October 2009
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“No one thought people would want to follow strangers, or that celebrities would...”
– Stephen Levy
(via binkythedoormat)
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“So, yes, the record industry may yet have to comprehensively reinvent itself, or...”
– John Harris, “The golden age of infinite music”
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Timber Timbre — “No Bold Villain”
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A people's history of the internet →
From Arpanet in 1969 to today.
(via chrbutler)
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Facing the (Free) Music
For 10 years, music execs have waged a war against digital file sharing — and software like Napster and websites like The Pirate Bay — which have decimated the industry’s profits. But recently, there are signs from Europe that the battle over free music may be changing.
If you’re interested in how and why the music industry has come to be what it is, you’ll want to listen to this...
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“What’s the old movie line from ‘Annie Hall’? Relationships are like sharks; they...”
– Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy
For whatever criticisms one might level at Microsoft, they rarely receive due credit for being as aware as they are of their own challenges.
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McCain Moves To Block the FCC's Net-Neutrality... →
infoneernet:
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved a proposal for an open Internet. Proponents such as Google, eBay and more than a dozen others have voiced support, while opponents, including Comcast, Verizon Communications, and AT&T, say the government needs to take a close look its involvement.
Just hours after the FCC moved to create the new rules, U.S. Sen. John...
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BART partners with Foursquare →
Bay Area Rapid Transit has become the first transit agency to partner with the location-based mobile network Foursquare, with the goal of encouraging public transit use.
Congratulations to both parties on a partnership that raises awareness for burgeoning Foursquare and entices the tech-centric San Francisco community to do the right thing for their city.
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Digital Revolution from the BBC →
digital revolution is a four part series for BBC Two about how the web is changing the world. Due in 2010, it’s in production now, and we’re offering a range of ways to interact with the programme team and the content we produce. get involved
Nobody does documentaries like the BBC.
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Bon Iver & St. Vincent — “Roslyn”
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Caribou — “She’s The One”
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“Trust comes, in part, from simplicity. When something is simple, it’s possible...”
– Alex Payne on Computing Simplicity, Minimalism, and Trust
(via mnmal)
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“The flaw of synchronous communication has been repackaged as the boon of...”
– Nicholas Carr on “the coming Google Wave”
(via chrbutler)
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“By the way, the youngest medical students were born in 1988. They’ll soon be...”
– Jay Parkinson
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SpaceCollective →
“Where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today.”
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“The days of build once and milk-the-heck-out-of-that-cow are over.”
– Abraham Sultan, How to Fail Miserably as a SaaS Company
(via hiten)
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The Future of Health Care Is Social →
Jennifer Kilian and Barbara Pantuso, Fast Company:
In this feature article, frog design uses its people-centered design discipline to show how elegant health and life science technology solutions will one day become a natural part of our behavior and lifestyle. What you see here is the result of frog’s ongoing collaboration with health-care providers, insurers, employers, consumers,...
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Real Estate — “Beach Comber”
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New York City — there's an app for that →
Jenna Wortham, New York Times:
On Tuesday, New York City is rolling out the next phase of its NYC Big Apps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones.
Contestants will have access to more than 170 data sets supplied by over 30 city agencies, including weekly traffic...
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“Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.”
– Al Capp
(via hiten)
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The social future of television →
Ethan Zuckerman:
Herkko [Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology] sees a near-fatal embrace between content providers and cable companies. They’re co-dependent, and scared of alienating one another. But this dependency can limit innovation in services. We’ve seen less development around on-demand video, the ability to watch on demand than we might expect than we might expect....
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Airport security cost the US the 2016 Olympics →
“When IOC members are commenting to our President that foreign visitors find traveling to the United States a ‘pretty harrowing experience,’ we need to take seriously the challenge of reforming our entry process to ensure there is a welcome mat to our friends around the world, even as we ensure a secure system.”