American Murder Mystery Very interesting and somewhat disheartening look at the latest developments in the huge story of poverty and crime in America. One huge issue with the article, the tag line talks about the rise of crime in "many American cities", but the causes it pinpoints are much more about the distribution of crime, not the actual rise.
Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
brand tags really nice and simple project from Noah Brier
Black Stars - Ghana’s Hiplife Generation - Hip Hop / Reggae / Afro-beat
Sleevelessness – a blog about graphic design, the web and digital music
murketing » “Buying Inâ€, can't wait to buy it myself, Walker is a great writer covering some of the trickiest, hard to capture social terrain of this era.
Cloverbucks - Diner’s Journal - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog
"So, in essence, cafes that have been using Clovers and the CloverNet have been helping to document and codify a body of knowledge about how the machine, which really is a new bit of technology, functions and performs.
They helped the company compile data about sales, about how the machines are holding up in the field and which specific times, doses and temperatures showcased individual coffees best. Now that information is something that Starbucks — a direct competitor to every small cafe in the country — has ownership of, and soon it will no longer be available to original Clover users. "
Whoa, that turns the Starbucks Clover acquisition more than a few shades more diabolical... Ultimately I hope it'll work out well for all parties, Starbucks still (or no longer in some cases) can't make good espresso so the indie market has a huge market space. Meanwhile if Starbucks starts making some decent lighter roasts for their new Clovers then coffee quality rises across the country.
The big question remaining is whether someone steps up and creates a Clover competitor for the indie market. Without it there is a nasty gap in the market. It's doubtful Starbucks will be able to brew the uberpremium stuff that places like Intelligencia & Grumpy are producing, and the indies that can do it won't be able to get the machines to do the style.
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » What Is Manufacturing in the Era of Design-Art-Technology?
Hillary's Nasty Pastorate yikes, it's a bit weak on details but if true, fuck Hillary, she truly is a monster...
Dolores Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Where does “Blue†end and “Red†begin?
Eater: EaterWire Coffee Edition: Starbucks Acquires All Clover Coffee Systems Probably doesn't mean much to most people reading this, but in the coffee world this is WOW! First thought is this sucks, although it does mean coffee should improve at Starbucks. Just can't believe they'll be doing the Clovers justice though, and if no one else can get them that's just shitty..
It’s Bondholders vs. Shareholders in a Race to Buy Bear Stearns Stock - New York Times
I have a feeling the term "celebrity whore" just got a little bit more literal.
Taiwans Solution to Traffic Accidents - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog Interesting data on those countdown traffic lights, apparently ones that count down on green increase accident rates, while those that countdown on red decrease accident rates.
village voice > news > David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' by David Mamet
FOXNews.com - Can Hillary Clinton Come Back? Karl Rove Handicaps Her Chances on Super Tuesday II -, Karl Rove of all people agrees with my theory that a long primary might actually be good for the Democrats.
The Relevance of Ralph - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » The Urbanists’ Panacea: Parking Reform
village voice > news > Iron Chef Boyardee by Robert Sietsema
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - New York Times Very useful calculator here, although it's pretty important to note that the settings are biased heavily towards buyers, at least in the context of the NY market (and it is the NYTimes). The investment return is set at just 5% which is essentially a bond only investment, and there are $0 condo/co-op fees! Set realistically and buying a home looks retarded without even factoring in the cost of personal illiquidity one takes on by owning. Retarded that is unless one thinks housing prices will just go up faster than inflation forever...
Europe savors '08 race drama - I wonder if any foreign news outlet can describe the US primary & delegate system without using words to the effect of "archaic and baroque"...
Silobreaker, one of the more promising of the many new news collations/filtering/visualization sites. Kind of curious how many of these seem to be popping up, how many programmers/entrepreneurs are there out there convinced they can make a algorithmic system better than the NYTimes?
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos
Designing What’s Right for Consumers - New York Times
"But you don't have to have an M.B.A. to understand that refusing to compromise on design, for any reason, can lead to fantastic commercial success. Look at Apple, Google, Sonos, R.I.M. (makers of the BlackBerry), or (in its glory days) Palm."
