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The end of journalism (dot org)
Actually, not as pessimistic as you'd think and just might help
media  tumbl  foo 
april 2007 by jimray
Vulture from New York Magazine is an entertainment blog done right
Smart, just snarky enough without being smarmy, gorgeous design
design  entertainment  culture  nyc  tumbl  foo 
april 2007 by jimray
A journalist in his own mind
Why Josh Wolf is not a journalist and why we should stop pretending like he is
media  ethics  foo 
april 2007 by jimray
Aaron Swartz has some pretty cogent thoughts on how microcontent (blogs, twitter) is dumbing us down
"But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world's most popular timewaster, it doesn't seem like anyone is going t
tumbl  culture  twitter  weblogs  foo 
april 2007 by jimray
MSNBC Jockeys for attention online
WSJ profile of the MSNBC.com ad campaign
msnbc  work  media  advertising  marketing  tumbl  foo 
april 2007 by jimray
i'm in like with you
Invite-only flirtation/dating service thingie for all the web2.0 kiddos
dating  socialsoftware  tumbl  foo 
april 2007 by jimray
AssignmentZero launches
With some heavy funding, including the MacArthur foundation, Craig Newmark, Wired, Reuters. Aims to be a collaboration between real journalists and the citizen kind.
media  citizenjournalism  collaboration  community  foo 
march 2007 by jimray
MySpace News is real, Wired has screengrabs
Not so much a news portal, just an aggregator and digg-like social engine.
media  myspace  tumbl  foo 
march 2007 by jimray
In praise of the parasitic blogger
"Another word for "parasitic," in this context, is "critical." Blogging is at its essence a critical form, a means of recycling other writings to ensure their fullest and most efficient consumption."
tumbl  newspapers  bloggers  foo 
march 2007 by jimray
USA Tomorrow
USA Today's website redesign launches soon. I wish they'd dump the Fisher Price design and organize a little better, nice to see the social and personalization features, though.
media  newspapers  foo 
february 2007 by jimray
Fake Steve is now sponsored by Wired
Still one of my favorite Mac blogs - sometimes, fake can be so, like, REAL, man.
mac  fake  weblogs  foo 
february 2007 by jimray
Seattle Weekly's founding editor to start Web newspaper
No mention of any thing real specific, will be an interesting one to watch
seattle  media  foo 
february 2007 by jimray
OMFG!!1! TEH HIPSTERS LUV JUSTIN!!1!!
I mean, if the bassist from Fall Out Boy thinks he's great, he must be, like, AMAZING. Also: I still hate Justin Timberlake and really hope that fact makes me less of a hipster.
music?  foo 
february 2007 by jimray
Out Hud
Really lovely DJ/postrock stuff, I likey.
music  foo 
january 2007 by jimray
George Clooney is producing The Diamond Age miniseries for SciFi
Adapted for the small screen by Stephenson himself! Yet another show to grab off iTunes
scifi  television  awesome  foo 
january 2007 by jimray
O'Reilly and Colbert to appear on each others shows on January 18
O'Reilly added, "I'm really looking forward to speaking to a man who owes his entire career to me!" Self parody at its absolute finest
media  awesome  funny  foo 
january 2007 by jimray
Daylife Launches, Starts Very Long Uphill Climb
Ouch - I wasn't aware that there was a web2.0 thing that Arrington didn't love, and he's an investor in this one. Maybe he's just trying to deflect all the criticism that he's nothing more than fanboi cheerleader. Oh. Wait.
media  web2.0  foo 
january 2007 by jimray
NY Mag says anal is the new black
"Call me old-fashioned, but the guy should be the penetrator, not the penetratee, no?"
sex  foo 
january 2007 by jimray
Christgau's consumer guide is live at MSN
Everyone who's in Seattle who's in to music likely has an opinion about Sean Nelson, but this is unequivocally a very good thing and he deserves serious kudos for making this happen
microsoft  msn  music  seattle  foo 
december 2006 by jimray
Wordie
"Like Flickr, but without the photos" Fucking hilarious!
funny  socialsoftware  writing  writers  language  foo 
december 2006 by jimray
UnSpun by Amazon: Community Opinions ... Ranked!
Like a localized epinions or digg "but for real things" says Rex
amazon  socialsoftware  community  foo 
december 2006 by jimray
Online video sharing quality comparison
Wow, SoapBox video looks awesome and YouTube looks like absolute crap. Of course, Betamax looked better than VHS...
video  youtube  foo 
november 2006 by jimray
Frank Gehry designed watch from Fossil
Tells time how we talk about it ("half past noon") and the display switches between positive and negative during day/night. I love the idea of watches, but don't actually like the "male jewlery" component - I'd wear this one, though.
hardware  wishlist  design  fashion  foo 
november 2006 by jimray
MSNBC relocating courtesy of NYC
Basically, the city of New York is helping to subsidize, via tax breaks, NBC laying off 700 people and moving MSNBC across the river to Manhattan.
work  msnbc  media  nyc  foo 
november 2006 by jimray
Only Like the Biggest (Maybe) Newsbreak of the Night
Comedy Central broke the news the Rummy is leaving? Crazy.
media  weblogs  foo 
november 2006 by jimray
Annuals Music: Entrance
Chapel Hill band, worth checking out
music  northcarolina  foo 
november 2006 by jimray
Introducing Outside.in
Steve Johnson's new hyperlocalaggregator thingie
local  weblogs  cdn  foo 
october 2006 by jimray
Bush says he uses "the Google"
The Google is the next The Internets. "And sometimes, I use The Google to look up things I don't know much about. Like... The Constitution."
politics  funny  bush  foo 
october 2006 by jimray
Robert Christgaue joins Morning Edition
From The Village Voice to NPR? Oddly, not that strange a fit, really
music  npr  writers  media  foo 
october 2006 by jimray
Foleybot
It was only a matter of time before someone coded up a Turing/Foley test
aim  brilliant  funny  foo 
october 2006 by jimray
Why are there so many covers of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"?
"'Crazy' seems to float outside genre altogether, which helps explain its wide appeal—most every musical constituency feels comfortable claiming it."
music  foo 
september 2006 by jimray
Attack of the clonefucker
Yeah, this is some disturbing nerdcore
music  foo 
august 2006 by jimray
The Pipettes
Yeah, I'm in love without hearing a single track yet
music  foo 
august 2006 by jimray
The Intergalactic Mashup King
Warner Herzog made an "undersea outer-space sci-fi documentary" that's supposed to be cool
mashup  film  scifi  2read  foo 
august 2006 by jimray
New Gnarls Barkley video, Smiley Faces
Featuring (part of) the cast of Blue Velvet! Also, this is brilliant.
video  music  brilliant  foo 
august 2006 by jimray

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