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document.write('<em>2008-08-26 18:38:33 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/25/dmca-takedown-notice-forces-twitter-blacklist-mad-men-characters">The Industry Standard: DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters</a><br>')
document.write('I have started and rejected half a dozen snarky jokes for this link, but none really work.  I&#039;ll just go with a simple &quot;dumbasses&quot; and call it a day.<br>')
document.write('<em>bigcontent nightmare dumbass</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-08-18 13:19:48 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2008/08/post_95.html">guardian.co.uk: Are editors a luxury that we can do without\?</a><br>')
document.write('Interesting piece by Jeff Jarvis on the evolving role of editors in journalism. The word &quot;curators&quot; comes up, which fits well with my own recent experience in the best sources of information, music, and what-have-you. I expected that machines would win, but rethinking that.<br>')
document.write('<em>journalism media futuretech</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-08-14 17:39:19 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/">counternotions: Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products”</a><br>')
document.write('Everybody and their mothers has linked to this in the past couple of days, and I finally got around to reading it. Very worthwhile read and some interesting exchanges in the comments.<br>')
document.write('<em>apple innovation corporate design</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-08-08 16:53:25 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://brooklynbased.net/everything/be-the-performer/">Brooklyn Based: Be the Performer</a><br>')
document.write('The interactive performance &quot;Suspicious Package&quot; sounds reasonably entertaining, but my primary thought was &quot;holy crap, somebody came up with a use for a Zune!&quot;<br>')
document.write('<em>brooklyn zune amusement</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-07-31 14:10:46 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080730/0128021832.shtml">Techdirt: Bandwidth Caps Keep Getting Lower And Lower</a><br>')
document.write('This irritates me because it root idea really isn&#039;t bad: as a producer of stuff online this is how I pay for the bandwidth my sites use, and it works well. Why must the &quot;consumer&quot; version suck so hard\?<br>')
document.write('<em>broadband nightmare</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-07-22 17:21:46 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.drawger.com/felixsockwell/?section=comments&article_id=5804">felix sockwell: new iPhone nytimes GUI</a><br>')
document.write('Nice writeup (with lots of visuals) on the icon design process for the NY Times&#039; iPhone app.<br>')
document.write('<em>apple design nytimes iphone</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-07-18 14:43:53 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://blog.andrewparker.net/2008/07/15/app-store-is-a-solution-to-the-penny-gap/">The Gong Show: App Store is a Solution to The Penny Gap</a><br>')
document.write('Andrew Parker proposes (pretty convincingly) that &quot;the penny gap&quot; is a usability problem, rather than an economic one: because there&#039;s almost no friction for the user buying from the app store they&#039;re more willing to buy.<br>')
document.write('<em>apple webfocus design hci</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-07-15 16:53:24 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.borthwick.com/weblog/2008/07/15/summize-acquired-by-twitter/">THINK / Musings: Summize acquired by Twitter</a><br>')
document.write('John Borthwick on Twitter&#039;s acquisition of Summize. Interesting case: Summize works better than any of the competing services, but it also makes Twitter itself  much, much better.  Hope that the Summize tech is still applied outside of Twitter.<br>')
document.write('<em>twitter search futuretech metadata useful</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-07-11 19:19:24 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/11/whyIDontLikeCrowdSourcing.html">Scripting News: Why I don\'t like \'crowd sourcing\'</a><br>')
document.write('Sometimes Dave Winer is the crankiest man on the Internet, other times one of the most insightful, occasionally both at once.<br>')
document.write('<em>social media corporate</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-07-10 22:18:51 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://shelbinator.com/2008/07/10/even-the-cutting-edge-republicans-demand-suspicion-and-scolding/">Shelbinator: Even the cutting-edge Republicans demand suspicion (and scolding)</a><br>')
document.write('Nice writeup of the Culberson Twitter kerfluffle that&#039;s been evolving over the  last couple of days.<br>')
document.write('<em>political twitter futuretech</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-06-18 20:24:05 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/one_dead_media.php">The Technium: One Dead Media [sic]</a><br>')
document.write('KK&#039;s utterly fascinating essay on &quot;edge-notched cards&quot; -- a now (apparently) defunct analog system for managing large databases.<br>')
document.write('<em>retrotech metadata design</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-06-13 19:13:30 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080603/0301521300.shtml">Techdirt: Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Graffiti Years After The Idea Is In Use</a><br>')
document.write('More evidence supporting my theory that MS has people who do nothing but walk around the conference rooms, transcribing anything that wasn&#039;t erased from each whiteboard directly on to a patent application.<br>')
document.write('<em>asspatents ip nightmare microsoft</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-06-10 21:27:05 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/06/10/how-brands-will-use-friendfeed/">Jerimiah Owyang: How Brands Will Use FriendFeed</a><br>')
document.write('&quot;Social media news releases.&quot; Sigh. I guess we needed to slap some &quot;NOW WITH SOCIAL MEDIA!&quot; stickers on stuff to cover up the &quot;IT&#039;S PODCAST-IC!&quot; stickers we put on everything a few years ago.<br>')
document.write('<em>media futuretech social nightmare communication</em><br><br>')
document.write('<em>2008-06-02 14:56:42 </em><br>')
document.write('<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/media/02garfield.html?ex=1370145600&en=68e4a4e72900de44&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">NYTimes.com: Is the Main Character Missing\? Maybe Not.</a><br>')
document.write('What&#039;s excellent here is that [Garfield creator] Jim Davis appears to recognize that the totally unlicensed &quot;Garfield Minus Garfield&quot; is not a threat to him or the original strip.  Let&#039;s just hope that Davis can keep the lawyers on a leash.<br>')
document.write('<em>ip webfocus amusement</em><br><br>')
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