event Server provides schedules, speakers, dining and other useful info to conference attendees by wifi."
klixie.com Scripting News: The "Internet Industry" does not speak for me.
scripting.com These tech investors claim to speak for the "Internet industry" but it's not an industry, and they don't speak for me.
techdirt.com How Android swallowed the UK smartphone market in 18 months.
guardian.co.uk
Monday, October 31, 2011
At Occupy Wall Street central, a rift is growing between east and west sides of the plaza.
nydailynews.com GoDaddy Supports E-PARASITE Even Though Its Own Site Is Dedicated To Theft Of Property Under Terms Of The Bill.
techdirt.com US snowstorm leaves Central Park braced for loss of 1,000 trees.
guardian.co.uk Video: Bill Gates Dismisses Criticism of Him in Steve Jobs Biography.
abcnews.go.com
Sunday, October 30, 2011
My attempt at an imaginative answer to Hollywood's attempt to hijack DNS in the US (via Congress).
scripting.com Best Halloween Costume Ever: Use Two iPads to Create an Awesome Gaping Hole in Your Gut.
gizmodo.com Scripting News: You probably have a wifi disk in your pocket, right now.
scripting.com "Born a poor young country boy, Mother Nature's Son. All day long, I'm sitting singing songs for everyone."
youtube.com My comment on Fred's post. Let Congress give Hollywood what they want. They learned nothing from Prohibition.
avc.com Harvard: Two Berkman fellows imagined a new way for people to create and consume digital information -- and made it happen.
news.harvard.edu A VC: Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs.
avc.com TorrentFreak: The Death Of Anti-Piracy Companies And Copyright Trolls.
torrentfreak.com Do you think the police are coordinating with each other or are they acting independently? Why all the attacks now??
cbsnews.com
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Occupy Oakland: inspiration, frustration at return.
sfgate.com The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader. (I told you so.)
theatlanticwire.com Snow storm hits many parts of northeastern United States.
guardian.co.uk Adam Curry's Simple Weblog: "I Want My MTV" - a review.
blog.curry.com Democrats Offer Significant Concessions (Here we go again. It's time for the Repubs to make concessions.)
cbpp.org Joe Biden: "Republicans moralizing about deficits. That's like an arsonist moralizing about fire safety."
politicalwire.com Sometimes you wish life were like The West Wing. :-)
scripting.com Alexandru Nedelcu uses Flickr: For Backup.
alexn.org
Friday, October 28, 2011
Pujols and La Russa appear at Glenn Beck's 'not political' rally. #ooops
sports.yahoo.com Girl on "Main Street" at Occupy Boston.
flickr.com Nor'easter poses big snow, power outage risk to interior mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
washingtonpost.com NYT: December Movie Release Schedule (cc @nakedjen).
nytimes.com Gates to students: Don't try to be a billionaire, it's overrated. (Really glad he's saying that.)
geekwire.com Lots more ideas of who would play Steve Jobs in The Steve Jobs Movie.
scripting.com Scripting News: Who would play Steve Jobs? (Some choices are listed. Post more!)
scripting.com Who would play Steve Jobs in the Steve Jobs movie?
Taken in 2008 from Berkeley: Golden Gate Bridge over the bay.
flickr.com James O'Keefe had someone pose as a student and video-recorded segments of a Jay Rosen/Clay Shirky class at NYU.
youtube.com
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Democrats are increasingly calling it a 'Republican Congress' (Pottery Barn rules.)
thehill.com As part of Harvard's 375th anniversary, the Gazette is writing about the things that happened first there.
scripting.com Looks like Congress has declared war on the Internet.
gigaom.com Boehner asks President "to find common ground to solve the issues that the American people want us to solve." #lol
thehill.com WSJ: Most Millionaires Support Warren Buffett's Tax on the Rich. (Repubs, please read!)
blogs.wsj.com Harvard finally takes some much-deserved credit for the bootstrap of podcasting. They provided the cauldron.
news.harvard.edu "What's reallly cool about this is that passionate and intelligent advocacy is coming from users."
scripting.com Hacker News thread on my take on the Jobs book. A few interesting comments. Mostly "who does he think he is (me)."
news.ycombinator.com The Jobs book. Scripting News: I'm having a tough time reading the Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Actually parrots are really cool highly intelligent beings.
kottke.org Herman Cain Was Always Making Batshit Ads, We Just Hadn't Noticed.
gawker.com Occupy Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed finds romance with fellow demonstrator. #awwww
nydailynews.com Twitter Blog: Twitter, TV and You. (More fun: characters tweet during a drama, lik Breaking Bad. Part of the plot.)
blog.twitter.com I had lunch yesterday with Chris Anderson of Couchbase at the Stage Deli. Food was good, as was the conversation.
couchbase.com The Oakland police attacked marchers yesterday, with tear gas, rubber bullets. News media complicit.
zunguzungu.wordpress.com Perhaps because there's a deficit of chutzpah in the nearby universe. Reality has become too real. We must fix that!
scripting.com Where are the anti-Semites of Occupy Wall Street? (Bill Kristol made them up. They're in his mind.)
washingtonpost.com The RSS devs made a big mistake when they made their products dependent on Google. Should have stuck with web apps.
scripting.com
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Steve Jobs biography: The new book doesn't explain what made the Apple CEO tick
slate.com Holy guacamole. The Repubs are getting a conscience. A little late, after all the lunacy they dragged us through.
washingtonpost.com Perry has not wanted for authentic moments. They're what's killing him.
slate.com When Steve Jobs died, it created a deficit of chutzpah.
scripting.com Dugout Phones - Last Bastion of the Landline.
nytimes.com Scripting News: Or you could just tell the users to...
scripting.com Scripting News: 4 more free ideas for your next hackathon.
scripting.com Scripting News: 7 free project ideas for an academic hackathon.
scripting.com A call to occupy Google Reader. (I'm just passing on a link, not saying I support it, or don't.)
theawl.com Taiwanese Animators Distill Steve Jobs' Bio Into 93 Seconds of Funny.
wired.com OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating. (Hat's off to Matt Taibbi, one of the good guys. Not many left.)
rollingstone.com FAQ: Yes, I have an example of a RSS feed mapped onto JSON. It's my own blog feed, for Scripting News. Kept current.
scripting.com Why Google Reader matters for Iranians.
amirhm.com Looking for alternative to Google Reader sync for RSS app. (Something we should all be talking about.)
stackoverflow.com
Monday, October 24, 2011
What's happening with WikiLeaks stinks, in a McCarthyish way. We don't have a free press in the west, this is proof.
scripting.com Bill Gates to urge G20 not turn backs on poor.
reuters.com I wish every product had a spokesperson and ego behind it like the Kindle and iPad do
scripting.com Scripting News: Google connecting Blogger with Google-Plus.
scripting.com Scripting News: I want to support WikiLeaks. (If there's a response from the Guardian or BBC, I'll consider running it.)
scripting.com If you're photographing #OWS events, please use a photo service that supports RSS with tagging. Like Flickr.
scripting.com
Sunday, October 23, 2011
AdAge: How Krispy Kreme is Embracing Hands-Off Approach.
adage.com Repubs in quandary on jobs. (If they propose something that actually creates jobs Obama will endorse it.)
latimes.com Scripting News: #OWS photographers, please use Flickr.
scripting.com Occupy Wall Street campground becoming spot for vagrants, ex-cons & 'takers' to call home.
nydailynews.com Syria using American software to censor Internet, experts say.
readability.com I agree with reviewers on The Ides of March. Fantastic actors acting fantastically. Slow plot, lacks substance. Just OK.
google.com Josh Harkinson: What the NYPD Really Thinks of Occupy Wall Street.
motherjones.com
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Occupy Chicago marches to Grant Park again tonight to try for occupation.
chicagotribune.com Joe Nocera: The Ugliness All Started With Bork.
nytimes.com I didn't know they made webcams for teachers, but when you think about it, it totally makes sense.
amazon.com If only Steve was a blogger who spoke his mind when he was alive, we could have fixed some shit!
scripting.com Scripting News: What's going on with Google Reader? (Please help me figure it out. Thanks.)
scripting.com Guardian: Muammar Gaddafi's 'trophy' body on show in Misrata meat store.
guardian.co.uk The problem for the tech industry corporations is that RSS disempowers them. It makes them commodities.
scripting.com Angry Birds say hello to Alfred Hitchcock.
omis.me
Friday, October 21, 2011
Surreal and beautiful phoo from Zuccotti Park.
flickr.com Flickr: East side of Manhattan, early morning.
flickr.com It was still unclear how long Nasdaq's system was breached before the attack was discovered last October.
reuters.com Qwiki was probably the moment when the current tech euphoria jumped the shark. Zero substance. Big hat, no cattle.
gigaom.com "The value of tech companies is a function of how much they control what users see."
scripting.com Fallows is doing good work pointing out flaws in political coverage in the Wash Post and NY Times.
theatlantic.com Cantor Cancels Income Inequality Speech After Learning It Will Be Open To The Public.
thinkprogress.org #occupybuffalo added to the occupyweb.org news river.
occupyweb.org You gotta wonder what the Repubs love cause they sure don't love America. (Read the story before responding.)
washingtonmonthly.com Zuccotti Park and the Private Plaza Problem.
nytimes.com Steve Yegge says he mislead about his experience at Amazon. Then says Google is a great company. See the irony?
plus.google.com Time: Herman Cain Insults Black Community with Views on Racism.
ideas.time.com
Thursday, October 20, 2011
1% of Americans Made Suicide Plans. But not *that* 1%.
gawker.com NYT: New Book Details Jobs's Fight Against Cancer.
nytimes.com I wonder if, with the features being added to Google Reader, I will now be able to connect my linkblog RSS feed with G+
venturebeat.com What a #contactcon workgroup looks like.
flickr.com Video of the floor at Douglas Rushkoff's #contactcon. Last time I was at a conference with him was in Copenhagen.
flickr.com If OccupyWallStreet is like Napster, the city govt of Denver just made the same mistake the music industry did in 2000...
scripting.com EV Grieve: This is what Time Warner Cable's recent East Village meltdown looked like.
evgrieve.com Christian Science Monitor: A Long, Steep Drop for Americans' Standard of Living.
cnbc.com It's now possible to browse #OWS photos back to October 7, and the archive is automatically kept current.
scripting.com
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Softbank CEO says Steve Jobs worked on Apple until the end.
