Trifecta: Hiro, Peter, Nathan (1)
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Hunted down three more Heroes bus posters today: Hiro, Peter, and Nathan. I found Hiro on Wilshire at Mansfield in the Hancock Park area, Peter on Wilshire at Norton in Koreatown, and Nathan on Olympic and Union just west of downtown.In light of all the camera trouble I've been having this week, these photos were taken with an Aries digital camera I picked up at Walgreens for a big twenty smackeroos. It's sort of a ...
Why cartoons work (16)
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Tom Fishburne has a new book out, and you should take a look if you're seeking a new way to think about marketing, your brand, or your colleagues. The whole tour is here. Andrew Kaufman's book does the same thing, but in a totally different way--with text that has the same power of a great cartoon. Thanks, Andrea, for sending it to me... I loved every word of it. Cartoons work because they're not monologues. ...
Good Riddance To Albums (6)
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One of my fondest memories as a kid was saving up my money and making trip to the record store where I would spend what seemed like hours going through the LP bins. Finally I would narrow down my selection to what money I had in my pocket. Sometimes I would be able to get only one album, maybe two or on those rare occasions when there was a sale going on I’d get more. ...
Album-loving artists blame iTunes for changed music tastes (52)
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High-profile artists have forgone putting their albums on the iTunes Store lately as they complain of an unfair distribution system that only helps to reduce album sales. Is cherry-picking only hot singles a trend with staying power, or can full-album sales make a comeback?Read More...
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Kari said:
Customer orientation and creating value? What's that?
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CJ said:
Or, you could try making better albums. Just saying.
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sean said:
I'm still very much album-oriented ... the only singles I download are freebies. How about you?
Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name Change (66)
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For all its supposed simplicity, Really Simple Syndication or RSS has continued to confuse and intimidate millions of people online years after its introduction. What can be done to make RSS more mainstream? Google plans to roll out a small but simple feature that could go a long way. We wouldn't be surprised to see every blog publishing service follow suit. "Follow this blog" is a clear call to action and those words will soon ...
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tforster said:
Thought about it a bit more. Why not replace the RSS icon in address bars with a button that says "follow this page". Joe Average User might be more inclined to click on that than a funny orange square.I think I'm going to replace my in page rss icons with a little chiclet that says "follow my blog."
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Joshua said:
I've been saying for a while that "follow" is the word, acceptable to gramps because he's always followed the news and acceptable to l33t g33k because sexy twitter brought it back.
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cvander said:
¿Cómo será para los hispanos?"sigue este blog?"Sin duda será un buen impulso al RSS (digo, al follow).
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Emil Kaiser said:
Följ den är sökningen?
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rexy said:
This to me looks like another of google's antics to increase traffic in the name of improving usability. Come on, give me a break!
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leedsjimbo said:
YES!
Does creative expression trump plot progression? (1)
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I’ve written previously about the role of “plot” in corporate superhero serials. I’ve also written about the need to honor forms of creative expression. Last week, reporting on the long-promised, finally-announced Marvels sequel, Tom Spurgeon mentioned both: Marvels was also kind of an odd book in that — as more than a few critics have noted — it’s best remembered for a kind of wistful re-imagining of superheroes from the vantage point of people on ...
Tell All Star Superman #1-11 in Eleven Panels! (1)
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Sandy Bilus is running an intriguing experiment over at his blog here, where he attempts to tell the entire story of All Star Superman #1-11 via strictly one panel from each issue, in order. I do not know if he is successful, but it’s damned impressive on his part, I think. Can anyone do any better? Someone should also set up his panels as a YouTube thing - that’d be awesome to see! 14 Comments ...
Forget Your Small FriendFeed Wishes, We are Having Dream Coming True (12)
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Right after we were shown the upcoming FriendFeed beta featuring friend lists and some other interesting tweaks of the interface, people started sharing what else could make our experience of FriendFeed closer to perfect in the special room for discussions the team set up for everyone to share their feedback on the redesign. I believe that the team actually hoped to hear feedback only on how the latest version works and what people actually think ...
SUP, a Format to Tell Which Feeds Updated (19)
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SUP stands for Simple Update Protocol (officially, anyway, though it’s perhaps an acronym or backronym for “what’s up” aka “’sup”). It’s a JSON-based meta format for RSS/ Atom feeds useful for websites that deliver a large number of feeds, like a blogging platform, so that services subscribing to that site’s RSS feeds only need to download a single file to check for updates, and then download the other individual feeds as needed. SUP was invented ...
