I hang my hat at Tumblr
In Which Content Farming Comes to Its Logical Conclusion
(h/t Jay Rosen)
In which Joy Victory reminds us that the Washington Post’s romance with Facebook may be getting out of hand.
The old Paris Review website! We’ve come a long way, I think.
Comments #31 and #32 on the post titled “The Blog of Anne Frank”
Why Web Commenting Doesn’t Work, Exhibit #4529316
The New York Times just made news bloggers lives' significantly easier.
This is very cool. It’s a little wonky, but I’ve always wanted a (somewhat) easy way to link directly to specific parts of a Web page.
Today in Amazing: Spacelog
This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI — here’s the original “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Additional controls at the bottom of each page reveal the original transcript and a map showing where the crew was during the conversation.
If this isn’t making content meaningful, accessible (in a traditional sense), and enjoyable to consume, I don’t know what is.
This is so, so cool, and such a great interface.
Audience demographics and reach (Comscore, Nielson 2010 via Gawker)
I think this is interesting, but I’d like to see this plotted to actual disposable income. I suspect greater percentage of Gawker readers live in high cost-of-living areas, and might actually have less income to spend on products.
Hmm. I mean, it’s not really “Seek and you will find unless the hackers get there first,” now is it?”
This Arcade Fire/Google thing is amazing, even though my hometown doesn’t register enough on Google Street View to work.
