don’t ask what journalism can do for technology; ask what technology can do for journalism.
jeff jarvis: “americans mistrust government more than europeans even though we [americans] have arguably had better governments than they have. and we trust companies more than europeans even though we have arguably had worse companies.” (via schockwellenreiter.)
robin nagle: “every single thing you see is future trash.”
q.v. fresh kills, one of the only man-made structures massive enough to be visible from earth’s orbit.
»kunst kennt keine sieger, also breche ich die veranstaltung ergebnislos ab.« christoph schlingensief, 24.10.1960—21.08.2010.
she’s a beauty!
the periodic table of html5 elements. via @tputh.
julian assange, last october in computerworld: "you'd think the bigger and more important the document is, the more likely it will be reported on but that's absolutely not true. it's about supply and demand. zero supply equals high demand, it has value. as soon as we release the material, the supply goes to infinity, so the perceived value goes to zero." (via pressthink via columbia journalism review via @wblau.)
woman in technology and the end of men. (via @oberhamsi and motz.)
from the nofro quickmail archives.
date: 29.01.1997 10:03
from: fritz
to: ulla, andreas, heike, marco, maurizio, christian, nicola, tobi, martha, anja
subject: orf life on the internet
date: 28.04.1997 9:22
from: anna
to: tobi
subject: orf on
is online (unofficialy). the secret url is: www.orf.at/orfon/fs_news.html
...in the light of the orf.at face lift 2010 – onward, for another thirteen years!
it is my job to seek out my own errors.
brian stelter: "the new york times characterized waterboarding as torture in 44 of the 54 articles that mentioned the practice from 1931 to 1999. the times called it torture or implied that it was torture in two of 143 articles from 2002 to 2008." (via scripting news.)