Archive for January, 2010
January 14th, 2010
links for 2010-01-14
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Brilliant piece on the lost ability to form consensus without a centralized, establishment press. The new, fractured media system creates products that are truer to what people want and how they think, but makes it much harder to govern if you want to push anything beyond a 50/50 issue.
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Looks very cool.
January 14th, 2010
Inevitable and awesome: the Fuhrer weighs in on the Conan/Leno situation.
I’ve written previously about the way in which some pieces of internet culture will simply inevitably exist. The combination of the power of the memes that drive the online world and the sheer number of people who contribute to it means that it’s a when, not an if, the Barack Roll or McCain counting his houses to Feist will be created.
In that vein, Hilter weighs in on the NBC/Leno/Conan flap. Awesome and… inevitable:
January 13th, 2010
A new kind of politics: the data visualization wars.
Fascinating talk from Alex Lundry on the way in which visualizations are becoming a new medium for partisan warfare:
January 7th, 2010
A wonderfully disrespectful chart from Gawker that tells the tale of Steven Brill.
January 7th, 2010
links for 2010-01-07
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Interesting projections about the adoption of different modes of media consumption.
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Actually hope this site works, could use some serious news from conservatives.
January 4th, 2010
The tablet will save us!
Not a new thought, apparently. This video from 1994 sounds an awful lot like the one below it:
January 3rd, 2010
Fox News owned the decade in cable news.
I tumbled and tweeted this last week, but for those of you who read me here or on a feed, I had to pass this amazing chart on.
The amazing thing is, as well as Fox was doing in the Bush years, opposition appears to be even better for business.
January 2nd, 2010
Apologies on the link drop-off.
Many apologies for the drop-off of links in the past few weeks, something’s broken in delicious’s auto-post feature and I’m working on fixing it. In the meantime, you can follow my links here or follow me on Twitter to get links and chatter.
Happy New Year!