Category Archives: media
Ooops! Regret The Error’s Crunks ’05
Its the end of the year which means lots of best of the web, or site of the year type lists popping up, but this is one not to miss…
Regret the Error, a blog that covers the every day corrections or other follies in media, has posted its annual year end review and awards post: Crunks ‘05
You’ll laugh as you recall errors like Typo of the Year award winner Beef Panties or the Best Use of Photoshop winner the demonic Condi Rice. And those aren’t nearly the strangest
Kill Them With Freebies
Got my most recent order from bookpool yesterday containing lots of good solid reading for the next few weeks. What I saw in the box made me cringe (and wonder if maybe I need some help, heh).
Once I got past the awful blurring which I can kinda deal with coming from a freebie from a tech book distributor, I noticed the aged and ugly markup being used! Its almost as bad as programming tutorials that ‘teach’ you the language by having you explicitly code for bad & embedded markup.
As for the books, the reason for the box arriving in the first place, all was good there:
PHP 5: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content by an old friend Toby Joe.
Agile Web Development with Rails was in there too, and though I don’t have an immediate need to leave PHP development for Rails the idea of using a good MVC architecture for web applications has always been one I’ve been fond of – even if my first exposure to it was with Java.
And, at the bottom of the box was We The Media, Dan Gilmor’s tome on grassroots journalism.
Which Headline Doesn’t Fit?
Lets take a page from Sesame Street and try and point out which one of these is not like the other (AP top headlines as seen on my custom MyYahoo! news page a minute ago):
- Ga. Courthouse Reopens Amid Tight Security – one hour ago
- Thousands March Against Syria in Beirut – 20 minutes ago
- Michael Jackson Arrives on Time for Trial – 4 minutes ago
- China Law Authorizes Force Against Taiwan – 23 minutes ago
- Former NAACP Leader to Run for Senate – 8 minutes ago
- China Testing AIDS Vaccine on Humans – 2 hours ago
Some Podcasting Thoughts & ‘Casts
The Sony Chill
I hate reading stories like that of Jason Kottke’s problems with Sony this week. While I do not know much about the legal positions on either side I do have an initial visceral reaction related to the so called chilling effects of lawsuits directed towards individual, independant writers.
Make your own news cycle
Sure, Google News isn’t exactly new on the scene or revolutionary in its coverage, and I’ve had a tailored page via MyYahoo! for a fwe years, but from time to time I think its important to step back and show appreciation for these tools and what they let us do.
