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"You ever have a situation where you’re going, ‘Man, I hope he doesn’t look over here.’ And he looks at me and calls me over, and it was just a sick feeling. He goes, ‘You need to call Daphane.’ And I knew right then something was bad.’’
Wow. What a story.
links for 2010-12-16
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"Macmillan hopes to partner with scientists to turn software into commercial products."
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"A new kind of scientific information company. The digital age has created new opportunities for the way we do scientific research – from how we manage our labs and analyse data, to how we link information and make funding decisions. We’re here to help you make the most of those possibilities." [via Nature]
My narrative writing
Here is a sampling of some stories I’ve written:
When Wolf and Rabbit walked the Appalachian Trail
Love, life, happiness. (short short)
Puzled Monkey
A crazy short-short I wrote for some crazy friends.
Monkey business
Short-short about 3 monkeys, a clever crow, and one unlucky animal-trainer.
One night
A global story of one night in the mobile life. Written for Vodafone’s receiver magazine. Made into a podcast, too.
So it’s come to this
A story based on the great Transportation Safety Authority (TSA). Occasionally beocmes relevant as the TSA changes the rules arbitrarily.
chillin’
Deep thinking while up in the stratosphere.
The Depths of Thought and the Inquiry into Our Spirit
Something I wrote eons ago, wondering at the difference between humans and other animals.
Pressure
A short-short about the relentless pressure we feel in life.
Did she get out of bed for a glass of water?
Deep deep loss and saddness and moving on. (short short)
updated: 07jan11
links for 2010-12-14
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"My point isn’t that Google, Netflix, Amazon, Yelp or any of the others are doomed. But I do think there’s an opportunity brewing for entrepreneurs, websites and companies to add editorial components to the algo-crowd paradigm."
Or what I have said for a while: machine, crowd, and librarians.
links for 2010-12-13
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"Days after an announcement that a strain of bacteria can apparently use arsenic in place of phosphorous to build its DNA and other biomolecules — an ability unknown in any other organism — some scientists are questioning the finding and taking issue with how it was communicated to non-specialists."
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“Social media can’t belong to one person; it needs to be part of everyone’s job,” Preston said. “It has to be integrated into the existing editorial process and production process. I’m convinced that’s the only way we’re going to crack the engagement nut.”
Spot. On. [via @alexdc]
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links for 2010-12-12
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"It'll be interesting to see how it all progresses culturally and legally as cloud services continue to take off, and new ways of computing – mobile, tablets, web apps, etc. – push the status quo again and again."
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"Since then, however, feeds have started to fade in importance. Google introduced it's Reader, and everyone who were real news junkies moved to using that. Everyone else either uses Facebook or Twitter. In fact, if you're a new news site or blog, it's pretty much required have a Twitter and FB account to push out your changes nowadays."
links for 2010-12-09
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In the past year I've seen a ton of great tools for invtravital imaging – imaging molecules and cells in live organisms. Very cool.
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"As Facebook, Twitter and other technologies become more pervasive, more hospitals are hiring staff members dedicated solely to social media — and getting physicians to use these tools."
links for 2010-12-07
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"A year after releasing a prototype version at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Google has unveiled its much-anticipated "Earth Engine""
links for 2010-12-03
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"Jumo will be successful because the nonprofit world needs one place where the public can connect with multiple nonprofits without leaving one Web page."
Dashboard. Drink.
links for 2010-11-30
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Sigh. And a short-short I wrote in frustration: http://bit.ly/euhkRw
[via @mrgunn]
