July 2012
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“Twitter instigating a ban against a journalist who has been critical about one...”
– From the ‘What Were They Thinking?’ file - Twitter bans a journalist.
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CBC Interview on Social Media →
In response to this article, Matt was interviewed by “Here and Now” on the CBC, discussing whether or not younger is better when it comes to social media in the workplace. Click for the full interview.
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A (Fake) Letter From Mark Zuckerberg →
“Why am I sharing this information with you? Simple. If you want to save Facebook—and I know that you do—I need you to start drinking now.”
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NYT dumps BlackBerry app →
“The newspaper says the app doesn’t have enough users.”
Clock’s ticking…
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“Twitter became a portal into the tragedy, as cellphone videos filmed from the...”
– Wired details last night’s Dark Knight Rises massacre and how quickly the news spread
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"Random Portraits of the Situation Gleaned From... →
A Redditor compiled (and is expanding) a list of tweets he’s found telling the story of a tragedy
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“Research in Motion is quickly running out of ammunition at Waterloo.”
– Ouch.
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On Cutting The Cord →
John Lilly, the former CEO of Mozilla, on his recent decision to abandon the standard cable TV subscription. The crux of the post:
“Maybe it’s raising kids, maybe it’s getting older, maybe it’s just a reaction to the overwhelming crush of people, apps & stuff competing for every spare minute of our attention — but intentionality, focus & purpose — these things are becoming more and...
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“RIM’s potential for a turnaround is crumbling before our very eyes. And it’s...”
– All Things D’s John Paczkowski on the latest nail in RIM’s coffin - developers jumping ship
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“But Amazon is investing billions to make next-day delivery standard, and...”
– Farhad Majoo writing for Slate on Amazon’s master plan to permanently alter how we shop by offering same-day delivery to its customers, (probably) crushing local retailers in the process.
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Northwestern University Researchers Develop... →
This is pretty incredible.
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“Hastings has an unwavering belief that streaming video represented the future of...”
– Great piece by Greg Sandoval for CNET on what’s been a tumultuous year for Netflix, and Reed Hastings in particular. Hastings had the right idea, but it was the clumsy and needlessly rushed execution of that idea that nearly brought down everyone’s favourite streaming company.
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Netflix For Magazines →
Speaking of new ways to get news, Next Issue takes the opposite approach to other efforts: throw all the content onto the tablet, and hope the customer pays up.
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“For news organizations, the Apple iPad and comparable tablets appear to be...”
– New results on how people get their information these days (after 5pm, on “tablets”) mean yet another shift for a news industry already playing catch-up.
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33 Congressional Edits To Members' Wikipedia Pages →
Maybe just don’t say crazy things in front of a microphone next time.
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On Nolan & "The Dark Knight Rises" →
Great piece in the LA Times profiling Christopher Nolan, including a few extra details on The Dark Knight Rises.
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“Just bad writing.”
– A devastating point-by-point breakdown by Mike Brotherton of the (numerous) problems that plagued Prometheus.
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The Cigarette of This Century →
Interesting analogy on The Atlantic last month linking the rise of smartphone culture to cigarette smoking in the mid-20th century, though it starts to go off the rails a bit toward the end. Evoking McLuhan’s notion that technologies are best (or rather, only) understood from a distance may ring true, but Bogost takes it a bit too far, describing a world where those who wish to check...
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