Michael Cervieri
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This is Getting Embarrassing
The McCain campaign displays media ineptitude with their latest video release.
We’re Number 2
With a 56% adoption rate over the past year, China now has 253 million people online, overtaking the United States and its 223 million as the most populous online nation. If only our digital comrades were allowed to browse without government interference.
How Many Points is S-U-E?
Hasbro filed suit against the creators of Scrabulous, the popular Facebook application that has over 500,000 registered users. Claiming copyright infringement, the world’s second largest toy maker is considering creating their own online version of the venerable board game Scrabble. File under: “Mental Squatting“.
Ouch, Ouch and then Some
Just when the writerly class started to settle in and think there might be a safe haven in the online publishing world, AOL announces they’re cutting their blog budgets by 25%. This comes on top of of Gawker’s pay cuts throughout this year.
Oops, We Did it Again
Someone over at AT&T has an itchy trigger finger. For the second time in six months they’ve published an announcement on their Web site saying that they’re offering free Wi-Fi access, this time for iPhone users. After the news made it out to the blogosphere, the company pulled the info from their site. (Hat tip: […]
My Liver Sounds Like Schoenberg
Harvard Medical School fellow Gil Alterovitz is developing a computer application that translates protein and gene expressions into music. Healthy genes give you harmonic chords. Disease gives you discord. The application works by mapping and measuring the network of physiological signals generated by our bodies. “There are lots of correlations between physiological variables,” Alterovitz tells […]
It’s About the Stupid, Stupid
First the Atlantic runs a cover story on whether the Google makes us stupid. Now University of Chicago sociologist James Evans writes in the journal Science that the Internet is bad for researchers. Evans analyzed 34 million citations from articles posted online between 1998 and 2005 and concludes that fewer and fewer sources are being […]
Geometric Informatics + Velodyne LIDAR = Freaking Sweet
Radiohead releases a new music video that’s not a video. Instead, it’s pure manipulated, visualized data.
The NPR API that Sort of Lets You Do Some Things
NPR announces that it’s making a public API available to access “over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations” dating back to 1995. All good stuff, we think. The devil’s in the details though. A quick read through the terms of service lets it be known that the API’s for personal […]
Will Amazon out Netflix Netflix?
In the bigger’s better department, Amazon’s come out with a video on demand service holding upwards of 40,000 movies and television shows. If size matters, Amazon beats Netflix’s 10,000 video offerings via Roku hands down. Original story via the New York Times, and a good break down from NewTeeVee.
