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Business Week: Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs
“One after another, online video sites that have long showcased such fare as skateboarding dogs and beer-drenched parties are scaling back their focus on user-generated clips, often in favor of professionally produced programming.”
(tags: video web ugc business)
Dining For A Dollar: Halloween horrors edition | The A.V. Club
“Just rip the [...]
Ned Beauman: Wyatting (vb): when jukeboxes go mad | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Carl Neville, a 36-year-old English teacher from London, coined the term “Wyatting” because playing Dondestan, the 1991 avant-garde jazz-rock LP by ex-Soft Machine singer Robert Wyatt,is the perfect way to disrupt a busy Friday night in a high street pub.
(tags: music culture [...]
Post No Bills: Browse locally, buy globally
“I thought I’d run a brief series about some of my favorite mail-order sources for international sounds. I’ll offer a new list every week or so over the next month.”
(tags: music lists)
Comfort food for a struggling city — chicagotribune.com
Today, survivors of the storm still seem to need Dick and [...]
Favorite Chicago Sounds
“we ask local residents to name their favorite sounds of the city. We then seek out those favorite sounds and make field recordings, which are available to the public as MP3s on our web site.”
(tags: chicago sound art audio)
Technology Review: Searching Video Lectures
“The technology is mature enough now that there’s a growing sense [...]
Whatever: Your Creation Museum Report
“Indeed, it’s over the top enough that I never could actually get angry with the place.”
(tags: creationism museum religion)
JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1: Special Theme: Social Network Sites
danah boyd and Nicole Ellison, Guest editors
(tags: academia research socialnetworking)
ABC News: New JFK Assassination Plot Revealed
“Bolden recalled how agents bungled surveillance of those two [...]
On my Thanksgiving trip home to my Mom’s, I stirred up some ol’ memories. I found my copies of Cleveland is a Warm, Fuzzy Place and Cleveland is a Wild, Wooly Place, two cute stories tracking the adventures of one Benjamin Bear across my hometown. The prize shot from Warm, Fuzzy Place is [...]
Book celebrates 120 years of pediatric history at Rainbow – cleveland.com
‘”I don’t believe in rules,” said Zemaityte. “I believe in guidelines. If there are rules, you don’t have to think about it. With guidelines, you use your mind and heart. People expect technical care; what they remember is your kindness.”‘
(tags: cleveland history medicine)
Ars Technica: Songs [...]
Check, Please!
Web companion to popular restaurant review show.
(tags: chicago food television)
MoveOn Takes On Facebook – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog
“With the Beacon feature, if a user does not specifically decline participation, his or her Facebook friends will get a “news feed” notice about the purchase.”
(tags: facebook advertising privacy)
White House Thanksgiving Turkey [...]
Levitated | Information
“Levitated.net contains visual poetry and science fun narrated in an object oriented graphic environment. These pages are attempting to fasten a usable structure around a continually evolving computational ecology.”
(tags: flash programming research visualization)
Processing 1.0 (BETA)
“Processing is an open source programming language created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and [...]
The Food Chain: Spiked: underground goat slaughter
“Cuevas bought a goat named Tony from a farmer near Joliet, and was planning to transport the beast to the city and dispatch it the day before Sunday’s dinner. He posted notices of the event inviting people to witness the slaughter.”
(tags: chicago food law goat ethics)
New York Times: Two [...]