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Corporate law firm targets whistle-blowers and anonymous commenters

A British corporate law firm has created a new unit that will help easily offended corporate giants track down and sue anonymous Internet forum posters. They will also target whistle-blowers. They spe...
Cats with fraudulent diplomas

Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university's program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterpri...
Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco

If you're a self-identified vampire, "otherkin" or "energy worker," there's a Meetup for you in the Bay Area. The Vampirism, Energy-work and Otherkin Society (VEOS) is a loosely-organized San Francisc...
DMCA takedown shirt

We'll never know what was originally intended for this Techdirt tee, but we can see the aftermath of the takedown notice it attracted! DMCA Takedown T-shirt (Thanks, Dennis!)...
Teen sex belongs in teen lit

My latest Locus column, "Teen Sex," explains why I think young adult literature should have sex -- and other "mature" topics -- in it. There's really only one question: "Why have your characters done...

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Updates on previous entries for Nov 6, 2009*

The Higgs boson and the Enchantment Under the Sea dance orig. from Oct 21, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can fi...
The Masters of Professional Studies in Branding program at SVA

I would like to thank this week's RSS sponsor, The Masters of Professional Studies in Branding at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. This is a new graduate degree program that will begin in fall 2010 f...
Sesame Street, a disappointment?

From 1971, a critique of Sesame Street from The Atlantic. Nonetheless, and in spite of all its successes, I feel very strongly that Sesame Street has aimed too low, has misunderstood the problem it i...
Making of: CG for Star Wars

There was a short CG special effects sequence in Star Wars (the Death Star explanation at the Rebel briefing); here's how it was made. Tags: movies Star Wars video...
How an American soldier is made

The Denver Post followed high school graduate Ian Fischer as he enlisted in the Army, went through training, left for Iraq, and returned home; the photos tell quite a story. Tags: photography...

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Breakfast of Champions: Toothpaste and Deodorant

For many months, I’ve been thinking, Damn, my wife’s underarm cleanser container looks way too much like a toothpaste dispenser. And this morning, that similarity took its toll. Yuck. Not...
The Boob Makers

Don’t get me wrong here. I enjoy looking at cover shots of January Jones and Shakira as much as the next guy. But are we going a little too far with the photoshop work on these images? Looks lik...
Halloween Outtakes 2009

Our neighborhood in San Francisco is famous for massive Halloween crowds and this year was no exception. We (usually at least two of us) have to site at the bottom our steps where we pass out dual-fis...
Biggest Loser: Signing Reality TV Contracts

If you want to participate in a reality television show, the first question you might want to ask is: “Who will be playing the part of me?” Sure it could be you. But it could also be whate...
A Forum for Anything and Everything

In a recent and in depth look at the problems with chat rooms and forums (posters often ultimately ruin both) Robert Scoble uses Twitter as an example of a cleaner user experience. As an example, he q...

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Thank You, Markos Moulitsas

On MSNBC’s “Ed Show” just now, substitute host David Shuster’s guests were Markos “Kos” Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, and Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado c...
What’s the Matter With Kansas Dept.

Several thousand middle- and lower-middle-class (by the look of them) people gathered on the steps of the Capitol yesterday to denounce health-insurance reform as an apocalyptic threat to all that is...
In Which I Go Digital, or Whatever

I’m doing a “live chat” at 4 P.M. (E.T.) today, right here on newyorker.com. You can participate! Or just lurk! And I get to find out what a “live chat” is! It’ll b...
The Next Four Years

Some political predictions, prompted by the upstate free-for-all. 1. The Beck-Limbaugh purification of the Republican Party will continue apace. Populist nihilism—increasingly the default positi...
Impending Doom Watch

I don’t know which is a worse harbinger of the end of civilization as we know it, the fact that the Wall Street Journal is closing its Boston bureau or the fact that I learned...

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Must. Draw. Mo!

More drawing. Less storking. More posting.
unusual ad for renewable energy

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There is literally no good noun form for people who use twitter and it’s driving me batty.

Most tweeps probably noticed that lists went live last week: We’re putting the finishing touches on our new Lists feature and we’re really excited about the folks who have already taken a lot...
Play Within A Play By Play

My fellow film critic Nate Bell wrote an email to our school’s movies folder, and took a screenshot of said email posted within the email, and took a video of himself writing it. Technological...
the 11/3 project

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c...

