December 26, 2003
December 23, 2003
AD Age has 2003's 10 ADS AMERICA WON'T SEE, some for better, some for worse.
Very little is as jarring as reading the blog of a complete stranger and finding out he's going to the same wedding as you. The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Carnival of the Canucks, Part 1: A Beer in a Tree
Wonderful free MP3s, written on 8-bit systems like video game consoles and old Commodore 128s. Brings me back to days of eating pita pizzas and sitting in my friend's basement playing Ultima III. Good times. Discography GFX
December 22, 2003
If this lovely personal photo site had an RSS feed, I would visit it every day: Camerantics
So much information online, so difficult to make sense of it. This page, though visually explains the distribution of zip codes
Some lawyers are very funny: Letters of Marque: Sauron: Offer and acceptance
Search Engine Crawler Simulation shows that Variety needs to change a few things.
Wizbang presents the 2003 Weblog Awards. I like the fact that everyone can post real long acceptance speeches but no one has to sit through them all.
AMAZING: Try this search for "Harper's Index cultural" -- when you click on Harper's Index, the searched-for words are highlighted in the body. That's very cool. Google Search: harper's index cultural
December 21, 2003
I'm quoted in this article: OJR article: A Look Back at 2003, and What's on the Horizon for the Online News Universe
WHAT I SAY:
Q: What do you think will be the most important developments in online journalism in the coming year?
Watch out, Google: "I do predict that 2004 will be the year that Google gets greedy, and a significant group of odd bedfellows will band together to challenge Google's hegemony." -- Travis Smith, editor of Variety.com
Q: What do you hope for most in 2004? {on any topic}
The economy, stupid: "A 10% increase in staffing for my online department. (Are you listening, Santa?)" -- Travis Smith
Photo Friday: Desire
My entry for Photo Friday: Desire. It's a pile of candy.
It's also a piece of art called "Untitled (Portrait of Ross)" in the Chicago Institute of Art. It weighs 175 lbs., the healthy weight of Ross, the boyfriend of artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Ross died of AIDS in 1992, emaciated. (Gonzalez-Torres died in 1996 of AIDS as well.) Visitors can take a piece and the exhibit is regularly replenished. Mine was lemony.
Desires: The audience for the artist, the artist for understanding, Felix for Ross, and me for candy.
Extra link: This artist stole 8,000 candies one by one, numbered them, and made her own copy of the art; she shipped it to Durban. Did she violate copyright?
I'll give you five reasons to visit this site: 1) Creepy name reminds me of "Se7en". 2) No graphics means no "Punch the Monkey" ads. 3) If you don't I might cry. 4) It's funnier than this list. 5) Any site with the word "Five" in it ROCKS!
If all the data in the world could be boiled down to three colored lights that could be on or off, bright or dim, and/or blinking, it would look a little like this Ambient Orb Device. Think of it like an ultrapowerful wireless computer with a 9 pixel display.
