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Bookmarks for November 28th through December 2nd

Links for November 28th through December 2nd: Amazon WikiLeaks Message – We’ve been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that’s perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities [...]

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Bookmarks for November 26th through November 27th

Links for November 26th through November 27th: NLA Ruling Summary: How PRs Break Copyright Law Online | paidContent:UK – “The Publishers have devoted very substantial resources in developing those websites and to the selection, arrangement and presentation of the material on them. Meltwater is making millions of pounds from its own activities which include ‘scraping’ [...]

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Bookmarks through November 13th

Links for October 31st through November 13th: Geoloqi – A secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing. – Online Privacy Is Poised for Regulatory Showdown – NYTimes.com – “There is going to be a lot of confusion over the competing proposals and which version Congress and the American people should pay attention to,” [...]

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Bookmarks for October 26th through October 31st

Links for October 26th through October 31st: MuckRock | Home – Ever wonder how food stamp money is actually being spent? Curious as to how hard the "great recession" has hit your community? In this exclusive MuckRock data set, we present over four years of government reimbursement data, including exact reimbursement amounts and exact addresses [...]

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The Great Pumpkin

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Bookmarks for October 11th through October 15th

Links for October 11th through October 15th: RefControl :: Add-ons for Firefox – Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis. slight paranoia – I don't think that it is possible to reasonably claim that millions of individual search queries associated to particular IP addresses are "aggregated, non-personal information". Starbucks breaks [...]

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Bookmarks for October 6th through October 10th

Links for October 6th through October 10th: A Master of Image and Information – NYTimes.com – You can see the logical outcome of the theories that he and Moholy-Nagy devised in the 1930s in “Form + Code,” a new book by Mr. Reas and Chandler McWilliams, who both teach in the Department of Design Media [...]

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Bookmarks for October 4th through October 6th

Links for October 4th through October 6th: United States Patent: 7809805 – Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. [...]

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Bookmarks for September 28th through October 3rd

Links for September 28th through October 3rd: Op-Ed Columnist – Fear and Favor – NYTimes.com – Thus in Britain, a reporter at one of Mr. Murdoch’s papers, News of the World, was caught hacking into the voicemail of prominent citizens, including members of the royal family. But Scotland Yard showed little interest in getting to [...]

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Freelance Whales Video for “Hannah”

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Sleigh Bells

Sleigh Bells // Creators Project by ryan muir

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Everything’s Gone Green

New Order – Everything’s Gone Green Video for Everything’s Gone Green by New Order, directed by fordbrothers and produced by Michael Shamberg http://kinoteca.net

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SURVEILLANCE Hot Chip

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Summer Playlist No.1 June 2010

My current, skate, run work out mix …

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The Medium: The Camera’s Eye

Two excellent pieces today coming from the camera and watcher POV. Voyeurism lighter and darker sides, the Times looking at Lady GaGa and Beyonce music video Framing and the Tate Modern looking at Surveillance A friend of mine tells me that he can find any TV image sexy, any image at all, so long as [...]

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Arcade Fire

A. The SuburbsAA. Month of May via Arcade Fire. A. The SuburbsAA. Month of May

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Reverse Decay, Illustrative Reveal

Cleaning the Streets: Reverse Graffiti There is a group of artists that are using a reveal technique …a reverse decay that I really like.  The beautiful reveal leaves the decay to frame the art which shines through via it’s surface restored to  original luster and newness.  Clean.  I can hear the artist in court now, [...]

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Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City

Information from millions of taxi trips provides a telling record of the city’s vital signs. The map shows the average number of pickups for different times of the day and days of week, Jan. via Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City – Interactive – NYTimes.com. The default link to the infograph lands you on a [...]

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“Internet of Things” film

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Ramones @ Maxs Kansas City

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now icons mmx

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Top Recordings January MMX

Four Tet – There is Love In You Hot Chip – One Life Stand Yeasayer – Old Blood Beach House – Teen Dream Los Campesinos – Romance Is Boring RJD2 – The Colossus The Soft Pack – The Soft Pack The New Puritans – Hidden Delphic – Acolyte

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Gang Gang Dance (Music Hall of Williamsburg)

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Mediaeater : 2009 Year End, Year’s Best – Recordings

Music that made 2009 a better place for me. Top 20 LPS (unsorted) The Antlers: Hospice  (lyrics) St. Vincent – Actor The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion Girls [...]

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Mediaeater 2009 Year’s End, Year’s Best: Top Image Bloggers on Tumblr

Image Bloggers (11) on Tumblr As someone who regards image blogging with a very discerning eye and maintains a half dozen image streams myself, I don’t give easy A’s in this category. The below list day in and day out served up quality visuals sometimes even bordering on sacred. For sure head and shoulders above [...]

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Visualizing Location Based Path History

Working on a deeper piece on key insights driven by visualizing location based path history. The above is a nice view of my Foursquare path though NYC clearly indicating I am not an uptown new yorker. \

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Bookmarks for December 16th through December 18th

Links for December 16th through December 18th: Facebook Data Team: How Diverse is Facebook? | Facebook – In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service. With that objective in mind, the Facebook Data [...]

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Bookmarks for December 9th through December 12th

Links for December 9th through December 12th: the raa ::: explore the rural alberta advantage – http://api.deweymusic.org/ – Archive.org contains millions of great public domain songs. They're all free to download, copy and redistribute. With such a great resource available to anyone, why isn't everyone using it? Part of the problem is that Archive.org is [...]

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Bookmarks for December 8th through December 9th

Links for December 8th through December 9th: Nebul.us – TruePower UCS Power Outlet With Built in USB Ports – TruePower UCS Power Outlet With Built-in USB Ports Patent-Pending. Pre-Order Today! Please note that orders for this item will only be charged when this item is about to ship. Do not select PayPal as the form [...]

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Bookmarks for December 6th through December 7th

Links for December 6th through December 7th: YouTube – Google Goggles – Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search… Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android [...]

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Bookmarks for December 5th through December 6th

Links for December 5th through December 6th: Unboxed – Next Jump Uses Data to Turn Online Browsing Into Buying – NYTimes.com – Today, 60 percent of the Fortune 500 companies use Next Jump’s technology for their employee discount programs. Next Jump also handles the rewards programs that offer deals to loyal customers of companies like [...]

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Bookmarks for December 1st through December 4th

Links for December 1st through December 4th: Too Much Joy» Blog Archive » My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement – So I was naively excited when I opened the envelope. And my answer was right there on the first page. In five years, our three albums earned us a grand total of… $62.47 Google Public [...]

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year end search

As the key search portals roll out year end lists…. couple of notes… – Twitter is #1 on Google and #2 on Bing not in Yahoos top 10 – No real volume data is shown – Google names their uri “collective-consciousness” – Yahoo’s format is like needles in my eyes – click, click, click – [...]

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Bookmarks for November 30th through December 1st

Links for November 30th through December 1st: S I S T E R W O R L D – liars It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans – * 95% of pages have more than 10 fans * 65% of pages have more than 100 fans * [...]

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Bookmarks for November 22nd through November 29th

Links for November 22nd through November 29th: The Media Equation – For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise – NYTimes.com – Certain stalwart brands will survive and even thrive because of a new scarcity of quality content for niche audiences that demand more than generic information. The chip that was implanted in [...]

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