9to5mac.com "You can't just yank the plug on civilization and still have civilization."
scripting.com "If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress."
news.harvard.edu Barney Frank on Occupy Wall Street. (Read this. He's right. Unless #OWS turns into Occupy Election Day, it will have been for naught.)
mediaite.com
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Folks, we're living in The Running Man and The Matrix.
OccupyLasVegas!
I like 9-9-9 cause it makes people say 9-9-9. See you just said it. Thanks!
occupyweb.org I got the Time-Warner app for iPad. If they had one for Mac, I wouldn't need the set-top box. Wish!
timewarnercable.com New Republic: DC's Most Over-Rated Thinkers. (Newt Gingrich tops the list.)
tnr.com Hitting Channel-Up on my TV remote was enough to throw Time-Warner cable into a state where nothing shows. "No signal" says TV. Arrgh.
Frank Lloyd Wright Did Care. (Interesting comparison to Steve Jobs, based on my comparing Jobs to Wright.)
douglasanders.com The press is every bit as complicit in the economic mess as Wall St. Greg Sargent illustrates...
washingtonpost.com Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup.
forbes.com
Monday, October 17, 2011
Bloomberg Says 'Tent City' at Wall Street Protest Exceeds Free Speech.
nytimes.com According to the Berkeley Daily Planet, the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30" was coined to get rid of a pesky reporter.
berkeleydailyplanet.com Reuters: From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world.
reuters.com Hipster Cop Montage Video: Changing Our Perspective On An Internet Meme: Gothamist.
gothamist.com UberMedia launches Twitter/Digg/Reddit/Facebook clone Chime.in.
venturebeat.com Slate: Why Wall Street hates Obama.
slate.com NYU Local: Washington Square Park Will Be Occupied Every Evening This Week.
nyulocal.com White House Draws Closer To Occupy Wall Street, Says Obama Is Fighting For The Interests Of The 99%.
businessinsider.com Amazon's new locker delivery system now live in New York.
geekwire.com #OWS news from Toledo, Madison, Worcester, Sacramento, Toronto, Miami, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Boston, New York and Denver.
occupyweb.org
Sunday, October 16, 2011
FYI: They were gambling with our homes.
MSNBC: Saturn's moon Titan has Earth-like features. (And a stranded Tralfamadorian explorer?)
msnbc.msn.com Stanford unveils ambitious proposal for opening a campus in New York City.
mercurynews.com Great black and white pictures from Times Square on http://occupyweb.org/.
Election Day is November 8. 22 days from now. Occupy Election Day.
scripting.com Attn #OWS: The Effort to Disenfranchise Voters. (This is part of the problem and something we can work on.)
nytimes.com Make the filibusterers do the actual filibustering. Like Mr Smith Goes to Washington. Let's see the theater.
theatlantic.com Dr. Cornel West and 14 Others Arrested Protesting Corporate Power at U.S. Supreme Court.
nationofchange.org Krugman is the narrator of our tragic drama. He's looking for an honest man with the slightest amount of self-respect.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com Something really beautiful about this picture from Occupy Boston. Like an Edward Hopper painting, but updated.
flickr.com Security around the Stanford commemoration has been so tight that scarcely any details have yet emerged.
guardian.co.uk "that one American would even think to deprive another American of their vote, is well un-American, in the extreme"
scripting.com ABC: Long Ties to Koch Brothers Key to Cain's Campaign. #ooops
abcnews.go.com Compare your annual income to the income of everyone else in the world.
globalrichlist.com On Thursday I went to Zuccotti with Fred Wilson. He wrote up some of his thoughts. I'm writing my own piece.
avc.com I would tell you if anti-semitism is part of #OWS. It is not. And I am sure it would not be tolerated.
ynetnews.com Obama plans to turn anti-Wall Street anger on Romney, Repubs . (Lotsa luck. Obama in bed with banksters too.)
washingtonpost.com Flickr: An NYPD who helped end a confrontation tonight.
flickr.com Could be the canonical picture from Times Square this eve. #15oct
flickr.com Photos from Times Square show up on http://occupyweb.org/.
occupyweb.org Politicians love to talk about how America can't fail because we have too much spirit. #15oct is a perfect demo of that.
dailykos.com
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Mike Huckabee explains voter fraud in a folksy way. Pretty sure this is a crime you go to jail for, btw.
politicalwire.com Flickr: We. Are. The. 99. Percent. (Repeat).
flickr.com A blog post on the open web claiming the open web is dead. I guess the article is dead too? What about his brain? :-)
benwerd.com If Google's Management Doesn't Use Google+, Then Why Should You? (And they'll make uninformed decisions about the product.)
mashable.com Obama to Bankers: I'm Standing 'Between You and the Pitchforks' (2009)
abcnews.go.com "We bailed out Wall Street to avoid Depression, but three years later, millions of Americans are in a living hell."
marketplace.publicradio.org In Private Conversation, Wall Street Is More Critical of Protesters.
nytimes.com Flickr: It isn't a movement unless you move.
flickr.com Last night: "A few thousand people could freeze a million."
scripting.com Scripting News: Tapping into the "occupy" news flow.
scripting.com
Friday, October 14, 2011
I've had a chance to think about what happened in Lower Manhattan this morning. There's been a big shift in power...
scripting.com AP: Wall Street protests present political dilemma.
google.com HIV Positive Protester Says Cop Who Punched Him Should Get Tested.
gothamist.com Life has photos from #OWS, which they say "turns violent."
life.com If I were... Michael Bloomberg, I'd spend a few hours with Matt Taibbi, and really listen and try to understand...
scripting.com CBS: Protesters Clash With NYPD Officers After Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators March Toward Wall Street.
newyork.cbslocal.com Flickr: Photo of this morning's demonstration at Wall St and William.
flickr.com
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Photo of marchers on Wall Street this evening. #OWS.
scripting.com Problems with the way iCloud works with apps like Instapaper and podcatchers.
marco.org Occupy Wall Street protesters will not be allowed to bring sleeping bags, tents back into Zuccotti Park.
nypost.com Flickr: Today we clean up our community, tomorrow we clean up Wall Street.
flickr.com EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Keep Bloomberg and Kelly From Evicting #OWS.
occupywallst.org At Bowery House Hotel, Flophouse Aesthetic of Old.
nytimes.com Flickr: Computer center at Zuccotti Park.
flickr.com Brookfield Tells OWS Protesters To Clear First Part Of Park By 7 A.M.
gothamist.com Scripting News: Alternate renderings of Scripting News.
scripting.com Lech Walesa, former Polish president, to visit New York in support of Occupy Wall Street.
nydailynews.com It was naive of the President to think that, once elected, he could ensconce himself in gridlock and somehow his charm..
scripting.com Before the Web came around, the New York media scene was clubby, self-obsessed and boozy.
allthingsd.com BBC: MPs disagree over using Twitter in Commons.
bbc.co.uk Photos from the "Millionaire's March" on http://occupyweb.org/.
Is it legal to install a private bike rack on a city sidewalk?
evgrieve.com Bloomberg Appears at Zuccotti Park to Announce Cleaning.
nbcnewyork.com What's Next for Apple
ma.tt
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language co-inventor.
boingboing.net Frum: "We have got a sick patient - the American economy."
frumforum.com The iPad update didn't go so well. I have to restore it to factory settings, then (hopefully) restore it from a backup.
support.apple.com Just updated my iPhone 4 to IOS 5. Starting the update on my iPad 2.
Google Engineer: "The Google+ Platform is a Pathetic Afterthought" (I've been saying that myself.)
siliconfilter.com Fallows is right. It's misleading to say "Obama loses" when his jobs bill got a majority of votes. The bill was obstructed.
theatlantic.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
I'd like to see the Repubs tell this future taxpayer that she can't tax the rich.
occupyweb.org "We don't need to be focused on passing this policy or that policy."
politicalwire.com Would Iran Really Want to Blow Up the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?
theatlantic.com Is that Rick Perry at Occupy Austin?? #handsome #rascal
flickr.com If you don't feel nervous about the future after witnessing the last four years, you weren't really paying attention.
scripting.com Box.net CEO Aaron Levie On His Love-Hate Affair With Microsoft.
fastcompany.com The occupyweb photos keep getting better. Man. Some serious art.
occupyweb.org Example of what you can see with a well-placed webcam viewing an historic event.
scripting.com Lots of pictures from Boston just arrived on occupyweb.org.
occupyweb.org Nice dinner last night with Scoble and Rocky. We probably drank too much. Always have fun with Scoble. Good friend.
flickr.com Lulzsec hacker: we still have Sun emails, stored in China
guardian.co.uk
Monday, October 10, 2011
Conservatives launch "We are the 53 percent" to criticize 99 percenters. #tired
washingtonpost.com I've been reading that the Guardian is going to let the rest of us see their "news list." Cool. Now: Where is it??
gigaom.com NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act.
techdirt.com Frum: Why I am a Republican. (An important piece. Everyone with a party affiliation should do one of these.)
frumforum.com More format tweaks on http://scripting.com/.