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The Long Tail of Travel

For a recent speech to a travel company, we pulled together some data on the changing shape of travel due to low-cost carriers, online travel information and social-media driven word of mouth taking t...
Is this how the singularity happens?

This was one of those freaky moments when the future sneaks up and smacks you. I was on a plane earlier this week and took a break from work to watch the movie while they served dinner. It was Termina...
Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail

A team at Wharton did some Long Tail analysis on the Netflix ratings data the company released for its Netflix Prize. Although I don’t agree with many of the conclusions in their paper (like some ot...
A New York Times Bestseller!

If you checked out today’s New York Times Book Review section, you’ll see that FREE made the list in its first week of eligibility. It’s #12, tied for #11 (that’s what that little asterisk mea...
FREE on the Kindle (free); get it while it lasts!

You can get FREE free on the Kindle (and Kindle iPhone app if you don’t have a Kindle) now. It’s been up for a few days and the free offer will end on Wed, Jul 22nd, so get it now....

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NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning

I honor any project to write something — especially to write a long piece of ﬁction. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared t...
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)

Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Vimeo [NSFW] Here’s a video I made about a video I made. Consequently, it’s also about writing a book, fake self-h...
Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start

MaxFunCon: Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work (via TSoYA) Here’s the audio from a short talk I presented a few weeks ago at Jesse Thorn’s awesome1 MaxFunCon in Lake Arrowhead, CA. The...
Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities

Thanks to my funny, literary pal, Jason B. Jones, today, I’m visiting lovely, warm Connecticut to do some talks and whatnot at CCSU. I mention it because I’d started typing this little pos...
Free as in "Me"

This unbelievably long article is related to (but not necessarily about) a discussion that I and several other people have been participating in online over the past few days. It’s about (and...

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What Are the Most Notable Quotes From 2009?

Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred solicits your nominations for most notable quote of 2009.
A Different Kind of Organ Market?

Who gets bumped to the front of UCLA medical center's liver-transplant line? The godfather of the Japanese mafia, according to this 60 Minutes video...
Charity Won't Contain This Secondary Market

Each year I receive about 10 introductory economics textbooks from publishers. The purpose is to induce me to adopt the book in my 500-student principles class...
Do Earmarks Matter?

Making fun of earmarked Congressional spending is easy, feel-good entertainment. But is it a distraction from the bigger problem?
SuperFreakonomics Book Club: Emily Oster Answers Your Questions

Our first guest was University of Chicago economist Emily Oster, whose research, co-authored with Robert Jensen, formed the basis of the section where we discuss how the introduction of television tur...

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Optical Illusion - Impossible Object With a Twist

[YouTube - Link] If one looks closely at the construction of this figure, it quickly becomes apparent that something is just, well…wrong with it. This initially-baffling video exh...
Having Fun with "Google Suggest"

The “autofill” feature of the Google search box was designed as a timesaver, but the suggested searches can also be entertaining. Writing in Slate, Michael Agger compared the autofill of...
New York City Spaghetti Packaging

Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. Alex Creamer, a student at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, came up with this brilliant idea of a New-York centric packaging for spaghetti: "I c...
Volunteers Work to Save Ash Trees

7.5 billion ash trees are endangered in the United States. (Photo credit Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune) The culprit is the well-known emerald ash borer, an invasive Asian beetle that first arrived in...
Hail to the Thieves: Famous Heists We Love

A REAL LIFE "OCEAN'S ELEVEN": The 2003 ANTWERP DIAMOND HEIST If you thought George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven character was smooth, check [...]...

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Announcement: What Was Your First Horror Movie?

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Announcement: What Is Your Superpower?

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Announcement: Where Were You on August 14, 2003?

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Announcement: What Is Your Favorite Conspiracy Theory?

