Mobile’s march to eat all of media production continues to get louder and louder. The canon footage is certainly better than the hyperlapse, but that has mostly to do with the size of the sensor I would argue.
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Fungible
We only occassionally sit down to really enjoy and savour journalism. More often we use it to procrastinate at work – which the populist in me frankly believes is a much better explanation for the fact that we consume so much crime, celebrity and weird news, viz. because we’re just looking for a distraction, not, as the most commonly proffered explanation would have it, because each and every one of us is retarded.
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Are we trying to get better at something that doesn’t matter anymore? Perhaps we should take the best traditions of journalism and do something entirely new with it. Whatever we are doing now is not working.….
Most innovation in media and most of the revenue and most of the value will come not from the incumbents and not even from news »
Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism
Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism
As journalist/programmer Stijn Debrouwere has argued in a persuasive essay about the challenges facing the news business, journalism isn’t being disrupted just by different forms of journalism — it’s being disrupted by things that don’t even look like journalism
“…focus on storytelling and personality, because those things are irreplaceable, and concentrate on appealing to readers who are passionate about a specific topics.”
Can’t wait to see this.
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Radio station lays off all 47 of its journalists, will play Beyoncé all day everyday instead
Radio station lays off all 47 of its journalists, will play Beyoncé all day everyday instead
The future of journalism is Beyoncé.FJP: All hail Queen Bey.
This is a very sad milestone. Please don’t hate me Beyoncé lovers.
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This is why Rome won so many battles. Enemy spies would wait for them to read battle plans to themselves while mouthing the words; trouble was, they had learned not to!
Spoken language is still processed through the auditory sense and centers. Your brain cannot tell the difference between things you actually hear and things that you have only imagined hearing. Silent reading is imagining the sound of words being spoken. The big question, is what kind of voice do you hear reading the words? (I hear my own voice as it sounded when I was 5.)
^Which is also why if you are close to someone, you often imagine their voices as you read their text messages.
This is so good. While »
These are forms of male aggression that only women see. But even when men are afforded a front seat to harassment, they don’t always have the correct vantage point for recognizing the subtlety of its operation. Four years before the murders, I was sitting in a bar in Washington, D.C. with a male friend. Another young woman was alone at the bar when an older man scooted next to her. He was aggressive, wasted, and sitting too close, but she smiled curtly at his ramblings and laughed softly at his jokes as she patiently downed her drink. ‘Why is she humoring him?’ my friend asked me. ‘You would never do that.’ I was too embarrassed to say: ‘Because he looks scary’ and ‘I do it all the time.’
Women who have experienced this can recognize that placating these men »
“Don’t feed a guy a sponge Bobby!”
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Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society and make it feminist.
Kelley Temple, National Union of Students UK Women’s Officer
via feminist kitsch
(via ericmortensen)
Fellas, this is how you be a feminist.
Soderbergh told me recently that a lot of the show’s simplicity is driven by time and budget constraints. They’re working on a tight schedule and have to shoot a lot of script pages every day, so they don’t have the luxury of shooting things five different ways and deciding later which one they like the best. The use of compact, high-definition, light-sensitive digital cameras allows Soderbergh to shoot with one or two visible light sources, often of fairly low wattage, and achieve naturalistic lighting effects that Stanley Kubrick spent a fortune on when shooting the visually similar Barry Lyndon (the first movie with interiors shot entirely by candlelight) on 35mm film 40 years ago. I’m almost reluctant to convey all that information here, though, because it might make it sound as if what Soderbergh is doing is easy. It’s really »
How People in Hong Kong Can Chat if Cell Networks Go Down
How People in Hong Kong Can Chat if Cell Networks Go Down
FireChat may be the best option for iPhone users, but Android users may want to try out some more secure apps.
Friend and colleague @n8fr8 name dropped #StoryMaker in an interview yesterday. 🙂
Clouds are so cool.
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Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away). “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven. In Malawi’s Chichewa language, which has 10m speakers, “cached pages” became mfutso wa tsamba, or bits of leftover food. The windowless houses of the 440,000 speakers of Zapotec, a family of indigenous languages in Mexico, meant that computer “windows” became “eyes”.
Localizing an operating system for a language with no high-tech vocabulary – Boing Boing (via slantback)
your cow fell over but isn’t dying.
(via roomthily)
Localization is such a fascinating problem.
Tony’s Pizza
Crispy and deliciously burnt crust combined with amazing tomato sauce. Tony’s Place in Mayfair is absolutely incredible. I could see myself going here at least once a month.
Tony’s has a significant role in my family history. Glad to see you’ve made it to Mayfair.
[Computer science] is not really about computers — and it’s not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes…and geometry isn’t really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don’t really understand it very well, it’s very easy to confuse the essence of what you’re doing with the tools that you use.
Tilt Brush Is Like Microsoft Paint For The Year 2020
Inside a virtual reality headset, digital sketches become awesome sculptures.
This looks like so much fun.
Mesmerizing planes avoid thunderstorm-strikes at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta-Hartsfield. The planes fly around the storm clouds to land safely. Must see.