Thursday, August 28, 2014 
The UN's New Report on Global Warming Is the Most Terrifying Yet.
billmoyers.com 
Google's Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
bloomberg.com Arby's Meat Mountain was not an organic phenomenon.
slate.com Mystery Solved: "Sailing Stones" of Death Valley Seen in Action for the First Time.
scripps.ucsd.edu Apple Building Massive Structure at Flint Center for iPhone 6 Event.
macrumors.com Scripting News: Ideas about TV-watching and Facebook.
scripting.com I used Hyperlapse to record a segment of my bike ride down the Hudson River this afternoon.
facebook.com Caught on Tape: What Mitch McConnell Complained About to a Roomful of Billionaires.
truth-out.org If you watched a programmer doing his or her work, you might not see much happening.
scripting.com
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Times of India's new contract to journalists: Giving up personal tweets is "in YOUR interest"
qz.com Why is Uber so scared of a much smaller competitor?
qz.com The things that will last on the internet are not owned. Plain old websites, blogs, RSS, irc, email.
inessential.com David Chase says the ending of The Sopranos is about Edgar Allen Poe's "Dream Within a Dream."
glass.qz.com Dropbox Pro ups storage limits and security features.
cnet.com If you're hot you do the feed. Feeds help you build.
scripting.com Fred Wilson on the rebirth of the personal blog. He's right about owning the domain being important.
avc.com Buried in a story about Bill Gates vs the NRA is a fantastic bit about Jews, the Holocaust and guns. Must. Read.
blog.seattlepi.com
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
The CEOs and major shareholders of Uber and Comcast should go to Burning Man, and stay there.
Comcast tells government that its data caps aren't actually "data caps". (That's a lie.)
arstechnica.com This is Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft. (I am removing the Uber app from all my devices.)
theverge.com Doug Kearns told reporters Tuesday that he has lately been having the best #snacks of his life.
theonion.com Generous Cockatoo Feeds Dog Biscuits to a Couple of Very Appreciative Great Danes.
laughingsquid.com This Is What Arby's Meat Mountain Really Looks Like.
thewire.com Plastic rubbish heaps at sea pose bigger threat to Earth than climate change, claims ocean expert.
independent.co.uk Box Taps Former LifeLock and Salesforce Dealmaker Iltchev for New SVP Slot.
recode.net Hyperlapse, Instagram's New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand.
wired.com One in six French people say they support ISIS.
vox.com
Monday, August 25, 2014
How Facebook is clearing clickbait from your news feed.
vox.com A Rare Lover of Air Travel, Turbulence Included.
nytimes.com Did the NYT run an obituary for Michael Brown?
nytimes.com If I get a say I vote for at least one major hot spell before summer ends.
scripting.com Amazon and Google are now going after each other's core businesses.
qz.com Facebook shifts its algorithm to fight clickbait. Will it kill off Upworthy and Buzzfeed?
gigaom.com Jawbone: How did the Napa earthquake affect sleep?
jawbone.com Re "no angel," I've seen it done in tech. People who are assholes portrayed as saints (no names) and vice versa.
washingtonpost.com Little Facebook Editor v0.42 can post to WordPress and Facebook at the same time, and keeps both versions updated.
facebook.smallpict.com China targets own operating system to take on likes of Microsoft, Google.
reuters.com The Verge threw a hackweek and invited everyone they know. (I want to run one of these, maybe in a few months.)
niemanlab.org You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day. Lord you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way.
youtube.com
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Quartz continues to be the most impressive of the new news sites.
qz.com Like others, I tried for a few years to live in a world without Facebook.
scripting.com Not sure I need really great color transitions, but I love the way the demo site works.
rileyjshaw.com Cornel West: "We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency."
salon.com Why Are PC Sales Up And Tablet Sales Down? (Because like all other businesses, it's cyclic.)
techcrunch.com Ask HN: What programming font do you use? (They still mostly use monospace fonts, for historic reasons.)
news.ycombinator.com
Saturday, August 23, 2014
John F. Akers, 79, Dies; Led IBM as PCs Ascended.
nytimes.com TechCrunch: Tech Elites Aren't Ruining Burning Man. They Get Their Hands Dirty, Too.
techcrunch.com 40 People Who Are Living Proof You Can Make It In Silicon Valley After 40. (How do you apply to qualify?)
techcrunch.com Scripting News: How the storage system should work.
scripting.com Apple can't hide from a 20-year-old reporter.
cjr.org Aaron Levie still believes Box is the answer in content management. He would probably like http://fargo.io/.
gigaom.com Op-ed: Large Dams Just Aren't Worth the Cost.
nytimes.com Are you angry at work? Good.
qz.com Scripting News: Next steps in the Facebook collaboration.
scripting.com Any Given Sunday is a great movie. It's about football, but the story works for all kinds of teams.
en.wikipedia.org
Friday, August 22, 2014
Why Facebook's 'Satire' Tag Is Necessary. (Totally agree.)
nymag.com Watch masterful sequences from this year's Emmy-nominated directors.
qz.com No Consoles For Old Men: Ageism In The Game Industry.
gamasutra.com Kicked Off Twitter, Islamic State Flocks to Diaspora.
mashable.com Yahoo tech people: This feed from your site has
elements that are not permalinks, which is an error. yahoo.com Not so Secret? How a hack could have killed app's anonymity.
cnet.com New: Little Facebook Editor v0.41 maintains a library of Facebook posts. Starting to feel like a blogging app.
facebook.smallpict.com The booming business behind Burning Man.
cnbc.com About Those Cyclists Towing Flatbeds of Citi Bikes Around the City. (This is the way it should be done!!)
boweryboogie.com Palestinians Suspected of Collaborating With Israel Are Executed in Gaza Strip.
nytimes.com Maybe Google ought to test employees on software design problems, not how much the Empire State Building weighs.
