The Explanatory Power of Images (2)
share
digg
by
Robin (4)
on
Snarkmarket (2)
2 days, 18 hours
ago
permalink
The Big Picture's new post is about Mumbai. I have to say: I understand it better having looked at these. More and more I'm starting to think the future of journalism is more images, more images, more images. Not just images -- never just images -- but honestly, I've read a lot of articles about Mumbai over the last three days and words are just not capable of communicating some parts of this story -- ...
P is for Pirate (1)
share
digg
by
Robin (4)
on
Snarkmarket (2)
3 days, 1 hour
ago
permalink
If you read only one Somali pirate story, make it this one: "Mummy, mummy, please can I phone the pirates for you?" "No." "Pleeeeez." By this time, with rain battering my windscreen and cars jamming the road, I was at the end of my tether. "OK", I said, tossing the phone into the back of the car. "They are under P for pirates." "Hello. Please can I talk to the pirates," said my daughter in ...
The Blogger I Miss Most... (1)
share
digg
by
Tim (10)
on
Snarkmarket (2)
4 days, 3 hours
ago
permalink
... is easily Ben Vershbow, formerly of if:book. The only post-IFB news I can find of him is a Book Expo Canada from June. I hope he is doing something appropriately awesome.
When Big Systems Change (1)
share
digg
by
Robin (4)
on
Snarkmarket (2)
1 week, 1 day
ago
permalink
I love stories of big systems changing. Especially systems so deep that we don't necessarily think of them as things you can change. Case in point: The Japanese court system is adding juries for the first time. (America's legal tradition has had juries since 1166. This does not feel like a thing that changes.) So Japan's new Saiban-in system has juries with six citizens and three judges, all sitting together. And check this out: Perhaps ...
Near-Futurism (1)
share
digg
by
mthompson (0)
on
Snarkmarket (2)
1 week, 2 days
ago
permalink
Speaking of Kevin Kelly, I had basically taken for granted that one of us had already posted his call for more visions of the near future, given our recent spate of near-futurism. It appears no one had. Well, that's fixed.
Screenealogies (1)
share
digg
by
Tim (10)
on
Snarkmarket (2)
1 week, 2 days
ago
permalink
I'll definitely back up Robin; check out NYTMag's Screens issue. (Is there no way to permalink whole issues? Blerg.) My favorite story, though, is Ross Simonini's "The Sitcom Digresses," which traces the genealogy of the digression/flashback in TV comedies from The Simpsons to 30 Rock and ultimately to the postmodern novel. So: Tristram Shandy -> Gravity's Rainbow -> The Simpsons -> Family Guy -> Scrubs -> Arrested Development -> 30 Rock This reminded me that ...
Google to Host 10 Million LIFE Magazine Photos (1)
share
digg
by
Mark Hefflinger (0)
on
Digital Media Wire - Google (0)
1 week, 3 days
ago
permalink
New York - Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Google (NASD: GOOG) on a hosted image service that will provide access to the LIFE magazine photo archive, which includes over 10 million images -- 97% of which have never before been seen by the public. The companies said that the images will be scanned and available on Google Image Search free for personal and research purposes, while Time will ...
Work As If (7)
share
digg
We don't know who we are any more [Identity Crisis] (4)
share
digg
by
Owen Thomas (24)
on
Valleywag (36)
2 weeks, 4 days
ago
permalink
Is Martin Eisenstadt, the neo-conservative think-tanker who claimed to have spread a rumor that Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent, real? Perhaps not, but then again, how do we know if the New York Times, the august journal which exposed him, is real, either? Eisenstadt, a Times article reports, is actually Eitan Gorlin, an actor playing the part of a neoconservative think-tanker. Gorlin's response on the Eisenstadt Group website he created as part ...
-
Matthew said:
Welcome to the distopic future.
برگریز (1)
share
digg
My President is Black / My Lambo's Blue (1)
share
digg
عکاسی حرفه ای (0) permalink
امیدوارم روییده باشى در این برگ ریز .Shared by FarshadPLUS (0)Contribute commentvi.sualize.us/watchlist/farshadpalideh (0) permalink
aksnevesht posted a new favorite picture:Shared by FarshadPLUS (0)Contribute comment
