Josh Mack writes about innovative developments in digital media with a focus on; hyperlocal, newspapers, magazines, social media, and e-books. The blog will often digress and cover; bicycles, politics, parenting, crafts, and good reading.
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Josh Mack writes about innovative developments in digital media with a focus on; hyperlocal, newspapers, magazines, social media, and e-books. The blog will often digress and cover; bicycles, politics, parenting, crafts, and good reading.
very excited to use this application that tells you which car to ride to get off near the right exit on the subway. My wife is a prewallking encyclopedia and I'm going to surreptitiously surprise her with some info gleaned from this app. via Kottke.org
Really? What a surprise, after such a scintillating (not really), self-confident comment thread on avc.com a week ago where he laid bare the scalability of his business....despite Fred's polite discouragement
"Staring at my navel lets me hear the quiet inner voice that’s too often drowned out by other daily activities, like staring at my face or biceps. It’s the voice that says, “All are connected. The universe is one. Is that a tick bite?”
"The most significant choice we have been making, collectively, ever since the popularization of Internet access in the mid-1990s, has been to favor two-way interpersonal communication over the passive reception of broadcast-style messages. Big-media efforts to use the Net for the delivery of old-fashioned one-way products have regularly failed or underperformed. Social uses of our time online -- email, instant messaging and chat, blogging, Facebook-style networking -- far outstrip time spent in passive consumption of commercial media. In other words, businesspeople have consistently overestimated the Web's similarities to television and underestimated its kinship to the telephone." -- it would be great to see the author of this article tackle Twitter and the media's obsession with it. Perhaps it is because tweeting it by in large a one way conversation (like spitting into a stream ) and they are more comfortable with that paradigm than the two way, level playing field that is blogging
Really? For all of the hoopla in the obnoxious NYT's Sunday Bus. article about PR in Silicon Valley I was expecting more. At the very least a quick way to add it my Firefox searches. I would think that would be a high product dev priority considering it would probably take them a few hours to make it. And uses from twitter, and Flickr images that don't work...hmm
"I might do that," he said. "I might actually do that. That's right, I haven't tried to call him. I should make that call. That would be respectful of him."
So he wrote down the name, number and e-mail address of Woods' agent. Even double-checked the spellings.
I hope Brown calls. I hope Woods answers. They have so much to learn from each other.
"I might do that," he said. "I might actually do that. That's right, I haven't tried to call him. I should make that call. That would be respectful of him."
So he wrote down the name, number and e-mail address of Woods' agent. Even double-checked the spellings.
I hope Brown calls. I hope Woods answers. They have so much to learn from each other.
Anil on the Gladwell vs Anderson contretemps. "I haven't had a chance to finish reading Free yet, but I am sure that these authors' books absolutely do lean more towards anecdotal evidence than statistical proof. And honestly, it's okay that these books don't necessarily follow the tenets of hard science. In many cases, they're arguing that a cultural trend is becoming true, or is about to become true, and the reality is that asserting that these trends are ascendent actually helps them come true. In short, these are books designed to create culture, presented in the guise of reporting on culture. I like that!"
I love the new default Journal Black theme in Typepad. I als love the fact that you can customize it without switching to Advanced templates. Here is a post by the themes designer that explains how to change things in the custom CSS. My only wish is that he had outlined the entire CSS this way. Since I want to tweak some alignments and get rid of the dingbat that sits on each post and (annoyingly each page)
Juan Cole has some very good and sadly true observations thinking post, ...Moreover, very unfortunately, US politicians are no longer in a position to lecture other countries about their human rights. The kind of unlicensed, city-wide demonstrations being held in Tehran last week would not be allowed to be held in the United States...
"When we decided to launch HuffPost New York we decided that if we were going to cover the city it was not only crucial to reach out to the best local sources, but to also explore ways that HuffPost could partner with these sites."
This is going to be really interesting. Collaborating with the Gotham Gazette, The Brooklyn Rail etc.
Earlier today, one of my closest friends was on Leonard Lopate talking about how to cook in a small kitchen and the team at WNYC shot the video below. I built Melissa's site several years ago and it has been a place for her to post her articles, her books, and her contact info. For years now I've been saying blog this, blog that but she wasn't interested. Nor was she alone among my more established author friends in saying - "why should I write for free?" I would respond with things about brand, online presence, broaden her following, etc. Well she's decided it is finally time, or it will be once I get off my ass and update her site, for her to start blogging
Melissa has sold a book based on her fantastic New York Times Good Appetite columns, and we are going to set up a blog that shares the creation of the book. The blog will let people follow along in the making of the book; from testing and photos to fun little videos. Melissa is also one of the leading co-writers for cookbooks, by which she helps transform a chef's vision into something usable for the home cook. She also lives a far more glamorous life than you or I. Perhaps my standards have been lowered a bit lately as the mere act of leaving the house to eat in a restaurant mid-day or after 6:30 qualifies, but she does eat well, and she eats everything, so the blog will have some things to keep an eye out for. It may even have some kitchen disasters. I'm so pleased and I think I've even gotten her to try twitter to broadcast new posts. So watch out there is a new food blog on the block - um or there will be by next week.