I recently subscribed to "Richard Stallman's Political Notes" and find his views consistently interesting and refreshing.
stallman.org Judge Refuses To Dismiss Twitter From Patent Lawsuit Concerning Patent On Interacting With Famous People Online.
techdirt.com
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Can't decide if I should watch Breaking Bad live, or watch it on the DVR so I can pause it and ponder things. I'll probably wait.
A few small formatting tweaks on http://scripting.com/ to improve readability and flow.
When I look at a 50-something cop I see a threat. Then I realize he looks like me. Now I get how people react to me. (I'm still 19 in here.)
Cool: Posting links to stuff on the open web on Facebook. Not cool: Posting links to stuff in Facebook on the open web.
Y'all loved Steve Jobs, a 50-something white man. How about sharing some of that feeling with other 50-something white men.
If you were getting all your news from TechMeme, you wouldn't have a clue anything called #OWS was going on. Just sayin.
techmeme.com Scripting News: If I am the father of RSS, then Atom is my niece or nephew.
scripting.com
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Photo: Ronald Reagan sucked balls. #provocative
flickr.com Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Spill Effects on Fish Revealed.
nsf.gov An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs. (By Randall Stross who wrote biographies of both men.)
nytimes.com After a Rating Downgrade, U.S. Treasuries Turn a Profit. #thinkdifferent
nytimes.com http://occupyweb.org/photos.html -- a river of pictures from #occupywallst.
occupyweb.org The financial part of the tech industry is fairly analogous to and integrated with Wall Street.
scripting.com
Friday, October 07, 2011
Seattle, Phoenix, St Louis, San Francisco and Houston on http://occupyweb.org/ -- a river of news about #occupywallstreet.
occupyweb.org Stallman's epitaph for Jobs is appropriate and respectful.
stallman.org Wired: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet.
wired.com Ryan Tate: What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs.
gawker.com Watched the Tigers-Yankees series, grieved for the Tigers many a time. Before they won! :-) #whatmetsfansdoinpostseason
bats.blogs.nytimes.com Frum is being a pundit. The President challenged Repubs to present a plan that creates jobs now. I watched the presser.
frumforum.com iPhone 4S: Even Unlocked, You Won't Be Network Swapping This Phone.
daggle.com Nobel Peace Prize split between three women.
bbc.co.uk
Thursday, October 06, 2011
With Time Running Short, Steve Jobs Managed His Farewells.
nytimes.com Did Dropping Acid Make Steve Jobs More Creative?
slate.com OccupyMiami on Sat Oct 8 - 1:30pm - Bayfront Park Torch of Friendship.
occupyflorida.org Occupy Boston is looking for people to help manage the hundreds of visitors, volunteer requests and media inquiries.
occupyboston.com Guest Column: Steve Jobs as Frank Lloyd Wright.
wired.com Lansing, Columbus and Phoenix on occupyweb.org -- a river of news about #occupywallstreet.
occupyweb.org Houston, Cleveland and Boston lead on occupyweb.org -- a river of news about #occupywallstreet.
occupyweb.org Meanwhile I really hope Julian Assange gets the Nobel Peace Prize. That would help keep him safe from American retribution.
Just realized people are going to buy Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs book as if it were the iPhone 5. October 24 ship.
macrumors.com Wish the tech guys at The Nation would get us an RSS feed of Greg Mitchell's blog, so it could flow thru occupyweb.org.
thenation.com Reuters: Secret panel can put Americans on kill list.
reuters.com 10Gen's Brandon Diamond Tells Us Why New York City Needed a Hackers Union.
betabeat.com
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
What They've Come to Find at Occupy Wall Street Is America.
esquire.com The Whole World is Watching -- Police beating citizens up at Occupy Wall Street.
occupycolleges.org YouTube: Think Different -- Apple Commercial (1997).
youtube.com Why isn't CNN or any of the local TV stations covering today's march in Manhattan, going on right now?
The real trouble with Facebook is its escalating self-contradiction.
davidpensato.com Occupy Los Angeles will be attending the Los Angeles City Council meeting. #occupywallstreet
occupylosangeles.org Romney is the only candidate who has shown any skepticism about the dangerously mistaken Repub consensus.
frumforum.com
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Economist on Occupy Wall St. "Isn't the efflorescence of spontaneous, meaningful community cheering in itself?"
economist.com LIVE VIDEO: Rescue Underway After Helicopter Crash In East River.
wpix.com Now the truth can be told. In addition to all the other stuff he did at Apple, Steve Jobs also kept the servers running.
Juxtapose this: Cain says being gay is a choice. Christie's out.
scripting.com Daily Kos: Occupy Wall Street: List of over 200 U.S. solidarity events and Facebook pages.
dailykos.com Zuck calls it "sharing." The rest of us call it "privacy."
scripting.com Chris Christie won't run for president in 2012.
politico.com Scripting News: Why your Occupy event should have a feed.
scripting.com Scripting News: In the 60s they burned draft cards.
scripting.com Nobel prize for discovery that the universe is accelerating into the void. (Yay science!!)
guardian.co.uk Growing Occupy Wall Street movement evokes the Wisconsin Capitol protests.
isthmus.com Please help me find links to "Occupy" blogs. Thanks!!
scripting.com Occupy Wall Street's Web Team Finds Anarchy Ain't Easy.
betabeat.com Haven't logged on to Facebook since Sept 24. Guessing I'd be OK if I nuked the account.
scripting.com Patent Troll Says Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'.
techdirt.com Facebook's Tracking Scandal Is Mushrooming.
gawker.com
Monday, October 03, 2011
Scripting News: Be careful when relying on Facebook, Twitter and Google.
scripting.com Anti-Wall Street Protests Spreading to Cities Large and Small.
nytimes.com The iPod Changed Computing Forever. Now It Will Disappear.
wired.com More Secure, Anonymous "Twitter Alternative" Being Used By Protestors.
mediabistro.com New York Magazine RSS Feeds. Wish they had one feed for everything. Don't like having to pick and choose.
nymag.com Former Obama Adviser: Euro Crisis 'Could Become a Global Conflagration'
spiegel.de
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales.
bloomberg.com If you've been trying to tune out the European debt crisis, as I have, here's a wakeup call. Sounds like we're all f'cked.
bbc.co.uk Bank of America Reports Web Site Normal Again.
nytimes.com After high-profile killings, secret U.S. assassination squad emerges from the shadows.
wlcentral.org Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday. (Very very bad idea.)
bloomberg.com Wonder if the #occupywallst folk know how close they are to the big early 20th century trust that got busted?
en.wikipedia.org An item for anyone who's thinking about new browsers
scripting.com Flickr: Empire State Building. (One reason to do this ride is the scenery.)
flickr.com
Saturday, October 01, 2011
NakedJen's story of living with no furnace, re-living old love, going for a new one. Wow.
nakedjen.com Google had an internal "Javascript Summit." Someone leaked the follow-up email.
pastebin.com Are any local or cable news channels covering #OccupyWallStreet?
twitter.com I'm so bourgeois. Excited because: 1. Breaking Bad. 2. Boardwalk Empire. 3. Dexter. All on tomorrow night. A TV fiesta!
en.wikipedia.org Bootstrap in Scripting News. (Okay folks I know it looks crummy, but it's a start.)
scripting.com Scripting News: Bootstrap in the World Outline. (twipsies, labels and popovers)
scripting.com
Friday, September 30, 2011
News != humor. Times != Onion.
Serious: Problem for the NYT is OWS isn't arranged like a typical story. So the Times has to innovate, or punt. So far, they've punted.
Strike that. Should have said "reporters and, well, distinguished dickheads." (And a circus performer.)
nytimes.com The ever-condescending NY Times, staffed by reporters and distinguished dickheads.
nytimes.com Occupy Wall Street protesters march against police brutality.
guardian.co.uk If amazon wants to kick butt with their tablet avoid the mistake apple made and don't tell websites the user is on a tablet.
Scripting News: Last ride of Sept 2011. (With a picture of Point Thank You.)
scripting.com Why Chris Christie is a far more serious threat than you might think to win the GOP nod -- and the White House
salon.com Scripting News: Let's talk platforms. (Not as heavy as it sounds from the title.)
scripting.com "Digital archaeologists" excavate the microprocessor that ushered in the home computing revolution
archaeology.org
Thursday, September 29, 2011
What do non-programmers think programming is like?
quora.com With 'frictionless sharing,' Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy.
poynter.org DaveCast #16. The web is where the PC industry was before the Mac. No standard UI. Big opportunity.
static.scripting.com DaveCast #16. The web is where the PC industry was before the Mac. No standard UI. Big opportunity.
static.scripting.com Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Will Seek Health Care Law Waiver To Establish Single Payer In His State.
thinkprogress.org Berkeleyside: Rapid growth of cannabis collective raises concern.
berkeleyside.com Want to know what comes after the cloud? I'll tell ya if you want to know...
scripting.com Bernanke: Long-term unemployment a national crisis.
m.apnews.com Frum: Why the GOP should embrace Mitt Romney
theweek.com And Red Sox fans everywhere are crying, as only Red Sox fans can. :-(
Slate is broken on the iPad because of their fancy "swipe" software. Used to be just ugly now the pages don't load at all.
Jose wins the batting title. Mets fans everywhere sing the team song -- "Wait till next year" -- one more time! :-)
nytimes.com
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Economic policy makers have made similar mistakes before. That is what caused the Great Depression.
nytimes.com I remembered the smile. It more or less made my day.
scripting.com Steven Levy of Wired calls Google Plus a success.
wired.com Dan Gillmor: Kindle Fire's challenge to Apple and Google.
guardian.co.uk Rick Perry "Chia Head" as Tall as Real Rick Perry.
theawl.com Apple treats the web as second class. there's a chance for Amazon to zig to their zag.
