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When is a website not a website? For Talking Points Memo, the turning point was in 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
“If someone were to ask me a year ago, I would have said, ‘Well, yeah, we’re not just a website — it’s this, and we have that, and the other.’ But I think it was when I saw mobile growing as fast as it was that it just sort of hit me at a different level,” Marshall told me. “Inevitably, as long as mobile was something like five percent of traffic, it was just something you made available on the side. But you start to see, this is going to be half of our audience. We can’t be approaching it in a way that the website is the thing, and we’re making imitations of it — because this thing is losing its primacy. In a lot of ways, it wasn’t until late last year that it hit me at a different level. It hit me as more than a concept. It was really true.”
tmp  talkingpointsmemo  joshmarshall  journalism  mobile  market  video  communication  culture 
16 days ago by sunpig
London 2012's stupendous insanity leaves sport as an also-ran | John Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
At which point, it is surely worth reflecting on the stupendous insanity boiling around the Olympics, and the fact that sport has become only a detail. Small wonder, of course – the founding idea of the modern games was an expression of the rise of the nation state, and ever since, the resulting spectacle has always crystallised two things: first, the unrivalled power of governments to lay on such gigantic and ludicrously wasteful spectacles; and second, whatever madness is swirling around the host country. Running, jumping and swimming, by comparison, will always be an added extra.
guardian  sport  olympic  games  2012  london  uk  britain  consumerism  society  culture  commercialism  security  theatre 
4 weeks ago by sunpig
Paddy, Not Patty
It's Paddy, not Patty. Ever.
Saint Patrick's Day? Grand.
Paddy's Day? Sure, dead-on.
St. Pat's? Aye, if ye must.
St. Patty? No, ye goat!
paddy  patty  patrick  stpatrick  ireland  irish  mistake  usa  culture  funny  singleservingsite 
11 weeks ago by sunpig
Greenbelt Festival - Where arts, faith and justice collide
Lovely responsive design & implementation: designed & built by @rachelandrew, @drewm, @ratiotype
responsive  web  design  rwd  frontend  fluid  adaptive  art  culture  music  css  html 
11 weeks ago by sunpig
danah boyd | apophenia » We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first)
RT @zephoria: We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first). Why SOPA is counterproductive:
danahboyd  sopa  pipa  privacy  culture  copyright  legal  us  media  internet 
january 2012 by sunpig
Sasha’s Brief Guide to Not Being a Douchy Misogynist | Sasha's Den of Iniquity
RT @pendrift: RT @lia: a brief guide to not being a douchy misogynist, by @sashapixlee: (via @AmandaMarcotte)
sexism  privilege  men  women  relationships  social  attitude  society  culture  misogynism 
may 2011 by sunpig
How Not To Be An Asshole: A Guide For Men - Coyote Crossing
RT @pendrift: RT @lia: how not to be an asshole: a guide for men, by @canislatrans: (via @edyong209)
sexism  privilege  men  women  relationships  social  attitude  society  culture 
may 2011 by sunpig
Revolution and the Muslim World | STRATFOR
"...as you watch the region, remember not to watch the demonstrators. Watch the men with the guns." George Friedman
georgefriedman  stratfor  revolution  democracy  uprising  demonstration  people  organisation  military  police  society  culture 
february 2011 by sunpig
The Facebook Reckoning - Anil Dash
RT @anildash: In response to the NYer profile of Zuck, i took a look at the larger reckoning Facebook faces:
anildash  facebook  privacy  privilege  culture 
september 2010 by sunpig
Google isn’t Evil. Flash isn’t Dead; Thank god the Open Web doesn’t have a single vendor on Dion Almaer's Blog
"I do watch for single-owned platforms such as Flash, Silverlight, or now the Apple platform (even though they do great work on the HTML5 side of the house). I don’t want any of those vendors to have too much power. The thought of a Web that required the use of their technology makes me shudder (we have a piece of that with Flash video). Right now I can turn off those plugins and life moves on. Sure I can’t Hulu or Netflix, but that will change. I would miss some of the Flash sites that my kids use, but they could even be partially ported over to HTML5 these days."
dionalmaer  web  monopoly  flash  apple  ipod  standards  openstandards  computing  culture  control  freedom 
february 2010 by sunpig
NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web
"[W]hen a juror is tweeting teasers from the jury room, part of them must know that a guilty verdict is much more exciting to their audience than one of innocence. How can that not subconsciously influence them? Likewise when we – the real-time generation – watch someone being attacked in the street or a plane crashing into our building and instinctively reach for our phones, can we be sure that our first impulse will be to dial 911, rather than firing up Tweetdeck or clicking the camera icon to ensure we get props for being there? I mean, really sure? In a perverse twist on the uncertainty principle, knowing that our behavior is being observed inevitably changes it for the more dramatic. Just look at reality TV."
twitter  realtime  update  microblogging  web  social  response  psychology  selfawareness  culture  follow  lh 
october 2009 by sunpig
apophenia: Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
"The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream based ways in which the text gets consumed look awfully similar. Yet, the more I talk with people engaged in practices around Twitter and Facebook, the more I'm convinced these two things are not actually the same practice. Why? Audience."
twitter  facebook  social  graph  directed  follow  comment  conversation  publish  update  culture  communicate  friend  microblogging 
october 2009 by sunpig

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