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Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

Monsieur Proust is the account of Proust's final decade, as told by Celeste Albaret, his servant and confidante. He lived his final days, as is well known, in a cork-lined room with the curtains drawn...
Head, Heart by Lydia Davis

Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels be...
Dogfights & Gameness

In a fighting dog, the quality that is prized above all others is the willingness to persevere, even in the face of injury and pain. A dog that will not do that is labelled a "cur" and abandoned. A do...
Magnum PY

Today Matt Gattis, one of my co-founders at Hunch released Magnum PY, an open source web server, which is possibly the first multithreaded event-driven webserver. Everyone that I work with at Hunch...
Uncertain ends, confident means

My friend Emily pointed out a great quote in this week's New Yorker, in an article about the painter Luc Tuymans, who describes how he creates his work: "It's like I don't know what I'm doing but I kn...

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Announcing the hibernation of lessig.org/blog (from the blogs-deserve-a-sabbatical-too department)

So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal, I penned my first (wildly and embarrassingly defensive) missive to Dave. Some 1753 e...
Remix supporting a Medieval world (as critics have insisted)

Five-year old Felix's mom, Kierstin, sent me this image a bit ago. "I thought you would get a laugh out of these photos where your Remix became a crucial supporting wall for a Medieval Castle, manned...
REMIX unmixed

Dave Wiley has an interesting idea he calls unmixing (in contrast to remixing), which he demonstrates with the first bit of REMIX. Basically, using Yahoo's BOSS, he reassociates every three words to a...
The struggle to improve PACER

So you're likely not to recognize the term -- in all caps, PACER -- but if you do, the amazing sorts at the Stanford Law Library are trying hard to organize attention to getting this essential service...
Speak Out on (Canadian) Copyright

The wonderful Michael Geist has a site to facilitate organizing and thought around "the first Canadian public consultation on copyright policy since 2001."...

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links for 2009-11-07

Twitter lists, creators vs curators, and who owns the meta-data? Flickr's Kellan has a great thought on Twitter's approach to community design. (tags: flickr community design twitter) Post...
links for 2009-11-06

Yelp Death Match: Business Owner Allegedly Attacks Yelper In His San Francisco House Fear the crazy! (tags: crazy community yelp) Post from: Derek Powazeklinks for 2009-11-06 Post from: Derek Powaze...
links for 2009-11-05

StupidFilter Using spam-fighting techniques to identify stupid comments. Has anyone tried this? I'm curious. (tags: stupidity comments community software) Post from: Derek Powazeklinks for 2009...
links for 2009-11-03

The Secret Cause of Flame Wars "People in our study were convinced they've accurately understood the tone of an email message when in fact their odds are no better than chance." (tags: co...
Happy Halloween from Chieka and Bug

Post from: Derek PowazekHappy Halloween from Chieka and Bug Post from: Derek PowazekHappy Halloween from Chieka and Bug...

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Another World level ported to Javascript

in other emulation news, a NES and Gameboy emulator in JS and SNES9x ported to Flash [via] ...
Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN

powered by Viewtronics, Peter Nitsch's gorgeous new Flash 10 ANSI viewer [via] ...
Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design

one of my favorite geeks joins one of my favorite companies ...
Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use

huge announcement, along with the recent free release of Unity Indie ...
The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes

Kai's Power Tools in real-life [via] ...

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Brian Eno Renames My Book

Two nights ago in London, Brian Eno and I did the second in what I hope will be a long series of public conversations at the wonderful ICA. It was a very special night, and I think everyone seemed to.
Searching The "Small Here"

In his essay introducing The Long Now Foundation, Brian Eno tells the story of visiting a wealthy friend in her downtown loft, in an otherwise destitute Manhattan neighborhood circa 1978: I just didn'...
My fall speaking schedule

Here's the lineup for this fall -- it's going to be a busy one! If you're in any of these locales, drop by and say hello... September 21 Princeton, NJ The Myth of the Echo Chamber: Politics in the Age...
Skim and Plunge

The editors at Yale University Press were nice enough to invite me to edit this year's edition of Best Technology Writing. It's a great collection of essays, by some of my very favorite writers, and I...
OIP and the news ecosystem

Today's an exciting day at outside.in: we're rolling out the beta release of Outside.in for Publishers, a suite of tools for organizing and curating hyperlocal news pages for US cities and towns. Ther...