Larry Page & Q&A with Eric Schmidt at Zeitgeist Americas 2011 - YouTube.
youtube.com I love the Mets and don't care if they lose. Wish they hadn't torn down Shea. Oh la. Another season. Wait till next year.
bats.blogs.nytimes.com Amazon's Kindle Fire just nuked the tablet market: Winners and losers.
zdnet.com Al-Qaida calls on Ahmadinejad to end 9/11 conspiracy theories.
guardian.co.uk Amazon: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi.
amazon.com When will I be able to buy a Kindle Fire? I have $199 ready to go. Looking for a button to click.
Kindle Fire? Amazon hasn't heard of it! :-)
flickr.com I wonder if Hinderaker knows that calling Dems "national socialists" makes sane folk view him as a crockpot?
powerlineblog.com If I search for "google coffee mug" one of the first hits should be a blog-ready image of a google coffee mug.
google.com A Burst of Pepper Spray Like a Punch In the Face.
nytimes.com
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
EV Grieve: Michael Moore at St. Mark's Bookshop this Thursday night.
evgrieve.com Krugman: Does Economics Still Progress? The last sentence is a doozy. And you have to ask the same question about tech.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com Snarling is a way of life in NYC. Really. It's not an urban myth. A lot of people snarl.
scripting.com Twitter's vice president of engineering says: "We're not a social network. We're an information network."
news.cnet.com Stack Overflow: How to tell if a URL points to an RSS or Atom feed.
stackoverflow.com "It is not possible to run for president as a Repub these days without having to become a parody of yourself."
esquire.com Bull Mancuso makes it into Le Monde! (He's my gangster alter ego.)
lemonde.fr Flickr: Huge cruise ship getting ready to dock.
flickr.com Scripting News: Morning tugboat notes. (Notes on an early morning bike ride, and a rendezvous with a huge cruise ship!)
scripting.com BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: The Collapse Is Coming, And Goldman Rules The World
youtube.com Is Spotify too friendly with Facebook?
bbc.co.uk
Monday, September 26, 2011
If he wins re-election I hope he learns the lesson. You never stop campaigning as President.
There was *nothing* wrong with the ending of the President's CBC speech. It was a wonderful, I hope, preview of what's to come.
Anthony Bologna, NYPD officer accused of pepper-spray incident
guardian.co.uk Joe Hewitt says there's more to the web than HTML. I agree. RSS and OPML. Rivers of JSON. Lots of work still to do.
joehewitt.com YouTube: President Obama Speaks At The Congressional Black Caucus.
youtube.com WSJ: Facebook Defends Getting Data From Logged-Out Users.
blogs.wsj.com Netflix Isn't A Cable Company; Netflix Is A Video Channel.
wired.com How Long Does Tumblr's $85 Million Last?
theawl.com If "he said, she said" journalism is irretrievably lame, what's better?
pressthink.org Same thing on NPR this morning. Congressional bickering is responsible for the lack of disaster aid. No that's not true. What a crock.
How are we ever going to get this right when reporters lie about who's doing what to whom.
nytimes.com It's not Congress bickering over disaster aid, as the NYT says. It's Repubs blocking it. The Times is wrong.
nytimes.com Every Monday morning I wake up at about 3AM and watch Breaking Bad. That is until the season is over.
Most people who call themselves tech leaders don't actually understand tech. So all they have to go by, re Assange, is what Bill Keller says
Cartoons from the Issue of October 3rd, 2011 : The New Yorker.
newyorker.com
Sunday, September 25, 2011
An ad argues that oil from Canada is preferable to oil from Saudi Arabia, which restricts women's rights.
nytimes.com San Francisco Treat: Putting a towel between your backside and a seat is "basic nudist etiquette," said Mr. Davis.
nytimes.com Beautiful Web 2.0 Summit Map. Just one thing. Where are the users?? :-)
map.web2summit.com Funk legend Sly Stone homeless and living out of a van in Los Angeles.
nypost.com Senator says OnStar invades privacy.
khou.com The Republican rationale for continuing the death penalty given that we execute innocent people.
nytimes.com "Rick Perry is a Texas stud, but it's become increasingly clear he can't perform. He has electile dysfunction."
tampabay.com Hacker News thread on deleting the Facebook cookies that persist after you logged out of Facebook.
news.ycombinator.com No one on stage proved nearly as courageous as the gay soldier they hung out to dry
economist.com Nik says that logging out of Facebook is not enough. Because they don't really log you out. Amazing.
nikcub.appspot.com LulzSec Hacker Exposed by the Service [a proxy server] He Thought Would Hide Him.
theatlanticwire.com
Saturday, September 24, 2011
If you think this piece is about you, trust me, it's not about you.
scripting.com Scripting News: Baseball vs real life. (Review of Moneyball, and much more.)
scripting.com Hacker News thread on today's Facebook piece, with comments from an engineer at Facebook.
news.ycombinator.com Scripting News: Why I logged out of Facebook, and to be safe, you should too.
scripting.com Venn Diagram Inst@Review of the Movie Moneyball.
rexblog.com I logged out of Facebook for th first time ever.
facebook.com On the App Settings page in Facebook learned I had "authorized" these "apps" to access data about me by visiting a website.
facebook.com All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook's new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world.
realdanlyons.com
Friday, September 23, 2011
"The country is gradually coming to grips with the fact that Mitt Romney is going to be the Repub nominee for president."
nytimes.com I don't know whether Cain is an ignoramus or a liar, but it has to be at least one, maybe both
prospect.org Marco Arment: We're Sorry You're Not A Fan. (Really interesting piece despite the snarky title.)
businessinsider.com Scripting News: Twitter should fear Facebook. Celebs will love what Facebook is doing.
scripting.com Scripting News: A couple of weeks ago, Google search on iPad, turned into a "tablet" app. Not good! :-(
scripting.com Allentown: Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions.
articles.mcall.com Before a Rusty Bridge in Ohio, Obama Hits Republicans on Their Home Turf.
swampland.time.com
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Why Everyone Is Kissing Up To Facebook.
gawker.com Cain is a lying son of a bitch. He's rich. He can have all the health care he wants. Fucking asshole.
When I think of Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul I think of the term sanctimonious pricks.
Rick Perry truly likes Mitt Romney.
Facebook, Timeline and the power of the past.
gigaom.com Pretty good chance Rick Perry is sporting a new toupee.
Republicans sticking to their well-established strategy of talking gibberish.
scripting.com All around the world people watching the Republican debate are freaking out cause they can't find the open GMail tab.
The sound in the debate this time is the one that GMail makes when you have a text message waiting. It's very jarring!
Texas inmates about to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meal
guardian.co.uk GOP presidential debate in Orlando: Mitt Romney versus Rick Perry.
guardian.co.uk I love the speech the President gave today in front of the bridge. He made fun of Boehner and McConnell. We love humor Mr President! :-)
Today's ride. Lesson learned -- oil your chain for a smoother, faster, more fun trip! :-)
maps.google.com If you want to incentivize the rich to create jobs, then do that. However, if you don't create jobs, no tax break. Simple!
washingtonpost.com Video: Barge moving slowly down Hudson.
flickr.com Just saw the video about Timelines in FB. They could have named it C.B.S. (Corporate Blogging Silo.)
BTW, I couldn't stand watching Jobs keynotes either. Made me feel like hurling things. Safer just to buy the product when it comes out.
Not watching Zuck. I'll read the digested form of what he said. Everyone take good notes. :-)
Scripting News: I'm working my way through an archive of Warner Bros cartoons from the 1930s.
scripting.com Social Media 'Professional' Fires Twitter Ghostwriter, Forgets To Change Password, Hilarity Ensues.
mediabistro.com Troy Davis execution leaves grave doubts over whether justice was done.
guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Joe Hewitt: "The arrogance of Web evangelists is staggering"
joehewitt.com I'm trying to figure out how to post a link to the new Facebook. I know you can do it...
scripting.com Simon's sources of news: Techmeme, Hackernews, Reddit, Dave, etc. :-)
plus.google.com New Facebook Real-Time Feed: Is This Where the Music Will Go?
wired.com GOP Leaders Write Unprecedented Letter Urging The Federal Reserve To Keep Unemployment High.
thinkprogress.org WSJ reviewer re Thomas Friedman's new book: "Great gusts of rhetoric."
online.wsj.com People forget that rich people have to struggle to stay ahead in these tough times.
thinkprogress.org Simple cross-platform distributed computing, based on the standards of the Internet.
xmlrpc.com Twitter To Sell Political Advertising As Early As This Week.
mediabistro.com Troy Davis execution nears despite widespread protests.
guardian.co.uk Dear Frum, yes of course they want the economy to crash more so they can elect a truly awful replacement.
frumforum.com Nice central bank you got here. Shame if something should happen to it.
washingtonpost.com "Like most small businesses, I would not hire anybody even if the government dropped my tax rate to zero."
washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Americans Favor Jobs Plan Proposals, Including Taxing Rich.
gallup.com The rejection of Obamaism: From president to politician. (Reasonable!)
economist.com Israeli lawmaker: Perry will visit Israel. Very bad. US should speak with one voice. No joke. Not quite treason, but disloyal.
thehill.com Wired: Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town.
wired.com Facebook is seriously taking aim at Twitter. My pick: neither. While they're busy fighting each other None Of The Above will clean up.
