Good riddance http://bit.ly/qDTKo
Newspaper Club
Makes me wonder how easy it would be for other existing digital presses to become on-demand for anyones use. If priced and designed properly this may help save the presses.
Congress's Travel Tab Swells
Our tax dollars:
The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
@keeg A Taepodong (still a funny name for a missile) has a range of 4,000 miles and Hawaii is 4,500 miles. Also http://bit.ly/ybgrK
Emusic now has "Album only" tracks so if a album has 8 tracks you now get charged for 12 credits for the whole album. #fail #sonysucks
Trying to design something that looks like it belongs on both an iPhone and a desktop with minimal degradation.
I think the longer I go without caffeine the more rational I become. Day 5.
/me doesn't want to write documentation but knows it's for the betterment of humanity.
Kinda slow but really freakin handy if you're looking for an apartment in Lawrence (or elsewhere) http://bit.ly/s2BwL
Malcolm is wrong
Seth Godin fires back at Malcolm Gladwell's review of Chris Anderson's new book Free, which is conveniently available for $17.81 on Amazon.
There's always room for Jello
I try to do something similar about once a week. Instead of going to work I'll camp out in one of my favorite coffeehouses. I'm still "working" but I'm doing so out of context which usually leads to seeing things differently.
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson
Some interesting points made here about Free.
Credit Suisse estimates that YouTube will lose close to half a billion dollars this year. If it were a bank, it would be eligible for TARP funds.
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State, gave an interesting talk recently: http://bit.ly/JqtRn
Overheard in Starbucks: —Does The New York Times print *every* day? —Yes, of course. —Oh my god, why would they do that? (via @gruber)
Michael Jackson's death and its lessons for online journalists covering breaking news
So basically mainstream news needs use Twitter to acknowledge rumors while they're fact checking, okay, but who follows mainstream news on Twitter? I tried to follow CNN and NYTimes but it's too chatty. I actually GO to those sites regularly to see what they're reporting on. Twitter is the grapevine and mainstream news has never really fit on my vine.
I love this: http://bit.ly/aMMz5
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
I moved Flopsy from a gist to a project repo: http://github.com/nathanborror/flopsy/ since gist forks hurt my head.
Search User Interfaces
This looks like a promising academic look into search UI by Marti A. Hearst.
@shauninman try ninjawords http://ninjawords.com/
Finally playing Settlers of Catan and loving it!
@davidorex +1 on a Sylas and Maddy's delivery service.
A great write up on @simonw and the Guardian's crowdsourcing of the expenses-scandal document dump http://bit.ly/Kf0X8 So cool :)
A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa
Great introduction to RDFa by Mark Birbeck.
@jstevens You should also check out http://bit.ly/fMBmq done by our friends over at KState.