Slapped together the seed of a website for a friend yesterday. He wants a portfolio site for his artwork. I was suprised how little time it tookâonly two hours of futzing. I found a workable photoblog template for WordPress, hacked it a bit to change it from black and gray to white and gray, and [...]
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Editor 2.0Jeff Jarvis says: "Connect these dots to create the job description of the 21st century editor." Missed this when he first wrote it; just saw it via the link below.(tags: none) The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader"There was a time when it must have been hard [...]
Delish Is the Newest Food Blog on the BlockSays Slashfood: "It's a food hub, along similar lines as Serious Eats (without all the cool brand-name bloggers) and Epicurious (minus the connection to Gourmet)." Heh. I don't know if I am among those "brand-name bloggers."(tags: none) Erica De ManeLost Italian recipes from food writer Erica De [...]
Video Ad for ‘Wario Shake It’ Game Destroys You Tube PageThis is such a clever little ad. It reminds me of this other weird Dutch webpage that did something similar and that I now can't find.(tags: advertising Wii Nintendo videogames awesomeness YouTube )
Aaron Sorkin Writes MoDo’s Column for HerAnd this is what he comes up with: "The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it." So true.(tags: AaronSorkin MoDo NYT newspapers BarackObama humor politics Election2008 )
Silver Jews, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, September 6th, 2008, originally uploaded by craneboy. Earlier this month I went with my friend Justin to see the Silver Jews play. I didn’t realize until we got there that this was a pretty big deal, since this is like maybe the second time Jew-in-chief David [...]
Nikon D60Very small dSLR. Might be nice and convenient.(tags: Nikon cameras photography dSLRs SLRs ) Canon 5D Mark II Shoots Full HD VideoWowsers. This is total wish-list material. Couple this with a lens like Robyn has, and bam!(tags: cameras photography Canon SLRs dSLRs ) Canon PowerShot G10 Goes Wide-AngleOr maybe I should wait for the [...]
The New Yorker ran a fascinating story last week about the German company Herrenknecht and its tunnel-boring machines. Here’s a link to the story, but don’t bother clicking through. It’s just an abstract; the whole thing isn’t online. Anyway, I thought the story could have benefited from a few good photos of the machines it [...]
Wall Street’s Collapse Delivers an Overdue Wake Up Call to Startups"One theme that has been emerging is being referred to as 'web meets world.' It's an idea that has been discussed by Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures, and also the folks at the Web 2.0 Summit. The concept is that the web needs to [...]
I would find this headline from the Times funny if the news behind it weren’t so terrifying. As if any reassurances from Bush are worth a hill of beans. I think a Times copy editor was employing some dry gallows humor here.