GigaOm: Facebook debuts new features to be the newspaper of your dreams
gigaom.com Tony Bennett on 9/11 Attacks: 'They Flew the Plane in, But We Caused It'
abcnews.go.com Why did Apple change the way we scroll?
slate.com Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars.
arstechnica.com Troy Davis execution: Georgia pardons board denies clemency.
guardian.co.uk The political pundits are so confused. What the president is doing is this. Giving us something to vote for.
nytimes.com
Monday, September 19, 2011
Google+: Social Media Upstart 'Worse Than a Ghost Town'.
pbs.org It cost a lot of money to push bits around the net before there was a net. #print
scripting.com David Wright is "The Fallen Face of the Mets" according to the NYT.
nytimes.com UNTHINK to Facebook and Google- It's FU time. (At least it's a great video!)
youtube.com Verizon begins choking highest data users.
cnet.com "I'm being polite. I won't miss the old TechCrunch"
scripting.com Techcrunch is the featured podcast on iTunes today. Nice job for the pub that singlehandedly tried to kill RSS.
Google Wallet Goes Live, But You Probably Won't Be Able to Use It Yet « SiliconFilter.
siliconfilter.com NASA said the chance a piece of UARS debris will strike a person is about one in 3,200. (Maybe it'll hit Boehner.)
reuters.com Tax the rich, feed the poor.
One more thing. The Dems should send their spokespeople to comedy school so they can make jokes about the Repubs ridiculous talking points.
Do I have to write all the Democratic talking points? Are they even listening? (Of course not. They're the people's party.)
BTW if the job creators aren't creating jobs they don't get to call themselves job creators. Seems fairly obvious, yes?
While Lobbying For Huge Tax Giveaways, Corporations Hoard Record Amounts Of Cash Instead Of Hiring. (Sounds like class warfare.)
thinkprogress.org Instead of "class warfare" let's have "class tough love." Now, rich people, STFU and pay your share. Thanks for listening.
Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can't Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family.
thinkprogress.org What Paul Ryan is Reading. (I'd be more impressed if he was reading about the financial collapse.)
politicalwire.com I don't think the Repubs really want class warfare.
If you think your users are idiots, it follows that they chose a product that an idiot would choose. What that says about you is...
Tuned into 5 minutes of news yesterday morning, turned it off. Everyone was talking nonsense. Not even complete sentences. Just words.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
For Palestinians, U.N. Is Best Chance to Change Conflict's Dynamics.
nytimes.com The Republicans are now the "How great is it to be stupid?" party.
nytimes.com Apple Scrambles To Merge Apple IDs To Stave Off iCloud Sync Mess.
wired.com Obama's millionaire tax is class war, say Republicans. (Voodoo Economics.)
guardian.co.uk You're not Steve Jobs and your organization is not Apple. And your well-thought out strategy is probably terrible.
sriramk.tumblr.com The User Experience of the upcoming Apple iCloudBook
b.akumar.me Boehner & Cantor, modern-day Batman and Robin. Stuff of future nightmares.
google.com He hired lawyers and accountants and financial advisers and gave up his labor of love, his virtual baby, for money!
scripting.com http://daveriver.scripting.com/ now has links to my twitter replies.
Even after what we went through with A.I.G., the huge market in credit default swaps remains unregulated
nytimes.com
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Wish I could make heads or tails of the Facebook API for posting a tweet. Too freaking complicated!
developers.facebook.com Rex wonders: "What if your enemy is sitting by the river also?" Yes. And someday your body will float by. :-(
rexblog.com My transformative educational experience was a teacher who slowed down math enough for me to catch on.
nytimes.com There's still water flowing through pipes laid by the Roman Empire.
scripting.com I learned last night that you don't have to visit Twitter to see your Mentions tab. They provide RSS for this. :-)
search.twitter.com Google+ adds an API for apps -- but study suggests 40% fall in use.
guardian.co.uk
Friday, September 16, 2011
If you're one of the (many) people TechCrunch trashed, now might be the moment of the timeless Chinese proverb.
scripting.com Paul Carr leaves TechCrunch. Can MG Siegler be far behind?
techcrunch.com Seems the new patent law will create a new Myrrhvold-like parasite who preys on nerds who actually invent shit.
whitehouse.gov Scripting News: Picture of the new Apple Store in Grand Central. (Hidden in a huge black box of course.)
scripting.com Ford Owner Bashes Bailed Out Auto Companies in Ad.
adage.com Twitter Shakes Things Up Again: Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet Leaving Board
allthingsd.com "Why not put your ideas in *your* space and post a link to them in Google's."
scripting.com Two separate but related Repub efforts are increasing the odds that the govt will shut down at the end of Sept.
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg's genius ability to take other sites' best ideas.
slate.com Evan Podromou says Google wants us to create original content for their network. I posted a comment.
evanprodromou.name Windows XP is the operating system with a market-leading 51 percent of personal computers. (But they'll kill it anyway.)
ibtimes.com He said, she said does not serve listeners. It tries to shield NPR from another round of bias attacks."
pressthink.org Om Malik on the atomization of content. He's absolutely right about where new tools are needed.
omis.me If You Already Hate Windows 8 Then You Hate Technology.
gizmodo.com And the one entry-point they desperately need, one that posts a tweet to their service, isn't there.
developers.google.com Google Plus API is super-lame. Provides "read access to public data." In other words they could have used RSS. :-)
developers.google.com Think of all the trouble "Fake Mike Arrington" could cause (and get into). :-)
AOL firing Arrington makes as much sense as MSNBC firing Olbermann.
guardian.co.uk Willow, Lost Cat From Colorado, Resurfaces in Manhattan.
nytimes.com What if there was a way groups of users could team up to create a product on a social network that used each of their talents differently.
The River2 log is starting to tell an interesting story.
scripting.com Speaker Boehner to Present GOP's Economic Fixes. (Haha this'll be good for sure.)
pbs.org What's missing is a song search engine where you hum or whistle a few bars and they tell you what the song is. I need it right now.
Ooops, please ignore that last post. A much better one is coming next. Promise. :-)
Along with a one-way follow, Facebook added a RT command called "Share."
oonwoye.com AOL firing Mike Arrington makes as much sense as Sirius firing Howard Stern.
guardian.co.uk Agree with Çarville. Fire a lot of people, Mr President. Start with who urged you to wait for teh Repubs to blink.
politicalwire.com I almost started using news.me, but they have a SUL with all kinds of tech insiders who rarely post links to anything. Uninstall.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured.
gawker.com I can say with little fear of contradiction that this is the very first podcast feed.
static.userland.com Manland offers a play space for weary husbands at Ikea.
springwise.com Just fired Verizon via Google Voice. Felt grrrreat!
Rick Perry 'Taken Aback' By Audience Cheering, Suggesting Society Should Let Uninsured Patient Die.
huffingtonpost.com Top 5 Fictional NYU Accounts on Twitter And Facebook.
nyulocal.com Twitter: Slow To Add New Features, Even Slower To Roll Them Out
mediabistro.com How The FBI Caught an Actor Uploading Movie Screeners To Pirate Bay.
torrentfreak.com So when the Repubs say the EPA is a problem, I smell burning garbage.
When I was growing up there was lots more pollution. They used to incinerate garbage, in the city! I'd get to school with soot all over me.
Thinking about ways govt interferes with my life. Mostly security. Are the Repubs really going to get that out of our way?Doubtful.
Today's high in NYC forecast at 88. Tomorrow's low -- 46. Here comes the season change.
forecast.weather.gov
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
For some reason when I ship a feature I play "Whiskey Bar." (The moon of Alabama, we now must say goodbye.)
youtube.com Twitter to Publish Promoted Tweets to a Broader Audience.
adage.com Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor, will officially announce her run for the US Senate tomorrow.
boston.com The Winklevii did a commercial for pistachios. It's kind of funny.
youtube.com Tonight: TechStars' Reality TV show debuts on Bloomberg.
thenextweb.com It's looking good for the @nakedjen vs Michelle Bachmann debate. Jen has accepted. We're still waiting to hear from Bachman.
Today we find out what Windows 8 is. I don't care about the UI. I would be happy if it gave me 18 virtual Windows CPUs. I could use that.
WSJ: After 20 Years, Missing ComputerLand CEO Reappears. (Amazing story.)
online.wsj.com Disclosure: CrunchFund is an investor in Bitcasa. (This came at the end of a glowing review. Really felt odd.)
techcrunch.com BBC: The government wants Google to make pirate sites harder to find.
bbc.co.uk For me, iPad is 1. A web browser. 2. WWF. 3. Angry Birds.
splatf.com
Monday, September 12, 2011
Watch Rick Perry really closely. I think he took some Oxycodone before the show.
I'm pretending to tweet the debate. Ron Paul. Were you picking your ass in Asbury Park? Or was it Poughkeepsie?
I'm sorry -- I can't watch the "debate." It's too weird.
Guy Accused Of Being Part Of Anonymous Banned By Court From Using His Real Name Online.
techdirt.com Ford / Bug Labs partnership makes SYNC look like old news.
engadget.com Look, if there really are robots on Earth masquerading as humans, Wolf Blitzer is an early version, before they added intelligence.
I've been at NYU for 1.5 years, and it just hit me -- I don't have a blog here.
journalism.nyu.edu The web will soon 'look more like print.' And cars will run on hay and poop horseshit in the streets.
news.cnet.com Billionaire private equity mogul will get America back to work by complaining about government spending.
salon.com Tsunami debris creates Pacific shipping hazard.
abc.net.au Flipboard founder: Web will soon 'look more like print'. (A truly awful idea.)
news.cnet.com Yesterday was an ugly day in NYC, weather-wise. Fitting the grim anniversary. Today, a new beginning, is sunny, clear, warm. Bright.
