Category: Current Events
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SkyMall Mashups
JR Conlin always does these great write-ups on items of interest that he pulls out of the SkyMall catalogs that you always find tucked into the seatback pocket on airlines. In homage to JR as well as a wink to the mashup culture of silicon valley, here’s my version of the genre. “What would happen…
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paidcontent.org gets into finance
Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer over at paidcontent.org have added a Finance tab to their site and along with it launched a financial index of the top 100 new media sites. Dow Jones has quite a nice little business from licensing its various indexes to financial firms and mutual funds that wanted to benchmark themselves…
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Nutrition education lunch boxes have high levels of lead
In an ironic twist of fate, 56,000 lunch boxes distributed by California’s Department of Public Health with the logo Eat Fruits & Vegetables and be Active were found to contain high levels of lead paint. Yes, these were manufactured in China. A full recall is underway.
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Uniqlock – Uniqlo’s Viral Advertisement
The Japanese clothing store Uniqlo has burst onto the scene with a viral widget that features a clock interspersed with a robotic model featuring their new polo shirt. Click through to the site and explore the video in more detail as well as a cool, interactive map which features other blogs running the widget. The…
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Time Lapse Video of Bay Bridge Construction
The Bay Bridge was closed this Labor Day weekend so we stayed close to home and didn’t venture across the Bay into the city. Here’s a time lapse video of what CalTrans was up to. The bridge opened this evening, 11 hours ahead of schedule. CC Myers was the contractor on the job, the same…
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Go! Go! Speed Racer
Cool! The Wachowski Brothers (directors behind the Matrix) are making a movie based on Speed Racer. There is some whiz-bang technology in the cameras they use and how they are filming that is going to push the boundaries of what it means to use live actors to bring animation to the big screen. via The…
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Crowdsourced Book Cover Art
Remember Penguin’s crowdsourced novel? Looks like it’s done and getting prepped to go to print. They’re at it again. This time in conjunction with Piczo on the cover art.
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Grim Visualizations : Crime Mashups 2.0
We all remember the Chicago Crime Map which took Chicago police reports and overlayed it on top of Google Maps. For many, this was their first exposure into the world of mashups and to a large extent opened everyone’s eyes to the benefits of opening up your data. That was 2005. Now the UED crowd…
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Speaking with a Hangover
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