Saila's Miscellany

breakingblog:

We’d like our editors to be known as experts in breaking news, and expertise thrives beyond the confines of a single news organization’s reporting.  In social media, old broadcast rules do not apply.  And it’s OK to be human.

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Mark Boulton tries to correct a web design belief that demands heavy art direction at all times

Subscription prices and newsstand sales have always been subservient to advertising, and in some cases giving content away can be a totally viable business model, provided advertisers are willing to pay enough for the attention of those readers.

(via Instapaper)

smack416:

Thanks to the Super Bowl ads, I now know that Kia has a much better sense of humour  than Fiat. And at half the price.

But, just as classy as Fiat is Kia’s 5 hour video of Adriana Lima waving a flag in slow motion. Seriously.

This is absolutely, truly, Absurd.

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The tempo of today’s Web is different as well. A decade ago, a concept like the “real-time Web,” in which our every tweet and status update is instantaneously indexed, updated and responded to, was unthinkable. Today, it’s Silicon Valley’s favorite buzzword.

That’s no surprise: people like speed and efficiency. But the slowly loading pages of old, accompanied by the funky buzz of the modem, had their own weird poetics, opening new spaces for play and interpretation.

journo-geekery:

@ThreeShipsMedia/@dougwray on Instagram, (…Via Erik Hamilton on Facebook.  Sigh.)

This might be my go to definition. 

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Smile (Taken with instagram)

We should care not about newspapers themselves but about the highest level of quality journalism that they have represented for a century or so. The future of that kind of journalism will depend largely on our ability to create new institutions, and adapt old ones, so that we can respond to technological change with business creativity, entrepreneurial determination, self-confidence, and common sense.

(via Instapaper)

Drive the future of the car…today! (Taken with Instagram at Fergus General Store and Market)

davidtopping:

The Globe did a great thing today—they got, and mapped, twenty-five years of cycling collision data. And then they released the data, which makes it much easier for people like me to tell you, say, the total number of reported collisions on any street you can name….

And the Data Bureau springs to life

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Two gunners inside an American helicopter at Bagram Airport, in Afghanistan. (via Afghanistan: January 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)

The problem for a market leader in the old technology is not necessarily that it lacks the capacity to innovate, but that it lacks the will.

nevver:

Typeverything

And.

(via apartness)

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