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- ABDUL BASIT on “Letting Go” – The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande, on giving up life to live
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The embedded clips make this most useful post ever RT @JewettCW: Scientists pinpoint which #dance moves are hot & not http://ow.ly/2BXoL
Slashdot discussion: Rackspace shuts down Koran-burning church's websites. "Not a constitutional issue" http://bit.ly/cBX4Qp
Techdirt: News website paywall drawback: sources go to sites where their interviews/info have wider reach: http://bit.ly/9OSEci
Thursday 14:35
re: advice to next-gen journos from @jayrosen_nyu: you lost me at "You need to know Flash" http://bit.ly/cZKz1Y
Gawker's rooftop at last night's @HacksHackers mixer. The dance floor was lonely. http://bit.ly/anZqmb
RT @mariancw: Iraq has been deadliest war for the media since WW2, w/ 230 murders of journalists & media workers. http://bit.ly/a6AVtx
OKCupid has an awesome chart about "What xx people like": Among Asians, vietnamese food is tops. As it should be. http://gizmo.do/dBirN0
Google Instant Search does not live-refresh as you type in "fuck". Their fancy invention is useless to 90% of Internet users.
From the bottom of this CJR piece: TPM, using chartbeat, found that most readers quit before midway of long stories http://bit.ly/9YElPn
RT @ProPublica: Announcing the ProPublica Nerd Blog. http://bit.ly/bytJ4c
DailyFinance @jeffbercovici looks at media vs. Huff Po's obsession with balloon boy http://bit.ly/aXGuT2
Foreign Policy: How different is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? http://bit.ly/9Z7i5p
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Williamsburg rooftop, into Manhattan
SoHo graffiti, near Thompson St.
East Village auto garage graffiti
From the deck of the New Museum
Wednesday 3:00
What happens when your rand() function sucks: http://bit.ly/hzIYF h/t @reddit
Slate's Tim Noah examines U.S. income equality with a visual guide: http://bit.ly/ancGwa
Awa Dancing Festival in Kouenji, Tokyo
...and one was playing his guitar at day break.
Thursday 4:51
Hm: @reddit says that media should stop calling it "small" when it has 40% more pageviews than Digg now http://bit.ly/cN0g9F
I love how this becomes notable only b/c of FB. This asshole would've killed were it the paper's wedding section http://bit.ly/aSeUDA
Study: old people like reading shit about young people http://j.mp/d6BENy
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A good way for Google Buzz to recruit the dumbest users on Facebook
My colleague Jeff pointed out this ReadWriteWeb article on how Facebook wants to be the web’s main login service. It apparently jumped to the top of Google’s search results…which means trouble for the kind of people who Google “Yahoo”, in order to find yahoo.com. Incidentally…these are the kind of people who are too dumb to [...]
Google Buzz == Gwitterbook
Well, my first impression of Google Buzz is that it’s a convenient way to FriendFeed my stuff to Google contacts. But I’m surprised at how poor of an interface it released with…I can’t recall the last major online service where I’ve been so confused on how to perform as simple a task as finding the [...]
Facebook CEO’s Mark Zuckerberg Gets Caught With His Privacy Pants Down
UPDATE: This commenter notes that Hill has a friend of a friend with Zuckerberg, which is a different level of privacy than just the whole world. Hill did note that a previous look into Zuckerberg’s profile showed it to be private (though she may have made the mutual friend since then). True/Slant’s Kashmir Hill catches [...]
*sigh* NPR Fans Aren’t That Much Better than the Rest of Facebook