It's a mildly interesting article, but I think that bit about Palm's glory days is pretty telling, just designing a good product once or twice is no indicator of long term success. RIM for instance is in danger of going out of style like a palmpilot, Apple almost died without Steve Jobs around and Google's design track record is hit or miss. It's one thing for a critic to say companies need to incorporate good design and another thing entirely for them to actually figure out how to implement good design and then repeat it.
What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Five - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
The Greener Grass: Concept - Current State Slick system for monitoring and controlling a homes power usage via an iPhone. So 21st century! (update: actually it's just a concept not a product, which I guess makes it even more 21st century...)
Department of Citizen Alice: Hugo Chávez's Coca: It's the Real Thing
NussbaumOnDesign Is Search A Lie? Can You Really Believe Google? - BusinessWeek on PR agencies gaming Google.
Pruning Shears - Pruning Shears - The New Authoritarians heh, I guess that's a more charitable way of separating the Coulter/Rush style conservativism as obedience from the other less odious but still not so great styles of conservativism...
Craving the High That Risky Trading Can Bring - New York Times
CNN Hits The Wall for the Election, I actually thought they were faking the multitouch, but it turns out CNN's infowall is a genuine Jeff Han creation.
Like A Super Hero - Newsweek on Microsoft's zooming interface
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race, on Yahoo/Microsoft
RIP Sheldon Brown. A true bicycle/internet maverick. Fixed gear cycling would never be where it is today without him and the resources he created. Sad day on the internet.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting, Watts' 6 Degrees work was pretty misleading, intentionally so too, but still I'm glad he's doing this work, even if his interpretations always feel a little biased...
vnunet.com analysis: The malware 'shadow economy' - vnunet.com
Department of Citizen Alice: Venezuela, Allies to Start New Bank
Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights - New York, NY : citynoise.org- with an insane comments section that probably trumps my old reggaeton one...
Vice Magazine - PLEASE SNORT ME - PART 1 - An Oral History of Brooklyn’s Most Notorious Bar
Riding While White on the NYC Subway | RaceWire. Missing a couple stops, but man it drives the point in well...
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Doors of Perception weblog: Traveling without moving in Uncanny Valley
Calculated Risk: Wachovia: Homeowners just Walking Away Yow, the crazy thing about this housing crash is that you could see it coming from a couple miles (or years) away. But one thing I never anticipated was that all the no money down and interest only loans would mean that buyers had no commitment to the houses and would happily walk away when the payments turned into a drag. This actually might be a good thing though as historically housing declines are marked not by prices going down but by them becoming illiquid as people are unwilling to sell their homes at a loss. If they are willing to cut and run at least liquidity might return quicker...
from the comments on that link:
"In retrospect, getting a home loan in the last couple of years has been like going to a casino: play any game you like, no matter how risky; the house doesn't care, because the house always wins.
"So who bought, the last couple of years? A lot were gamblers and speculators, the kind of people who know how to cut their losses when things go bad. And let "the house" keep the house."
Closely Watched Trains - New York Times, On the L Train arrival signs, which are often but not always accurate. So if you have a sign that conveys information you can't trust, is it still useful?
Five Simple Steps to Becoming a Billionaire: The Greenspan Method
Networks Of Design - Design History Society Conference ‘08, hosted by University College Falmouth
BLDGBLOG: Lyons-Dubai, whoa....
Analysis: Why the "Hillary hacked NH?" story is important (Updated)
NussbaumOnDesign New Distribution System for India's Nano Car From Tata. - BusinessWeek
Doors of Perception weblog: Drops in the bucket - On the problem of a non smooth transition from fossil to alternative energy.
50 people who could save the planet | Environment | The Guardian
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected) Matt Webb with a year worth of thoughts..
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey, only scanned it, but there seems to be too much hate and not enough real exploration of the implications of image sampling and reproduction. Loads of good research on where Shep gets some of his images though. Consider it a good reference point for a more interesting discussion...
Give one, get one, give a "$100 laptop" (for $400) and get one for yourself free...
Michael Pollan - Argiculture - Disease Resistant Staph - Concentrated Animal Feed Operations - Sustainability - New York Times Interesting article, and also interesting is how the NYT has changed the html page titles on their site, the link above is what they now are using and it's clearly designed to improve how the article ranks in Google...
Facebook Admits Ad Service Tracks Logged-Off Users - Yahoo! News
The New York Times > Key Magazine > Slide Show > Making the Cover
"Why do today's 'sustainable cities' look like 1980s golf resorts?"�
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Google, Apple and the future of personal computing
Strange Bedfellows: Why an Apple/Google collaboration has been so difficult to make happen.
