Good cover story on FastCompany magazine this month.
Another guy barely out of his teens, sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a rented apartment.
The internet is a wild place.
I am totally enjoying Facebook, so far. I check it every day as do half of all users.
This is from the May edition of FastCompany, showing registered users who have visited the site at least once each month. Speaks for itself.
Why can’t all airports be this good?
Clean, spacious, sufficiently staffed. Free wireless internet, plenty of electrical outlets, Starbucks.
Best airport I’ve seen since Changi.
I use a cheapo Kodak camera. And I’m very happy with it.
This is a commercial that was produced for internal use. But it has become so popular, especially with employees, that Kodak has released it for external viewing. It demonstrates that Kodak not only understands it’s changing business but also has a sense of humor.
Click PLAY or watch the humorous video on YouTube.
(via Scoble)
I never thought much of Beyoncé until lately.
Just another pretty … face, … well m(ass) marketed by the mostly dirty-old-male recording industry. Everything wrong with the status quo. Right?
Maybe I’m wrong.
She could be part of the solution.
Certainly she was great in Dream Girls.
Her song Crazy in Love is one of my favourites of all time.
Now she’s putting together an all-girl band for her upcoming B’Day World Tour. (Doesn’t sound like a bimbo boy toy of Jay-Z to me.)
Older women, with few exceptions, get no respect in commercial pop music. Why doesn’t Joni Mitchell have the same profile today as Bob Dylan or Neil Young? Joni’s just as talented and a lot easier on the eyes.
Rock videos today are almost all soft porn. This can’t last forever. Where do they go next?
I like what Beyoncé is doing. She’s sending up her sexy image in videos like Green Light. (I love the high, high heels.)
Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.
Not the greatest song, I admit. But Robert Palmer is grinning from the great beyond.
Come to think of it, Robert Palmer’s classic Simply Irresistible is hard to take seriously any more.
Click Play or …
Watch Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, as well.
No great fan of World Music, I do recommend this recording.
Rhythms Del Mundo is an electrifying album that fuses music of different cultures and comes up with a melting pot of rare sounds.
While the majority of the original artists’ vocals remain the same, The Buena Vista Social Club musicians took the original orchestration from each song and created something utterly unique, casting their trademark mastery over each track.
Their noted and exceptional musicianship seduced even the notoriously protective Arctic Monkeys into handing over their track. As well as The Arctic Monkeys‘ track `Dancing Shoes’, Rhythms Del Mundo included reworked tracks such as `Clocks’ by Coldplay, `Better Together’ by Jack Johnson, `She Will be Loved’ by Maroon 5, `High and Dry by Radiohead‘ and others.
The album is in aid of Artists Project Earth (APE), which lends support for natural disaster relief and climate change awareness.
If you’re an Arctic Monkey’s fan (all so absurd) you have to see this mash-up. So weird, I like it.
Click PLAY or watch the Monkeys in old Havana on YouTube.
Hear short sample clips of the other songs: – Rhythms del Mundo Cuba – official website
If like most people you never download and listen to audio podcasts, On The Media, heard on NPR radio, might just be the one to try.
Or you can listen to it on your computer right now. Click PLAY below. It takes some time to buffer even with a high speed connection. (Far better is to subscribe by some service like iTunes.)
It’s amazing how poorly the traditional media does at getting the right stories right.
This is my favourite podcast right now.
I always have at least two browsers open. I find it quicker to switch back and forth browsers than between tabs or windows in the same browser.
On Mac I use Safari, Firefox, Camino and Opera.
They are all good. All similar. The only bad browser these days is Internet Explorer.
If a web feature does not work in one, I try it on another.
In the past I found Opera the most annoying as it uses different key stroke shortcuts. But having just downloaded the most recent version (9.1), there is one feature which makes it worth my time. In Opera you can zoom in on text AND GRAPHICS. This is a killer feature for any user who has trouble reading small, light fonts.
Give it a try.
What is Opera?
Opera is a powerful tool that gives you more options when surfing the Web. It is faster, safer and easier to use than your current browser. We designed Opera to fit your life – whether you want to have more fun, get more done or express your style.
Why should I download Opera when I already have another browser?
If you use Internet Explorer you are more likely to be subjected to dangerous software such as viruses and spyware. Opera is more secure, and takes up less of your computer’s memory.
Easy Switch – Questions about switching to Opera – Opera Web Browser
Kathy Sierra knows of what she speaks. She’s the genius behind the Creating Passionate Users blog.
What is the very best way to format information?
How do you make a point in a friendly, interesting, even inspiring way?
Creating Passionate Users: My Favorite Graphs… and the future
I aspire to make images something like this. (I’ve even been looking at software.)
Note: This is the same Kathy Sierra involved in a recent blogging controversy. But it’s business as usual now.
Wonderful Amber MacArthur is understandably well loved by interweb guys. She’s long been Leo Laporte’s sidekick.
Her internet tech video shows Inside Popnology and CommandN are already the best of the web in my opinion.
Now Amber’s outdone herself with a new offering called Webnation.
You can skip Rocketboom, Geekbrief and MoBuzz. Webnation is it. Production values and content are equal to anything on commercial TV. In fact, it airs on commercial Canadian TV though it’s far more convenient to watch it online, anytime.
Check it out.
Webnation airs on CP24 every other Thursday from 11:35 PM – 12:05 AM. You can also view the entire show online at citynews.ca or download it via iTunes.
Amber Dawn MacArthur – Wikipedia
Oliver Reichenstein is on the right track. He feels newspapers need reinvent themselves as Wikis.
Right now I love Wikipedia. I hate my local paper’s website.
The San Francisco Chronicle is in financial trouble, InfoWorld stops printing, Time Magazine redesigns its print edition and fires 50 people. Old media is in trouble. …
The big question is: Do newspapers have a future at all? – Change or die is the media’s new watchword. Here are the 10 major misconceptions than hinder newspapers to join the new media party …
Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » 10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed
Reichenstein posted a model of how the Washington Post could be redesigned as a Wiki.
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