wired.com Killing Them Softly is not such a great movie, but the ending scene is great, esp the last line by Brad Pitt.
youtube.com How Twitter Decides What to Place in Your Stream.
recode.net Imagery of sexual mutilation is offensive, even if it's supposed to be funny.
twitter.com
Thursday, August 21, 2014
World's largest rubber duck makes way into LA port. Something else to worry about.
twitter.com The EFF wants you to "code" with them. Help them if you can.
eff.org Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
firstlook.org As users, there's no reason to publish to a locked-up environment
scripting.com Product Hunt is an example of a closed service you should not support until they have an RSS feed.
producthunt.com People aren't expecting news about Facebook to come from this direction.
scripting.com Kidnapping Europeans has become the main source of revenue for Al Qaeda.
nytimes.com Ferguson: a blue collar town made desperate by years on the edge.
theguardian.com
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another.
nytimes.com You don't need an ice bucket to donate to ALS research.
slate.com Neanderthals in Europe Died Out Thousands of Years Sooner Than Some Thought, Study Says.
nytimes.com Lockhart Steele: The retro-futuristic future of blogging.
theverge.com Makeup Artist Laura Jenkinson Recreates Popular Cartoon Characters on Her Mouth.
laughingsquid.com If you're a media company, your mobile competition isn't other news entities, it's Google Now.
gigaom.com Vox: Don't have time for the 276-hour Simpsons marathon? Here are eight you can't miss.
vox.com Tech's fraught transformation of San Francisco 2014.
cnet.com I posted an update on the Fargo outage on Facebook. (Can't update my blogs because of the outage.)
facebook.com AP: On the killing of James Foley, journalist.
blog.ap.org Why Facebook is for ice buckets, Twitter is for Ferguson.
digiday.com Fargo users: We appear to be experiencing an outage with Dropbox access.
groups.google.com Sacramento Kaiser hospital treating patient possibly exposed to Ebola.
latimes.com California drought: 17 communities could run out of water within 60 to 120 days, state says.
mercurynews.com
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
In Wake of James Foley Beheading Video, Journalists Rush to Self-Censor.
mashable.com Ebola Is 'Disaster' of Scale Still Unknown, Relief Official Says.
nytimes.com Do you like color palettes? I find them fascinating.
color-hex.com Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow.
qz.com Times Square costumed characters stage protest in New York City.
theguardian.com The patent system is making decisions about processes it doesn't understand. No wonder it gets it so wrong.
scripting.com Tennis, Unlike Baseball, Has No Set Way for Keeping Score.
nytimes.com Dave Winer on Facebook: I have a new piece of software coming later today.
facebook.com St. Louis Police arrested Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, for failure to disperse.
thenation.com The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla's Settlement with the Podcasting Troll.
eff.org 11 Disney Princesses With Steve Buscemi Eyes To Give You Nightmares.
rsvlts.com
Monday, August 18, 2014
Adam Carolla Settles with the Patent Trolls.
reason.com I love the idea of gifyoutube.com. It's a software snack. Maybe we should have awards. Snackies?
techcrunch.com It's up to the news people to lead us, at least partially, to the news system of the future.
scripting.com Twitter Tinkers With Feeds to Find New Users.
recode.net Mashable: 14 Books That Change When You Reread Them Later in Life.
mashable.com
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Arizona Loose With Its Rules in Executions, Records Show.
nytimes.com New Yorker: A Movement Grows in Ferguson, Missouri.
newyorker.com Apple wins 2014 'Outstanding Commercial' Emmy Award for 'Misunderstood' holiday ad.
9to5mac.com 10 Photos That Will Transport You To The Early Days Of Central Park.
allday.com Apparently Paul Pierce Spends His Summers On Jets With Al Pacino.
dimemag.com Slashdot reports Amazon affiliate links in Washington Post stories.
news.slashdot.org Scripting News: News organizations should be focused on where they get their news from.
scripting.com What breaking news reveals about your newsroom culture.
poynter.org Bad news: Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Lattes contain no pumpkin and are loaded with sugar.
qz.com
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Two Development Projects Threaten the Grand Canyon.
nytimes.com The CBS News coverage of Woodstock from 1969 really is exceptional. Really grabbed me at an emotional level.
youtube.com Maybe Robin Williams' suicide wasn't an act of depression, perhaps it was a sane, rational, even wise decision
scripting.com Willie Nelson's Advice for Novice Pot Smokers (and Maureen Dowd).
rollingstone.com New Trail Along the Hudson Goes Only So Far.
nytimes.com It's up to journalists to make journalism on the net work.
theweek.com Scripting News: An alternate view of Robin Williams' suicide.
scripting.com Scripting News: Someone will make a trillion with this idea.
scripting.com Yesterday on Twitter, Johannes Ernst asked what was the name of my architecture. I offered to write a blog post.
scripting.com Thomas Hawk asks Valleywag to stop using his photos, again.
plus.google.com
Friday, August 15, 2014
If Chuck Todd Seems Comfortable on 'Meet the Press,' He Should.
nytimes.com Photographer Unknowingly Captured Photos of an Unknown Robin Williams as Mime In 1974.
laughingsquid.com In Wake of Clashes, Calls to Demilitarize Police.
nytimes.com The WHO says Ebola has killed far more people than reported.
qz.com Ten Mile River getting reef-to-ridge makeover to save salmon.
sfgate.com Scripting News: What language to learn? (JavaScript)
scripting.com The one place, for people who care enough to have a place, has to be independent of tech industry business models.
scripting.com I updated today's "What does a blog do in 2014?" post with comments from Jonathan Glick and Dan Gillmor.
scripting.com If you do a search, for most people there's no single place that represents them on the net.
scripting.com NYPD is cracking down on bicyclists through the end of the month.
