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Linkorama : Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : CJR - CJR’s Russ Juskalian recently spoke with Shirky about knowledge, the Internet, and why we shouldn’t worry about information overload. The second part of the interview can be found here.
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joshua : Television Tropes & Idioms - wjw
Rod Begbie : Television Tropes & Idioms - "This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction." Tell your Checkov's Gun from your Deus Ex Machina. [via] #
philgyford : Television Tropes & Idioms - Home Page - Big wiki cataloging "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations". Big, big time sink.
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nelson : Poor Obama - The insanity of having the press follow you everywhere
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Richard Rutter : Starting your own business during a downturn - .
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Richard Rutter : Cennydd on Getting Real About Agile Design - I maybe biased, but this is excellent.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Reflections of a Newsosaur: It's time to rip the lid off - Newspapers need to get off their haunches, boldly pick their shots, and then rip the lids off their respective towns, turning themselves once again into confident and thundering voices delivering coverage that compels attention and delivers results.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Scroll Magazine looks pretty ace - A kind of meat-space A List Apart.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : The Live Web - Terrific post by Josh Porter on how the web is moving from documents to applications.
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4 month ago
deusx : Adam McKay: We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing - "This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we've got a way bigger military and we're angrier. People will get hurt and we'll
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4 month ago
Linkorama : NPR's Andy Carvin on the Role of Social Media in Gustav Coverage
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Embargo Breakers: Who Exactly Do You Write For? - happens when an embargo is broken: everyone is damaged to a certain extent while the blogger enjoys the attention, the links and Techmeme position (or whatever) as well.
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5 month ago
Richard Rutter : World clock meeting planner - Handy for schedule meetings with clients spread around the world.
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5 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : A List Apart’s Survey, 2008 Edition - You took it, right? Of course you did. ∞
Richard Rutter : ALA Web Design Survey 2008 - I took it, so should you (doesn’t take long)..
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6 month ago
deusx : Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player - "Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen—you already have everything you need."
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Apture - Apture provides the first rich communication platform allowing publishers and bloggers to easily turn flat pages of text into multimedia experiences.
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Richard Rutter : Adding richness to activity streams - Useful thinking form the man Messina.
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7 month ago
Greg Storey : Designer survey. - Andy's doing some research and could use your help.
Richard Rutter : Designer Survey 1 - Let’s give Andy Rutledge a hand as he gathers data to support a large personal project needing the widest response possible.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : PR Secrets for Startups - Great post by Brian Solis
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8 month ago
Linkorama : CBS Acquiring CNET For $1.8 Billion - Walter Cronkite reviews the latest laptops
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Ok, Wired, Let’s Do This. - Interesting clash between bias vs. disclosure, and competition vs. covering competition
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8 month ago
gleuschk : short interview with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich | The A.V. Club - I've been listening to Radiolab podcasts on my walks to campus. Sometimes I walk slow on purpose.
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8 month ago
philgyford : 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky - Or watch Clay give that "how do they find the time?" talk in person on this video. Worth it; he's an awesome speaker. (via Daring Fireballl)
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's speech at Web2expo
Andy Baio : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead [via]
philgyford : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - Clay on the answer to "where do they [gamers, Wikipedias, bloggers, etc.] find the time?" By watching less TV. Great stuff.
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9 month ago
deusx : DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys - "Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any moment—no matter what your expectation was when you bought it.
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9 month ago
adamrg : Bitter Patter - If Clinton is running to the bottom -- ABC is pulling the rest of us down.
Ethan Marcotte : Bitter Patter - “If Gibson and his partner, George Stephanopoulos, had halted their descent at the level of the fatuous, that would have been bad enough. But there was worse to come.” ∞
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