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Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
I tend not to re-blog things but this is hilarious. H/T Kara for the link… (BTW check out her blog about research in design)
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The Long Now
The web is about 5000 days old. Kevin Kelly talks about the next 5000 days… fascinating.
Kevin Kelly is part of the Long Now Foundation. Check out some of their projects, like the 10,000 year clock.
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The Future of News
The world of news is changing fast. The capture, editing, and dissemination of what is newsworthy is becoming flatter, in that fewer barriers remain between the event and the reporting of the event. A few examples I’ve noted recently:
- APNews.com (and a forthcoming iPhone application) that gives you location- and preference-based news, and allows you to directly submit text and photos back to the Associated Press, direct from your iPhone.
- The BBC’s newly re-vamped news site, and their refreshing use of video: uncommented, barely edited, and often backed up with the BBC’s excellent reporting in the text of the article: (An example from their front page)
- Many discussions on the future of photojournalism, and the use of video as it relates to the still image. Here’s one video.
Technology is removing barriers to communication, reshaping our culture by changing the values behind what is reported: what is newsworthy becomes more closely tied to what is important to us.
Habari?