Archive for March, 2011

Journalism Reborn

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Jason Shoup concites that what you really want is your 15 minutes of journalism, not your 15 minutes of fame:

But in 2011, who needs the evening news?  Who needs an anchor?  Who needs a reporter or a news crew?  They’ve become unnecessary middlemen in the era of direct, instant communication of citizen-reporters around the world, showing you what is happening in their lives.

People have been saying that the internet is the death of newspapers, and clearly it’s true. But if it’s the death of newspapers and traditional journalism, will it’ll also  destroy televised news as we know it?

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Posted: March 16th, 2011
at 7:48am by mnp


Categories: myninjaplease,et cetera,blogs,tele

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Japan Tsunami and Earthquake

There are two more ways that you can help in Japan- you can volunteer or join Rubyists for Japan as they help in collecting donations.

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Posted: March 15th, 2011
at 9:30am by mnp


Categories: life

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My Ninja, Please! 3/15/2011: Kissing Russian Police

I don’t even know what to say…

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Except, My Ninja, Please! I would love to see somebody try this on Boston’s finest - might lose a lip.

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Posted: March 15th, 2011
at 9:25am by Black Ock


Categories: myninjaplease,crime,too good to be true

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"It is as if we have all been lowered into an atmosphere of glass.
Now and then a remark trails through the glass.
Taxes on the back lot. Not a good melon,

too early for melons." (The Glass Essay by Anne Carson)

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Posted: March 15th, 2011
at 8:56am by Black Ock


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Reading List for Grad Students

Writing, presenting, science and PhD related and other computer science books list by Matt Might.

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Posted: March 14th, 2011
at 10:55pm by mnp


Categories: computers,science,education,lists

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Monetizing Local News

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With over half of American getting their news from a mobile device, local news hasn’t quite caught up with the fever…

Pew’s phone survey of 2,251 Americans found that 42 percent report using a cell phone or tablet to check the local weather, while 37 percent use their mobile devices to get information about restaurants and other local businesses. (Source)

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Posted: March 14th, 2011
at 10:37pm by mnp


Categories: cell phones,business

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Building Your Own Twitter

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Gentrification, there let it be said. Twitter is useful, but this guy is right on:

There’s some unattractive area - artists move in, then their hipster friends follow the cool, until finally it gets so desirable that the artists, hipsters, and whoever was there in the first place are all replaced by some painfully dull bourgeois types who are now the only people who can afford to live there, and proceed to blandify it to death.  Why does it happen?  Because the squares have the money, so whoever owns the horrible garrets can win big by converting them into lovely condos.  The hipsters whine that they made the neighborhood, but nobody cares, so they have to repeat the cycle somewhere else.

It’s the same with Twitter.  The geeks helped popularize and build it, but now that the Fail Whale has become an endangered species, the landlord has come a-calling.  The condos are really more like ticky-tacky Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber little boxes, but the principle’s the same.  The only surprise is that anyone’s surprised.  It’s always been this way, and will always be this way.

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Posted: March 14th, 2011
at 10:02pm by mnp


Categories: development,#twitterisfothebirds

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My Ninja, Please! 3.14.11 : Pi Day

For a primer read Michael Hartl:

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Posted: March 14th, 2011
at 2:22pm by mnp


Categories: myninjaplease,science

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Jeff Hawkins : An Entrepreneur’s Take on the Non-Profit


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Posted: March 14th, 2011
at 11:48am by mnp


Categories: philanthropy,entrepreneurship

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