A fascinating convergence is upon us right now bringing a perfect opportunity for open-minded journalists. Sadly, many mainstream media outlets are reducing their staff journalists. Newspapers, magazines, radio, and television outlets are facing tough economic challenges and unfortunately that means... | Continue »

via www.newyorker.com The subsconscious shelf is a recurring feature in which The New Yorker readers send in pictures of their bookshelves, and Macy Halford or Sally Law give loose leafed psycho-analysis: Is that bookshelf leaning dangerously to the left, or... | Continue »

Today we released a snazzy blogside toolbar to Beta members. Over the past year, we’ve rolled out a number of social features for our bloggers and the toolbar is another essential piece for connecting blog audiences with TypePad bloggers. The... | Continue »

Firstly, a quick observation which will be especially useful if you're in the UK and shoot 35mm film. Boots (national chain of chemists) do a much, much better job of processing, scanning and printing photos than Tesco (giant UK supermarket)... | Continue »

When the editor-in-chief of the city's biggest paper begins a speech with the words 'I am one of the most internet and technology aware editors in the industry...' you kind of know he's going to spend the next five or ten minutes proving comprehensively through his words and responses that he doesn't have a clue. And so it was with last night's panel discussion on how new media can improve journalism and news media in general. | Continue »

Carla: The "value" of a fan is directly related to the relationship that that fan has with the brand, and with the broader audience of influencers. Fans may have a certain value today based on their level of engagement (their... | Continue »

There are a few interesting elements to the Sunday Times' lobbying sting story today besides the story itself. As reported by the Guardian, the Sunday Times and Dispatches team created a website for a fake consultancy firm called Anderson Perry... | Continue »

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It's always curious to me when people are called out on their bullshit, and they attack with excuses and outlandish claims, rather than just taking responsibility for their actions. Or just simply being honest. Benedict Carey of the The New York Times notes that the "burn of embarrassment" causes most people to dish out excuses. That they're protecting their self image with something called "self handicapping". "The urge goes well beyond a mere lowering of expectations, and it has more to do with protecting self-image than with psychological conflicts rooted in early development, in the Freudian sense." People who are... | Continue »

via snakebomb.tumblr.com Sent to me by pen pal and fellow Twin Peaks enthusiast Tim Höfer, a lucious pixel painting of the iconic Red Room and a few other familiar Twin Peaks icons. That cherry pie looks good enough to eat, but honestly, the coffee could be a little more black.... | Continue »

Mijn bedrijf YesItCan.be heeft vanaf vandaag ook z'n eigen logo. Ik gooi het hier even ter beta-test in de groep. Wat denken jullie? | Continue »

Embedded videos — those hosted by YouTube but streamed on blogs and other Web sites — don’t generate any revenue for record companies, so EMI disabled the embedding feature. Now we can’t post the YouTube versions of our videos on... | Continue »

Yet another blog from me? This will be my 5th, though I only post close to regularly on two of them. Thing is, I been working and travelling so much this year that I've kept running out of time to blog about all the stuff I'm dying to blog about.... | Continue »

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My quick take on the iPad: this really is an entirely new class of device. Not because of the form factor (neat!) or the technology (fast!) or the vertically integrated content distribution channel (smart!). Instead, the iPad is something new... | Continue »

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Compare these two stories: Was software to blame for Chinook crash? New evidence has emerged that computer software faults may have caused a RAF Chinook helicopter crash in which 29 people died... An official RAF enquiry... found the pilots guilty... | Continue »

Just getting around to NY Mag's piece on The Warm-Fuzzy Web: In this new world of nice netiquette, technology is designed to make it easier for everyone to love one another. After all, if you're not your "real self" online,... | Continue »

Last night, while levelling Ularia from Team Leafy, I came across a chunk of WoW Lore made scenery, by running across Grom Hellscream's monument while hunting demons in Demon's Fall Canyon. Years ago I levelled Leafy through Ashenvale (I remember... | Continue »

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