boweryboogie.com
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Inside Carmelo's dramatic plan to get into triangle shape.
nypost.com Throwback Thursday screen shot of Radio UserLand in January 2002.
scripting.com June, in the NYT: War Gear Flows to Police Departments.
nytimes.com What would a modern Mark Twain or Will Rogers make of the current fashion of policemen all dressed up for war?
theatlantic.com There's a billion times more substance in this review of The Leftovers than in all the ranting going on now.
inessential.com Police: Anonymous Released Wrong Name of the Officer Who Shot Michael Brown.
thewire.com The Intercept hired Ryan Tate, and he's moving to NYC. Hope they'll have him covering tech. He's great.
firstlook.org Robin Williams was much-loved, and that was no accident, he worked hard at it.
scripting.com "Robin Williams was beloved by America, and yet he felt deeply alone."
en.ria.ru Scripting News: An opportunity to change journalism.
scripting.com
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Square's search for a viable business model just got more desperate, thanks to Amazon.
qz.com Humans are starting to look like horses right before the Model T.
theverge.com Video: How to make your Little Card Editor card more beautiful.
youtube.com An 11-minute podcast about the way podcasting developed. It's only interesting if you want to create new media types.
static.scripting.com Glenn Fleishman is eager to deal with harassers, trolls and other online ne'er-do-wells.
boingboing.net American police are becoming too much like soldiers.
economist.com Snowden: I Left the NSA Clues, But They Couldn't Find Them.
wired.com The meaning we can take from all death is that the time to love is when we're living.
scripting.com Lauren Bacall's apartment at the Dakota sounds wonderful.
vanityfair.com Williams might have been the most love-seeking person on the planet.
scripting.com Some of the internet's coolest new businesses are based on a technology older than the web.
qz.com Trapped in his own body for 23 years - the coma victim who screamed unheard.
theguardian.com Derelict fishing nets have turned the bottom of the sea into a death trap.
qz.com
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
70 percent of all suicides in the United States are white men, most of them in their middle years.
nytimes.com Not a single person has died using bike share in the US.
vox.com What a potential Uber API means for Lyft.
gigaom.com Palestinian Ambassador Invites Cuomo to Visit Occupied Territories.
nytimes.com We bury the causes for all the things people say are wrong with men.
amazon.com This book, about the secret legacy of male depression, opened my eyes. I understand why it happens.
amazon.com Suicides are surprisingly high among middle-aged men in the US.
qz.com First Look runs headlong into journalism's two big problems.
cjr.org This horse left the station. No point beating a dead train.
scripting.com Finally, how to center in CSS. I've spent years looking for this answer.
scripting.com Ohio execution 'was not humane', anaesthesiologist determines.
theguardian.com New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer to hold rally at Staples Center Monday.
latimes.com Apple, another company reporting diversity by gender and race, but not by age.
recode.net Bush didn't know anything about Maliki, but put him in charge of Iraq anyway.
vox.com GigaOm: Yo wants to connect the internet of things, but that's easier said than done.
gigaom.com Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, has its own Atlantic Ocean beach.
nytimes.com Media types I'm exploring these days: Short rants, lists and pictures.
scripting.com Watch Billy Joel Serenade Christie Brinkley with "Uptown Girl" Over 30 Years After the Original.
vanityfair.com
Monday, August 11, 2014
Robin Williams, an Improvisational Genius, Forever Present in the Moment.
nytimes.com Twitter admits that as many as 23 million of its active users are actually bots.
qz.com Ghost Blogging Platform Moves to a 2-4 Week Release Cycle.
thenextweb.com Ex-Google Engineer to Lead Fix-It Team for Government Websites.
nytimes.com Sucking the Life Out of Detroit With a New Sports Stadium.
reason.com A Gawker site complains about Gawker's CMS's inability to block by IP address.
jezebel.com It's not your fault if you can't remember people's names.
qz.com Let's Stop Trying To Teach Students Critical Thinking.
io9.com Obama's defense of Erbil is effectively the defense of an undeclared Kurdish oil state.
newyorker.com In 2007 it came to me -- this is how TV news will work in the future. We're not there yet. But we should be.
scripting.com Do you have a wild vision for what TV and video news could or should be?
towknight.org I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me.
wired.com Cops bust Iron Man, Spider-Man and Elmo in Times Square.
nypost.com
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Vox: Was there a coup in Iraq?
vox.com Andreessen Horowitz Invests $50 Million in BuzzFeed.
recode.net See what you're missing by not subscribing to Sarah Palin's internet TV channel.
glass.qz.com When LinkedIn released its workforce diversity numbers in June, it didn't include age distribution.
venturebeat.com Patient Who Set Off New York City's Ebola Scare Tells His 72 Hour Horror Story.
thewire.com Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak was a two-year-old boy in Guinea.
qz.com Today's online landscape: There's a city under there, subway system, helicopters, bike trails, convention centers.
scripting.com Scripting News: [Short rants, lists and pictures ].
scripting.com Today's Scripting News is turning into a Nixon Festival. ;-)
scripting.com Refusing to Negotiate With "Terrorists," Adam Carolla Continues His War on Patent Trolls.
reason.com Do you think there will be book publishers? Or are they a vestige of the old distribution system?
scripting.com
Saturday, August 09, 2014
You're reading something on a blog or news site and want to share it on Twitter. How do you do it??
scripting.com Informal market research: How do you post links to Twitter?
scripting.com So glad McCain isn't president. We dodged a bullet there.
nytimes.com Microsoft tried to capture all the newness of the Internet in their software stacks, Windows and Office.
scripting.com Stopped at a red light on my bike, the actor who plays Benjamin on Lost crossed in front of me, with his dog.
en.wikipedia.org Ironic misandry: Why feminists joke about drinking male tears and banning all men.
