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Kevin: “Features, I’ve recently come to realize, can be obstacles. Problems. … Determine a basic need -> Create a service that satisfies it in the simplest way possible -> Open it up.”
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The Wall Street Journal says that the Associated Press is beginning to fracture as the US newspaper business reels. Papers are beginning to push back on the fees the 162-year-old cooperative charges.
Suw’s MacBook under destruction, originally uploaded by Kevglobal.
I actually deconstructed Suw’s old MacBook even more than this. At one point, to get at the inverter cable, I had to take out the hard drive (easy), the DVD drive (not quite as easy), and take apart the screen (quite difficult). The inverter cable, display cable, mic cable and iSight cable are crammed in a channel from the display very tightly. It’s no surprise that the display was flickering before finally giving up the ghost.
It took three or four hours and a lot of concentration and patience to put this all back together together, but now, it’s even better than the original with faster processors. I’ve got a temperature sensor programme telling me that it’s keeping itself cool. After 24 hours, everything seems in order, apart from the up key, which doesn’t seem to work. No worries, that is what two-fingered scroll is for. Thanks again to iFixit.com for their wonderful repair guides.
And here she is, running happily again. However, Suw and I agreed to rename her, Lazarus. Is there a feminine version of Lazarus? Lararina?
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Scholar Looks for First Link in E-Mail Chain About Obama. Source: Washington Post
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In the manner of Facebook and Digg, the social-news application lets people see which stories their friends are commenting on and recommending. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
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Kevin: Thoughtful post about the New Yorks Times’ Times People social media tool. He likes the focused nature of the tool as opposed to baking in social networking features into the site.
The Daily Show gives people tips on how to get a message to the White House. (And how to get any video into WordPress.com using the lovely Vodpod bookmarklet/plugin.)
more about “How to get a message to the White House“, posted with vodpod
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Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced such a plan.
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Kevin: Adam Tinworth writes a must bookmark post on why media gets community wrong. To quote one of the comments, ‘brilliant clarity’. Goes to the heart of why mass media doesn’t take advantage of social media.
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Kevin: My colleague Roy Greenslade has a great post on the benefits that journalists can realise by learning the values of the blogging revolution.
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Great examples of recycled urban architecture. I especially like the recyled jet. I think more needs to be done to encourage the re-use and redevelopment of buildings instead of building on greenspace.
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Kevin: Jeff Jarvis from an internal conference at the Guardian about the Future of Journalism. Lots to think about. I like in helping find quality or interesting content, “it becomes an editorial job and knowing who people are and creating “circles of tru
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I might have to try to create a DIY Dalek cam. Suw and I have too much stuff to leave it to locks. Or is this just an extension of the surveillance society?
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Kevin: Is Fred Wilson getting bored with Web 2.0? Yes and no. He is just curious about having a more positive social and political impact, which is why he’s travelling to Europe.
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Kevin: Ari Melber says: “Web entrepreneur Arianna Huffington slammed old media at a political conference in New York today, assailing reporters for abandoning the pursuit of truth in favor of a “fake neutrality” and quailing in the face of government inti
I won’t say that the title of this post is original. I could argue that I thought of it first, but that doesn’t quite fly. But I’ll give Mike Riggs at Reason magazine credit for inspriration to actually write this post. Mike has a great list of Carlin quotes that I’m sure you’ll enjoy.
“Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.”
“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.”
“Think off-center.”
Carlin’s case went all the way to the US Supreme Court. I saw him when I was at university in the early 1990s. He was more political than in this sketch, although there is an underlying political message here about free speech, but he was great. He was an amazingly thought-provoking comedian. Rest his f*!king soul.
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The Personal Democracy Forum collects essays from lots of big thinkers including Esther Dyson, Yochai Benkler, Jeff Jarvis, Micah Sifry and many more on how to re-energise, reorganise and reorient US democracy for the internet age.
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Kevin: Craig draws lessons from Iain Dale’s advertising model and makes some suggestions on why Google AdSense didn’t work for him. Craig suggests improvements on ad placement and the value of an ‘online presence’.
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