I love a good portal... You know what other people like? When you tell them how to raise their kids... What happens when you are wearing Google Glass and you stare into a mirror?... My only marginal issue with binge viewing is that it changes the group dialogue pattern and fragments it... The company that comes up with true anti-glare/reflection screens for devices is going to mint it... I just got an e-mail that is so wrong on so many levels and I want to reply right away and yet the depths of how wrong it is makes me pause. It's the reason people like me will never hold missile keys... I'm like TIN CUP on dots. I don't play it safe. I don't lay it up...
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Access Hollywood: How Jeffrey Katzenberg Became the Democrats' Kingmaker
// motherjones.com
ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 23, 2011, four political operatives arrived for dinner at Scarpetta, a posh Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills' Golden Triangle. They wore DC power suits but ditched the ties—their one concession to LA fashion.
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Track the CIA's Secret Rendition Flights with a New Interactive Map
// motherboard.vice.com
A soldier stands guard inside Camp 5 at Guantanamo, via the Defense Department
The CIA's extraordinary rendition program, which consisted of flying terrorist detainees across borders, often for aggressive, extra-legal interrogation, is one of the lasting legacies of the post-9/11 world th
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Amazon and the buyout of fandom culture
// dailydot.com
Corporate entities have woken up and smelled the fandom. Now they're all over it.
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How the Apple TV can compete with the Xbox One
// gigaom.com
Microsoft impressed me when it unveiled the Xbox One earlier this week. I can’t imagine a future where we won’t be talking and gesturing to our TVs while visiting with grandma on a video call and playing a game at the same time.
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Why video is at the heart of Digital Spy
// journalism.co.uk
A look at how entertainment news site Digital Spy is making online video pay
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Twitter is about to change the news media – again | Michael Wolff
// guardian.co.uk
The social media giant has signed a deal called Twitter Amplify with several major media companies to increase its dominanceA few weeks ago, I wrote about the recent job posting for a news chief at Twitter – someone who would coordinate Twitter's relationships with the news industry and, as well,
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The Rise of the Mobile-Only User
// blogs.hbr.org
"They can just use their desktop computer to do that."
One of the most persistent misconceptions about mobile devices is that it's okay if they offer only a paltry subset of the content available on the desktop.
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Facebook's 3D Music Map: Exclusive
// billboard.com
Facebook's 1.1 billion users are fond of expressing themselves, communicating their identities in a variety of ways, including music.
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Yahoo bids on Hulu: Is Mayer another Bartz?
// cbsnews.com
Yahoo could reportedly spend $600M to $800M on the video site Hulu, but is Mayer's strategy just leftover from previous days?
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Do You Keek or Vine and Why? Watch the Teenage Cast of IMO Discuss
// btigresearch.com
While our recent blogs on Facebook have focused on the competitive threat from Google+, as Google’s ecosystem becomes more tightly integrated (click here) across devices and applications, fragmentation of social networking/media is a real and escalating threat.
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Inside 'Homeland' [VIDEO]
// abcnews.go.com
"Homeland" co-creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa discuss their hit show.
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What's Qualitative Data?
// adage.com
Qualitative data requires a subjective decision in order to be categorized or measured. Qualitative data can be described and observed, but not measured like quantitative data.
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The Weird Stuff Warehouse is where old tech goes to retire
// arstechnica.com
Tucked neatly between Yahoo! headquarters and Lockheed Martin is a row of unmarked warehouses. To the common passerby, it's nothing more than an office park surrounded by perfectly manicured lawns.
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Apple's Problem Isn't Skeuomorphism, It's Services
// techcrunch.com
So iOS 7, it seems, is going to do away with much of the skeuomorphic design that has crept into the operating system and its utilities. Jony Ive, rumor has it, has done away with all the textures and real-world analogs in iOS 7 and has switched to a flat design instead.
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DealBook: Entrepreneurs Help Build Start-Ups by the Batch
// nytimes.com
Investors with experience in technology companies are choosing to back multiple projects at one time, with more active roles than those of venture capitalists.
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BuzzFeed, CNN, YouTube Plan Online-Video Channel
// online.wsj.com
BuzzFeed is accelerating its bid to attract young adults, joining with CNN and YouTube to create a new, online-video channel.
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Marissa Mayer Is Bringing Back the Internet Portal. Here's Why
// wired.com
Instead of refocusing Yahoo, Marissa Mayer is broadening the company. That's odd, given that Yahoo was once considered a bloated, obsolete leviathan.
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“Arrested Development” describes Netflix’s business strategy
// pandodaily.com
The Bluth family returned last night and many people no doubt binge-viewed their way through a panoply of gags and self-referential humor.
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The next huge upset in online music
// tech.fortune.cnn.com
As digital delivery eats away at music royalties, performing rights organization ASCAP is seeing a boom in membership.
