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Freakonomics authors suggest investigating a geoengineering solution to global warming. (The post is apparently written in response to environmentalists … gulfstream/2652
NY Times’s “Global Edition—; replaces the International Herald Tribune. Still rather US-centric though (compared to, say, the BBC’s international … gulfstream/2608
The New Yorker is being sued over a story by Jared Diamond, in which he describes a long running feud between New Guinea highlanders. One of the highlanders … gulfstream/2607
More newspaper doom and gloom: it’s likely that soon, major US cities will be without a daily paper. See also David Simon’s recent article pointing … gulfstream/2596
Errol Morris talks to press photographers about their favourite pictures of George Bush. gulfstream/2594
Ten Major Newspapers that may fold or go digital only in the next year. Some big names here: the SF Chronicle, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Miami … gulfstream/2593
On the directing work that goes on during the live broadcast of NFL games. “In the seconds between the return from the two-minute-warning commercial … gulfstream/2583
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Barely Legal Whores Get Gang-F***ed - The Rumpus.net
"Tasha says that, in school, far from having porn dropped on or launched at her in a military setting, she actually looked for porn online and stole it from her friends. This is in a shot where Tasha is driving and looking very sleazy and blurry in wraparound sunglasses and lighting that erases her jaw and in a from-below, up-the-nose angle that everyone in television, film, or photography will tell you is the shot you use to make someone look ugly and morally bankrupt."
Atlas: Full API Reference
Service for searching for audio and video items across the UK (?) broadcast space.
NSFW: ‘Tis Pity We Called Her A Whore – And Other Ineffectual Digital Apologies
Op-Ed Contributor - Free viral videos - NYTimes.com
What analysts should ask Apple | Mac | MacUser | Macworld
"Since you’re analysts, you might think you could sneak something in by asking about how the January 27 announcements—whatever they turn out to be—will affect Apple’s bottom line in the March 2010 quarter. Nice try, but I can tell you right now what Peter Oppenheimer and Tim Cook will say to that: “Our announcements on Wednesday have been factored into the guidance we gave you for the March quarter.”"
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica
mostly quotes illustrating how various technologies have been viewed with fear: records, video, etc. (what we don't have is what people thought of various technologies that didn't happen for one reason or another.)
The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Time
Rupert to Internet: It’s War!
"News in penny-newspaper or broadcast (or bundled cable) form has always been either free or negligibly priced. In almost every commercial iteration, news has been supported by advertising. This is, more than the Internet, Murdoch’s (and every publisher’s) problem: the dramatic downturn in advertising."
Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise. - NYTimes.com
About time: "From the “Mad Men” era until now, advertising has been about a catchy tagline, an arresting image, the Big Idea. But Mr. Herman and his competitors are bringing some Wall Street-like analysis to Madison Avenue, exploiting the huge amounts of data produced by the Internet to adjust strategy almost instantly."
Regret the Error » Crunks 2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
putin and medvedev on the front page of the times
showing "trickery" in the region of medvedev's crotch
A new breed of fashion magazines comes into vogue - International Herald Tribune