Can you take a look at the lead photograph and tell me if that’s a teleprompter in the back of the room? I mean, Republicans never make fun of Obama’s teleprompter.
Update: The Times changed the lead photo.
“Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better,” Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said in a press release published on Friday. “It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.” (via GoDaddy Pulls SOPA Support Following Customer Backlash.)
Pretty psyched about this. But the decision does need to be put in perspective. It doesn’t sound like GoDaddy would have pulled its support, had it not been a purely financial decision.
“Ben Huh, CEO of the popular Cheezburger blog network,announced that he would pull his 1,000 domains from Go Daddy if the company continued its support of the bill.”
I think it’s clear that SOPA is a pure financial move for media companies and for them to say otherwise is BS. The fact that our legislators don’t know anything about the bill and don’t even pretend to car about knowing is pretty telling about the state of our political system.
The 400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered along with reams of other classified documents, including military maps showing helicopter routes and radar capabilities, by a reporter for The New York Times at a junkyard outside Baghdad. An attendant was burning them as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp. (via NYTimes)
In today’s age of WikiLeaks and electronic documents, one of the largest intelligence coups for the media (or almost anyone) of the last 10 years comes from one reporter’s simple situational awareness. In our line of work (marketing and/or social media), it’s important to remember to keep your head up, and your eyes open to all opportunities. An advantage can take many forms, and it doesn’t necessarily come through the newest high-tech gadget.
Love the lead photograph. Be sure to scroll down and look at the larger picture and try to spot the carrier.
Take home quote:
“There is something that is always indispensable about having people involved,” Wood told me. The ship was identified “using a combination of the satellite imagery plus open-source material on the Internet, and geography,” he said, but “at the end of the day, it still comes down to a person.”
“They need to recognize that the instruments of the government don’t belong to them. They belong to the people. Self-government doesn’t work without information. Government records, including emails, ought to be available without filing a lawsuit, without any more than a keystroke.”
Very interesting. While I’m upset this happened, I’m not going to use this as an argument against Romney, nor any of the Republicans. It’s the culture of Washington, DC and politics in general (as this happened in Massachusetts), to protect yourself. Interesting to note is this excerpt:
“Mitt Romney’s father was a Cabinet secretary for Nixon, and no one in his administration would have been impervious to that lesson. George Romney was HUD secretary. The lesson was clear: Too much disclosure can torpedo an elected president, much less a presidential candidate.”
As someone born almost 20 years after Nixon’s administration, I wasn’t aware of this. Interesting to learn nonetheless.
Loved how the Niners are returning to glory. And to do it when the power goes out, not once, but twice!
(via ESPN)
Great video from Miguel Endara.
The making of “Hero,” a drawing of my dad composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots.
I was going to comment that the video seemed too much like an advertisement, but as Miguel notes in the comments, it is not. Very well done video.
Follow-up to previous post on IfEinsteinRan.com. Tom Wade has a small, but good, collection at TutorialFeed.net
The scrolling of the page creates somewhat of an interactive journey for the user and keeps them intrigued as they continue scrolling, revealing more information or story line as the page progresses.
On Friday night, Joshua, Nilay, Paul, and Joanna gathered in front of a live, studio audience and had a grand old time.
Content is very good. Very much like the rest of “The Verge”. One thing that bothers me about the show: the “sudden” music between segments. I feel there should be a more gradual aural transition between segments.
(via The Verge)
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Good example of vertical scrolling on websites. You don’t need to click to a new webpage for more information.
