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Man playing chess in Union Square with a Madoff umbrella as a parasol

I was walking through Union Square yesterday in the oppressive heat when I passed this guy set up in the sun to play chess against all-comers.

links for 2009-08-20

• YCRFS 1: The Future of Journalism
  Y Combinator's RFS for the Winter 2009 session. "What would a content site look like if you started from how to make money—as print media once did—instead of taking a particular form of journalism as a given and treating how to make money from it as an afterthought?" hmmm.......
  (tags: future startup newspapers journalism business)

Beach Boys a cappella - God Only Knows

via Things Magazine which I learned about from kottke

links for 2009-08-19

• Boliven - Innovators at Work.
  A really interesting site/service. Api's, widgets etc all in place to follow and explore patents, IP, and R&D at companies. The team looks like a group of smart people who also know how to make a great product and money too.
  (tags: research business innovation patent)

Cover Lay Down has a very meta post of covers

Cover Lay Down post and links to audio of songs covered at Wopdstock covered again. Whoa, I think I hear covers of those covers.

Everyblock is bought by MSNBC

What a nice outcome for Holovaty and team who created Everyblock from a Knight grant. They can continue to lead and create great ways to interact with local resources and news and and probably (just a guess here) also  help MSNBC with data visualization. They have always been just tremendous INMHO. More on Greg Sterling's Screenwerk and paidcontent. So with Patch to AOL, Everyblock to MSNBC what will happen to, my former employer, outside.in, which I think, will need money again sometime in the Fall?

a great quote from Y.E. Yang on facing the fear...of the Tiger

"It's not like you're in an octagon where you're fighting against Tiger and he's going to bite you, or swing at you with his 9-iron," Yang said through an interpreter. "The worst that I could do was just lose to Tiger. So I really had nothing much at stake."

links for 2009-08-13

• DefinitiveInk
  just redesigned my blog with the click of a button with the new typepad

links for 2009-08-12

• Delicious is more delicious
  enjoying some of the upgrades to delicious including e-mail and twitter posting. It is about time!!!
  (tags: socialnetworking bookmarking)
• LinkedIn Reaches 45 Million Users
• Chris Smither cover of Friend of the Devil
  Cover Lay Down has a post about Chris Smither, a folk singer's folk singer. I really like this version of Friend of The Devil
  (tags: music)
• Q&A With Dan Shanoff: All Tebow, All the Time - The Quad Blog - NYTimes.com
  "hypertopical blogging" great word
• Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
  "Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who have published their content online only to see the tools they use become broken or less desirable." In addition to that there is no reason that a service owned and managed can't feed into and play nicely with everything else out there. In fact it needs to.
  (tags: socialnetworking aggregator future)

Make up your mind - is Wood's being fined or not?

From the NYT's golf page via the AP. Why are there no timestamps on the headline excerpts on section pages if they are just listing them in chronological order? It is technically the August 12th edition but since so many of the sections have material from different days and even weeks shouldn't they add them?

links for 2009-08-11

• Le Tour | Brent Humphreys
  Amazing project/slideshow of images from the Tour De France. (via hello.typepad.com)
  (tags: cycling photography tourdefrance)
• Facebook Buys FriendFeed For War Against Twitter
  cool - time to revisit friendfeed. I have had an acct since the launch but have to admit I haven't visited it lately.

links for 2009-08-11

• Le Tour | Brent Humphreys
  Amazing project/slideshow of images from the Tour De France. (via hello.typepad.com)
  (tags: cycling photography tourdefrance)
• Facebook Buys FriendFeed For War Against Twitter
  cool - time to revisit friendfeed. I have had an acct since the launch but have to admit I haven't visited it lately.

links for 2009-08-07 - what do you think of the word 'masher"?

• Masher Media Gets Funding For Virtual World For Kids | paidContent
  Kind of amazing to name a kid's oriented virtual world media company Masher Media considering the meaning of masher. Can't wait for my daughter to get accosted by some virtual 8 year old boy hanging out on a corner.

links for 2009-08-06

• Top 10 Deliberate Dad Blogs : Parenting : Life : Blogs.com
  i'm on the fence about dad blogging, though I am prone to post occasional photos of the tyke, still since this is THE LIST I'll give these a gander and share in case anyone is interested
• A Walking Tour of New York, Illuminated - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
  nice walking tour of impressive NYC lighting
  (tags: walking_tours)
• Mind - Finding Clues to National Well-Being in Songs and Blogs - NYTimes.com
  A story about papers looking at our national well-being by analyzing song lyrics and blogs. Perhaps the researchers could use the twitter API to look at this. Better yet they could create a one page site called howarewefeeling.com - you could go to it and check it daily - "happy", hopeless" "sexy", "underemployed"...

links for 08-04 - reporter gets upset at gawker for making his story better, nice essay about marriage and midlife crisis, ooh a flexible screen

• The Time Gawker Put the Washington Post Out of Business - Washington Post - Gawker an argument for reporters to be able to have an opinion and show some humor
• Modern Love - Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear - NYTimes.com
• 'Moving newspaper' on flexible screen to be launched within months - Times Online

Watch my friend Dave Wondrich, author of Imbibe on Colbert tonight

My good friend Dave Wondrich, cocktail expert extraordinaire and author of Imbibe, will be on The Colbert Report tonight. They'll be mixing some things up and possible introducing a new drink, though I think Colbert seems to be a gin and tonic man so who knows. I hope you get a chance to watch him. (I'll be watching it tomorrow on Hulu posting it too and contributing to The Chaos Scenario in media that Bob Garfield was discussing with Leonard Lopate yesterday, those who have discontinued cable and watch TV on network owned web sites which destroy the ad revenue of the very businesses whose shows they stream.)

links for 2009-08-03: nice e-mail marketing service, telegraphic code, fish should think before they change their names

• Mad Mimi Email Marketing : Create, send & track emails with Mad Mimi.
  nice looking service. i've been keeping up with a new digital book/video thing coming called Vook and I noticed they were using this service. I've tried constant contact in the past think i'll give this one a go next time I need to start e-mailing people. does anyone have experience with it?
  (tags: emailmarketing service tools)
• Before Twitter there was a new language for telegrams. - Twittergraphy - NYTimes.com
  Rabblement. The phrases below are from the third edition of “The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code,” published in 1891. It can only be hoped that, as Twitter advances, more people will begin Tweeting in code...
• Unpopular, Unfamiliar Fish Species Suffer From Become Seafood - washingtonpost.com
  slimehead=orange roughy

Willa loves umbrellas