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The New York Times Looks Inward at it’s Digital Efforts
The New York Times Looks Inward at it’s Digital Efforts dbreunig: BuzzFeed leaked a scanned copy of a Xeroxed, printed report about the New York Times’ lack of digital commitment. That should give you a clue.
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austinkleon: Ad Reinhardt, How to Look: Art Comics I wrote in 2011: “It frustrates me to no end that there isn’t an easily available collection of Reinhardt’s cartoons. They’re so brilliant.” And lo’ and behold! Now there’s a collection. More about ‘em: …long before Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg took shots at the high-mindedness of…
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thisistheverge: Watch the first episode of AMC’s tech drama ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ right now AMC has been building hype for its upcoming drama Halt and Catch Fire, and today it’s letting viewers watch the first episode for free. Starting today and running through May 31st, viewers will be able to watch the episode both…
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Survey Question: How does gamification affect learning? I think it’s time we had a frank talk about what gamification is, and why we should stop doing it — or at least, why we should agree that if we’re not going to stop doing it, we ought to stop calling everything that involves real-world game design…
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Our first instinct, when we read about these experiments, is that what the interventions must be doing is changing students’ minds — replacing one deeply held belief with another. And it is hard to imagine that reading words on a computer screen for 25 minutes could possibly do that. People just aren’t that easy to…
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3-D print your way to freedom and prosperity
3-D print your way to freedom and prosperity The rhetoric surrounding the maker movement is shot through with claims that hold up personal fabrication as an ideal, decentralized, noninstitutional technological system. As Chris Anderson, former editor in chief of Wired, puts it in his cover story cum manifesto on the subject, people “can become a…
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bitforms: Peter VogelSeries of Sounds, 1985microphone, speakers, light emitting diodes, circuits, iron wire, wooden frame12 x 13.5” / 30.5 x 34 cm110 volts
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Tonight, in “United States of Secrets,” the first of a two-part look at how this country became such an out-of-control surveillance state, it calls out former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden as a liar’s liar. It really, truly, deeply calls him out. David Zurawik in The Baltimore Sun. PBS Frontline tonight explains how NSA…
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unapologeticmuslim: levantineviper: theredarchangel: The Horrors of imperialism merged into one, simple telegram. This is in reference to the Banana Massacre of 1928. Oh my god… There is a passage in 100 Years of Solitude that tells of this event. There is another novel, La Casa Grande, where this event is central. The latter work refers…