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Nick Denton posts a start-up kit

Nick Denton has posted a list of services, tools, and sites that he is calling a startup kit. He lists many of the usual suspects like basecamp and some cool online ad sales and web-based benefits administration services. This is great for all of the web 2.0 service creators. Interesting to see FogBugz on there. It's something I'm having to use and learning to appreciate.

Chickenfeet at Triple 8 Palace

On Sunday a group of us went to Triple Eight Palace for some post Thanksgiving dim sum. I brought along my new digital recorder to try to make a small sound tour of the experience. Melissa Clark, a good friend and cookbook writer, has been a fan of chicken feet since she was a little girl and here she talks about how to eat them properly. (photo by niznoz)

Download chickenfeet.mp3

Ricky Gervais is doing a podcast on the Guardian

Starting December 5th we will all be able to download a weekly podcast show by Ricky Gervais from the Guardian's web site.

 

But they have decided not to go   back to the GCap-owned London station, and will instead make the programme   available for download over the internet.

 

"I want to do a radio show where   I can say what I want, when I want for as long as I want and that's free for   anybody who can be bothered to listen anywhere in the world," said   Gervais.

 

"We didn't want it to just be the best   bits of a radio programme you'd missed so this is a show that is   straight-to-Pod-cast. I suppose we're trying to create an exclusive club. We'd   prefer this to be a few people's favourite show than a huge samey ineffectual   broadcast."

Bill Moyers speaks to Broadcasting & Cable about bias and Ken Tomlinson

Bill Moyers speaks out about the way the Administration, through Kenneth Tomlinson, went after NOW.

 We were biased, all right—in favor of uncovering the news that powerful   people wanted to keep hidden: conflicts of interest at the Department of   Interior, secret meetings between Vice President Cheney and the oil industry,   backdoor shenanigans by lobbyists at the FCC, corruption in Congress, neglect   of wounded veterans returning from Iraq, Pentagon cost overruns, the   manipulation of intelligence leading to the invasion of Iraq.

We were way ahead of the news curve on these stories, and the   administration turned its hit men loose on us.

Tomlinson actually told The Washington Post that he was irate over   one of our documentary reports from a small town in Pennsylvania hard-hit by   outsourcing.

If reporting on what's happening to ordinary people thrown overboard by   circumstances beyond their control and betrayed by Washington officials is   liberalism, I stand convicted.

It is an old canard of right-wing ideologues like Tomlinson to equate tough   journalism with liberalism. They hope to distract people from the message by   trying to discredit the messenger.

Now threw the fear of God into Tomlinson's crowd because they   couldn't dispute the accuracy of our reporting.

And when we weren't reporting the truth behind the news, we were   interviewing a wide variety of people: Ralph Reed and Ralph Nader; Cal Thomas   and Molly Ivins; Robert Bartley, editor of the Wall Street Journal;   Katrina Vandenheuval, editor of The Nation; The Conservative Union's   David Keene; Dorothy Rabinowitz (also of the Wall Street Journal);   Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity; the Club for Growth's   Stephen Moore; historian Howard Zinn; and Indian activist Arundhati Roy. And   on and on.

 

Wayfaring - map blogs

Two people, one very technical and the other not so, told me about wayfaring.com yesterday. A map creation and sharing tool. You create a map, people can leave notes, tags, bookmarks of other maps. Built with Ruby on Rails  with the google maps hooked in.

Web 2.0 Checklist - ha it's a tada list

Michael Sippy of sixapart as put together a web 2.0 checklist which nicely slides along the razor edge of parody and truth. (via Dashes.com) An interesting post by their colleague Andrew Anker on what Web 2.0 means to him.

Check to see if your site is web.2.0 with the web 2.0 validator.

JFK was assassinated 42 years ago today

TalkingPointsMemo post about the lack of any form of commemoration. The History Channel does have it as their lead story on This Day in History.