very excited to use this application that tells you which car to ride to get off near the right exit on the subway. My wife is a prewallking encyclopedia and I'm going to surreptitiously surprise her with some info gleaned from this app. via Kottke.org
Really? What a surprise, after such a scintillating (not really), self-confident comment thread on avc.com a week ago where he laid bare the scalability of his business....despite Fred's polite discouragement
"Staring at my navel lets me hear the quiet inner voice that’s too often drowned out by other daily activities, like staring at my face or biceps. It’s the voice that says, “All are connected. The universe is one. Is that a tick bite?”
"The most significant choice we have been making, collectively, ever since the popularization of Internet access in the mid-1990s, has been to favor two-way interpersonal communication over the passive reception of broadcast-style messages. Big-media efforts to use the Net for the delivery of old-fashioned one-way products have regularly failed or underperformed. Social uses of our time online -- email, instant messaging and chat, blogging, Facebook-style networking -- far outstrip time spent in passive consumption of commercial media. In other words, businesspeople have consistently overestimated the Web's similarities to television and underestimated its kinship to the telephone." -- it would be great to see the author of this article tackle Twitter and the media's obsession with it. Perhaps it is because tweeting it by in large a one way conversation (like spitting into a stream ) and they are more comfortable with that paradigm than the two way, level playing field that is blogging
Really? For all of the hoopla in the obnoxious NYT's Sunday Bus. article about PR in Silicon Valley I was expecting more. At the very least a quick way to add it my Firefox searches. I would think that would be a high product dev priority considering it would probably take them a few hours to make it. And uses from twitter, and Flickr images that don't work...hmm
"I might do that," he said. "I might actually do that. That's right, I haven't tried to call him. I should make that call. That would be respectful of him."
So he wrote down the name, number and e-mail address of Woods' agent. Even double-checked the spellings.
I hope Brown calls. I hope Woods answers. They have so much to learn from each other.
"I might do that," he said. "I might actually do that. That's right, I haven't tried to call him. I should make that call. That would be respectful of him."
So he wrote down the name, number and e-mail address of Woods' agent. Even double-checked the spellings.
I hope Brown calls. I hope Woods answers. They have so much to learn from each other.
Anil on the Gladwell vs Anderson contretemps. "I haven't had a chance to finish reading Free yet, but I am sure that these authors' books absolutely do lean more towards anecdotal evidence than statistical proof. And honestly, it's okay that these books don't necessarily follow the tenets of hard science. In many cases, they're arguing that a cultural trend is becoming true, or is about to become true, and the reality is that asserting that these trends are ascendent actually helps them come true. In short, these are books designed to create culture, presented in the guise of reporting on culture. I like that!"
I love the new default Journal Black theme in Typepad. I als love the fact that you can customize it without switching to Advanced templates. Here is a post by the themes designer that explains how to change things in the custom CSS. My only wish is that he had outlined the entire CSS this way. Since I want to tweak some alignments and get rid of the dingbat that sits on each post and (annoyingly each page)
Juan Cole has some very good and sadly true observations thinking post, ...Moreover, very unfortunately, US politicians are no longer in a position to lecture other countries about their human rights. The kind of unlicensed, city-wide demonstrations being held in Tehran last week would not be allowed to be held in the United States...
"When we decided to launch HuffPost New York we decided that if we were going to cover the city it was not only crucial to reach out to the best local sources, but to also explore ways that HuffPost could partner with these sites."
This is going to be really interesting. Collaborating with the Gotham Gazette, The Brooklyn Rail etc.
Earlier today, one of my closest friends was on Leonard Lopate talking about how to cook in a small kitchen and the team at WNYC shot the video below. I built Melissa's site several years ago and it has been a place for her to post her articles, her books, and her contact info. For years now I've been saying blog this, blog that but she wasn't interested. Nor was she alone among my more established author friends in saying - "why should I write for free?" I would respond with things about brand, online presence, broaden her following, etc. Well she's decided it is finally time, or it will be once I get off my ass and update her site, for her to start blogging
Melissa has sold a book based on her fantastic New York Times Good Appetite columns, and we are going to set up a blog that shares the creation of the book. The blog will let people follow along in the making of the book; from testing and photos to fun little videos. Melissa is also one of the leading co-writers for cookbooks, by which she helps transform a chef's vision into something usable for the home cook. She also lives a far more glamorous life than you or I. Perhaps my standards have been lowered a bit lately as the mere act of leaving the house to eat in a restaurant mid-day or after 6:30 qualifies, but she does eat well, and she eats everything, so the blog will have some things to keep an eye out for. It may even have some kitchen disasters. I'm so pleased and I think I've even gotten her to try twitter to broadcast new posts. So watch out there is a new food blog on the block - um or there will be by next week.
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