I'm working in the parks today. First it was Wash Sq Park using NYU's wifi. Now Madison Sq Park, using Mayor Bloomberg's wifi.
The scrollbars on Mac OS Lion are wrong. I want to click in the down arrow to read the next couple of lines in a post. No way to do it.
I really meant to say that all my tweets were hand-written. And they were!
I have published 39,462 tweets. Each one hand-crafted with care and old-world craftsmanship.
twitter.com The East Village has a "mystery lot" which of course is covered by EV Grieve.
evgrieve.com An engineer at Zagat explains what it's like to work at Google (for two days).
blog.falconindy.com Scripting News: Educating the journo-programmer. #rerun
scripting.com NYT: YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious.
nytimes.com Krauthammer: "Is A Mortal Who Is Over His Head". (As was every other President. We still support them.)
realclearpolitics.com Thanks to Krugman I now understand the European economic crisis. Basically, they have Republicans too.
nytimes.com
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Amazon reportedly in talks to launch a Netflix for books. (Ooooh I like that idea!)
thenextweb.com 10 Must-Read Stories, Sites Remembering 9/11.
pcworld.com Bush and Obama - Side by Side at Ground Zero.
nytimes.com "I don't celebrate the terrible things we as a country did in the name of that pain."
scripting.com 5 views of One World Trade Center from the East Village.
evgrieve.com
Saturday, September 10, 2011
If you miss the old twitter website, mobile.twitter.com is a pretty good replacement, and it works anywhere, not just on cell phones.
Cyclemeter does work w/o a cell connection. Must not be in airplane mode.
maps.google.com The criminalization of speech since 9/11.
salon.com Google Maps airbrushes naked woman out of Miami street view. Unfortunately, it's safe for work. :-(
news.cnet.com Anyone who thinks Barack Obama is not a historic President just flunked the most basic IQ test ever.
humanevents.com Flickr: Cyclemeter screen with no cell connection.
flickr.com Guardian: The years since 9/11 already look like a detour, not the main road of history.
guardian.co.uk Good morning ever bud!!
How Special Ops Copied al-Qaida to Kill It.
wired.com
Friday, September 09, 2011
Repub columnist bashes Dems using 9/11 as a hammer. #howlowcanyougo
online.wsj.com Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad was in Contagion, wearing so much makeup I didn't recognize him.
0.tqn.com Entire staff of TechCrunch now threatening to commit mass suicide unless Michael Arrington gets his way, on everything, forever.
realdanlyons.com Paul Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At His Town Hall: 'I Hope He's Taking His Blood Pressure Medication'.
thinkprogress.org Rumor: AOL's Tim Armstrong Wants to Merge With Yahoo.
wired.com "No ponzi scheme in the history of the world has ever lasted 75 years."
economist.com Picasso: My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general..."
goodreads.com The Repubs should just run Obama as their candidate. They would get the most Repub-friendly admin since Hoover.
frumforum.com He doesn't grok Repubs either. Pure ego. They could have let Obama have what he wants. He would do their bidding.
frumforum.com Frum does not grok the Dems. Clinton wanted blowjobs in the Oval. Obama wanted to be the first black Pres.
frumforum.com
Thursday, September 08, 2011
All Kurt Vonnegut books are $3.99 for the Kindle.
amazon.com Bachmann To Hold Press Conference Post-Obama Speech. (Wild guess: She won't like what she hears.)
foxnews.com Update: Cyclemeter does *not* work without a cell connection.
scripting.com New Yorker: Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty.
newyorker.com Perry 'squashed' Texas execution probe, ex-official says.
cnn.com Bizarre pic of Rick Perry grabbing Ron Paul during a commercial break last night.
img.ibtimes.com The obvious truth about Social Security is the Repubs want to privatize it so the bankers can steal it.
washingtonpost.com On the other hand, Matt Taibbi thinks Rick Perry's position that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme sinks him.
rollingstone.com How Rick Perry Won The Debate. (Projected alpha maleness.)
tnr.com Google acquires Zagat, enters original content business.
zdnet.com A fairly long technical piece about the "decentralized web" that doesn't mention RSS or blogs.
soa-world.de Galliano found guilty of anti-Semitism.
abc.net.au Google+ API Not Close ...Unless You're "Trusted", Then It's Ready.
techcrunch.com Audio: Chris Christie Lets Loose at Secret Koch Brothers Confab.
motherjones.com
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Rick Perry set to carry out one or two more questionable executions as candidate.
salon.com This is how Repubs rationalize taking the US economy hostage. They did it because they love us so much! :-)
twitter.com Paul Ryan should be met by protesters where ever he goes. That's part of the Constitution he should be come familiar with.
alan.com Protesters Thrown Out Of Paul Ryan Town Hall And Arrested For Trespassing
alan.com NYT writeup, the day following 9/11/01, on the role bloggers played in getting the first information about the attacks.
nytimes.com Is the new .xxx tld something good, or a pornographic protection racket?
blog.easydns.org TechCrunch and Parent Company AOL Hold Each Other Hostage.
wired.com Epicenter: Amazon has swiftly become the most disruptive company in the media and technology industries. (Agree.)
wired.com Scripting News: What if TechCrunch were relaunched as the tech pub of and by the users of tech?
scripting.com
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Look at how Berkeleyside covers local businesses. Great to see a local blog booting up.
berkeleyside.com Scripting News: Best month-to-month deal on Nexus S?
scripting.com I've been thinking of offering my services to TechCrunch. I would agree not to be a VC. I know this would piss off Mike. :-)
Arrington wants to stay at TC, or buy it back. Henry Blodget considers the likely outcomes.
businessinsider.com Ron Paul has a TV ad and it totally sucks.
gawker.com
Monday, September 05, 2011
Hoffa On Tea Party: 'Let's Take These Sons Of Bitches Out!' #a-fucking-men
abcnews.go.com Why Amazon's tablet will challenge Apple in a way that Google cannot.
guardian.co.uk Too bad Dick Nixon is not still here to kick around. #youhadtobethere
Obama: "We're going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party." Again? Why?
politicalwire.com According to this blog, the bike-in-a-tree is part real, part hoax. I don't know, I just thought it was a cool story. :-)
dudelol.com The Mele Brothers discuss the state of the world.
flickr.com David Carr takes the (link) bait re Arrington and AOL.
nytimes.com To Micah, maybe if everyones actual opinion is exposed, no one will be punished. We don't know how this will turn out.
owni.eu
Sunday, September 04, 2011
What the Left Doesn't Understand About Obama.
nytimes.com Scripting News: Three ideas for Google-Plus. (The last one is killer.)
scripting.com Scripting News: RSS is supposed to be really simple.
scripting.com We could have a holiday to celebrate losing virginity. I'm sure you can figure out how it would be celebrated. :-)
Why do we have to pretend to re-live 9-11. Sorry I just don't feel it. I'd rather pretend to re-live something fun and creative. Sexy.
Wired: U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Department Cables Are Unleashed Online.
wired.com Maureen Dowd: "You know you're in trouble when Harry Reid says you should be more aggressive."
nytimes.com There is no best way to use RSS. I subscribe to a feeds that post *hundreds* of items a day. May not be right for you.
marco.org Israeli protests: 430,000 take to streets to demand social justice.
guardian.co.uk
Saturday, September 03, 2011
The joy of having a virtual assistant.
slate.com New Orleans mayor warns residents to stay alert for Lee.
reuters.com At any time your phone company can go crazy and you're stuck on hold listening to idiotic ads over and over. Forget about your life.
Drupal: The WinerLinks module adds a permalink on every individual paragraph within a nodes content.
drupal.org "there was no credible scientific basis for the conclusion that arson had been committed"
huffingtonpost.com Republican Candidates Turn Attacks on One Another.
nytimes.com NYT: Federal Regulators Sue Big Banks Over Mortgages.
nytimes.com "I am now one step closer to reaching my goal of making everything I own fit inside a single suitcase."
vishwasbabu.blogspot.com DaveCast #15 -- A 28-minute podcast. Why journalism is becoming obsolete. (It always was a compromise.)
static.scripting.com DaveCast #15 -- A 28-minute podcast. Why journalism is becoming obsolete. (It always was a compromise.)
static.scripting.com AOL Left Arianna Huffington In The Dark About Arrington's Controversial VC Fund.
businessinsider.com Three stories from the life of @NakedJen. The third is about my ghost. In a speaker. And her puppies. On a quest.
nakedjen.com
Friday, September 02, 2011
A perfect demo why the East Village is so -- well -- I can't find the right word. What do you think?? :-)
evgrieve.com China's village of the bachelors: no wives in sight in remote settlement.
guardian.co.uk Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search?
macrumors.com A staffer at TechCrunch weighs in, and sparks start flying. Wonderful to be able to see this discussion.
techcrunch.com Scripting News: Arrington is the future of what we used to call journalism.
scripting.com Kara Swisher: CrunchFund? No Matter What You Call It, It's Business as Usual in SV.
allthingsd.com WikiLeaks decides to make public all US state department cables.
guardian.co.uk Twitter Keeps Suspending Accounts Based On Highly Questionable DMCA Claims.
techdirt.com Five NASCAR Drivers Decline President Obama's White House Invitation
sbnation.com
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Five GOP Presidential Candidates Have Proposed Eliminating Capital Gains Tax, A $1 Trillion Giveaway To The Rich.
thinkprogress.org Boehner to give speech on jobs, economy at Economic Club of Washington this month.
washingtonpost.com Joy of Tech: Superman tries to sign up for Google-Plus. :-)
joyoftech.com Obama's dopey rope-a-dope strategy.
salon.com
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Scripting News: If the Repubs had any class whatsoever.
scripting.com Fear-inducing review of Mac OS X Lion which I now have to use because it came on the new laptop I just got.
howgoodisthat.wordpress.com The Internet is great because it is decentralized. If you centralize it, it stops being the Internet.