slate.com Every brand should have its own Emoji alphabet. Make it easy to talk about them with graphic imagery.
scripting.com Amazon is and always has been part of the computer industry.
eviscerati.org 'The Farther One Gets From Power, The Closer One Gets to the Truth'.
billmoyers.com Oversize Expectations for the Airbus A380. (For some reason I love huge airplanes.)
nytimes.com If your business is based on a temporary technological limit, when the limit is erased, so is your business model.
scripting.com Scripting News: Media leaders never accept change gracefully.
scripting.com Where are the bike-friendly businesses, restaurants, shopping centers?
scripting.com Copenhagen's New Bike Skyway Makes Commuting Look Fun.
wired.com
Friday, August 08, 2014
Om: From Vanity Fair to Elle magazine, suddenly everyone is parachuting their people into Silicon Valley
om.co Whisper, Yik Yak and Secret all use a moderating service based in the Philippines.
gigaom.com Kevin Love's Addition Gives LeBron James Support in Cleveland.
nytimes.com Sewage spiked with anti-anxiety meds helps baby fish live longer, mellower lives.
qz.com When is the tech press going to become even slightly skeptical of the motives of big tech companies.
bbc.com The BBC got it wrong. For non-commerce sites, HTTPS is an unnecessary expense and complication. Google is scamming.
bbc.com
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Vox: Lyft's new carpooling service is the beginning of the end for public buses.
vox.com July 2: I think we're moving toward a social network of puppets.
facebook.com I didn't know that Facebook acquired Branch, in January this year.
techcrunch.com Netflix now has more subscription revenue than HBO.
qz.com Metta World Peace changing name to Panda Friend, to coincide with move to Chinese Basketball Association.
nydailynews.com "If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired."
kalzumeus.com How dangerous is it to use headphones on a bike? (My opinion, very. Cyclists who can't hear endanger everyone.)
vox.com The real story behind "secret menus" is the key to hacking them.
qz.com Is Carmelo Anthony a Disappointment or Victim of Unrealistic Expectations?
bleacherreport.com Radical New Foursquare App Thinks You Want Even Less Privacy.
wired.com
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
Interesting discussion: An icon that means Publish.
scripting.com If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist.
motherboard.vice.com Thesaurus Land: Type a word in a headline, and expand. The synonyms fill in below.
thesaurus.land Knicks trading Wayne Ellington, Jeremy Tyler and second-round pick to Kings for Travis Outlaw and Quincy Acy.
nydailynews.com Elephants may go extinct within the next 20 years, thanks in large part to China's lust for ivory.
thedailybeast.com Tyson Evans and Jonathan Galinsky join New York Times newsroom strategy team.
jimromenesko.com VC #2 on The New Foursquare.
avc.com The Great Barrier Reef and the coal mine that could kill it.
theguardian.com Jeffrey Kishner, a user with no node.js programming experience, has River4 running on Linux.
blog.jeffreykishner.com A drone crash-landed David Jacobs's fire escape in New York.
vine.co
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Adam Carolla won't let Personal Audio drop podcast patent infringement lawsuit.
slate.com 28K Americans suspected of links to terrorism by US govt.
nytimes.com Samsung to Unveil Latest Phablet on Sept. 3.
recode.net CNN: New leaker disclosing US secrets, government concludes.
cnn.com Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads (and switching to laptops).
theatlantic.com Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords.
nytimes.com Islamic State 'now controls resources and territory unmatched in history of extremist organizations'.
washingtonpost.com Spurs Hire Becky Hammon as N.B.A.'s First Full-Time Female Coach.
nytimes.com Fargo 1.66 saves and restores the outline "bar cursor."
fargo.io In politics, most people delegate thinking to their clan leaders. I don't have such a leader.
dilbert.com The most frightening idea, at the end of this week's Frontline, is that ISIS has people with US passports.
pbs.org And every shot Israel fired into Gaza was intended to kill.
twitter.com President Obama's despicable whitewashing of torture.
theweek.com Does Hosting the Olympics Actually Pay Off?
nytimes.com
Monday, August 04, 2014
This is what to say if you really want to cancel your Comcast service.
glass.qz.com New evidence revives concerns that a man was wrongly put to death in 2004.
washingtonpost.com Ohio Forgives LeBron for Leaving Cleveland.
nytimes.com Union Street Guest House in Hudson, NY is the shits apparently.
yelp.com The ephemerality of everything as revealed by 2001 a space odyssey. "Sorry Dave.."
scripting.com Everyone who's had Comcast has had to endure unprofessional shoddy service. This is why.
theverge.com
Sunday, August 03, 2014
"I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that."
youtube.com Howard Johnson's was a ubiquitous chain of orange-topped roadside restaurants that served fried clams.
scripting.com Meet Jonathan, St Helena's 182-year-old giant tortoise.
bbc.com Frontline: Losing Iraq. (Skip the first half, the ending will make you think.)
pbs.org Sounds like ISIS is putting Iraq back to the way it was before we invaded. Saddam 2.0?
nytimes.com I need an icon that means "Publish the thing the cursor points to."
scripting.com Ask the question from the Palestinian point of view too.
scripting.com Vox: The case for medical LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy.
vox.com As Israel's assault on Gaza intensifies, it is not anti-Semitic to say: not in my name.
newstatesman.com
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Today is one of three days each year you can ride from 72nd & Park to the Brooklyn Bridge w/o cars.
cyclemeter.com 10 Things Google Should Consider in Launching a Standalone Photo Sharing Service.
thomashawk.com BTW, for those who miss RSS feeds for Twitter flow, have a look at this. Every little.porkchop.io user has one.
little.porkchop.io The kind of post I write on Facebook. Four paragraphs and a link. Example:
facebook.com
Friday, August 01, 2014
Sarah Lacey doesn't like something written about her on Secret, therefore Secret is immoral.