12 Great Free Games for the iPhone and iPod Touch (16)
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Why should you put a dent in your wallet when there are so many great free applications out there for the iPhone and iPod Touch? There are tons of games for the devices, but the vast majority of them cost money, so we’ve sorted through and located 12 totally free ones for you to throw on your gadgets and entertain yourself throughout the day. Unlike with Firefox or WordPress addons, where we always tell you ...
Un-Special Ando! (1)
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Found another Heroes bus poster, this one of Ando, located at the bus stop on Wilshire and Barrington in Brentwood. These posters are proving tricky to find -- I spotted this one only after walking through Beverly Hills along Wilshire (a totally wasted effort, as it turns out, because, whilst Wilshire has about eight thousand bus stops through Beverly Hills -- number possibly exaggerated for comic effect -- none of them have bus shelters and ...
FriendFeed Adds Widgets; Its Path to Mainstream? (25)
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Lifestreaming service FriendFeed has launched a variety of widgets (available here) for showing off your activities on your own blog or website. The two most significant widgets are the Badge, which shows off all of the different services you’ve synced with the site, and the Feed Widget, which displays your most recent activities. Personally I’m a big fan of the Badge concept (which has been tried previously by others), as it should make it super ...
Speed Up RSS? FriendFeed's Going to Try (7)
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RSS is the backbone for most things Web 2.0 but these days, it's not always fast enough. Politeness limits ping times to every 15 minutes at best in ...
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dd said:
SUP is just a very simple extension to RSS and Atom that makes it easier to discover when a feed has been updated.
Embed FriendFeed in your blog (56)
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We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want. FriendFeed Badge Create a customized FriendFeed badge to show off the services you use and your recent FriendFeed activity. FriendFeed Feed Widget Embed your feed or a room's feed on your blog or website with the feed widget. "Share ...
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Carl said:
May be useful, I'll have to try it and see
Bradman speaks (1)
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Hurrah for Will (owner of what Marcus Trescothick calls a "so-called cricket blog" in his autobiography) for dredging up this footage of Don Bradman giving an interview. It is not clear when the video was made - Bradman wears a cap saying 1930 but the discussion suggests it is later in his career, maybe 1938 or even 1948 - but some things are striking. 1) Bradman's voice is quite squeaky. He almost sounds like Dame ...
The first law of mass media (83)
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Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter. Radio ads used to be live, personal and spoken by an individual.TV ads used to feature actual people, demonstrating something, usually live.Phone calls involved a live speaker, talking, with permission, to another person.Email used to be honest interactions between consenting adults.Facebook pages (and Wikipedia, too) were built by people, not staffs.Twits came from real people, and so did instant messages. One by one, the ...
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Ullash said:
Interesting Observation..
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Josh Bancroft said:
They make the fatal mistake of editing the human out of the conversation. And then what are you left with?
Ubiquity Prototype Offers a Natural Language Web Command Line [Featured Firefox Extension] (103)
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Firefox only: Mozilla Labs unveils the first prototype of a natural language web service connector called Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that adds a command panel to any web page. Ubiquity will look familiar to Quicksilver, Launchy, or Enso users: you invoke Ubiquity with a key combination and the text field drops down command suggestions as you type. Ubiquity's built-in command set consists of "user-centric mashups" that let you perform tasks using various web services in ...
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gautamg said:
going to try it out
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Matt said:
This is quite possibly the cleverest thing I've seen in a while. Ubiquity gives the web a command line for manipulating and aggregating data from various web services on the fly. Check out the video!
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yooper1019 said:
Wow! I REALLY hope this grows wings!! Very worth the 6 min vid!
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Derek said:
watch the video, it is worth it!
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Austin said:
Get this and try it, it's freaking amaaaazing
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alldrin said:
interesting
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Nihar said:
nice!!
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Bret said:
This will be an incredible tool as it is further developed.
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Ashwin said:
Ubiquity...
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catepol said:
da provare appena ho connessione stabile
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Charles said:
The main reason why more people haven't adopted command line shortcuts is because their brain doesn't move faster than their mouse (and a few page refreshes).
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HacKnight said:
I started using this yesterday. It's quite useful, though only for a limited set of actions. I haven't dabbled in the dev side of things but as long as that's easy, I think this will take off.
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ixfx.dengmy said:
我没看懂
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tOMPSON said:
brilliant, that is the future
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iheartorcs said:
This is seriously cool if it works that well.
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dimhap said:
i've tried it last night. worth a try
