Suicide Bots (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
A wee small video from the always obliging Caroline Miller (Mills): You so, so wish you had been there. Okay except for the 110 degree all day every day part. Here also is a picture of The Rotor, looking resplendent in crocodile hunter gear with a Swarm Orb or two, courtesy Wired Magazine:
Suicide Bots (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
We satisfied several orbalicious fantasies last night, as The Swarm got to roll around the crowd during Kraftwerk’s set at the Cochella Music Festival. Yes, it was, in fact, everything we hoped for and more. Here are some pics, courtesy Caroline Miller (Mills) ne of our intrepid Swarm number and a Flaming Lotus [...]
Caro's Lines (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Last October I spotted this fox sleeping in broad daylight in my neighbour's garden. I was amazed that he wasn't being mobbed by any of the magpies or crows - they normally let me know when a fox is about. I'd not been sleeping so easily as this fox recently and all my old tricks and techniques just hadn't got me well-rested. Then I turned to this book - Healing Yourself with Self-Hypnosis by Frank...
U.S. Soccer (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
The U.S. Under-17 Women‘s National Team will hold its first training camp of 2008, and the first as U-17s for this age group, in Sunrise, Florida, from Jan. 2-7 as head coach Kazbek Tambi kicks off preparations for the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, to be held Oct. 30-Nov. 16 in New Zealand.
The Flack (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
A while back, I wrote about the virtues of my home page: MSNBC .com. The site drew its content from all sorts of credible journalistic enterprises, mixed in with original reporting and lots of video, and had the wherewithal to continually update the page throughout the day. Isn't that the Utopian news model that Jon Landman described to Beet.TV when explaining how The New York Times's integrated newsroom...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
Well before Susan Dominus became a Times columnist, she worked as an editor for Nerve, the online sex and dating magazine. In a recent Nerve interview, Ms. Dominus was asked whether she received any warnings about working there. “Well,” she replied, “I asked the [Nerve] editor in chief, Caroline Miller, if she thought The New York Times or some place like that wouldn't hire me because I’d worked at...
Jossip (Free subscription) | 11/05/2007
Caroline Miller and Andrew Essex left the masthead of Absolute long ago – she to Newser.com, he to Droga5 – when it folded last February. Then New York Home publisher Hour Media breathed new life into it, and all was going swimmingly, or at least going, until last week. Then, on Thursday, the whole staff was [...]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
Last night Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn was host to a party for Napeolonic media mufti Michael Wolff and former New York mag honcho Caroline Miller's new project Newser, the web 1.0 news aggregator....
901am (Free subscription) | 10/30/2007
Newser, an online news service, debuted today locating and linking to up-to-date news stories, video, audio and photos from vast news resources across the web. Newser is a collaboration of HighBeam Research and Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and author of the Internet classic, “Burn Rate.” Caroline Miller, the former editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, [...]
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/07/2007
But I should have known better, no matter the newspaper reports that placed Persad-Bissessar ahead of the leadership race and claimed that she had Panday's support. George Santayana, the Spanish-American poet and philosopher, once said: "Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honour is not willing to live except in its own way, and a...
Pandia Search Engine News (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
It is the end of the week again and Pandia presents some of the most important headlines of the last seven days. But first, we will take a look at new search.
Complete Free Press Newswire (Free subscription) | 09/04/2007
Even a guy burned by one failed Internet start-up can't resist the idea that this latest technology -- like Linotype, TV, and cable before it -- could remake the news. So here's the author's attempt to rescue a common narrative of public life.
Information Today (Free subscription) | 08/13/2007
Newser: Laterally and Vertically Tiered, Multimedia News Service in Beta by Posted On August 13, 2007 Forty million people are regular consumers of online news, according to Patrick Spain, CEO and founder of HighBeam Research. That demographic—along with some enthusiastic strategizing by Michael Wolff, famed for chronicling his own former Web failure in his 1999 book, Burn Rate: How I Survived the...
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
By Andrew Adam Newman, NY Times Journalist Michael Wolff is throwing caution to the wind with a new Internet start-up, a Web site called newser.com that aggregates news articles for convenient reading.
mathewingram.com/media (Free subscription) | 08/02/2007
In an effort to stay on top of the overflowing collection of links I have amassed through del.icio.us and my Google Reader shared items, I am going to start posting short items in batches. Let me know if this practice delights and/or annoys you and I will pretend to take that into consideration when it comes to continuing and/or stopping it. Vin Crosbie has a great essay over at Corante that is a response...