David Graeber: The Shock of Victory. Graeber might be the most provocative of all today's academics, and this might just be his provocative piece, in which he argues that anarchistic direct action is actually widely successful and just doesn't know how to handle success. All this despite most anarchists being completely frustrated with their failures... Most interesting political read I've encountered in quite a while...
NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World
Through the Looking Glass - The Post-9/11 Era Has Caught Up With William Gibson's Vision
Richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - So You Think Chinese Pet Food is Bad?
Flooding cripples New York's aging infrastructure. So is "aging infrastructure" the new meme du jour? And is it the new political cover for maintaining a deeply (and increasingly) flawed infrastructure rather than creating a better way to live?
Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’ - Times Online
Streetsblog » Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl Hired to Consult on PlaNYC
Design View / Andy Rutledge - quiet structure - filed for future comment. Quick version, I agree that de-emphasizing structural elements is often a good thing (and as much as he's going out of vogue, Tufte has been emphasizing this for years.) But why does de-emphasizing the structure so often get paired with de-emphasizing the culture? In Rutledge's example the CNN site is way to quiet, it's a cold flavorless stripped down piece of alienation. A lot like an airport really. USA Today would never me my choice for a favorite site, but it least it has some character and energy.
The iPhone User Experience: A First Touch, Tog on the iPhone
Immersion Corporation - Mobility Overview - make a tactile feedback system that works for touch screens, interesting. Course force feedback mice have had pretty limited success despite how nice they can be. Guess the big success in this feed are game controllers, which have well integrated force feedback now.
wayneandwax.com » The Webnography of Reggaeton Faultlines Fascinating post from Wayne Marshall where he digs through one of the more fascinating posts over on this blog. No pomo.
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace - danah boyd is definitely onto something big here, although as she freely acknowledges it is a draft and aspects need evolution (especially the absurd good/bad binary which she pushes way too far). Still the class/cultural differences between MySpace and Facebook are blatantly obvious from the first log in, but perhaps maddeningly difficult to pin down.
Redeye VC: Myspace - the next Prodigy? It's funny to read the tech types on this stuff cause they just don't get culture. Sure the Facebook app platform is light years ahead of what MySpace is doing, but it doesn't exactly help you promote your band or your photo studio or your art does it? I'm actually more optimistic about MySpace's long term relevance now than I've ever been. That doesn't mean what Facebook is doing isn't cool and potentially important, it's just a big fork in the paths these companies are taking.
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in "This is an amazing achievement -- one of the most significant milestones in the technology industry in this decade.", and well plenty of bloggers get all hyperbolic like that, but when the blogger is Marc Andreessen, former lead developer of Netscape and co creator of Mosaic... Then again he also is the founder of Ning so make what you want of those statements.
The New York Times Magazine - Money Issue, as good and as sobering as an issue can get.
NYT - Kids and Money | New York Times Shorts -- The First Ones - yow, 15 minutes well worth watching.
emo beer = busted career, great visualized music reviews.
Streetsblog » Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg
london 2012 (tecznotes), got to agree with Mike, took a couple days but I rather like the London 2012 logo now, and the video is as good as that design by committee stuff could ever hope to be. Not quite Mexico 68, but similarly psychedelic and still damn good as these logos go.
Feature Presentation, James Surowiecki on feature creep in The New Yorker
Old School Messenger on Letterman in the 80's, under a truck!
How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community By Cory Doctorow,
Leaving a big mess on campus - Los Angeles Times "After final exams and graduation every spring, America's college campuses become astonishing junkyards of abandoned stuff — providing, some say, a snapshot of a generation of students raised in a throwaway culture."
And as a bonus they highlight my alma mater...
Index of MaisonMartinMargiela, pretty much a rip off (or homage to?) of the OG Helmut Lang site, but that was one of the all time best sites in my book so....
For what it's worth a few years ago I got half way through building a portfolio site entirely in apache, no html, no flash, just modded directories and images, should finish that thing....
