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A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Hurricane Sandy Coverage on Storify: An Inflection Point?
In the past, we’d have to rely on the efforts of teams of photojournalists to comb over the wreckage, to find the enduring images, and then find a functioning film-development shop to soup the rolls of Tri-X or Kodak 400, and then try to get them to a still-functioning newspaper office to either get the shots on the AP wire, or get them onto the printing presses. I know – I covered the 1989 San Francisco earthquake under just such a set of circumstances.
Feeling like this today…
Wow. Tried uploading this to Facebook: No go. Then tried uploading to Tumblr. No go. Got this: Someone please tell me again how it is that Animated GIFs are supposedly "taking over the interwebs" when it's impossible to get the damn things to upload? Meanwhile, I feel...
Accusing Your Brand of Committing Crimes: Marketing Genius or Madness?
Mobile gaming company Playgearz issues a fake PR release taking responsibility for criminally demolishing buildings. Is it OK now to pretend you’ve committed a crime in order to clickjack people into downloading your derivative iPhone game?
Apple’s iOS EULA: All Your Content R Belong to Us!!
Every time I read through one of these EULAs, it just keeps getting worse and worse. I upgraded the iPad to iOS6, because I wanted to test it out, and I'm not ready yet to turn the Maps feature on my iPhone into a hot, steaming mess. But part of the whole upgrading...
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
The goats got frisky, the herdsmen were convinced, but the monks initially disapproved … papyrus reeds scattered on the floor and thick incense to keep the bugs away … “Red Bull and Jolt Cola have got nothin’ on this rocket fuel†… the third round of...
Bahir Dar Photo Gallery
I found a draft version of this post on my computer, and can't believe that I forgot to finally update it. Sheesh. Anyway folks, here are some more of the photos from my recent stint in Ethiopia. Hope you enjoy. Coming up next: a detailed description of the Ethiopian...