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400 Great NYC links from Manhattan Users Guide

MUG has put together a list of 400 great NYC links.

SIFR

SIFR - flash based typography in pages. " Over the last several months, a small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics." Example page

Flickr Interesting economics

Anil Dash's post on Interesting Economics and flickr. Caterina's response. Anil's clarification.

 

Portraits of people compared to their gaming avatars. (via Kottke) Which if you read Anil's post somehow makes sense to click on.

Podcast tour of NY media landmarks

Podcast tour of NY media landmarks. Produced by the Online News Association conference committee. Narrated by Adam Glenn. I'm listening to it right now. Actually Mark Crispin Miller and I created a somewhat more radical version of this two years ago for CityReads but never put it out. Would have liked this to have had a map, also for the sound quality (scratchy which I applaud) it should have been less than 25megs..

Great post by Paul Begalia on what it is like in the White House waiting...

The TPM cafe has a great post by Paul Begalia of what the atmosphere is probably like in the White House while they wait for possible indictments to come out.

Google Base Links

Very good posts on Google base:

Mark Pincus, Fred Wilson, Susan Mernit, Paid Content

The Onion asked to stop using the Presidential Seal.  They had a very funny parody of  Bush's weekly radio address. I actually knew about the seal issue because of my experience with the Suskind site but the Onion is a parody as is this old favorite.

I have to admit I'm not much use right now as I wait for FitzPatrick to finish up.

A friend told me about flock.com which seems very cool, a browser which has a built in blog post app and a link to delicious for my favorites. I've also started using backpack. I love the idea of keeping my bookmarks, lists, other data online. For now I'm still downloading my e-mail from my web based mail but perhaps I'll join the g-mail revolution.

Brian Lehrer on WNYC interviewing Jimmy Wales right now on the wikipedia and wikipedia books and the college textbook market. Fascinating.

Bubble?

Daily links

Mark Pincus on what newspapers should do to compete. (via avc.blogs.com)

An interesting Buzzflash post on Cheney's possible involvment in the Plame scandal.

Kottke on casual audio content creation

The NY Times discovers Google Map Hacks.

TalkingPointsMemo is a must read today.

The Sequence of Presidential Succession

So the entire genome for the 1918 bird flu has been published online.  Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil explain and hope for it being taken down. Amazing in this age of dissapearing transcripts and changing history that, effectively, plans for a weapon are online.

On friday I saw Squidoo and it pushed me into a slight spiral of despair since I had been thinking about something like this for the past several months. I recovered quickly and Susan Mernit's comments from Seth Godin's keynote at BlogOn have done a great deal to cheer me up even more.  One good thing did come out of the demo on friday,  it gave me another idea.

Fred Wilson on MySpace and AOL.  "AOL is an aging online business whose audience consists mainly of people who have shown no desire to step out and join the roll your own web that is emerging as the best place to be." Much more interesting stuff in his post.

List of ways to cut through phone trees

A list of shortcuts to get through corporate phone trees. (via Daily Kos)

Great quote on Susan Mernit's blog. It begins;

"Internet media companies will need more than just content and traditional distribution to attract the audience of the next generation. They need the tools and platforms to arm their audiences -- ultimately the viewers/readers in charge of finding and promoting the talent from within their own ranks - so they can distribute the content through their social networks, blogs and connected links on the Web...."

What did Bush mean when he wrote, "ps: no more public scatology" on a birthday card to Harriet Mier's?

Ah - the video iPod.

Loudeye partners with Peppercoin as a payment system.