pando.com LAPD seeks to limit civilian drone flights over police stations.
latimes.com Let me tell you. Paper books SUCK. Especially 700-page paper books.
scripting.com Tim Carmody: The problem with OKCupid is the problem with the social web.
kottke.org Bloggers are just the latest victims of Russia's efforts to control the internet.
qz.com War makes people do tragically wrong things. The Fog of War, a 1.5 hour free movie, explains.
youtube.com Scripting News: I hadn't bought a paper book in ages.
scripting.com It appears Facebook is down. So I've been posting to my blog.
scripting.com Each tweet carries all the info Twitter has about the author, including several renderings of the author's icon.
scripting.com The "Code For America Summit" doesn't appear to have any programmers speaking. This is crazy. WTF.
codeforamerica.org The registration of Russian bloggers has begun.
gigaom.com Delivery drone carrying marijuana, cellphones and tobacco crashed outside a S.C. prison.
washingtonpost.com How many of Twitter's active users are actually human?
qz.com
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The open web doesn't ask much. Just give it an equal chance vs the proprietary news systems.
twitter.com Now that it's conquered recruiters, LinkedIn is going after salespeople.
qz.com After 22 Months, The Magazine Is Changing Its Strategy.
fastcolabs.com Colorado proves that it's possible to smoothly launch a legal pot market.
washingtonpost.com Test version of Little Pork Chop. I implemented the feature I wrote about yesterday for the "nest."
littlepork.smallpict.com iFixit's Oculus Rift teardown finds Samsung display, 40 LEDs.
cnet.com Gaza myths and facts: what American Jewish leaders won't tell you.
haaretz.com Finally, an Israeli willing to look in the mirror.
haaretz.com What Snowpiercer's Video-on-Demand Success Means for Indie Films.
wired.com
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Next three Saturdays is Summer Streets in NYC.
nyc.gov The Federal Marijuana Ban Is Rooted in Myth and Xenophobia.
nytimes.com Podcasting patent troll: We tried to drop lawsuit against Adam Carolla.
arstechnica.com Why can't we buy wifi on flights with miles? Or use our frequent flier numbers?
scripting.com If people had online "nests" every app, no matter how simple, could publish and keep a complete archive.
scripting.com Here's what an app of the online nest would look like, in concrete terms, using Little Pork Chop as an example.
scripting.com I like the idea of "investigative journalism." I also support investigative software development.
gigaom.com Scripting News: People need an online "nest" they own.
scripting.com
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
The 8 Types of Journalism Events That Work.
pbs.org Tunnels Lead Right to the Heart of Israeli Fear.
nytimes.com OkCupid experimented on users and proved everyone just looks at the pictures.
qz.com Former Colorado Jail Might Transform Into a Massive Marijuana Grow Facility.
marijuana.com
Monday, July 28, 2014
Haaretz: Israel's moral defeat will haunt us for years.
haaretz.com Now that it's almost officially legal, here's how to unlock your phone on all four U.S. carriers.
gigaom.com Your 'Craft' Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana.
thedailybeast.com Ex-NSA Chief Hayden Finally Admits Snowden Is a Whistleblower.
reason.com That's Not OK, Cupid: Dating Site Says It Mismatches Members as 'Tests'.
yahoo.com Haaretz: The country that wouldn't grow up.
haaretz.com David Pierce: "I torrented 'The Expendables 3' and I'm still going to see it in theaters."
theverge.com Amazon's Cloud Is Growing So Fast It's Scaring Shareholders.
wired.com Deal Is Said to Be Near to Expand Bike Sharing in New York.
nytimes.com Facebook's privacy pivot: Mark Zuckerberg's plan to win back trust.
slate.com
Thursday, July 24, 2014
An example of a political message in a Little Card.
twitter.com Lethal injection started as a seemingly more humane alternative to the gas chamber, the electric chair, and firing squads.
aclu.org Scripting News: How many Facebook users know what RSS is?
scripting.com The "open carry" guys should just take off their pants and show us what they're really carrying, openly.
en.m.wikipedia.org I started a Reddit Live thread. Not sure if you can see this.
reddit.com
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The pen is one old-times thing I actually do miss. I used to love to write with ink. Quaint. Like a monk.
nytimes.com The "open carry" guys seem like the nudists in Vt who hung out on Main St in tourist season cause it was legal.
reuters.com LeBron James has a photographic memory.
kottke.org Dropbox shared folders, when they are complete, will be a new kind of Internet space, platform.
dropbox.com RSS is basically Twitter, without the big company in the middle.
scripting.com Hamas Gambled on War as Its Woes Grew in Gaza.
nytimes.com "The original idea of the Internet and the web, that people could be media instead of just consuming it..."
scripting.com Tom Petty Talks Beatles, Elvis Presley in Interview, Calls Rolling Stones 'My Punk Music'.
rollingstone.com Jon Stewart Launches $10 Billion Kickstarter to Buy CNN.
time.com China jails blogger for 6.5 years for "rumor-mongering".
cir.ca Why You Should Rethink Your Office No-Pet Policy.
inc.com The Fascinating History of Autocorrect.
wired.com
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Joel Spolsky warned us of Architecture Astronauts. They're still out there! Lurking in the shadows.
google.com Uncovering Algorithms: Looking Inside the Facebook News Feed.
civic.mit.edu Here's how the new Simpsons app will change your life.
qz.com
Monday, July 21, 2014
CJR: Are female journalists up to the job of a Jill Abramson interview?
cjr.org Citywide wifi is how we're going to break the Comcast/TWC monopoly on local Internet access.
slate.com How to help fact-check breaking news like the Malaysian airplane disaster.
gigaom.com The complete history of civilian airliner shootdowns, in one chart.
vox.com Verizon FiOS gives customers a boost on upload speeds.