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VIDEO: Ken Burn’s documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright s

Ken Burn’s documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright shows Wright did the actual drawings for the famous Falling Water house in less than three hours! [via TSY] Related:Picasso, Paula Scher, and the life...
INSIGHT: Designs take a leap forward when you kill

Designs take a leap forward when you kill the things you didn’t know you were holding on to.
Haystack: Two Week Anniversary + Latest Updates

Haystack is off to a great start. We launched two weeks ago on October 21st, and so far over over 2,500 web designers have been listed. Lots are finding clients as well. That’s exciting. We&#...
New Car Camo

Car companies go to great lengths to hide new models from from the public (or car paparazzi) during road testing. They’ve gotta drive the cars, but they don’t want to give away their desig...
VIDEO: Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company designs and builds small houses ranging from 65 to 837 square feet. He’s spent the last 10 years living in his tiny houses. In this video he gives a t...

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Adding Facebook and Twitter Followers – A Little One on One ?

I was thinking of ideas on how to add twitter and/or facebook fan page followers. I dont have a real need to have to do so. I was just curious about ways to do so. Think of it as one of those things m...
Keyboards, Phones and NetBooks

Some people wondered why I stayed with my Sidekick despite still not getting my contacts back and all the troubles the network had. The answer is easy. They keyboard is so above any beyond any other p...
A Great Business Idea = The Email of the Day

I got this email today. Of course Im being marginally facetious about the following idea. Why only marginally ? Because all he has to do is find one sucker to say yes. Enjoy. I have an idea to solve...
Sports Ratings Records and what it tells us about the internet

have you seen sports ratings lately ? Just this week: The NBA on TNT had its highest ratings in TWENTY SIX YEARS . Versus had its highest rated regular season NHL game EVER. The first game of the...
Its Mavs Time !

I am so firedup for this season to start. No predictions other than to say I think we are much better than last year and if we can stay healthy…. And of course off the court, we are always try...

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Amino acid spaghetti

How does jello work? (via se)...
December 2008 flooding in Venice

If you haven't already seen them, don't miss this amazing series of pictures of the flooding in Venice last December....
November reading recommendations

From the American Bookseller's Association, 10 years of indie recommendations for November reading. (via ra)...
Twitter - Time to increase post size?

So when is Twitter going to remove the 140 character limit from posts? At this point it's just vestigial, isn't...
Health care cost in the US - why they cost so much

Jaw dropping. As [Kaiser Permanente CEO George ] Halvorson explained, and academics and consultancies have repeatedly confirmed, if you leave...

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More New Work
Studio Day

More work for my new show. I had a productive day at the studio, while Eric was teaching a linocut class. I love it here. And this is the postcard. Opening is Thursday November 5th, 6:00 pm at Hotel B...
New Work

I'm getting ready for an upcoming show at Hotel Biron in November. More details soon!
Twenty Years

Twenty years ago today, I moved to the United States. On the 4th of October, 1989, Paddy picked me up from the airport with her friend Matt. I called her today and she said she still feels guilty that...
Beautiful

My friend Desiree's gorgeous girls.

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The end is nigher - A Larger Estimate of the Entropy of the Universe

Chas A. Egan, Charles H. Lineweaver calculated how run-down the universe is as things disappear into the ultimate run-down state of black holes (where you can’t do any work with what gets sucked...
Graph of the Population of Rome Through History

I plotted a graph of Rome’s population through history [source]. Some points: the rise and fall of Ancient Rome was roughly symmetrical (compared to the rapid decline of societies such as Greenl...
Ireland’s Blasphemy Law

Ireland has just created legislation which will make it illegal to blaspheme. “Blasphemous matter” is defined as matter “that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacr...
The Third Replicator

Memetics evangelist, Susan Blackmore has a piece in New Scientist which suggests that replicated information in computers is distinct from memes, and therefore something new altogether. “Evoluti...
Capitalist Pig Flu - Benes

New Scientist has a piece on re-assessing economics after the crash. I’ve a half-baked idea here, that is, one the one hand, obvious, but I haven’t seen spelled out anywhere: that free-mar...

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Final Reminder for Bookshops

A quick reminder (as I was just asked) that today is the day that the bookshop Graveyard Book party reports have to be in to Harper Collins. By 9 pm PST.http://files.harpercollins.com/Mktg/HarperChild...
Note to self: Nights are for sleeping, Days are for Being Awake.

