December 2009
22 posts
“There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror
“February - All of humanity temporarily gains superpowers as result of superhero...”
– The Most Important Events Of 2000-2009, Comic Style - Top - io9
Seth Grodin on Web Video →
skzavideoz:
4 rules from Seth Grodin:
Because media is free but attention is not (this is flipped from TV world) you need to make a different sort of ad for a different sort of audience.
1. Assume that the viewer has the attention span of an espresso-crazed fruitfly. That means slapstick, quick cuts and velocity.
2. Find a word or phrase that you can own in Google, that fits in an email, and...
Is it a grand gesture to anonymously give a woman... →
thedailything:
Perhaps one of the oddest questions I’ve seen on Ask Metafilter (and yes, the asker gets an earful).
“Indeed, the self-proclaimed “I Don’t Care Girl” and the...”
– In search of Eva Tanguay, the first rock star. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine —An excellent and very funny piece that I first saw Jody deliver as a lecture at EMP a couple of years back.