gigaom.com Daryl Morey can't live up to his own hype. (An NBA story, which I look forward to reading, enjoying.)
sbnation.com The nice thing about the word Earthling is that it's portable and it scales.
twitter.com Time.com's bounce rate down 15 percentage points since adopting continuous scroll.
poynter.org I was glad to "leave print behind." I never loved lugging all the books I wanted to read.
mobile.nytimes.com "Non-subscribers will get a chance to explore The New Yorker fully and freely, just as subscribers always have."
newyorker.com Product Hunt Founder Explains Why The Hell He Joined Y Combinator. (Nice site. They need RSS feeds.)
valleywag.gawker.com
Sunday, July 20, 2014
The BitTorrent world still very much loves RSS.
yts.re Greenspun: Insurers finding a clever way to exclude preexisting conditions despite Obamacare rules.
blogs.law.harvard.edu At 14 I didn't fully appreciate that life wasn't always like this.
scripting.com Why most TV shows peak by their third season.
qz.com Fred made a list of his messaging apps, I made a list of my publishing streams. Same number: 5.
scripting.com My 59-year-old mind is good enough, imho, to try to unify all my online publishing into one easy-to-follow stream.
Fred Wilson uses five messaging apps on his phone.
avc.com
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Scoble is missing his calling. (This post belongs on Facebook, as it is.)
facebook.com Scripting News: I have more feeds than I can manage.
scripting.com Best feature of [Little Card Editor 0.60] is that the product gets no more complicated for newbies.
littlecard.smallpict.com Brooklyn should have traded for Jeremy Lin as Nets need to start over. (Yes, I was pointing that out.)
nydailynews.com Comcast has no competition in many of its markets, making customer satisfaction a low priority.
theverge.com December 2013: A nurse tells her story eloquently and with passion, and the trolls swoop in, of course.
virgin.smallpict.com Knicks talking about giving 'Peace' a chance. (As in Metta World.)
nypost.com Black Southern Voters, Poised to Play a Historic Role.
nytimes.com
Friday, July 18, 2014
I made a list of movies I'd recommend to myself if I were 20 now, to help me catch up on what I missed.
scripting.com I've learned something new in the last couple of years -- how to think like the JavaScript runtime.
scripting.com Yesterday I wrote a piece called "How good is my mind?" Believe it or not, I was asked about this by a reporter.
scripting.com Colorado pot tourists dumping marijuana in their rental cars when they fly out of Denver airport.
dailymail.co.uk Life in Prison, With the Remote Possibility of Death.
nytimes.com Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos.
arstechnica.com
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Watch: airplanes are staying clear of Ukrainian airspace right now.
vox.com Apple Board Change: BlackRock Co-Founder Sue Wagner Replaces Bill Campbell.
blogs.wsj.com See How NYC Parks Changed (or Didn't) Since the Olden Days.
ny.curbed.com Doc Searls: "I am often told, directly or indirectly, that I am in some ways less capable or worth less."
scripting.com How to get a mobile number without a phone or an Internet connection.
qz.com
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
How what I learned evolving Frontier is being incorporated in the world I'm building in JavaScript.
scripting.com It's not TV that Rupert Murdoch wants: It's HBO.
qz.com FBI warns driverless cars could be used as 'lethal weapons'.
theguardian.com Amazing there have been zero ageist comments in my piece about age and software. Very unusual.
scripting.com Arizona politician, protesters mistake YMCA campers for immigrants.
latimes.com
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Carmelo Anthony took less than maximum contract from New York Knicks.
espn.go.com After reading Om's wistful piece on age, I decided it was time to let this go. I've been holding it for a while.
scripting.com Pfizer to Inject Youth Into the Aging Process.
nytimes.com I have to say the Mets surge started when I went to my first game two Sundays ago! You're quite welcome.
nypost.com Judge Shuts Down L.A. Medical Marijuana Farmers Market.
reason.com Comcast Apologizes for Rude Customer Service Rep.
adage.com Carlos Boozer released by Bulls via amnesty clause, according to report.
sbnation.com Balanced NBA Field Will Make Title Chase Tougher.
nytimes.com Digg has an interesting new feature that uses info about who you follow on Twitter to find better stories.
blog.digg.com Sympathy for the Comcast Rep from Hell.
theawl.com A Guide to 10 NYC Murals You Should Check Out Right Now.
ny.curbed.com LeBron James' mission to maximize earnings.
espn.go.com 2007: 75-year-old woman smashes up local Comcast office with hammer.
zdnet.com Why doesn't Google have a "Share This Search" button on their search engine?
scripting.com I documented all my dealings with Comcast on my blog, until they shut me down, in 2008.
google.com Scripting News: They're all scum, not just Comcast.
scripting.com Why are Muslim soldiers called militants by the western press, and not western soldiers?
scripting.com Nate Silver: Carmelo Anthony's Contract Could Doom the Knicks to Mediocrity.
fivethirtyeight.com Once blogs start merging, they aren't blogs anymore. This is where the confusion starts.
nytimes.com LeBron and Melo Have Nothing on Eric Cantor.
nytimes.com Billionaire's breakup plan would chop California into six states.
reuters.com Vagina selfie artist arrested in Japan for obscenity.
theweek.co.uk LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony Show Big Differences of Copycat Narrative.
nytimes.com Grocery Store Economics: Why Are Rotisserie Chickens So Cheap?
kcet.org
Monday, July 14, 2014
Listen: Attempt to cancel Comcast service turns into an endless nightmare.
glass.qz.com The Facepalm at the End of the Mind.
nickm.com 'Snowpiercer,' VOD and the future of film distribution.
latimes.com NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Getting Primaryed for Being Too Conservative.
reason.com Let's Not Schedule Phone Calls Anymore. (Yes!!)
pud.com It's great when one of your Happy Friends posts a lot of tweets, but it can get unmanageable quickly.
