May 2013
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3 things Toronto needs to do fix itself
The following is from Richard Florida’s column he wrote on the “Rob Ford embarrassment” and a “broken Toronto”
Most of all, we must acknowledge that Mr. Ford is a symptom of a set of much deeper maladies. Before Toronto can put itself back together, three key issues must be addressed:
First is the fact of a weak, dare I say, powerless mayor’s office. …
Second, we...
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“The Xbox One can be controlled simply through voice commands and body gestures....”
– David Yanofsky, Microsoft’s new Xbox One is an Apple killer, in the living room
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Exclamation: Yahoo! Takes Over Times Square →
yahoo:
By Jackie Reses, Chief Development Officer
I am so pleased to share that our New York City-based Yahoo! team will soon move into an incredible, four-story space just around the corner from Times Square. It’s thrilling for us – and really an important sign of the new direction of Yahoo! –…
The times, they done changed.
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“The name of the game for most publishers is, churn out as much content as...”
– Jack Marshall, Pitchfork Opts Out of the Pageview Rat Race
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Human embryos successfully cloned (sort of) →
jkottke:
A group of researchers in Oregon have successfully cloned human embryos. No, really:
The researchers, at Oregon Health and Science University, took skin cells from a baby with a genetic disease and fused them with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically identical to the 8-month-old.
Holy. Shit.
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“Now’s design, like its usage ambitions, was a culmination of everything that...”
– Matt Buchanan, Google Maps, Google Plus, Cards, and the Evolution of the Company’s Design.
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“You can scan the barcode on any product and the free app will trace its...”
– Clare O’Connor, New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart
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Watch“What happens when developers, project managers, strategists and and designers are all put into a room together with Arduino software, USB cables and Grove kits? We found out, and called it Teehan+Lax Hack Day.”
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How Bing Crosby invented Silicon Valley, bascially →
jkottke:
The headline (How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley) glistens with Mashable-grade hyperbole, but watch as Paul Ford deftly and convincingly connects crooner Bing Crosby with a Nazi invention that helped power the invention of Silicon Valley.
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“Mobile-centric and mobile-exclusive news consumers are small groups — but...”
– Rick Edmonds, New research finds 92 percent of time spent on news consumption is still on legacy platforms
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Bike lanes led to 49% increase in retail sales →
“This new study makes it clear: investing in bicycle improvements boosts small businesses. And what town or city doesn’t want to boost activity at local businesses?”— New York Department of Transportation report, “Measuring the Street: New Metrics for the 21st Century”
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Why Design Matters: If Snow Fall Were Published in...
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I am in beautiful Bergen, Norway, this week for the Nordic Media Festival. I gave a talk this morning on digital storytelling and, of course, everyone wanted to talk about Snow Fall.
As part of the presentation — and to drive home my point about design — I mocked up what Snow Fall might have been had our brilliant design, graphics and video teams not taken this project on.
Since a...
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“The company will need to sell about 40,000 copies of [The Doors $4.99 iPad] app...”
– —Ben Sisario, ”Miss the Music of the Doors? There’s an iPad App for That”
I have a hard time buying The Doors’ new iPad app was built for only $130,000 to $200,000 (depending on whether Apple’s cut was considered). Especially considering a “small team” worked for...
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“The flexibility and customization [Tumblr and similar services] offer provide a...”
– Roger Wood, Soon your media will know you better than you know yourself
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Why F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby is... →
(via Instapaper)
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When first isn't best
Nilay Patel, Verve: You’re called Breaking News — do you feel pressure to be first? [...]
Cory Bergman, Breaking News: [...] With us it’s interesting — there’s pressure to be second.
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Shift to mobile is tripping up news metrics →
corybe:
Apps are another source of dark data. Most analytics services do not measure app referrals, counting them as direct or unknown. There are a couple key exceptions: both Facebook and Twitter use their own intermediate URLs — m.facebook.com and t.co — to ensure their app referrals appear. But many other apps do not, further inflating the direct number.
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“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence—as if it caricatured not the...”
– Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (ht Quartz, “Watch the new iPhone and Instagram ads at the same time”)
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“Payments made via phones include information about the customer’s location, the...”
– Casey Newton, Square sets its sights on Foursquare: ‘We can do something better’
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