January 2009
24 posts
“Not that it’s anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but...”
– Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider
“We are certainly in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime set of economic...”
– Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer
“Academic economics responded to these empirical challenges to its accepted...”
– Steve Keen’s DebtWatch on the “Money Multiplier”
ONE MAN BAND LONDON →
“It was necessary for Obama to announce to both the United States and the rest of...”
– Jonathan Raban in The Guardian
“In a meeting with colleagues from around the world, including an Englishman, a...”
– BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | New lingua franca upsets French
“Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem. Er beschreibt nicht ohne Komik das Ballett der...”
– Bernard-Henri Lévy in der FAZ
“Ich befürchte, dass wir mit einer kreditfinanzierten Wachstumspolitik dieses...”
– Peer Steinbrück
Design your own shirts and hats - Ink-Hound.com →
Die Vermessung der Welt: Daniel Kehlmann →
Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA? →
Dining with Dubya →
“The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by...”
– Craig Moffett, of Bernstein Research, on newspapers
The sport of the samurai lives on (IHT) →
It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it and, to the uninitiated, it appears lopsided and unbalanced. There are no sights and no high-tech stabilizers. And it is done on horseback, at upward of 65 kilometers per hour, or 40 miles per hour. It’s called yabusame, and it is the sport of the samurai.
[Karaoke Terror] Shôwa kayô daizenshû (2003) →
End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) →
What if the old media dies much more quickly? What if a hurricane comes along and obliterates the dunes entirely? Specifically, what if The New York Times goes out of business—like, this May?
Everybody gets bailouts these days. Why not...
Everybody gets bailouts these days. Why not newspaper publishers?
Seriously, though — the argument to have public broadcasters has always gone a bit like this: News and information of high quality are essential to a democracy. We need publicly financed broadcasters because they will have the economic security to produce good, informative television without the need to generate high ratings...
“The great misfortune of newspapers in this era is that they were such a good...”
– Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009
20x200 →
WatchBESPLA / FOR FREE (Canon 5D mark II movie) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
[I think I want a Canon 5D now.]
WatchLondon: harder, better, faster, stronger
December 2008
13 posts
