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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: An Obsolescence · Clay Shirky

Seeded on Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:55 PM EDT (Clay Shirky)

"There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.

business, journalism, newspapers, publishing, economics, democracy

Supreme Court Rejects the Child Online Protection Act

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:57 PM EST (The New York Times)

The United States Supreme Court rejects the Child Online Protection Act, upholding a previous appellate court ruling that found it too restrictive and violated the First Amendment because less restrictive technologies better served that purpose.

us-news, speech, rights, first-amendment, child-online-protection-act, supreme-court

US Airways Flight 1549 from LGA to CLT Crashes in Hudson River

Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:16 PM EST (Flight Aware)

This breaking report features links to flight and radar data with maps and a discussion forum with reports, photos, analysis and contributions from other pilots, fire and rescue folks.

us-news, transportation, aircraft, crash, flight, news, rescue

The Reckoning: Securities and Exchange Commission Let Banks Amass Debt

Seeded on Sat Oct 4, 2008 3:44 AM EDT (The New York Times)

In a short and sparsely attended meeting April 2004, the Commission loosened the "net capital rule" and let the five largest investment banks reduce reserves.

us-news, credit-crisis, banking, net-capital-rule, economics, united-states, securities-and-exchange-commission, henry-paulson, goldman-sachs, christopher-cox

A Viable Alternative to the Paulson Bail-out

Seeded on Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:37 AM EDT (Hussman Funds)

The masters of the universe now seem masters of nothing. Within the financial world though, alternatives to the Treasury plan emerge from bright and independent money managers outside the group-think of large corporatist investment banks.

us-news, finance, banking, investment-banking, liquidity, crisis, john-hussman

Photography as a Weapon: Filmmaker Errol Morris on Photojournalism · Zoom

Seeded on Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:00 PM EDT (The New York Times)

In this extensive interview, director and filmmaker Errol Morris wonders why deception in imagery works so well in subverting popular opinion.

photojournalism, photography, errol-morris, journalism

Sensing Air Quality at the Beijing Olympics · Associated Press

Seeded on Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:59 AM EDT (Associated Press)

To verify and independently assess air quality not far from the Bird's Nest stadium, the Associated Press has begun monitoring and publishing air quality data and associated photographs. They update this interactive feature daily.

science, pollution, air, air-quality, particulate-matter, smog, olympics

R Community Bikes: the bicycle recyclers

Seeded on Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:05 PM EDT (Messenger Post News)

Rarely do social entrepreneurs launch new charities with much success, but R Community Bikes happens to fulfill a need by bringing together volunteers with a specialized skill, some money for spare parts, and a never ending supply of frames and broken bikes.

bicycles, cycling, charity, community, profile, social-enterprise, rochester

Burned Out on Burning Man 2007: The Green Man · July/August 2008 · Sierra Magazine

Seeded on Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:30 PM EDT (Sierra Club)

From her base in Oakland at an ecologically-oriented cooperative complex with beehives and rainwater catchments, Kachina Katrina Zavalney campaigns to convince Burning Man organizers to shoulder more environmental responsibility.

arts, burning-man, sustainability, environment, tom-price

Robots Infiltrate and Influence Cockroach Groups, Demonstrating Swarming Behavior

Seeded on Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:43 AM EDT (National Public Radio)

Humans anthropomorphize and tend to recognize intelligence similar to their own.

science, swarming, behavior, psychology, biology, complexity, intelligence, social-capital

Curitiba: Plans for a Sustainable City

Seeded on Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:58 AM EDT (Living on Earth)

Architects and urban planners make pilgrimages to Curitiba to learn how it became what many call the greenest city in the world. There nearly every family has a car, but only a third of them commute by car. The rest use the bus, voluntarily.

science, transportation, sustainability, architecture, planning, land-use, urbanism, curitiba, jaime-lerner

JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid to $10 a Share

Seeded on Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:06 AM EDT (The New York Times)

JPMorgan shares jumped last Monday on news of the deal. Bear Stearns shares never traded as low as $2, as shareholders valued them more than twice as much.

business, finance, banking, investment-banking, mergers-acquisitions, jpmorgan, bear-stearns, federal-reserve-bank, united-states, wall-street

The Good Guy Behind "Don't Be Evil" and Google Mail

Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:58 PM EST

By Rajesh Barnabas (Clipped by John Lam)

This was a big week for Paul Buchheit. His new company, FriendFeed, no longer in private beta, launched Tuesday. In addition, they announced $5 million in venture funding.