Vlog mashup & a podcasting link

Steve Garfield has a really nice vlog post in which he mash's up several videos to describe types of vlogs.  (via Scoble)

On the podcast side check out podguides.net - free, mapped, collaborative. Nice beginning of something cool.  (via Podcasting Hacks - Tips & Tools for Blogging Out Loud)

Russell Beatie on recent start-ups

A colleague just sent me a link to Russell Beattie's excellent post about all of the new Internet 2.0 start-ups and how they fall into several categories: scrape engines, mashed ups (with a good point about the mapping costs Google is currently absorbing),  web trapps, social anything, phile sharing, content management saturation,  rss holes, firefoxing. I hadn't read his site before. He works at Yahoo focusing on  mobile applications and has a great style as their own Scoble.

TimeOut launches new site

TimeOutNY has launched a new site. I like it but then again I like grids. Their site still seems to just take their articles and listings and place them online. You need to register or subscribe for access to any of the search results or full articles. Also the whole thing is flash driven.  So essentially a better looking holder for their print content and as I poked through my enthusiasm was greatly diminished.

Daily Misc

 A new approach on Nigerian fraud? Got this today.

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Daily Misc

Google Base launches - John Battelle post about it.

 

Gawker Media blog excerpts to appear on Yahoo news page. Andrew Sullivan's taking his blog in house at Time Inc and having it appear on their home page. TalkingPointsMemo's appearance last week on the Washington Post's op-ed page as a guest columnist, they took in the rss feed. Just shows how quickly the idea of a media brand is shifting. Once impenetrable pages that reflect their editor's "vision" now they are opening up to outsiders. I wonder will people say that they read Andrew Sullivan's blog on Time or will they say I just read in Time..Either case it is about time for this.

 

Slate has a nice feature on the favorite college books from journalists and others. One of the others is Mark Cuban, whose favorite book unsurprisingly is The FountainHead.

 

Bought the WSJ on the way in to work today and of course it had a list of top industry blogs that cried out to be read electronically, here is the link.

Teacher inspires 108 typepad blogs

My friend David's mother not only has a blog herself but she has encouraged all 108 of her students to create them. My mother, on the other hand, will annoyingly tell people I made her author's guild site when all I did was fill in the blanks on their cms.  But  she is afraid of her computer mouse so I guess it is a big deal. I wonder if David's mother sends him e-mail petitions?

Amazon awarded patents on consumer reviews

"The online retailer of books and just about everything else was awarded three new patents, covering its purchase circles, search and consumer reviews. While Amazon.com's patent police would go after Web publishers, not consumers, the review patent could put the kibosh on the social networking components of many search services." read article on internet.com.

Redbook reporter risks jail to save source of recipe.

Reporter keeps source name confidential. Prosecutor feels different, ""I think the people have a right to know what inspired this cook to create a sweet glaze that doesn't overwhelm the savory taste of the ham," Hardin said. "Such deliciousness cannot remain hidden any longer."" Read about the unfolding saga.

A comparison of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL services and search types

A really interesting comparison of the search types, services, and overall directions of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, & AOL. This under the guise of guessing what Google will do next. Made me realize how broad all of the offerings are. (via Susan Mernit)

Antique Map Collection

The David Rumsey Map Collection - 12,600 historical maps online focusing on 18 and 19th cent. North and South American maps, all under a Creative Commos License. (via the excellent Social Design Notes)

Esquire's Wikipedia article - a successful experiment

This month's Esquire has a great 2 page spread illustrating the way that the wikipedia community fact-checked, refined, and edited A.J. Jacob's intentionally flawed article about Jimmy Wales. This CNET article describes the process by which the article was edited 374 times in the first 24 hours. It also talks about why the LA Times effort failed. The CNETpage also has Live Plasma's big picture visual relation tool which I had heard about but never seen. That alone is worth following the link.

SF Chronicle Podcast Tours

The SF Chronicle has several podcast tours up on their site. Two of the De Young Museum and two of the food scene in North Beach. Yum. These are posted on a blog with comments, permalinks etc.

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