December 2011
28 posts
First Demonstration of Time Cloaking - Technology... →
In effect, the space between the two lenses is a kind of spatio-temporal cloak that deletes changes that occur in short periods of time. The device has some limitations. The Cornell time cloak lasts only for 110 nanoseconds—that’s not long. And Fridman and co say the best it can achieve will be 120 microseconds. Quoth Keanu: Woah.
El Oso » Archive » Protest Infatuation and the 4th... →
Go read this. David Sasaki asks: Okay, networked activists, what’s next?
Could Revolution Come to Putin's Russia? - Brian... →
Brian Till, on Moscow: The street needs leaders, or cohesive coalitions of leaders, who can tell the movement when to lie low, like Mandela, and when to rise up, and who can demand more in the face of the regime’s tepid offerings. Starting with the Green revolution, in Iran, moving to Wall Street and what we’ve seen in Moscow today, these uprisings have sometimes seen individuals...
Cee Lo Green Strikes Pop Star Gold, Without a Gold... →
The old business model for entertainment, it’s a-changin’. The Times on Cee Lo Green: Cee Lo — a cannonball-shaped man devoted to the Liberace and Elton John school of showmanship — will earn about $20 million this year. Record sales represent the smallest slice of the revenue pie, according to Larry Mestel, the chief executive of Cee Lo’s management company, Primary Wave Music. The...
Lawsuit May Determine Who Owns a Twitter Account -... →
A writer who parted ways with a former employer took — with the employer’s permission, he says — the company Twitter account with him. The New York Times tells the story of Noah Kravitz:And so he began writing as NoahKravitz, keeping all his followers under that new handle. But eight months after Mr. Kravitz left the company, PhoneDog sued, saying the Twitter list was a customer...
“Newsrooms are eerie during the holidays. Sources disappear. They don’t call....”
– Ginger Christ (via partylikeajournalist)
n+1: At the NYSE →
For the next hour, the crowd moved up and down among Beaver, Broad, and William. Around 10 AM, still on Broad and Beaver, I heard a sound to my left like the alarm when someone opens an emergency subway exit. Turning, I saw a line of maybe twenty protesters, not two feet over, drop to the ground like puppets with their strings cut. This was the LRAD—a Long Range Acoustic Device, or sound cannon,...
The Angry Birds Theme Gets An Orchestral Makeover... →
One of the most elaborate but respectful interpretations to date has been that of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Skeet, included on the ensemble’s new album The Greatest Video Game Music. The arrangement navigates a delicate but sure course between drama and silliness: Its introduction’s ponderous piano and strings are dispensed with a wink, while a harp solo...
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |... →
Charles C. Mann on America’s most grandiose security theater.
The Media's Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Campaign... →
So tell me again why debate questions are on cap-and-trade, or on what Mitt Romney did or didn’t do with Massachusetts health care in 2006? I propose this instead: “Sir, you have declared America to be a tyranny and your political opponents to be anti-American. Are you proposing an overthrow? And if not, why not?” I might also turn the question around on the press itself, an...
Why Solutions Journalism Matters, Too -... →
The Hole In FON Theory : CJR →
I agree with Dean Starkman that “the story is the thing,” and as he does, also believe that journalistic institutions are necessary only insofar as they produce good public-interest journalism.
But the thing about the necessity of insitutions is that they’re really not necessary anymore in a wide and growing swath of the information industry. I fail to see why journalists...
Josh's tumblelog - Ain’t no party like a Pyongyang... →
Morning Joe's 'romcom-v�rit�,' vindicated -... →
Dylan Byers on Morning Joe: “These latest numbers are proof, if any was needed, that the latest iteration of the morning news model is working.”
Seth's Blog: The new lazy journalism →
We don’t need paid professionals to do retweeting for us. They’re slicing up the attention pie thinner and thinner, giving us retreaded rehashes of warmed over news, all hoping for a bit of attention because the issue is trending. We can leave that to the unpaid, I think. The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn’t been written about,...
N. Korea Says Dictator, Kim Jong-il, Dies -... →
Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Blocks Photographer... →
There are also unconfirmed reports of violence against reporters by police at this past weekend’s Occupy Wall Street events.
Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. -... →
rubenfeld:
The must-read of the weekend:
WHEN I was 14, my mother told me not to panic if a police officer stopped me. And she cautioned me to carry ID and never run away from the police or I could be shot. In the nine years since my mother gave me this advice, I have had numerous occasions to consider her wisdom.
Think Our Wild Horses Are Safe? - Andrew Cohen -... →
Congress can’t agree on how to balance a budget, tax the middle class or restore the economy. Meanwhile, there’s this: “The patent indifference to the plight of the horses is, indeed, a bipartisan affair.”
Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time... →
On the growing tension between brand-name autocracy and bottom-up home rule, two models competing for control of American towns as old leadership is plowed under by hard times.
Seriously, Bro: Mark Cuban Invests Big In Brotips... →
From The Atlantic’s ongoing obsession with declaring an end to manhood to this — there’s a large and growing demand for brands that redefine what it is to be a man.