Continue reading this entry ...

technology, google, gmail, adsense, friendfeed, paul-buchheit

Daylight Saving Wastes Energy: A New Study

Seeded on Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:03 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Conventional wisdom holds daylight-savings time reduces lighting and electricity use. Two years ago when 77 Indiana counties switched to conform, though, electricity use and costs went up. More people came home to hotter homes and used more air conditioning.

us-news, sustainability, electricity, energy, daylight-savings-time, indiana

US Judge censors WikiLeaks.org by ordering DNS records disabled

Seeded on Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:47 AM EST (O'Reilly Radar)

After an United States District Court in California ordered a permanent injunction against international whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org, the site has gone offline.

us-news, censorship, wiki, law, liberty, press-freedom, free-speech, wikileaks

Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

Seeded on Thu Feb 7, 2008 9:27 PM EST (The New York Times)

The Mac may be the cooler computer, but aren't there more PC users in the world?

nytimes, technology, presidential-election-of-2008, advertising-and-marketing, hillary-rodham-clinton, barack-obama

Pacific Islanders' Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study

Seeded on Fri Feb 1, 2008 12:35 PM EST (The New York Times)

An international team of scientists found evidence that Polynesians and Micronesians were more closely related to East Asians, and had few links to western Pacific islanders.

nytimes, world, asia, genetics-and-heredity, archaeology-and-anthropology, far-east, south-and-southeast-asia-and-pacific-areas, pacific-ocean, papua-new-guinea, solomon-islands

Sigma DP1 debuts Spring 2008

Seeded on Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:54 AM EST (EW.com)

At one of the largest and most influential trade shows for photography, Photo Marketing Association 2008, Sigma Corporation announced the DP1, a highly-anticipated compact camera with a sensor the size and resolution used typically in a single-lens-reflex camera.

technology, camera, photography, digital, imaging, sensor-design, carver-mead, foveon, sigma-corporation

High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:34 AM EST (The New York Times)

Tests on sushi bought in Manhattan revealed mercury levels that exceed accepted safety standards.

nytimes, dining, mercury-metal, tuna, sushi, seafood, manhattan-nyc, food-and-drug-administration, environmental-protection-agency

X chromosome causes disprortionately more speciation, new U/Rochester research shows.

Seeded on Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:41 PM EDT (University of Rochester)

"Researchers at the University of Rochester believe they have just confirmed a controversial theory of evolution. The X chromosome is a strikingly powerful force in the origin of new species.

science, speciation, molecular-biology, biology, university-of-rochester, daven-presgraves

Moving from pricey dorms to housing cooperatives

Seeded on Thu Oct 4, 2007 12:03 AM EDT (US News & World Report)

Though not by name, but a first for national and even international readership, this article refers to the Ant Hill Cooperative. Though we were borne of Berkeley roots and are a NASCO member cooperative, we are in a strict sense not a student cooperative. We take anyone, almost.

education, ant-hill-cooperative, cooperatives, rochester, housing, college

Under US Green Building Council certification, Hydrogen Village breaks ground in downtown Rochester NY

Seeded on Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:02 AM EDT (EE Times)

Hydrogen Village sounds like a dangerous place, where flashbacks of the Hindenburg flare and burn brightly, and someplace i might be wary of living. Never mind the economics of hydrogen.

technology, sustainability, vehicles, transportation, transit, busses, hydrogen, fuel, fuel-cell, hydro-electric

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site

Seeded on Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:20 AM EDT (The New York Times)

The move comes two years to the day after The New York Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect.

nytimes, business, media, newspapers, new-york-times, google-inc, yahoo-inc

Eastman School of Music announces big expansion based on an original concept by George Eastman

Seeded on Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:20 PM EDT (City: Greater Rochester's Alternative Newsweekly)

Standing on the corner diametric and seeing Eastman Theater, i had long thought it somewhat ugly and asymmetric. Now, i seldom require symmetry for beauty, but in this case the facade feels unbalanced without the wing George Eastman had originally intended.

arts, architecture, theater, downtown, land-use, eastman, university-of-rochester, rochester

Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost?

Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:21 PM EDT (The New York Times)

A software program that blocks ads is a two-edged sword: It stops annoyances for consumers, but it threatens to break down the business model that helps pay for Web content.

nytimes, technology, advertising-and-marketing, computers-and-the-internet, google-inc, microsoft-corp, tivo-incorporated

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John,

Still can't find an address for you and could not find any control on evite to contact you. Found this newsvine.com site... hope it reaches you. Good to see you.

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Ty

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