“ People that love your show want to expect more of it. ”
“ A site that visibly promotes how many ’friends’ you have turns friends into commodities, creating an economy where you are motivated to make as many friends as you can. That’s not a good idea because the utility of these sites suffer as social networks become too densely populated. ”
Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design (via Rebecca Cottrell)
Tumblr isn’t so good with a bunch of text.
I moved my responce here: The art and science of social software
Obama claims Democratic nomination
This msnbc.com story is shady.
They conviently leave the “NBC news projects” out of the headline. Then they go on to include a fake quotation from Obama:
“Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States,” Obama planned to say in a victory celebration in St. Paul, Minn.
With 9 delegates left (as of this writing) he’s sure to be the nominee. That doesn’t mean he is. The way Alex Johnson has written the story implies otherwise. It intentionally missleads in the name of being first to “call it”. That’s only slightly more respectable than a “Top 5 Reasons Obama is the Nominee” Digg baiting blog post. Maybe.
Update: CNN’s headline is “Obama wins nomination, CNN projects.” They include the above quotation as well. Unlike MSNBC, they source it with “according to prepared remarks released by his campaign.”
Key to Optical Illusions Discovered
Short version: What we see is actually slightly predictive of what will happen 1/10th of a second into the future. Optical illusions occur when that perceived future doesn’t match reality.
Take away: Nothing is real!
Media Doesn't Love Obama After All
“Obama did not receive special treatment; Clinton was not generally covered too harshly; but some high-impact, inappropriate media coverage did hurt Clinton and understandably outrage voters. In the end, the candidates still drew better media coverage than actual public policy, which drew only seven percent of all campaign stories.”
The Planet Cloud (via murrayneill)
Toilet on the International Space Station has failed.
‘With this device out of order, the crew are relegated to using the toilet on the Soyuz transport module, which however only has capacity for a few days of use. The only other alternative is the use of so-called “Apollo bags” with sticky openings to collect feces.’
Neighbors (via pinwheel)
Gnarls Barkley: Crazy - Played on a Theremin.
Ethics Bites: Free Speech with Tim Scanlon
“I’m inclined to be rather suspicious of laws that restrict speech on the grounds that it gives offence to a particular group. Not that I favour speech that does that, I think it’s terrible; the question is whether you want to have a law that restricts it. And the natural question is why on earth shouldn’t you? After all it does harm people.
The problem is that there are so many ways in which speech can be offensive to different people, that if we start allowing offence to be a ground for restriction it’s very easy to generalise it, and the restrictions on speech become too tight.”
