August 2011
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“i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at...”
– Carmen Hermosillo, 1994 (via georgeolken)
April 2011
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Just did a Facebook and Tumblr cleanse
binu:
ambyamy:
shortmikeshort:
Cleaning how many people/things I follow. Did you make the cut? Does it matter to you?
In this age of technology we no longer have only our bedrooms and kitchens clean and laundry to do but also a tidying up of our inboxes and social media accounts.
I’m worried I may never get around to tidying up my room.
December 2010
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October 2010
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"Girls Above Me" twitter developed by CBS →
caitlintime:
FINALLY! A CELEBRITY’S SON GETS A SHOW BASED ON HIS TWITTER THAT COURAGEOUSLY CALLS OUT WOMEN ON BEING DUMB AND SLUTS!
AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 2010
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A blind man buys an iPhone and it changes his... →
crookedindifference:
Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. The iPhone only has one thing holding it back: iTunes. Nevertheless, I have fallen in love.
Interesting read.
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YouTube Star Fred (Lucas Cruikshanks) Brings in... →
Lucas Cruikshanks and his character Fred Figglehorn are already hits on YouTube, but the online video star is made a big splash on TV with 7.6 million viewers tuning in for his “Fred: The Movie” Sunday night on Nick.
“Fred: The Movie” now ranks as basic cable’s top movie of 2010.
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“YouTube is ‘nearing profitability and its revenue is doing quite well,’ Schmidt...”
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt: YouTube Is “Nearing Profitability” | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
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Shortlist Announced for YouTube Play, the Video... →
The shortlist for YouTube Play, the joint venture by the Guggenheim and YouTube to create a “biennial” of amateur video art, has been announced. We’re not sure, though, what criteria the museum used to pick the 125 videos from the over 23,000 submitted, or how the distinguished panel of judges will narrow those 125 down to the 20 designated for exhibition at the...
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Welcome to Fame Game | Promote culture. Share... →
“FAME GAME is a website that maps and analyzes your social connections and media attention to help you promote meaningful ideas, people, and organizations in culture. FAME GAME creates public-facing “social network” profiles for the 150,000+ most visible players in the New York media based on their cultural footprint: events attended, influential connections, and creative...
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“Why does Twitter work better for news than Google Reader? Simple, Twitter gives...”
– Scripting News: How to reboot RSS (via Daring Fireball)
Americans Surfing the Web During Church,... →
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It is the #bestdayever!
bridgecomedy:
Guys, if you need a quick pick-me-up, search twitter for “#bestdayever”. It’s pretty adorable what people are into. Like anniversaries! Meetin up with friends! Eating pizza! Getting married today! Getting a brush with a celebrity! Finding out your curling iron works on wet or dry hair - or my personal favorite, buying a banana costume & dancing in it. Not me, but...
“I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no...”
– Patton Oswalt (via viafrank)
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Trying the iTunes model for essays, led by Chuck... →
If a song on iTunes sells for 99 cents, how about a literary essay?
On Tuesday, Scribner began publishing 69 essays by Chuck Klosterman, the pop culture and sports writer, available individually from retailers like Amazon, Apple and BN.com for 99 cents each.
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Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives →
williebhines:
I like insider knowledge on topics, even geeky probably-don’t-need-to-know things like getting a no-moving-parts hard drive.
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Researchers Skeptical of Claims by Online Dating... →
Facebook's Like Button One Step Closer to Killing... →
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““I was surprised by the findings because the widely held assumption is...”
– from Science 2.0 article “Facebook Profiles Reveal Accurate Personality Portraits”
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what the world is searching for... →
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“A near-term future in which you don’t forget anything, because the computer...”
– - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, during a keynote at the IFA in Berlin
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/eric-schmidt-ifa/
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A Net Neutrality Cheat Sheet: What It Is, and Why... →
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“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being...”
– blue_beetle on metafilter
I frequently think about the part before the semicolon but the part after is more important. (via @bryce)
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““Uh huh. Google takes a similarly generous view of its own motives on the...”
– from Wall Street Journal interview with Eric Schmidt, “Google and the Search for the Future”
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““Much of the discussion of Mr. Schmidt’s interview centered on another...”
– -from William Gibson’s NYT’s op-ed “Google’s Earth”
via DCpierson
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Seth Green Developing An "Interactive Reality... →
popculturebrain:
The duo behind Robot Chicken, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, are teaming up with Ford Motor Co. and Sprint Nextel for an “interactive reality show” called ControlTV. The series will follow six weeks in the life of a twenty-year old guy. The catch? The audience will be able to vote in real time on “every aspect of his life,” from “what he wears and eats, to where he works, to...
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OMG! NPR Makes Richard Dawkins Watch Know Your... →
knowyourmeme:
NPR’s All Things Considered spoke with Richard Dawkins today about internet memes and apparently showed him an episode of Know Your Meme to which he replied:
But if you listen to the audio post, they edited it down to “Interesting.” You know how the media is. Click here to listen to the audio post.
They also spoke with Ben Huh of I Can Haz Cheezburger who talks to them about...
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Which has the most intellectually toxic commenting... →
benzado:
YouTube vs. Facebook vs. Twitter. From Achewood, January 17, 2010.
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August 2010
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A Harvard physicist last year estimated that just... →
crookedindifference:
via.
Edit: Updated comments about these figures are here.
Comment by patrickjoiner: Although I would agree that Google’s servers result in CO2 emissions, this 14 g of CO2 per search is not accurate. See:bit.ly/anrzuz (Times refutation) bit.ly/cfmfyM (Comments by physicist) BTW I don’t work for Google.
Popular iPhone app Angry Birds will be made into a... →
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“A couple of at-home space nuts recently discovered a pulsar with a screensaver...”
– via Switched
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A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality... →
(via robbiemitchell)
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WatchTerrell Owens, football star, discusses social media and connecting with his fans.
via SportsIllustrated.com