Takeaways: 1. Pray there are no more natural disasters while Repubs hold the House. 2. Eric Cantor is still a dick. :-)
thinkprogress.org Takeaway: 1. Don't leave your wallet on the table when you get up to take a piss. 2. Arrington is still a dick. :-)
techcrunch.com Rick Perry panic fires up the left. (Repubs take note. Perry could get people excited about Obama again.)
politico.com
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
LaCie Little Big Disk featuring Thunderbolt Technology. (Real Soon Now.)
lacie.com How Bill O'Reilly Tried to Get His Wife's Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops.
gawker.com Rick Perry Is A Lot Closer To The 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination Than You Think.
businessinsider.com WikiLeaks cables detail Apple's battle with counterfeits in China.
cnn.com HP producing 'one last run of TouchPads;' availability still unclear.
thisismynext.com Congrats to the #KnightMozilla developers on their way to Berlin! Let me know if you want some ideas. :-)
sinker.tumblr.com http://ntro.com/ might be the next Facebook.
How To Avoid Getting Written Up During Welcome Week
nyulocal.com Theory: If Perry wins GOP nomination, Bloomberg will run as third party candidate.
Why President Gore might have gone into Iraq after 9/11, too.
salon.com Google Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data.
wired.com Scripting News: Where did "Firefox with Twitter" come from??
scripting.com Firefox with Twitter baked in. @ and # become web "standards." but definitely not open.
twitter.com WikiLeaks cables detail Apple's battle with counterfeits in China.
cnn.com
Monday, August 29, 2011
Alan Krueger for CEA. Krugman re Krueger: Alan is a fine choice as chief economic adviser. (They get each others' mail at Princeton.)
Scripting News: Why doesn't the Times have something like Quora?
scripting.com WikiLeaks: Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources.
spiegel.de Scripting News: Indirect business models FTW. #rerun
scripting.com In five years, over 50 commercial airplanes crashed in loss-of-control accidents. What's going on?
www2.macleans.ca
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Wisconsin: No Republicans in Labor Day Parade.
waow.com I have tickets for tomorrow night's Mets game. Wonder if they'll play? Will the subway be running?
cbssports.com Guardian: Hurricane Irene claims lives and leaves trail of destruction.
guardian.co.uk Waiting for the first President who *engages* with the electorate using the medium we've worked to build for them.
scripting.com EV Grieve: 3 downed trees in Tompkins Square Park.
evgrieve.com Fox: Biden Golfed In Hours Preceding Hurricane. (The previous VP waterboarded people in his spare time.)
foxnews.com "People think that it's a joy to own things. But it really isn't." Amen bro! :-)
abcnews.go.com I'm using EvoCam. A very nice Mac software product that turns a laptop into a webcam. Easy to set up. $30. Good deal.
hints.macworld.com Fox News trusts the insurance industry to get us objective info about hurricanes. (I don't.)
foxnews.com On CNN they show that the East River is also flowing over its seawall.
A less high-tech version of my Irene-Cam. This one will not crash! :-)
cam.blorkmark.com Wow. On CNN they're showing flooding on the west side, where I ride every day. They say the Hudson has overflowed onto land.
National Hurricane Center: Tropical Storm Jose forms near Bermuda.
reuters.com Higher quality video: Irene in Manhattan.
flickr.com My hurricane webcam. Mostly showing rain on the window. At least you can see NY is still here. Knock wood!
cam.smallpicture.com:8080
Saturday, August 27, 2011
On May 30, rode my bike around the edge of lower Manhattan.
scripting.com Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams.
youtube.com Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams. :-)
youtube.com We're getting our first wind here in NYC now.
Libya: Gaddafi 'seen in Zimbabwe on Mugabe's private jet' as rebels march on Sirte.
dailymail.co.uk Flicker: Blitzer channels Anderson Cooper. (Tis the season for journos to get outside and get wet and possibly blow away.)
flickr.com EV Grieve: First signs of debris. (Good to know we have our own local journos obsessing over every detail.)
evgrieve.com Rick Perry better not come to NY today. I don't know. Could get kinda ugly.
Al Gore to Rick Perry: Climate scientists aren't motivated by money.
thehill.com Guardian: Hurricane Irene threatens to plunge US east coast into major power blackout.
guardian.co.uk Breaking: Rats are running around Anderson Cooper's feet at the foot of Manhattan, waiting for Irene, on CNN. Seriously.
Oy another tech pundit begging for attention re RSS. It's a format. Supported everywhere. Useful. Free.
jig.com
Friday, August 26, 2011
Remember When House Republicans Voted Against Hurricane Forecast Funding?
motherboard.tv Listening to the Repub governor of Virginia talking about Irene on CNN. Repubs sound like liberals when they're actually doing their jobs.
Just got off the phone with @scobleizer and he had to go be on the Gillmor Gang. I told him to say "Hi!" for me. :-)
Remember When House Republicans Voted Against Hurricane Forecast Funding?
motherboard.tv Bernanke says Federal Reserve will hold off from more quantitative easing. (Whew. Rick Perry doesn't have to kill him.)
guardian.co.uk Hurricane Irene to Force N.Y. Transit System to Close by Noon Saturday, Officials Say.
nytimes.com NWS for NYC: DANGEROUS HURRICANE IRENE TO IMPACT THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY NIGHT.
forecast.weather.gov NYT: Hurricane Irene's Approach Forces East Coast to Batten Down.
nytimes.com
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The thought of New York City's 8 million residents attempting to evacuate is a terrifying prospect
gizmodo.com Robert Reich: As corporate profits soar, American workers are experiencing their worst decade in a century
salon.com Times hurricane tracker. (Doesn't appear to work on iPad.)
scripting.com Newt Gingrich's Million Or So Inactive Followers Aren't Really His Fault.
mediabistro.com Libyan rebels say Muammar Gaddafi surrounded.
reuters.com Stock analysts don't understand stock. The reason $AAPL isn't crashing, because Jobs's departure was already factored-in. It's not news.
Scripting News: Times hurricane tracker. (Great app!)
scripting.com 40,003 FTW. Thank you everyone -- you like me, you really like me. #gosh #speechless
Twitter follower count: 39,996. Today will probably be the "lucky" day.
In the ruins of Gadhafi's lair, rebels find album filled with photos of his 'darling' Condoleezza Rice.
photoblog.msnbc.msn.com BBC: Train commuters caught on camera.
bbc.co.uk
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Thiel can own all the islands he wants, but he's got to pick a place to sleep every night, just like the rest of us.
scripting.com The God-Fearing, Know-Nothing, Pistol-Packing Embodiment of Liberals' Worst Nightmares.
readability.com Anonymous Leaks Nude Pics of BART Spokesman. (Movin right along.)
gawker.com The full Godfather movie on YouTube. #legal
youtube.com Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination.
gallup.com Answers to questions about my iPhone bike mount: ==>
scripting.com Google Forfeits $500 Million Generated by Online Ads & Prescription Drug Sales by Canadian Online Pharmacies.
justice.gov Scripting News: Coooler weather ride, iPhone mounted.
scripting.com Frum: America's imagined inflation problem.
theweek.com Scripting News: Huntsman is becoming a blogger, etc. (Another rambly blog post with thoughts on Our Times.)
scripting.com Scripting News: What NYers don't grok about earthquakes.
scripting.com
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
How Did So Many People Feel a 5.8 Earthquake in Richmond, Virginia?
theatlantic.com Why say 'the right' or 'conservatives' when what you really mean is Republicans?
mediamatters.org Blogs can do something print pubs never could do -- talk back to you. (A bit of a rambler, but a good one.)
scripting.com Curious: How long before the Repubs find a way to blame the earthquake on the President.
Nothing on Google News re "new york earthquake."
google.com Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero. (Clue: If you want people's votes, stop attacking them.)
politico.com "So you're using S3 to serve your assets, eh? You should rethink that."
afran.co Tripoli compound is centre of Gaddafi power.
reuters.com Romney says new Fed stimulus would risk inflation. #crazy #republican
reuters.com Hack Your TouchPad to Run Android, Win a Prize.
wired.com TouchPads Now Selling for Almost $300 on eBay.
pcworld.com
Monday, August 22, 2011
A loudspeaker encourages New Yorkers to Say Something Nice. Ha ha hahaa hahaaha ha.
thenextweb.com From HP to Amazon, the Tablet Dilemma: Go Big or Go Home.
wired.com The GOP is the party with a fringe on top. (Just heard on MSNBC.)
Whoops, no one told Repubs that their Libya talking point doesn't work anymore.
salon.com NATO bombing Gaddafi compound in Tripoli: report.
reuters.com Repubs "can't decide whether to be happy Gaddafi is gone or miserable that Obama had something to do with it."
washingtonpost.com Meyer Sound: More than 30 years of "thinking sound" in Berkeley.
berkeleyside.com Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO. (I'm reading the book now. Should make a great series. Like 6 Ft Under.)
guardian.co.uk Early Reddit Employee Says He Co-Founded Reddit; Reddit Founders Say He Didn't.
betabeat.com It is time for an Obama reset. (Amen.)
ft.com George Pataki Oddly Close to Running for President.
gawker.com Eric Cantor is a vile human being. Bilious. Uninformed. Lout-like. Incendiary. Robot-like.
politico.com Herman Cain's net worth: $18 million. So how could ObamaCare have "killed" him?
therichest.org "If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead." (Republican crazy talk.)
politicalwire.com The question we're going to ask the Republicans: Are your rooting for or against the United States? It's a question they've earned.