happy.smallpict.com Okay I guess my idea of a tabloid is a little more artsy fartsy. Hippie dippie! :-)
scripting.com Why Little Card Editor is so much fun. "I get to be a tabloid headline writer like the NY Daily News or NY Post."
scripting.com Direct Access vs. Sequential Access: Definition.
nngroup.com A new feature in Happy Friends, the mailbox-style reader for Twitter, helps you manage the flood of tweets.
happy.smallpict.com The new Font Awesome is *exactly* the kind of project VCs should back (on Kickstarter, of course).
kickstarter.com In dying act, minister hoped to inspire social justice.
dallasnews.com Fargo 1.64 is out. A new style of outline rendering, and an addition to the feed format produced by Fargo.
fargo.io
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Houston Rockets decline to match Dallas Mavericks offer for Chandler Parsons.
espn.go.com How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence.
defenseone.com Rupert Murdoch Closes on 57th Floor of One Madison.
ny.curbed.com The real reason only rich people can afford to live in Silicon Valley.
vox.com The Sad, Strange, True Story Of Sandy Allen, The Tallest Woman In The World.
buzzfeed.com Here the 140-char limit works because it's really 1040, because as we know a picture is worth 1000 words.
scripting.com Scripting News: Why Little Card Editor is so much fun!
scripting.com Scripting News: JavaScript memory management question.
scripting.com The story of Happy Friends, a mailbox-style reader for Twitter. (So you don't miss tweets from important people.)
happy.smallpict.com 200 years ago, the government of Sweden changed everything: They required all their citizens to be literate.
sethgodin.typepad.com Just Like Facebook, Twitter's New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What's Tweeted.
marketingland.com
Saturday, July 12, 2014
LeBron James Could Be a Free Agent in a Year.
thewire.com OK, Phil: Now it's time to get Carmelo some help.
nypost.com NYT: Carmelo Anthony Agrees to Re-Sign With the Knicks.
nytimes.com Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why LeBron Can't Go Home Again.
time.com Rex Hsmmock: How John Seigenthaler Changed Wikipedia.
rexblog.com Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away.
theguardian.com Car-Hailing Service, Lyft, Postpones Its Debut in New York.
nytimes.com Here's How Sports Illustrated Got the LeBron James Exclusive.
adage.com Meet Google's security princess.
elle.com Carmelo Anthony is preparing to re-sign with Knicks: source.
nydailynews.com LeBron James Bares His Soul in Announcing Return to Cleveland.
nytimes.com
Friday, July 11, 2014
Cleveland Cavaliers close to selling out season ticket allotment within hours of LeBron James' return.
cleveland.com Seattle's Only Legal Pot Dispensary Ran Out of Weed in Three Days.
thewire.com Twitter Releases an Analytics Dashboard for Regular Tweets.
thenextweb.com LA Times: Lakers acquire Jeremy Lin from Houston, still pursuing Carmelo Anthony.
latimes.com Next Up: Carmelo Anthony's Decision on the Knicks.
nytimes.com Digg to pull from Twitter to make your news more social.
engadget.com LeBron's decision overshadows Carmelo -- yet again.
nypost.com LeBron James announces return to Cleveland Cavaliers. #yow
si.com Just as it would not be fair to hold all women accountable for the awful behavior of these two women.
youtube.com As if all 50-something men are responsible for Esquire's awful article. Stop and think before you bash.
slate.com Looking for a Housemate, Not a Mate, in Later Life.
nytimes.com Uber, Lyft and a Road Map for Reinventing the Ride.
nytimes.com
Thursday, July 10, 2014
The mistake is to treat individuals as symbols. As if every [race]-[age]-[gender] person is like every other. So obviously false.
It's nice to hear something positive about 50-something men, even if it's said in anger.
slate.com Obama turns down joint, consumes worse drug.
vox.com Scripting News: Did Amazon leverage their APIs in Zocalo?
scripting.com Twitter feed of anonymous Wikipedia edits made from IP addresses in the US Congress.
twitter.com Amazon asks FAA to let it ramp up drone development.
cnet.com Facebook Has All the Power. (This was a constant theme on the podcast I did with Jay. It's not news.)
theatlantic.com Qz: New York's new medical marijuana law is the worst in the US.
qz.com NYDN: Citi Bike asks customers to stop slamming two-wheelers into docks, admits glitch.
nydailynews.com Amazon Goes After Box, Dropbox And Huddle, Launches Zocalo For Secure Enterprise Storage.
techcrunch.com Om: Got cash? Here is some awesome stuff to buy.
om.co Primetime Emmy nominations in an outline on Qz.
glass.qz.com Marc Andreessen's first six months on Twitter were unbelievably epic.
qz.com Publicly Shame Companies That Won't Tell Us How Un-Diverse They Are. (And include age in that.)
fastcoexist.com
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Deals, dynasties, and drones: The Sun Valley media conference has begun.
qz.com North Korea's vision of the future looks like classic sci-fi.
engadget.com LeBron James's Latest Feat: Bringing a Frenzied League to a Freeze.
nytimes.com It's really cool that Facebook is keeping a history of all my cards. (Hopefully the link works.)
facebook.com Sex Worker Arrested for Killing Google Exec.
nymag.com Share a Coke is a lot like Little Card Editor, only ours is better!
shareacoke.com Frank Isola at the NYDN: Carmelo Anthony will return to Knicks, announcement, on future expected Thursday.
nydailynews.com Sun Valley Media Conference Said to Be on Alert for Drones.
adage.com Jeremy Lin to get last laugh on suddenly classless, clueless Rockets. (Nets should hire him. Philly would be OK.)
houston.culturemap.com thesaurus.land is a software snack, fun and useful if you love words.
scripting.com NY Post: Carmelo holding out hope Phil can deliver LeBron to Knicks.
nypost.com George R.R. Martin says 'fuck you' to anyone who thinks he'll die before finishing 'Game of Thrones' series.
theverge.com Drone video of the day: Flying around the New York Public Library's book sorting center.
glass.qz.com Scripting News: Why the name changed to thesaurus.land.
scripting.com As far as I know no one picked up the (perhaps too subtle) baseball joke in this Little Card, posted yesterday.
twitter.com Roundup of products shipped in the last month: Little Pork Chop, Happy Friends, Little Card Editor, Happy Word Friends.
