May 2012
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“Everybody likes to do stuff they’re good at. When we’re doing the...”
– Getting Better vs Being Good :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
“The report added that the full-fledged television set features an aluminum...”
– AppleInsider | Apple television announcement expected to precede launch by 2-6 months
The Field Guide to Paperless - Practically... →
Maybe you’ve already been attempting paperless. Maybe you’re curious about it. I don’t care—you’ll learn something new. David covers it all, from capture to file management. And all the tools in between.
Beyond being extremely informative, Paperless is a beautiful work. And I do mean work. David sweated all the details. There’s no telling how many hours he spent perfecting the many screencasts...
3 new ideas on the future of news from MIT Media... →
Ethan Zuckerman of the MIT Center for Civic Media taught a class this semester tailor-made for Nieman Lab readers: “News in the Age of Participatory Media.” The hook: What happens if you treat journalism as an engineering problem, bringing together the efforts of journalists and computer scientists?
The course’s final class last week featured a lot of bright students presenting their final...
“Another sign of his independence is the Apple MacBook Air on his desk. While...”
– Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype - NYTimes.com
Big Plans, New Support for Austin Planetarium |... →
The Austin Planetarium is now working with a development firm to bring a science and technology museum to Austin.
KUD International plans to build a 157,000 square foot mixed-use facility that would include the state’s largest planetarium. The complex would also include a 47-story residential building, with restaurants and retail space. They hope to build it all near the Bob Bullock Texas State...
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How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus -... →
But it is simply impossible to ignore that few people actually *use* Google Plus in any way that we’ve come to define usage of a social network. ComScore says people spent about 3 minutes a month at the site. Google contends that doesn’t include mobile traffic or the dropdown menu that appears when you click the red “notification” icon in Gmail and other Google services....
“For mobile and tablet audiences, the company plans to release two separate apps:...”
– NBCUniversal London Olympics coverage will total 5,535 hours across TV, web, mobile apps | The Verge
“The new plan, which calls on the government to electronically rent or lease...”
– Presidential Panel Urges More Flexible Use of Spectrum - NYTimes.com
Sotheby’s to Auction Steve Jobs Atari Memo →
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“Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by...”
– Facebook Might Have a Smartphone in Its Future - NYTimes.com
“The sort of hierarchy is: email is of the most interest to me; Twitter, second...”
– New York Times columnist David Carr talks media | TPMDC
Family History: All Alone at the Movies : The New... →
In the summer of 1977, I saw “Star Wars” twenty-one times, mostly by myself. I was thirteen—that kid alone in the ticket line, slipping past ushers who’d begun to recognize me, impatient to get to my favorite seat. All twenty-one viewings took place at the Loews Astor Plaza at Forty-fourth Street, just off Times Square. The Astor Plaza was a low, deep-stretched hall with a...
5by5 | Mac Power Users #87: Workflows with John... →
John Siracusa joins David and Katie to talk about productivity, writing, Mac utilities, and gaming.
Sesame Workshop lays off "approximately a dozen"... →
Sesame Workshop, parent company of Sesame Street, has laid off around 12 people, the entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood is reporting. “So far the big cuts have been in the Digital Media department,” the site said. The Workshop declined to answer specific questions on the layoffs fromCurrent, but emailed this statement: “As a result of our FY13 strategic planning...
“Google has said the municipality’s willingness to help lower its deployment...”
– Meet the Startup That Wants to Speed Up U.S. Broadband - Businessweek
“Users don’t care about a super-geeky web design technique. They only care about...”
– Behind the World’s Best designed: BostonGlobe.com – The Society for News Design – SND
How is Facebook like a Temple? | Blog | design... →
Although the concept of social networking on the web has been steadily active for only the last decade, the phenomenon of social networking is ancient. Social networking thrives on an inherent need of people to know about each other’s lives. As stated by Danah Boyd a social media researcher at Microsoft Research “We all poo-poo the reunion, but secretly, we really want to know what happened to...
How many Apple IDs should your family have? —... →
If your family owns multiple Apple devices and you have several different Apple IDs among you, it can become overwhelming or confusing or just plain maddening to figure out where your content is. It doesn’t have to be that way: To manage your media and app purchases more effectively, you may want to consider having a single family iTunes account.
What you would do is take one of your Apple IDs —...
How Amy O’Leary live-tweeted her own speech — and... →
Ninety-nine years ago this month, when Igor Stravinsky’s violent and inharmonious “Rite of Spring” debuted in Paris, legend has it a riot broke out. This, this! — the dissonant chords, the grotesque choreography — was unlike any performance the crowd had experienced before. There was shouting. Then fist fights. The police came. Chaos.1
That’s pretty much exactly what happened when New York Times...
Astronauts Enter World's 1st Private Supply Ship -... →
The California-based SpaceX — formally Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — is the first private company to send a vessel to the space station. It’s run by Elon Musk, a billionaire who helped create PayPal and founded the electric car company Tesla Motors.
NASA is handing over orbital delivery work to American business in order to focus on bigger and better objectives, such as getting...
Andy Carvin on Twitter as a newsroom and being... →
By now, many people are familiar with the story of how NPR editor Andy Carvin used Twitter to create a kind of crowdsourced newswire during the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East last year, inventing a brand-new kind of journalism on the fly and in full public view. In a discussion with me on Thursday in Toronto about the lessons that can be learned from his experience, Carvin made some...
