Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Andrew sez, "Reddit's been rocking the 'I am an X, ask me anything' bit for a while now, but logging on to find this one was a bit of a shock. Mike Moore, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand & Director-General of the WTO from 1999 to 2002, recorded a youtube video introducing himself to reddit. People are asking him all kinds of questions this week & he'll be recording a video response...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The above pic has been making the rounds, and has been strangely divisive in this worker unfriendly economy. Originally spotted on Reddit, the screengrab was posted by a co-worker of the guy who supposedly wrote it with these comments: He believed he was in a temp-to-hire position, and after three months of extra hours and butt-kissing, turns [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
08:46:46 Arch [1612975] D ALPHA PAGE FROM lifeline: alert 8933585 ETS appl nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com ETS RTCE: - Market data inconsistent...Cantor API problem Trading system offline on nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com, run by etsuser on nbetpsd27, pid = 24277 While over at reddit people deconstruct the 9/11 pager messages , I can't help thinking "we have a new demo dataset". graph the transmissions by time,...
The Lay Scientist (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Wikileaks has just begun to publish more than half a million text messages (from pagers) that were intercepted by an unnamed US agency on Sept 11, 2001. <!--break--> They have launched a separate website for this project, that includes "official" messages from law enforcement agencies, as well as private messages in reaction to the tragedy. Also included are numerous automated status...
Ellen Forney (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Slog posted that “How to Smoke Pot and Stay Out of Jail” was the No. 1 hit on Digg yesterday afternoon. It has over 2000 diggs right now. Cool! The posts on Reddit and Digg only have the first of two pages, unfortunately, omitting the page on civil rights and how to deal with police. Here’s [...]
Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Independent 's digital editorial director Jimmy Leach is to re-join the government's digital media operations as head of digital engagement at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He joined the Indy in June 2008 having worked as head of digital comms for both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at Downing Street. He was previously director of digital at Freud Communications and carried a series of digital...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | yesterday
YouTube link. Similar in principle to the colored spirals, the shades of blue, and the famous checkershadow illusion, this video demonstrates that our brains judge colors by comparing an object or area to other objects or areas rather than assessing the color directly. Found at Reddit, where there is a discussion thread re the illusion.
Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Rupert Murdoch's threat to pull content from Google in the hope of securing a paid content model for its news provision services has gained the attention of two more US publishers, both of whom are threatening to follow his lead. MediaNews Group, who publish 54 daily newspapers in 11 states, and AH Belo have said that they will consider pulling their content after News Corp's announcement that it...
Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Google has broadened its search ad formats to include videos and maps as well as images and price comparison features for specific products. Google explains that the new ad formats have been introduced to offer a more effective means of receiving information from sponsored search results. Susan Wojcicki at the Official Google Blog states: "To provide a better search ads experience, we've been...
Messages from the Ether (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Hackers recently liberated 13 years (!) of private emails, documents, and code from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. Global warming deniers are heralding the contents as proof of a conspiracy to create a belief in global warming. Reading list: From RealClimate.org: The CRU hack from November 20th and The CRU hack: Context from November 23th. From Reddit: Reddit: Summary...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | yesterday
What’s the best TED Talk ever? That’s the little debate taking place on Reddit.com, and the answer is not obvious, seeing that TED now has over 500 talks available in its archive. (You can find a constantly updated list of every TED Talk in a Google spreadsheet here.) Now, what are some of the Reddit favorites? Here [...]
A Softer World (Free subscription) | yesterday
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TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | yesterday
"President Barack Obama plays peek-a-boo with Maeve Beliveau, the daughter of Director of Advance Emmett Beliveau, in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 30, 2009." Credit . Taken out of context, a variety of other captions would be possible. The Reddit thread was entitled "Obama bows to everyone." Blogged because some of you will be interested to learn that the White House has a Flickr...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | yesterday
Most people are aware that in some cultural settings, women and girls are punished by having acid thrown in their face. Typically these stories circulate without photographs of the victims, perhaps in part because of the shame felt by the victim, but also because of hesitancy of the mainstream press to inflict such images on the public. This week I found at the All Eyes blog at TampaBay.com an essay...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | yesterday
LA man finds out his biological father is Charles Manson . Muppets perform "Bohemian Rhapsody" . 20 years later... (via Reddit ) The decline of empires . If CBC Television doesn't steal this idea for their next big game show, they are CRAZY. Documentary from the Future - The Beatles: 1000 Years Later Having trouble finding a cereal that's right for you? There's a flow chart for that . Jimmy...
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elsiekriegerhv | 11/06/2009
There is a lot of talk about social bookmarking when it comes to search engine optimization, and it's sometimes hard to see through the haze of marketing to the true facts. Basically, social book marking services go to sites such as Digg, Stubmleupon, Reddit, Delicious and create links to your site, tag it and share it with the world.
willievinsonlo | 11/06/2009
There is a lot of talk about social bookmarking when it comes to search engine optimization, and it's sometimes hard to see through the haze of marketing to the true facts. Basically, social book marking services go to sites such as Digg, Stubmleupon, Reddit, Delicious and create links to your site, tag it and share it with the world.
lancepulliamju | 11/06/2009
There is a lot of talk about social bookmarking when it comes to search engine optimization, and it's sometimes hard to see through the haze of marketing to the true facts. Basically, social book marking services go to sites such as Digg, Stubmleupon, Reddit, Delicious and create links to your site, tag it and share it with the world.
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