Gene Weingarten on the current state of print journalism and its bastardization online. Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by people with stupid hats and dirty faces. The article skewers the online practice of writing headlines for machines, rather than readers. A good headline will likely garner just as much attention after being picked up by a human, and subsequently blogged, liked, retweeted and carrier-pigeoned, as it would from being a top search query.
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SEO optimized headline
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July 19 2010, 2:58pm | Comments »
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Tetris origins
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Let the Game Continue, for those that were curious where Tetris pieces originated. The graphic is from a t-shirt by Eduardo San Gil at Threadless.
July 18 2010, 8:55am | Comments »
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Dueling Carls
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Talking Carl is an iPhone app that will record some audio and play it back at a higher pitch. This is what happens when you place two of them beside each other.
There’s something about this video that had me doing a deep belly laugh. It’s probably the slight pause before it becomes unintelligible. It reminds me of watching Gir from Invader Zim
July 16 2010, 3:10pm | Comments »
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On teaching design in Mozambique
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From an interview with designer Barbara Alves about teaching in Mozambique. For example, students in the graphic design course asked me to give them lessons in color, insisting they knew nothing about it. This really surprised me. My immediate answer was, “But you should teach me! You’re surrounded by color and use it in such powerful ways in every aspect of daily life. I admire you for it!” Their response was to laugh and say, “But Teacher! That’s not design! We need to use design colors.” From talking to my students and people in the cultural sector, I got the impression that design was this distant, quite artificial, field they had to adapt to.
July 16 2010, 3:59am | Comments »
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MIT OpenCourseWare | A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python
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July 15 2010, 3:49pm | Comments »
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iPad 3.2.1 download is 457mb and features improved Wi-Fi stability. They really need to work on incremental updates.
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July 15 2010, 3:22pm | Comments »
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Fat in London sewers
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Walls of fat removed from London’s sewers. Enough fat to fill nine double-decker buses is being removed from sewers under London’s Leicester Square. A team of “flushers” equipped with full breathing apparatus has been drafted in with shovels to dig out an estimated 1,000 tonnes of putrid fat. Pleasant.
July 15 2010, 3:07pm | Comments »
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Lightroom presets
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Presetpond is a community for sharing Lightroom and Aperture presets.
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July 14 2010, 5:20pm | Comments »
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Canon : Picture Style
http://web.canon.jp/imaging/picturestyle/
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July 14 2010, 4:49am | Comments »