I almost feel as if I should apologize for shipping yet another product! I know it's a lot to digest.
happywordfriends.com Happy Word Friends is a thesaurus in an outliner in a web app. Fun if you love words! :-)
happywordfriends.com A GoPro Hero 3 camera strapped to her chest is a signal she is about to do something awesome.
wired.com
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
We're using "Really Simple Color Picker" to choose color in Little Card Editor.
laktek.com Heh. They call this a REST interface, but it's really RPC (which is good!).
github.com Netherlands: In wake of bike fatalities, government's response demonstrates support for cyclists.
bostonglobe.com NYC definition of bike path is a place you can ride assuming pedestrians and cars aren't currently using it.
scripting.com Scripting News: Why the Facebook API works better for me.
scripting.com
Monday, July 07, 2014
When Twitter was starting, the API was simplistic beauty. You could get from start to Hello World in minutes.
scripting.com Little Card Editor 0.54. (Status: The app has been approved by Facebook. I was able to post a card myself.)
littlecard.smallpict.com The Lawless Hellscape Colorado Has Become Six Months After Legalizing Weed.
mic.com A Billionaire Mathematician's Life of Ferocious Curiosity.
nytimes.com 13-minute podcast about browser-based apps and how they connect to services like Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote.
static.scripting.com This is why [LCE on Facebook] matters. It makes a beautiful statement, that people can attach their ideas to.
static.scripting.com Admit it, you love NBA free agency. (It's twue it's twue.)
sbnation.com Scott Adams expects to have: 1. Phone (in pocket) 2. Watch 3. Ring 4. Glasses 5. Ear bud -- all networked.
dilbert.com Someone at Facebook wants developers to be successful with their platform.
scripting.com So perhaps LeBron will favor Cleveland after all?
sbnation.com Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete.
theguardian.com Odd Self-Portraits Of Google's Camera Catching Its Reflection In Mirrors.
designtaxi.com Why you can no longer expect that the news will find you. (You never could, that was always a mistake.)
gigaom.com
Saturday, July 05, 2014
In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are.
washingtonpost.com Briefly, why the recent Facebook eruption is unlike all previous ones.
scripting.com "Google has in one fell swoop struck a blow at masculinity, female empowerment, romance, sex and action heroes."
nytimes.com LeBron's Agent Talks With Teams; James Could Meet With Finalists Next Week.
dimemag.com A Dozen Things I've Learned from Fred Wilson.
25iq.com A test version of Little Card Editor just posted my last card to Facebook. Their API is easy. Took < 24 hours.
facebook.com Czech Jews protest award presented to Mel Gibson.
haaretz.com For Bellicose Brazil, Payback Carries Heavy Price: Loss of Neymar.
nytimes.com Erik Wemple: An explanation for the New York Times's de-blogging initiative.
washingtonpost.com The surprising ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776.
kottke.org
Friday, July 04, 2014
It's getting harder to tell what's a real Silicon Valley startup and what's a parody.
gigaom.com Facebook's controversial study is business as usual for tech companies but corrosive for universities.
washingtonpost.com 'Looney Tunes' Voice Actor Bob Bergen Breaks Down Porky Pig's Famous Stutter.
laughingsquid.com Facebook just broke the fourth wall. Of a sudden we see the man behind the curtain.
scripting.com Fireworks are in the East River this year. EV Grieve has a rundown of places to watch.
evgrieve.com One City in Pakistan Makes Nearly Half of the World's Soccer Balls.
theatlantic.com Scripting News: [About Facebook users and Facebook].
scripting.com
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Raid on Denver Pot Club Illustrates Continued Intolerance of Marijuana Consumption Outside the Home.
reason.com The words in your brain are not written in a correct way. So, why should you type them in a dictionary style?
sexyjazz.de Google wants us to forget about its near-total monopoly over what we know.
pando.com Phil Jackson, Knicks to meet with Carmelo Anthony in L.A. Thursday night.
nydailynews.com Facebook's social experiments appear far more extensive than its now-infamous emotions study.
qz.com 'Melo Tour,' Miami Suspense Spice Up Free Agency Period.
nytimes.com Yesterday when I got stuck on a programming problem, I had a puppet show with LCE, and got unstuck.
scripting.com
Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Kidd Dismisses Intrigue Without Dispelling Mystery.
nytimes.com My Melo and Ygritte puppets chat while I crash a server, again and again, then fixed it.
scripting.com Google Scrubs BBC Article Because Someone Wanted It 'Forgotten'. #oops
thewire.com I am a Google Voice user. And like all Google Voice users, I am concerned for its future.
arstechnica.com Good point by Pando, Facebook actually *did* deliberately try to upset some of their users.
pando.com Tech journo Steven Levy on his move to Medium.
digiday.com Michael Hayden was interviewed at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
theatlantic.com The whole idea of a battlefield for startups is ridiculous. Have a love-in for startups. A be-in.
apply.tcdisrupt.com Ira Glass's 'This American Life' Leaves PRI.
nytimes.com SFist: An Open Letter To Two New York Times Writers Who Don't Get San Francisco At All.
sfist.com Lance Stephenson, Indiana Pacers at impasse over contract.
espn.go.com Treasure trove of Bob Dylan acetates uncovered in New York house clearance.
theguardian.com
