April 2011
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Explaining gender imbalance statistics through a live infographic-augmented presentation – JESS3 for The Economist
(via)
This isn’t just an amazing video (or INFOGRAPHIC THROUGH TIME! as I prefer), it’s also an impressively conceptualized study. Intersectionality ftw!
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“Poly lit the way for me as a female singer who wanted to sing about ideas. She...”
– Kathleen Hanna
spytap replied to your link: Ayn Rand Movie Fails in Free Market (Despite Tea Party Hype)
Fixed, thanks! I was trying to update it from page 2 to page 1 and pasted the wrong link.
Ayn Rand Movie Fails in Free Market (Despite Tea... →
In Rand’s world money equals truth. They regard the quality of the film as secondary to the need for box office success in order to advance their agenda and to prove the power of the Tea Party as a consumer/political force. In other words, these Utopian free marketeers were afraid to trust the free market to decide the film’s fate.
“The Office of Historic Resources has two full-time staffers. But with the help...”
– Hector Tobar: Honoring the San Fernando Valley’s past — oh, you didn’t think it had one?
Hello, fun spring/summer exploration!
“Just below the surface of Gladwell’s thesis is really a rejection of consumerism...”
– Tweet Like an Egyptian
Gladwell’s assertions still feel like a weirdly personal betrayal.
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Flavors.me
In the interest of writing more (a goal I’ve recently realized is rather important to me) here are more thoughts on Flavors.me than I realized I had until a coworker decided to pry said thoughts out of me. Which means, of course, the site is down. EC2 is down but Tumblr is up! Rejoice!?
It seems, to me, to be one of those sites where you set it up and forget about it – at least that’s...
“When you contrast [humanist] philosophies with the great young religions —...”
– Any author who challenges me to “take the Socratic challenge” gets his (or her. please, gimme a her) book put on my short list.
factsarenothing asked: What was the best thing you ate this Christmas?
“Never meet your heroes’ wise people say. They weren’t thinking of Lis Sladen.
...”
– Steven Moffat, Doctor Who’s Lead Writer and Executive Producer on the passing of Elisabeth Sladen (via operationfailure)
She will be sorely missed.
Influence in the Age of Social Brands →
I like this presentation, except for the way I can’t share it easily.
Edit: Or I’m still slightly ill and out of it. Here we go:
Understanding influence in social media View more presentations from Face
“You think I’m hot stuff, don’t you? You, lying there every day, dreaming about...”
– Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain (via jaybushman)
“Day after day I read stories that make me angry. Wanton consumption is...”
– The One-Percenters - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Could we get an Ebert/Weiner ticket going?
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Mark Twain's beautiful letter to Walt Whitman on... →
kateoplis:
Transcript
Hartford, May 24/89 To Walt Whitman: You have lived just the seventy years which are greatest in the world’s history & richest in benefit & advancement to its peoples. These seventy years have done much more to widen the interval between man & the other animals than was accomplished by any five centuries which preceded them. What great births you have...
“An authority isn’t a person or institution who is always right — ain’t no such...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary
via Andrew Sullivan
(via jericsinger)
This has been sitting in my drafts for a while. Today seems like a good day for the reminder.
“Brands have to get cuddlier. They have to get friendlier. They have to be more...”
– David Carr (via soupsoup)
This means being willing to apologize, which is familiar if your background is in customer service but alien if your experience has been informed by a business-minded mentality that perceives apologies as weakness.
“The bigger issue is that journalists are completely innumerate. I can count on...”
– Andrew, in response to this.
Not to totally excuse David Brooks here, but his editors share the blame here. A good editor is a reader advocate, and should be adding up and questioning these figures during the editing process.
This is a particular problem with opinion pieces; we’ve all read...
China tells U.S. to quit as human rights judge →
“Stop the domineering behavior of exploiting human rights to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries,” it said, according to excerpts published by the official Xinhua news agency.
“The United States ignores its own severe human rights problems, ardently promoting its so-called ‘human rights diplomacy’, treating human rights as a political tool to...
tokerchris:
Two whole followers! Yay! This feels weird!
Also: It’s 4:20 right now.
Am I expected to double check before I invoke the You Are So Stoned meme now?
ericmortensen:
officialbeastieboys:
Make Some...
“For anyone who’s into chocolate, Godiva is a weird concept,” Mr. McCollum said....”
– When Class Meant Brie and Pears - NYTimes.com
Framing this article around the rise and dangers of artisanal culture is disingenuous — how about explicitly examining (and condemning) the creation, standardization and over-commidification of a national market.
MediaShift . How One Radio Reporter Ditched His... →
minimalmac:
Now, with the Apple iPhone 4 and several apps, I can produce intricate audio and video reports, broadcast live, take and edit photos, write web content and distribute it through social media from a single device.
The future is now.
(via TUAW)
The iPhone 4 changed how I do my job entirely and for the better.
“Every designer should carefully consider the unintended consequences of each...”
– Cautionary Tales in Transmedia Storytelling | Magazine | Wired.com
“Despite social media’s drawbacks — the increasingly uncertain...”
– Photojournalism in the Age of New Media - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic
“He could not have known — not yet — that his response that day might change the...”
– How Slavery Really Ended in America - NYTimes.com
Watchcuriositycounts:
How much information can the world store, communicate, and compute?
Makes one think of Douglas Coupland’s Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! and where the concept of “information overload” began.
(via @aaronkoblin)
Information acceleration.
“6. We all need “chosen family.” Some of us are blessed with a supportive,...”
– Shelby Knox, “On Her 77th Birthday, Seven Things I’ve Learned From Gloria Steinem” (via Ms.)
Yes.
Are you faking it or are you making it?