February 2011
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look at that pile of work i left on my desk very neat. and tall.
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tropical dream
i awake mid night unknowing where i am peaking through the blinds leafless trees, icy snow i took the wrong plane!
- Mykl
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Fortnight in Paradise
It took maybe three days in the Virgin Islands before I’d simply forgotten what winter is…
read complete essay at Daily.Mykl.org
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The Gated Paradise →
putting my finger on the differences between St. Croix and Vieques
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Today’s problem is not one media versus another,...
…it’s finding the best possible way to finance the gathering and the processing of independent, reliable, and original information.
— Frédéric Filloux
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Put simply, publishers don’t want readers to opt in, because they know readers will prefer to opt out. Transparency is not a friend of publishers who for decades made a mint by selling out readers to advertisers and list brokers. Most readers may not be aware of this, but those who are don’t like it. Publishers know that and hate Apple for calling their bluff. If personal info harvesting isn’t...
MYKLbiz: "Keeping your writings in text (.txt... →
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“Despots will figure out how to work around them both technically and politically. They’re too easy to disrupt.” http://ping.fm/vgPJ8 twech
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“people’s dreams for how a news system works: Find me stuff I’m interested in.” - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/XKjzn twech
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‘programming is a part of online journalism, in the same way that page layout is a part of print journalism.’ - John Gruber twech
“I’d like deadlines more if they were called happy endings.” - @ShariV67 http://twitter.com/shariv67
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“Is (AOL) a fearsome Internet conglomerate or simply a roach motel for once lively websites?” - @NiknotneD http://ping.fm/oSC7l twech
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rocket science at AOL
by Amy Phetamine:
“we are absolutely passionate, big believers in the future of the Internet, big believers in the future of content” - Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL
wow, he believes there will be both an internet and content in the future. gosh, with vision like that, he should totally be chief executive of a large internet media company.
did the Times choose quotes just to make a competitor look...
“…AOL and others who have not yet come to terms with the futility of chasing page views” - @Om (@GigaOM) http://ping.fm/fQ2Vb
“News is now an environment, not a publication…. mixing with a sea of sources.” - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/tVN2t
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“There are so many more sources today than there were when we were growing up. It...”
– Dave Winer
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clearly @Google Translate Latin is still an alpha feature needing some work. it translated “modus operandi” as “juicy fruit”. twech
“Why wait for The Daily when you can see the home page for any of your favorite news sites in 10 seconds?” @DaringFireball http://ping.fm/jnAxY
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“it’s tough to find in mid-late middle age, after having climbed to the top...”
– Dave Winer
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Snow Drift
(originally posted at Daily.Mykl.org)
They take pretty good care of the main roads here in West Virginia, and I like driving in the snow, so I’ve yet to get trapped at Hearth Hill. It’s a lot snowier in the eastern mountains of the state (a quick day-trip from where I grew up in Maryland). The last time the east coast had a crazy deep blizzard, a couple dozen casual caver friends chose to get...
“It’s about giving people the information they need… without that you’re just sailing in the dark.” - Julian Assange http://ping.fm/jgoch
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early printed type mimicked the handwritten. let us cast off the vestiges of print, and let loose our digital destiny. twech
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“What can we do with the idea of a ‘book’ if we eliminate the limitations of ink and paper, rather than mimic them?” http://ping.fm/KgmSb twech