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A Rising Data Star Enjoys the Dark Side
// adage.com
“Three years ago I went to the dark side.”And by “the dark side,” Claudia Perlich means advertising.
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Legitmix Founder Omid McDonald Explains His Plan to Make Sample-Based Music Perfectly Legal, Equitable (Q&A)
// billboard.com
In October 2011, New York rapper El-P released a track titled "Rush Over Bklyn" – a remix of his own song, "Drones Over Bklyn" – freshened up with a..
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The future of media measurement should be people-based | David Gosen
// guardian.co.uk
Nielsen executive David Gosen responds to Frédéric Filloux's blog backing a site-centric approach using server logsWhen it comes to the development and distribution of content, the pace of innovation has been breathtaking.
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Internet users' privacy concerns may mean cookies start to crumble
// guardian.co.uk
Firefox is about to follow Safari's lead by disabling third-party cookies, but the web simply would not work without themWhen the Cookie Directive, officially known as the EU e-Privacy Directive, was first drafted two years ago, tablets hadn't been adopted in their millions, and smartphones had n
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Circa hires Anthony De Rosa away from Thomson Reuters to expand its editorial ambitions
// paidcontent.org
Circa, the mobile-only news service founded by Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh, announced on Tuesday that it is hiring Thomson Reuters social-media editor Anthony De Rosa to be the media startup’s editor-in-chief.
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Sexism protests target Facebook
// bbc.co.uk
Online campaign calls for major brands to remove advertising from Facebook in new protest against "gender-based hate" posts.
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Do Fans Really Own Fan Fiction?
// theatlantic.com
Who owns Superman? Who owns Star Trek? Who owns Harry Potter? The answers appear to be simple enough; in order DC Comics (or Warner Brothers), Paramount (or CBS), and J.K.
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How Does WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum Keep 200 Million Users Across The Globe Happy?
// fastcompany.com
Police officers in Spain use it to catch criminals. Grandmothers in Brazil use it to keep in touch with their family.
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The Most Creative People In Entertainment, 2013
// fastcompany.com
They're pioneers of a new era of braniac TV and the creative thinkers who are artfully finding profit in the music industry--from our Most Creative People 2013 list. TV's Head Of The Class (Nos.
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The Only Thing Amazon Has to Fear Is Amazon Itself
// wired.com
Amazon has reached a point in its evolution where the company is now surfing a feedback loop of dominance.
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Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online
// brainpickings.org
“We can only connect the dots that we collect.”
“How are well so brave to take step after step? Day after day?,” Maira Kalman pondered.
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An Insider's View of the Myths and Truths of the 3-D Printing 'Phenomenon'
// wired.com
It?s clear that 3-D printing has reached its inflection point. And perhaps its hype point, too.
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Hollywood Studios Want Google to Censor Dotcom’s Mega
// torrentfreak.com
Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find.
Unfortunately not all of these requests are correct.
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Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics
// nytimes.com
Citing heavy losses in its electronics business, analysts say Sony should concentrate its efforts where they pay: selling life, auto and health insurance.
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Michael Wolff: Apple's dark side populated with lawyers
// usatoday.com
The Apple culture has a dark side that helps explain its special difference: lawyers.
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Can A Fitness Tracker Really Change Your Life? Part One Of A First-Person Experiment
// readwrite.com
In 2013, fitness tracking is all around us: in iPhone apps like Map My Fitness and DailyBurn; built into your Samsung Galaxy S4 phone; in a device on your wrist if you own a Nike+ Sportswatch or a Pebble smartwatch.
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Yahoo's $800 Million Bid for Hulu: Safe, Boring, and Brilliant
// theatlantic.com
Reuters Yahoo's recent acquisition of youth-centric site Tumblr grabbed all the headlines. But for anyone who wants to understand Yahoo's strategy--and "Web 3.
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Norm Pattiz, father of modern radio syndication, talks podcasts, courtside deals & the future
// nextmarket.co
Summary: As the founder of Westwood One, Norm Pattiz helped usher in the era of modern radio syndication. Now, he's trying to bring some of the knowledge and relationships he's developed over the past few decades to the podcast world.
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How Ancestry.com transforms mounds of data into legible digital records
// gigaom.com
Sure, genealogy nerds might have fun poking through U.S.
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Meet Lookboard, where Fab, Gilt, JackThreads, et al source their indie-designed goods
// pandodaily.com
With the rise of curation in ecommerce, it’s no longer enough to deliver known brands at discount prices, with the occasional celebrity endorsement thrown in. Merchants need to offer a point of view, and unique merchandise that sets them apart from their competition.
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Music Matters Keynote from IFPI CEO Frances Moore Outlines Digital Growth, Challenges and Opportunities in Asia
// billboard.com
The 2013 version of Asia’s leading music conference, Music Matters, closed on Thursday evening with the legendary Seymour Stein offering an impromptu..
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