Frum: What Did We Just Win in Libya? (Can't wait to hear what the rest of the Repubs say.)
frumforum.com
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Cori's Tootsie Turds packaged for gifting.
flickr.com Everyone cites the DMV as the example of why government sucks. But I wonder...
scripting.com Who were the winners in this weekend's Photo Hack Day hackathon in NYC??
google.com 10 points if you can figure out what these are.
flickr.com Scripting News: Take-aways from HP's TouchPad screwup.
scripting.com Is There Anything Good About Men? (Spoiler: Yes. And it's a great piece, well worth reading.)
psy.fsu.edu I'm using "Fontdiner Swanky" in the header of Scripting News.
google.com Wealth Quiz: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie?
pbs.org Axelrod on ABC. The Democrats do not know how to make it personal. Cold cold cold.
You can buy a TouchPad on eBay, for considerably more than $99.
ebay.com Even so, I took creativity on ABC's part to put Huntsman on. He really is different from the other Republican candidates.
Huntsman wants a flat tax. That puts him firmly in the Club of Crazy Republicans.
Are there lines at the BestBuy near you for HP TouchPads? Are *you* on a line at BB for an HP TP?
Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution.
news.yahoo.com Why are we surprised that governments and organizations are lining up to control ideas and the way they spread?
sethgodin.typepad.com
Saturday, August 20, 2011
A letter from BART to our customers.
bart.gov Firefox 6 already, mozilla please stop this game.
johnnye.net A Big Hollywood Movie Is Coming, and a Novelist Cries Foul.
nytimes.com Advertising with Twitter. (Didn't realize this was public.)
twitter.com When was the last time the Repubs questioned the right of a white president to serve?
thedaily.com Google begins Amazon river Street View project.
bbc.co.uk Paul Ryan's Office Calls Cops On Jobless Protesters. (While he vacations in Colorado.)
huffingtonpost.com Skinny non-smokers cost more for health care.
nytimes.com
Friday, August 19, 2011
HP begins TouchPad liquidation; 16GB cut to $99, 32GB $149. (Tempted.)
precentral.net Screen shot: The counter in the Blork box is now the sum of the size of the description and the size of the link.
flickr.com Gizmodo: Unedited Thoughts About Technology Better Left Unposted. (Must-read.)
gizmodo.com Flickr now offering real-time web APIs to developers.
zdnet.com Ooops, the picture of the noodles came from my friend @lknobel who is in Palo Alto right now. I am in NYC and am noodle-less. :-(
A delicious bowl of Dan Dan noodles at Jing Jing in Palo Alto. Wish you could get these in NYC! :-(
flickr.com Scripting News: A software evolution lesson I keep re-learning.
scripting.com In 1897, the Indiana state legislature did consider changing the value of pi to 3.2.
en.wikipedia.org Newspaper Heroes: A blog and podcast about old-time radio's portrayals of journalists.
jheroes.com Now that retweet is in the OED, can it be a trademark?
bbc.co.uk Markets: IPO Activity in Danger Amid Market Meltdown.
cnbc.com Anil Dash points out that Steve Jobs, a very successful businessperson, is a liberal.
dashes.com Watching Armageddon From an Armchair. (Sometimes it takes just a few words.)
motherjones.com
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere 'Mental Processes'.
techdirt.com I wish there was a place to buy See's candy in NYC.
sees.com Jake Savin thanks Firefox for forcing him to switch to Chrome.
jakesavin.com Scripting News: Why inflation stimulates the economy.
scripting.com Senator from Oklahoma: "It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor." If you said that you'd be in jail.
dyn.politico.com The Firefox 6 About window looks quite different from the Firefox 4 window.
twitter.com BTW. this is what the Firefox About window looks like.
flickr.com "Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?" #no
salon.com The Firefox community debates whether to remove the version number from its About window.
groups.google.com
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Humble Image of U.S. Envoy Gary Locke Charms China.
nytimes.com Olbermann excoriates Peter Thiel on Countdown -- with a fantastic Dr Strangelove imitation -- as Worst Person in the World.
youtube.com Michele Bachmann's bouncers: Unnecessary roughness.
politico.com Did @leolaporte get VC money? Or is @twit that successful? Big fancy new studio. Lookin good.
Gawker says Ashton Kutcher is a "Massive Whore." (Worth a link.)
gawker.com Salon on Tea Party: They may want "their country" back, but their country doesn't really want them.
salon.com Hate the new Twitter username tab? (Yes, in fact I do. Because I don't have one!)
thenextweb.com If harmony / Is what / You crave / Then get / A tuba / Burma-Shave
en.wikipedia.org Another military Birther goes AWOL.
salon.com DaveCast #14 on turning off the Internet and why that isn't what we should worry about.
scripting.com Sad truth is you don't need anything like a majority to govern if you're willing to do that. A security hole in the Constitution.
mail.google.com The Republicans have become the party of pushing us to the abyss and then threatening to push again unless... (fill in the blank).
mail.google.com All of a sudden Droids are more interesting, with the Google-Motorola deal.
thisismynext.com If political manipulation of the economy is treason, more than a few Repubs are on their way to the gallows
scripting.com Yes Virginia, Big Brother is following you on Twitter.
gigaom.com San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone Shutdown Was His Idea.
wired.com My friend Paolo in Italy is experimenting with a new kind of RSS aggregator.
evectors.com A Republican who's done with Sarah Palin. (Don't worry, everyone else is too.)
frumforum.com Video: Anonymous-organized protests cripple San Francisco transit.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Tea Party supporters are predominantly white and want more religion in government.
nytimes.com "Today I click on my newsfeed and see tumbleweed blowing through the barren, blank page.."
forbes.com I'm trolling for (new) friends on G+ who are playing Angry Birds. (Let's see if this works.)
plus.google.com Apple to open Berkeley store on Saturday August 20. (Major upgrade for Berkeley.)
berkeleyside.com Remember when tech pundits were all ga-ga for Google's software that writes software. They always fall for this gimmick.
hackeducation.com Salon: No, Ron Paul is not getting screwed. #equal #time
salon.com Salon: No, Ron Paul is not getting screwed. #equal #time
salon.com Rick Perry's dangerously overheated campaign rollout.
salon.com Tech patents are another diversion for the stock market. Something else to bet on. They love them a nice bubble! :-) #scammers
twitter.com Want to get your dander up about how the media is writing out Ron Paul? ==>
thedailyshow.com These are coin-operated candidates. Actors serving as conduits for money that turns into ads.
scripting.com According to Repub trolls, if I think Perry is dangerous because he executes innocent Texans and threatens Bernanke, then I'm a "liberal."
twitter.com Remembering that it takes balls to execute an innocent man. #aka #murder
thinkprogress.org
Monday, August 15, 2011
San Francisco Subway Shuts Cell Service to Foil Protest; Legal Debate Ignites.
wired.com I set out to design a very simple, lightweight identity service.
scripting.com I appreciate that the President isn't bullshitting the people in his town hall.
whitehouse.gov Obama can ask Rick Perry for a proposal we can all look at. Why wait till 2013? If he's got a good idea, let's do it *now*.
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com Obama: "I have no problem with folks saying 'Obamacares.'...I do care." #hah
mediaite.com Ron Paul gets shafted by the press, regularly. Real proof today.
politico.com SF Chronicle: BART braces for evening protest.
sfgate.com Wish I had something as easy to use as TBUZZ that let me post to my linkblog. (Which of course flows to Twitter.)
tbuzz.arc90.com Saul Hansell, formerly of the NY Times, is now writing for TechCrunch. (AOL makes for strangeness.)
techcrunch.com According to Om Malik, Microsoft was trying to buy Motorola --> MicroMo. (Better name.)
gigaom.com I saw "Project Nim" this afternoon -- very good movie. Documentary.
guardian.co.uk What Obama Can Learn From Truman.
tnr.com Scripting News: Simple, lightweight identity service.
scripting.com JLG wants Apple to buy T-Mobile. Maybe GOOG will buy it instead?
mondaynote.com Rick Perry: A Candidate Who Will Do Anything to Beat Romney and Obama.
thedailybeast.com Warren Buffett: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.
nytimes.com Did Perry say he's "running to restore military 'respect' for presidency?" That's freaky scary, even for a Repub.
politico.com
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Denmark Christiania: New challenges for Copenhagen's hippy zone.
bbc.co.uk Scripting News: Google Docs and blog-editing software.
scripting.com Silicon Valley billionaire reveals plan to launch floating 'start up country' off coast of San Francisco.
dailymail.co.uk
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Fried food and retail politics at the Iowa State Fair. (Awful/great pic of Bachmann)
blogs.telegraph.co.uk Ordinary Americans Continue to Deliver Progressive Messages at Republican Town Hall Meetings.
news.firedoglake.com Trying to deal with a Shetland sheepdog made me appreciate what President Obama is up against
salon.com Germany marks Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary.
bbc.co.uk
Friday, August 12, 2011
In Angry Birds on Google Plus you have to connect with friends to unlock the new stuff! Arrrrgh.
flickr.com "It takes balls to execute an innocent man"
salon.com Scripting News: Park Ave open to bikers tomorrow in NYC.
scripting.com S.F. subway muzzles cell service during protest. (Probably not a great idea.)
news.cnet.com Scripting News: Note to all would-be Twitter competitors.
scripting.com Virtual bumper sticker: "Rick Perry -- 2012 -- Not a Mormon"
cnn.com Steve Garfield reports on the DNC Blogger's Breakfast in 2004. Apparently I'm featured in an exchange with Howard Dean.
youtube.com New Twitter features focus on you, those you follow. (Still don't have them here.)
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