February 2012
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On RexBlog: And the Grammy to someone in Nashville... →
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WatchWSJ.com video accompanying a story on the science behind why people cry during Adele’s tear-jerking song, Someone Like You. (Related: SNL skit from Nov, 2011.)
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Should Personal Data Be Personal? | NYTimes
“(The US has) separate laws that protect our health records and financial information, and even one that keeps private what movies we rent. But there is no law that spells out the control and use of online data.”
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“If someone comes in and asks for a recommendation and you ask for the name of a...”
– 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore - jlsathre - Open Salon
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Mystery of a disappearing image named...
This brief post is intended for someone who may be googling for terms like: “Image disappears randomly on some browsers, not others” or “the tab to the advertising media kit section of our website disappears” or “why does one image disappear from a page when I use Chrome, but not when I use another browser?” Oh, and did I mention that the name of the jpg is...
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Austin Kleon: Instagram as an Artist's Sketchbook →
Name: Austin Kleon, @austinkleon
Bio: A writer who draws. [Click for more.]
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“Nick Bradbury: A big reason software is still so unfriendly is that most...”
– Nick Bradbury: No More Free Tech Support
January 2012
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“Scott Adams: You can argue all day long whether a car’s engine is more...”
– [Note: By pointing to it, I’m not endorsing the point of view put forth in this blog post. However, I thought this quote has a universality to it worth noting. Via: Scott Adams Blog: Who Benefits More? 01/27/2012]
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Remnant Infrastructure
From Brazil to China, forgotten, unused cables — including fiber optic cable — are being discovered and reactivated to help speed up digital traffic. [via: bldgblog]
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Building the iPhone in the US would demand...
Quote from NY Times story, “Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class”:
“It is hard to estimate how much more it would cost to build iPhones in the United States. However, various academics and manufacturing analysts estimate that because labor is such a small part of technology manufacturing, paying American wages would add up to $65 to each iPhone’s expense. Since Apple’s...
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“Scott Adams’ slightly tongue-in-cheek take on SOPA’s death: I...”
– Scott Adams Blog: SOPA Update 01/19/2012
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Mr Dodd's basketball metaphor
(Movie industry lobbyist, Chris) Dodd said that the entire industry was surprised by the intensity of the objections that arose in the last couple of weeks. “This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,” he said. “This thing was considered by many to be a slam dunk.”
[via: NYTimes.com]
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“If you need to pay more to stars, and ad revenues are still declining, staff...”
– The newsonomics of signature content » Nieman Journalism Lab
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Fake-Pundit 2012 Election Prediction
“American economy on a roll“ blares a headline on Canada.com this morning. If headlines like this start running in the U.S. (in other words, if the narrative turns from the current, “we’re in an awful economy,” to “we’re recovering from an awful economy,” I predict we’ll see a repeat of the 1984 election this November — right down to the...
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Innovation, Not Legislation →
Take action in support of an open internet.
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“Even though the New York Times reported that the White House statement...”
– How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani) “Reality check: Lady Gaga is famous. Bloggers...”
– [Via: The Flip Side of a Big Audience | Smarterware]
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Tim O'Reilly on why he's fighting SOPA
“Any company that is providing great content online in a way that’s easy to use with a fair price has a booming business right now. The people who don’t are trying to fight that future.”
[via: Gigaom]
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WatchTebow + Bowie = Tebowie | Another example of Jimmy Fallon & Co killing it.
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Cobbler's children have no parking spaces →
Nashville-based Central Parking owns and operates parking facilities all over the world. Unfortunately, one place they don’t have such a facility is at their corporate headquarters.
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“Number one: If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it...”
– Jason Gay: The 27 Rules of Conquering the Gym - WSJ.com
YouTube Founding Myth in One Paragraph
Quote from New Yorker article: “YouTube was created by three former employees of PayPal, in a Silicon Valley garage, in early 2005. According to two of the founders, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, a graphic designer and a software engineer, respectively, the idea grew out of a dinner party at Chen’s home in San Francisco, in the winter of 2004-05. Guests had made videos of one another, but...
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) →
The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) allows you to quickly and easily search more than 400 million words of text of American English from 1810 to 2009. You can see how words, phrases and grammatical constructions have increased or decreased in frequency, how words have changed meaning over time, and how stylistic changes have taken place in the language.
[via: Metafilter.com]
Unemployment rates and re-elections
Obama can take comfort in President Ronald Reagan’s experience. In November 1982, the economy was in the last month of a deep recession, and unemployment was 10.8 percent, the highest since the Great Depression. A year later, unemployment was down to 8.5 percent. By November 1984, it was still a relatively high 7.2 percent, but the downward trend was unmistakable. Reagan was re-elected that...
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“Paul Kuharsky (espn.com): The Titans have several games they can look back on...”
– Tennessee Titans - AFC South Blog - ESPN
December 2011
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“Marco Arment: “Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose...”
– Bullshit – Marco.org: A succinct bullet-pointed post on the crap our favorite companies dish-out and we eat-up.
“A new study by MIT, which seeks to understand Twitter’s “contagion process,” has...”
– A new study was needed for this? Perhaps if they had read all my tweets mocking the daily Twitter story that appeared in the New York Times during the early years.
Growth of Twitter Fueled by Media Coverage - 10,000 Words
“Andy Baio: “Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
“David Weinberger: “The dream of the West has been that we will live...”
– [From a blog post, “How the Internet is Destroying Everything - NYTimes.com” in anticipation of David’s book that will be published next month, To Big to Know.]
November 2011
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