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Long player, Carr on David Weinberger's, Everything Is Miscellaneous. Like Carr I started reading this, and yeah Weinberger started losing me at the exact same point. I did make it half way through though and the book is pretty much ok. I don't actually disagree much with it's premise, what's in there is generally semi right, but what's missing tells a whole other story. Weinberger's got some serious rose colored glasses, and funnily enough the stories he tells make his little tech elite culture into heroes... More hopefully when I finish the thing.
Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream - New York Times
Estonia accuses Russia of ' waging cyber war'-News-World-Europe-TimesOnline
Koolhaas, Foster clash over ‘similar’ designs - Building Design
What Else Is New?: How uses, not innovations, drive human technology. The New Yorker review of "The Shock of the Old", about a quarter way into this book myself and not quite sure how I feel, it seems rather obvious, but sometimes the obvious really needs to be said...
The Açaí Evangelist, my cousin Noah Landes writing about acai and the food politics of rainforest fruit. He definitely got me addicted to the stuff, I've been eating it every day for the past couple weeks, no lie. It's sort of like blueberries merged with chocolate, damn good stuff...
MASH SF World Premiere long time coming! when is NYC?
Dept. of Popular Culture: Banksy Was Here: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Click opera - Secondhand best: the point of not designing at all
Radio 1 pulls 'promotional' track for brand of hair gel | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here
apophenia: maps tech companies + dpblog: utopia maps: more vs. myspace
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding." - John Updike (via AG)
Little Snitch app for monitoring network traffic on a Mac
cityofsound: Postopolis + BLDGBLOG: Postopolis!, yikes this should be fun!
China To Top U.S. in Greenhouse Gases This Year (TreeHugger) It's going to be really interesting to see what this does to the US environmental movement psychologically. All of a sudden instead of biggest core of the problem is going to be a "them" instead of an "us", what happens next, who knows...
‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ - New York Times - First chapter of Nassim Taleb's new book. I'm in the middle of it now, recommendation at the moment, read this chapter, but buy his first book not this one. He's got one seriously important idea, but his writing leaves something to be desired, and it's not getting better...
17gugg-graphic.jpg (JPEG Image, 1245x694 pixels), the crack epidemic finally reaches the art world...
Click opera - Live dangerously, live long! "Reversible Destiny Lofts"
Profiting from the Virginia Shooting, the news outlets are buying massacre ad words, and Google of course is selling them.... Course it's possible the ad buys are algorithm driven, wouldn't be surprised if the Times has a system of automatically IDing keywords which triggers keyword buying on Google. And if they don't have it already, well it's coming soon, isn't it?
Update: BlackBerry service hit by widespread outage in U.S., hmmm wonder how robust they really are with all north american traffic going through 2 hubs...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Googleopoly Beating on Google is sort of a kicking a dead horse thing to do nowadays, except that the horse was never alive anyway it's a statanic robot and it happens to be charging straight at you at some absurd speed.Google plus Doubleclick?, you better run for your lives my friends, except there is no where to run so maybe try turning off your internet and then stay off for life...
GigaOM » DodgeBall founder quits Google Go Dennis! Happy to see you free at last.
S/FJ: PEOPLE GET HEATED, truth is there is no debate, Lil Wayne has been absolutely running hip hop for the past year, and there are no signs he's slowing down. Wonder if any of this run is ever going to make it to an official record though...
Lord of the Ringtones: How Akon became a star. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine Good article on the first true 21st century pop star. The African car thief currently singing with a Senegalese accent over a healthy chunk of the top 40. If he didn't exist William Gibson probably would have had to invent him. Of course this being the 21st, it's pretty easy to be the biggest pop star in the world and have practically no one know who you are.
PopMatters Books Feature | Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson
Mexican Drug Cartels Leave a Bloody Trail on YouTube - washingtonpost.com
Core77 - 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design a little blasé but he sums up the sustainable design trend in a neat 1000 words. Why does it have to be so boring though?
BLDGBLOG: The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Predictability, Margins of Error, Quality of Life
indexed: Exodus, anyone? Indexed is one of my favorite blogs of late, and this particular piece is freaking brilliant....
eBay: KING TUBBY'S HOMETOWN BASS SPEAKER BOX (RARE FIND) , auction is over, but whoa.. surprised it didn't go higher though.
