November 2009
70 posts
new tumblr rule: if you delete your tumblr YOU DIE...
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October 2009
111 posts
Watchmarco:
Dan Meth’s latest video is great:
Google Street View Guys A new College Humor cartoon! Ever wonder what it’s like for the dudes who have to drive those Google camera cars around? I think it’s a little something like this…
The creative background, explained in this follow-up, is very well done.
“A shell fired out of the cannon, and neatly proceeded down the screen. We were...”
– Shooting the Code (via chrisko)
50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers
taitran:
50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers
Culture
In these lectures, you’ll learn about the culture of technology, and how technology affects culture.
Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures: Find out how literary criticism and cultural history have accommodated and embraced contemporary media from this lecture. [MIT]
Privacy Under Pressure: Privacy Under Pressure explores the stream of...
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75 Apps to Turn Your iPhone into the Ultimate... →
eva2:
Forget the plastic library card and the hassle of remembering to return the books to the public library. In this list of 75 iPhone applications, you’ll find reference books, fiction, nonfiction, audio books and book readers to outfit your new digital library.
“Only the internet asks its users to prove that they are human.”
– 50 most annoying things about the internet. (via churly)
“Tacit knowledge – that which cannot be readily expressed in published content of...”
– John Hagel (via chrbutler) (via notational)
“[The Internet and Twitter] puts you in the position of a journalist, in a way....”
– Margaret Atwood (via jacobsknabb)
New F.T.C. Rules Has Bloggers and Twitterers... →
dlbrows:
shaneguiter: Beginning Dec. 1, bloggers, Twitterers and many others who write online product reviews must disclose the receipt of free merchandise or payment for the items they write about.
The guidelines, an update of the F.T.C.’s 1980 guide concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising, will affect many in the beauty and fashion blogging community, where freebies...
“The Internet is mostly unreadable not because of the way it is written, but...”
– SO WHAT EXACTLY IS CONCEPTUAL WRITING?: an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith - BOMBLog (via britticisms)
“[F]ar more chilling … is a case involving Horizon Realty Group, a real estate...”
– NYTimes, “Short Outbursts on Twitter? #Big Problem” (via hatethefuture) (via unburyingthelead)
“writing with a knife”
– Do Long Blog Posts Scare Away Readers? | Copyblogger (via kenmat)