I've blogged about Glam before and continue to be impressed with the speed and intelligence behind their rollout. They've just added a blog network of fashionistas. (via Susan Mernit)

Jeff Jarvis has a post about Squidoo, Seth Godin's new company. I'm very exicted that I'm  seeing it soon  but I find the comments of Buzz Machine very interesting. 

remixing is active consumption not production of media.  very interesting post (via hypergene)

how all many of  the stocks you get spam about really do. brilliant site that tracks their progress.  (via avc.blogs.com)

MediaEater - can a delicious list be a blog? (via avc.blogs. com - reread Fred's great post on posting, tagging, and subscribing)

Which is funnier?

a: the NYT story on the 2,000 pages of Harriet Miers's personal correspondence with the President (then Governor) in which she says she finds him "cool"

or

b: this Harriet Miers parody blog? (via talkingpointsmemo.com)

Sealed Air

As readers know I've recently gotten married. (The wedding was fantastic, people had fun, we had fun, but that is for another blog) With marriage come presents, and with presents packing materials. Bags and bags full of packing materials. Occasionally the odd package comes in with the kind of packing materials you can easily recycle. Others come with the "peanuts" you can put in your tub and dissolve by turning on the shower. The majority however come with plastic. I'm fondest of "sealed-air" mostly because of the name, it is so literal. Next on my list is bubble wrap, popping  it brings back sounds of childhood. I also like the fact that the bulk of both gets reduced by piercing as opposed to the peanuts whose bulk gets reduced by being taken outside or in our case given to our local mailbox store for recycling. Sealed-Air is not just the apt name for bags filled with air but it is also the name of the multi-billion dollar corporation that invented bubble-wrap in 1960. This deluge left me wondering what packaging was like before peanuts and sealed-air. Leave it to Dow Chemicals to have a handy history of packing materials. From this it looks like packing peanuts were invented in the 1950's and that they invented Saran-Wrap.

"Pre-World War II Early packaging materials: Barrels and crates, filled with excelsior (curled wood shavings) to wadded pieces of paper. Popcorn and corrugated cardboard were also popular.
                   
World War II to Present                    
Electronic equipment was packaged with metal and canvas springs and straps. As a result of Germany's research into polyester-based urethane, polyurethane foam first appeared in the protective packaging industry in the 1940s. Rubberized hair (animal hair or vegetable fiber bound together by a coating of rubber) and expandable polystyrene beads (EPS) were developed in the 1950s which could be molded into packaging shapes."

I'm not sure what I would do if great quantities of rubber coated hair started coming through my door.

For those of you intrigued by the future of packing supplies I think that the PackExpo site which is the is the name of the packing convention will be even more interesting. I'm off to unseal more air.

The history of Columbus Day - or how it became a holiday that I don't remember until the Friday before.

Nice article about David Sifry and the web as an ongoing conversation in The Economist

Too bad Harper's magazine doesn't put most of their articles online as I really enjoyed Lewis Lapham's Editor's Letter this month.  It is about how if we are going to become a fascist state we might as well be the best darn fascist state we can be. Harper's does however put their index online. Kind of creepy to think that we all have small bits of non-stick coating floating around in our bloodstreams. On he other hand as an aspiring homeowner it is nice to know that NY should come back into reach in a few years.

Folio article on the ripples started by Jon Stewart's appearance at ASME. Nice fee - 150k for the night.

...I would like to take a moment to remind everyone of the severe health risks associated with schadenfreude toxicity (ST), in both its chronic and acute forms. It doesn't take a lifetime of exposure to guilty pleasure at the suffering of others. In rare cases, even a few hours of euphoria watching poetic justice being meted out to evil-doers can prove fatal. Today walking down Sixth Avenue, in fact, I saw several apparently healthy and able-bodied Democrats just go poof! into thin air. Even a few Republicans who just believed in good government were taken ill. It can happen that quick. (TalkingPointsMemo)

 

Web 2.0 launchpad - zdnet

Web 2.0 launchpad - zdnet article on interesting products demoed at web 2.0

Paidcontent has good links to the conference though they are not attending.

 

Personalized search and shared bookmarks are the thing.

Alexander Hamilton on Miers

Writing about the appointing power of the Executive, Alexander Hamilton explained:

"[The President] would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure." (via TPM CAFE)

For the conference challenged

If like me you are feeling deprived of some great panels, and insights from the we media or web 2.0 confabs. you can get great converage minus the networking opportunies from the following sites.

we media: paidcontent.org
susanmernit.blogspot.com

web 2.0 from its WIKI

any others? please comment