Raph’s Website » GDC 07: Game Studies Download "Female players get Sims pregnant 60% of the time, males only 11%. If parents are divroced[sic], so you marry your Sims? Players who have married parents keep their sims married 73%, divoerced[sic] families only 53%. There is a weak correlation between personality and ingame behavior. Strong correlation between player race and character choice, it’s the exception. And females are a lot more likely to have babies in the Sims. Players are a little likely to want to enact their personlaities[sic], but very likely to want to enact their race and their gender."
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » The Power of Ten (Simpson's style), a totally insane animated gif..
Swizz Beatz Kills Rap, and Tom Breihan is just killing it blogwise lately... Make sure you peep the song, or at least the beat. Between this, M.I.A.'s Bird Flu and Timbaland's Petey Pablo beats there is some true rhythmic frenzy hitting dancefloors in the 007...
Hungry for the Truth: An Interview With Michael Pollan by Anne E. McBride
Time Out New York / Trained killer, a payphone driven installation by my friend Ryan Holsopple.
WorldChanging: Notes from the Road: Design Indaba and Doors of Perception
frogblog / Chinese product round-up: Planes, bikes, and automobiles, and buses...
Prepaid Phone Cards - Consumed - Rob Walker - New York Times
Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » Collapsing Bulkheads: The Covers of Crash
John Battelle's Searchblog: Packaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media, Part One (Updated)
Lost in Babylon: An Iraq War translator's inside take on America's failure to communicate
Open Architecture Network | Improving living standards through collaborative design
Mobile phone banking takes off - PSD Blog - World Bank Group
'Safest ever' passport is not fit for purpose | News | This is London
Music's New Gatekeeper - WSJ.com "From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. Our reporters on the horse-trading that can turn unknowns into stars."
GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever compiled by Graydon Carter! Oddly American centric (with about one and a half exceptions, ie so few that they should have just made it an American list), but pretty on point. I'd work in the Economist, Vice, one of the big 90's fashion rags (Visionaire, Purple and Big spring to mind), and a skate mag (Big Brother, Thrasher or Transworld in their prime.) Damn that piece just brought out the nerd in me hardcore...
Advertising Age - Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million
Social Explorer, a nice interactive data map of the US.
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Design Schools: Please Start Teaching Design Again
cityofsound: 'Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait', by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, great piece by Dan Hill.
On a side note I first read it on my phone, and made a mental note to link to it here, which I promptly forgot. As more and more devices get networked, what happens to reading and posting patterns? In this case the technology actually disabled my ability to maintain a practice. It wasn't until it popped up again in my reading network that I remembered to add it to this column...
Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior - New York Times
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A Condo Tower Grows in Brooklyn - washingtonpost.com, the national press catches a long brewing local story...
peterme.com :: Michael Pollan and John Mackey be sure to check their letters back and forth, quite interesting.
richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - Org Chart 2.0: Built for Systems Thinking, It's a touch heavy on the "new new" hyperbole, but a very valid question none the less.
Pruned: Super-Versailles, on the massive wall sized control room screens
Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
Howard Schultz concerned about Starbucks expansion, really interesting internal memo from the Starbucks CEO where he comes rather honestly face to face with the Starbucksification of his brand. It's easy to forget that at one point Starbucks actually made decent (and from what I understand at an earlier point even great) coffee. The question I keep wondering though is just what did Starbucks do with those thousands of La Marzoccas?
collision detection: Does the month of your birth affect your risk of mental illness?
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing
AQ | Graphic Design | Articles: Wayfinding in Tokyo: Local Context and Direction Map Design
More Nitsche at: BibliOdyssey: Erik Nitsche Graphic Design & BustBright » Erik Nitsche
Flickr: Erik Nitsche collection, a small set of images from my favorite modernist era (but too good to be called modernist) designer. I actually had a collection of nearly all his General Dynamics annual reports, which I long since left with a friend who hopefully still has them. Anyone know a good scanning service in NY, they are well worth documenting...
79 - East Germany Lives On - As A Tiny Carribean Island « strange maps
Sugar rush | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited "'Sugar is as dangerous as tobacco [and] should be classified as a hard drug, for it is harmful and addictive,' according to a recent article in the British Medical Journal."
