May 2013
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Betaworks-Backed Telecast Brings The TGIF TV... →
It’s been a hectic four months, and I’m so [nervously] excited that the project/company/app, Telecast, I’ve been building with the help of the fantastic team here at betaworks is finally ready for the world.
Telecast is about making Internet video watching feel as simple as turning on the TV, no matter where you are: each day, we drop fifteen minutes of carefully-chosen,...
April 2013
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“The assumption driving these kinds of design speculations is that if you embed...”
– Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface | MIT Technology Review
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“The single most overwhelming piece of technology for the television business was...”
– Peter Chernin
March 2013
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February 2013
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“Freeing 400 megahertz of radio spectrum to be shared using new technologies...”
– Presidential Panel Urges More Flexible Use of Spectrum - NYTimes.com (via nickgrossman)
January 2013
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"Curious Rituals: Gestural Interaction in the... →
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“Even so, Netflix can’t match the quality that can be delivered via coax — not...”
– This article on Netflix/Time Warner’s current dispute shows a disappointing lack of understanding of how the Internet is stitched together. In a story where the heart of the matter comes down to the hard tech, I wish the author had spent a few minutes talking to an engineer before misleadingly...
betaworks
Starting 2013 off with a bang, I’m happy to announce I’ve just started a new gig: Hacker-in-Residence at betaworks. With the help of the spectacular team here and a band of fellow hackers, I’m going to spend the next few months building and launching a product from whole cloth. I haven’t done this before; it’s damn exciting.
I was so lucky to have been on the early...
“Radio, in its ideal, provided both an outlet for musical discovery and a place...”
– Maura Johnston, in the first issue of her fantastic new micromagazine.
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Video art is hard to watch
I love video art. Being moving images, the sensory experience we are as, or more, accustomed to as talking with other humans, video art seems to have remarkably fast access to our thoughts. Though many people feel uncomfortable commenting on a painting by an artist they don’t know, I’ve never seen anyone very reticent after watching an unkown video work.
Methods and subjects in video...
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Another iTunes victim
Yesterday I wanted to introduce a friend to Network, the 1976 classic film satire of American TV, which was prescient enough to just barely look like satire today. I told him the main character was Faye Dunaway as a maniacal programming exec and he was sufficiently convinced.
Netflix doesn’t stream Network. (I’d have thought Epix owned it via MGM, but apparently whichever co-holding quasi-company...
December 2012
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“In November 1974 the Artforum editors had a famous falling-out when several...”
– From Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art World.
Had no idea that’s how October got started.
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“Q. Should one refer to the Chatham House Rule or the Chatham House Rules? A....”
– Chatham House Rule | Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs
I chuckled.
November 2012
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“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers...”
– Zadie Smith, in the New York Review of Books. (via thebronzemedal)
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October 2012
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“Hi _____,
I apologize that you had a poor experience with this product. I have...”
– No negative review of a color on The Home Depot’s site goes unnoticed!
September 2012
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“I’d been living in lovely, provincial San Francisco and had moved to...”
– Gideon Lewis-Kraus, A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
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“What if novelists and poets were to get a salary, the wage of a skilled worker?...”
– China Miéville: the future of the novel | Books | guardian.co.uk
A messy argument of the “future of the book” genre, but worth the read.
August 2012
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July 2012
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“Please be aware of probable larceny at the exit of this station. When an...”
– Turkish subway announcement that (hopefully) needs a little work.
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