Prime numbers, semi-transparent PNGs, and organic randomness in tiled backgrounds: The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers. Wish I had an excuse to use this.
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Prime numbers, semi-transparent PNGs, and organic randomness in tiled backgrounds
Apr 23, ’11
6:36 AM
Content asteroid belts
Apr 22, ’11
8:32 AM
Cameron Koczon on how publishers and readers manage satellites like Instapaper, Readability, and other unbundled flying objects: A List Apart: Orbital Content.
“Many publishers will ask—and it is a fair and familiar question—why should users have the right to carbon copy my content and share it in other contexts? It is a question that belies a concern about something slightly different: compensation. If publishers were compensated $10 every time content was shared and $1 every time it was read on their site, they would do everything in their power to get their content shared. Copying is not the problem—compensation is. Today’s web environment makes it nothing less than a struggle to support content creators. We have unlimited tools for sharing and virtually none for payment.”
It seems safe to add News.Me, Summify, and Trove to the list of satellites — or rather, to the list of, say, content asteroid belts that circle readers and publishers.
On the deaths of two photojournalists in Libya
Apr 21, ’11
9:50 AM
“Chris and Tim are at sea now, heading toward Benghazi, which means, in the indirect but solemn ways that the fallen travel from battlefields, that they are heading home.”
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As for me, I don’t have a lot of grief in me for this, just anger. Undirected, unfocused anger.
If you have any ideas about who I should be angry at about this, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Useful list of WordPress plugins for publishers
Apr 13, ’11
2:10 PM
Useful list of WordPress plugins for publishers: Plugins for publishers, April 2011 edition
Virgin Galactic is hiring. Astronauts.
Apr 12, ’11
6:45 AM
Virgin Galactic is hiring. Astronauts. Job listing right here.
“Virgin is looking for pilots with significant experience of both high performance fast-jet type airplanes as well as large multi-engine types – not only that but prior spaceflight experience is an advantage.” [Emph. orig.]
An updated list of the “top” newspapers on Twitter
Apr 11, ’11
7:40 AM
An updated list of the “top” newspapers on Twitter: Mathilde Piard cleans up one of the sillier “top newspapers on Twitter” lists to float around the web in recent months.
Andy Carvin, human verification machine
Apr 11, ’11
7:07 AM
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account? Craig Silverman talks with Andy Carvin about covering revolution from afar, performing atomized acts of journalism to connect individual tweets to sourcing, evidence, witnesses, and narrative.
Notes from Evan Williams on the five pieces of online identity
Apr 11, ’11
7:03 AM
Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity: Notes from Evan Williams (you might remember him from such products that hinge on online identity such as Blogger and Twitter.)
On the road with Kerouapp
Apr 8, ’11
9:49 AM
Moderately fascinated by word of Kerouapp, which seems like it places your tweets on a map with a handsome timeline.
Here it is in action at the Guardian UK: Krakow Twitrip
Fancy open source timelines from spreadsheets
Apr 6, ’11
10:28 PM
Fancy open source timelines from spreadsheets: TimelineSetter: Easy Timelines From Spreadsheets, Now Open to All. It’s Ruby and it’s from ProPublica and it’s elegant.