Still trying to get back onto a diurnal schedule. (And, I should add, failing.) Maddy and I started watching the new season of Sarah Jane Adventures tonight, which seems back on form after a dodgy sec...
The Author Comes Home, and displays many photographs of his travels

I went to XinjiangProvince in Western China to continue researching my Monkey/China book. This is the photo I took of a scenic building that, I discovered when the men came out to arrest us, turned ou...
I go, I go; look how I go,

Mr. G is too busy to use the internet, so I'm still here.Item, the first :: CBS Sunday Morning has moved the segment on Mr. G from this Sunday, November 1 to (tentatively) Sunday, November 8. More as...
I have a chart. (A dragon chart!)

Table of Contents:Rumour ControlHalloween DecorationsFurther Variations on Account of a Certain Goblin (Who Shall Remain Nameless) Feeling Silly, and Not At All Reflecting a Distaste for Popular Cultu...

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Underdogs

My latest New Yorker piece, on how David beats Goliath, is here. I've been very pleased with the reaction. I did want to respond, though, to a number of comments that have been made about the parts of...
Brooks on Outliers

David Brooks wrote a very thoughtful column in the New York Times yesterday on "Outliers." Much of what he said was very flattering. I have just two comments in response. 1. Brooks argues th...
Teachers and Quarterbacks

My latest New Yorker piece, "Most Likely to Succeed" is now up. A couple of additional thoughts. In some of the responses to the piece, I've seen some resistance to the idea that choosing NF...
Outliers update

In my new book "Outliers," I spend a chapter trying to explain why Asian schoolchildren perform so much better at mathematics than their Western counterparts. The principal source of data on...
Outliers!

My new book, "Outliers: The Story of Success," is coming out on Tuesday, after long last. I'm very happy with it, and I think anyone who liked Tipping Point or Blink will like this book too.

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Shared: Spin It – Reinventing The Bathtub: A shower that is not gross…

Spin It - Reinventing The Bathtub: A shower that is not gross when you want to bathe in it. I likes. (via Freckles)Comments...
Shared: Even though I am long sick of the Geico cavemen, there is…

Even though I am long sick of the Geico cavemen, there is something about the bowling commercial that just tugs at the heart strings!Comments...
Shared: When comment spam pukes on itself

When comment spam pukes on itself: I was reading this great article about traveling to the Galapagos Islands and noticed it had 154 comments. Unfortunately, none of them are real. Comment #120 is pric...
Shared: Trademarkia: An easier way to search for trademarked names

Trademarkia: An easier way to search for trademarked names: Beats the hell out of the USPTO search site.Comments...
Shared: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web

Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web: It seems like there are 99 pro-realtime-web articles for every anti-realtime-web article. This article is a good re...

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Twitter, Outlines, Lists, Directories, Y!ou

Humans create the web, but we've largely abdicated the act of organizing web content to software. That could change. Twitter this week made its new...
How to run Windows 7 under Mac OS X 10.6 for free

Update: Since this post got a lot more readers than I expected, it's become clear to me that the title was unintentionally vague. I thought...
Communications and Perception

Most of my career has been dedicated to communications, either in making tools for enabling it, or in trying to practice the art myself. My...
Communities of Creators

Last week, I found this picture of a group dinner at Guero's restaurant in Austin, TX, taken during South by Southwest in 2002. At the...
TechCrunch, Venture Capital, Record Labels and Getting What You Asked For

There have been another spate of interesting conversations around the tech industry about what goals a tech company should have, and how they should achieve...

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i am not a food blogger

But I'm a blogger who likes food. And this week I had three dishes at three restaurants in New York that are worth mentioning. 1. The filetti pizza at Motorino Pizza in the East Village. People in SF'...
the last days of gourmet

Kevin DeMaria posted a photo essay of the last days of Gourmet Magazine. > So good. (via)...
developing the ambient array

Do you love cities? And architecture? And computers? And vague phrases like "ambient arrays" and "biophysical mesh networks" and "knowable material"? Do you dress primarily in black? Then chances are...
no one suggested twenty-ought-ten?