The Old Guard Flexes Its Muscles (While It Still Can) - New York Times, on the Networks response to YouTube.
rodcorp: Monocle first impressions, pretty on point, Wallpaper meets the The Economist was actually the exact same hollywood pitch synopsis I was using. The first issue is uneven, but if the weaker points get ironed out, not accentuated as things move on this will be a great mag. The risk however is in the ads, which lean towards that high income wallpaper side of things, and the weaker articles have that bad writing for rich people sort of thing going on. Any slide toward that direction and the result is just another nauseous luxury lifestyle mag. The fact that they are opening news bureaus is a good sign they'll move in the right direction, so the odds are looking nice.
Chávez Threatens to Jail Price Control Violators - New York Times, hard to tell exactly what is happening down their from this distance, but the Times at least is painting a picture of a ghostly echo of the mistakes of 20th century communism and if the left is going to go anywhere they desperately need to learn from and not repeat those mistakes...
Hip-Hop Outlaw (Industry Version) - Samantha M. Shapiro - New York Times, Sam's an old friend, great writer and covering the DJ Drama drama for the NYTimes magazine.
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org) Jonathan Lethem in defense of plagiarism and against copyright.
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap - Gizmodo
Do we *REALLY* want to aggregate all our social networks? | :Ben Metcalfe Blog
Hello, Christian Science Monitor readers! Flood of knockoff merchandise triggers a wider crackdown across US | csmonitor.com is well worth reading, and not because it somehow features a quote from your's truly...
The Real Problem For YouTube » Publishing 2.0 with some response from both me and the excellent Mike Migurski in the comments.
MOG looks like one of the more interesting of the social music sites, although some Pandora style radio functionality could really add to it..
RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service, crazy map of all the current "disasters" on the globe.
Daring Fireball: Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music', I'm starting to think that Job's offer to do away with DRM in the iTunes store is indeed a bluff, but people often bluff with pretty decent hands. I'm pretty sure Apple prefers their "FairPlay" tech lock over selling unprotected MP3 files, but they look great saying they are against DRM knowing that the big guns in the music industry will never call that bluff. And if they actually do, well Apple can handle it, they'd just rather not...
Apple - Thoughts on Music, Steve Jobs is credited with writing that, and he comes out strongly against DRM, very interesting.
Nas: the "Where Are They Now" remixes, with an insane and massive collection of old school MCs
At Davos, The Politicians Got Web 2.0 More Than The Business People. Not too surprising actually, democratic politics is a highly networked and in places highly distributed process. Big corporations on the other hand tend to have centralized hierarchies not all too different than say a 16th century monarchies...
The Long Tail: The beginner's guide to critiquing the Long Tail, in which Chris Anderson addresses some common critiques of his theory and in some ways confirms mine...
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
"1. Eat food. Though in our current state of confusion, this is much easier said than done. So try this: Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. (Sorry, but at this point Moms are as confused as the rest of us, which is why we have to go back a couple of generations, to a time before the advent of modern food products.) There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these."
Raining E-Blows on Egos - New York Times, It doesn't exactly include any real evidence, but this little Times Style piece is claiming there is now targeted spam going out. Even if it doesn't quite exist yet, it's bound to come down the pipe soon enough, but what I want to know is what are the actual mechanics of it all?
The shipping news | Waste and pollution | Guardian Unlimited Environment
richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - Colbert on Cingular
John Battelle's Searchblog: The Bummer Of Davos... where every session is off the record, the people in power need to stay in power after don't they...
YouTube - Kool G Rap ft. Nas - Fastlife, rare Nas from his prime, damn...
Color Rendering Index (CRI) and the problem with fluorescents
Davos Moment--Battelle Complains About Lack of Advertising for Blogs.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Montgomery-Finkelstein debate
Google Operating System: Google Shows Really Big Checkout Buttons, interesting to see how Google starts to act more and more like a traditional advertiser as the easy money side of things slows down.. Wonder what would have happened if they hadn't gone on a hiring rampage, if they had kept costs low they might have been able to keep their pure text ethos rolling for a long time, or maybe not... Guess that's the Craig's List model.
Many Eyes, IBM's shared data visualization site, Wattenberg & Viegas apparently involved, but it's still not working great for me.
One of the remarkable things about YouTube and era of cheap videocameras is that people are growing up with a remarkable degree of understanding about the art film/video editing. I'm not quite sure that this is what the old school media theorists had in mind when they pushed "media literacy" but evenNike is hyping video editing to the world. Plus I contributed a microsecond or two of Flash animation to that site, so...
