my rest stop on the information superhighway
Links for Thursday, February 5, 2009
by Adam Kuban
- ‘various large-scale food odors’
Actually, maybe this is the weirdest phrase I've written on Serious Eats.
Delicious tags: smells SeriousEats blogs language
- Web Site for Knitting Nuts Has New York Needlers in Stitches | The New York Observer
"'Anybody who is not on Ravelry,' a friend said recently, pausing to lean in—close—'is stupid.' Many users describe Ravelry as a kind of home, one that is uniquely theirs because of the time and energy they put into the site. It doesn’t feel like so many other social networking sites that are run by advertising agencies and work as promotional gimmicks. Rather, Ravelry is a community builder. Mr. Flood said the site is so useful that it has become almost synonymous with knitting: 'It’s hard to imagine what [knitting] was like before Ravelry.'"
Delicious tags: Ravelry knitting socialnetworks Web2.0 BrooklynTweed
- Gothamist finally gets in on a mayoral press conference; still lacks press credentials [Portfolio]
"Press credentials in New York are given out by the NYPD, which is incomprehensibly sticking to its determination that a website, pretty much by definition, cannot be working press. And evidently the mayor's office, rather than simply telling the NYPD to wake up, finds it easier to just circumvent the NYPD entirely." [Interesting figures here, how G'mist outstrips NY Observer and Brooklyn Paper in PVs (4.8M, 1.9M, 15K, respectively) but still doesn't have press creds like those two publications do.]
Delicious tags: blogging Gothamist Portfolio journalism NYPD
- Maple Syrup Smell Coming from Frutarom Factory in New Jersey [SE]
"The agencies then went on high alert so they could react quickly when the next smell wave hit." [Probably the weirdest phrase I've written on Serious Eats yet.]
Delicious tags: SeriousEats odors
- Newspapers must end the free online lunch [Philadelphia Daily News]
"Publishers sowed the seeds of their own destruction – pre-Tierney – by stampeding to the Internet and giving away their content for free, overturning a business model that had sustained them for centuries. ¶ We must stop the insanity – now! It's time for some brave publisher – Hello, Brian – to stand up and howl: 'No more free content!' ¶ This company should charge online visitors a small fee, maybe $5 a month, for our content – which is copyrighted, then sue the pants off anyone stealing it. ¶ Should Google 'pick up' (steal) our stuff, if we successfully sued them for $1 billion, two good things happen: 1) Our money problems are solved; 2) everyone else will stop stealing our content."
Delicious tags: newspapers journalism