Big news in the Times today about how car companies are choosing to pronounce "2010" in ads for new models. (Shortcut: they're going for "two thousand ten" over "twenty ten".) Here's Jon Pearce, group...
isthebaybridgeopen.com recap

Last Tuesday night, after Caltrans closed the Bay Bridge for repairs, I set up a single serving site: isthebaybridgeopen.com, and then proceeded to pimp it lightly here and on Twitter. Just because I...

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Good Faith

It goes like this. Decide you’re ready for a fast prime lens, because much of the time you’re taking pictures in low light and you need the flexibility one would provide. Discover your Nikon cam...
A DSLR Catechism

Which lens is best to have on hand?The one at home. Which camera is best?The model a step up from the one you just bought. When will the right camera for you be available?Probably next year. When w...
Maximum Bob

I wrote a thingy on the podcasting format a couple months ago – making fun of novelty gadgets and mediocrity, but also listing shows I subscribe to and like. Within an hour or so of posting it my Ap...
These days

Last one for now, I promise. Sort of.
Prescience

It’s funny how many people, on learning that I’m Canadian, presume I must therefore have an opinion on Glenn Gould. As it happens I do, but the likelihood of any Canadian having one is up there wi...

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He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User

Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who...
Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund (And My Own Role in It)

"The announcement of its birth, along with the $1.75 million starter budget, is really the launch of a new Internet-based news organization with a focus on original reporting. You might say the Fund'...
Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News

For March 2009. The pace quickened after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and trie...
It Took 23 Years, But I Finally Got to Give My View of the National Press on National Television

I was a guest on Bill Moyers Journal (PBS, Feb. 6) along with Salon's Glenn Greenwald. We talked about pundits and reporters as an establishment institution, and whether Obama can be a disruptive forc...
Write it Yourself: My Advice to Barack Obama

"Obama may have inaugurated a new style in press relations: not the warm embrace, or out in the cold. Neither feed the beast, nor win the week. I will just call it the cool style, and let others...

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Gadget of the Month Club

Hey, Verizon (& Google & Apple & Dell & BestBuy….). I want to try the Droid but I am already in indentured servitude to AT&T for my iPhone (and have no particular desir...
Tough love for media

Here in a bit more friendly video format is the keynote I gave to the Munich Media Days (in English) a week ago, which I linked to earlier. I decided to be blunt and tough and tell them I was worried...
The temporary web

I’m fretting about forgetting things, not just because I’m getting older (on top of middle-aged surgery and its inconveniences and a dicky ticker I now have sciatica; I am a parody of age)...
Podcast mania

Podcasts, podcasts, everywhere….. This month’s MediaTalkUSA for the Guardian is up with guests Jay Rosen of NYU and Michael Tomasky of the Guardian. We talk about Politico’s rear-gua...
The future of news is entrepreneurial

The future of news is entrepreneurial. There’s a lot in that statement. It says: The future of news is not institutional… The news of tomorrow has yet to be built…. The structure &#...

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TEDIndia Session 9: Within You, Without You

"Within You, Without You," the final session of TEDIndia, rings in with a drumbeat -- the rich, propulsive stylings of Sivamani. He combines the sounds of a variety of percussive instruments...
The Buzz: Shashi Tharoor on India's soft power

Shashi Tharoor, India’s minister of state for external affairs, says India should influence the world though soft power -- attracting other countries to India’s example. Here are some responses fr...
The Buzz: His Holiness the Karmapa on heart-centered design

His Holiness the Karmapa, a spiritual Buddhist leader, proposes that the worldwide acceleration of technological connectivity should be accompanied by increased heart-to-heart connections. Check out s...
Meet the TED Blog and social media team for TEDIndia

Our gavel-to-gavel coverage of TEDIndia comes from an extraordinary team. Matthew Trost, Shanna Carpenter and Jenny Zurawell have been blogging and live-tweeting conference proceedings as they happen.
The Buzz: Eve Ensler begins a celebration of the "girl self"

Eve Ensler brought her dynamic stage presence to TEDIndia, to fight for a new celebration and love for the girl inside us all. The audience gave her all the love she wanted, and couldn't stop sharing...

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