David lafontaine's
Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Great Design Equation
Here's another quick hit: I really love the playful spirit behind this ad - the way that it takes great design, which by its nature cannot be reduced to a set of integers and mathematic functions, and reconstructs the evolution of great forces in advertising and...
Stuff Journalists Like
STUFF JOURNALISTS LIKE. Just one more thing. This is hilarious ... well, at least to journalists it is. To outsiders, it's probably the equivalent of taxidermists guffawing over someone using the wrong type of agates in Grampa Palin's stuffed moose. To us...
Seattle P-I Stares Into The Abyss While the LA Times Web Operation Actually Makes Money
Short takes, because I'm editing stories these days, as well as writing 9 of the little buggers myself. First, there's the news that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is up for sale, and that if it doesn't sell in the next two months, it'll either be liquidated &...
Seattle P-I Stares Into The Abyss While the LA Times Web Operation Actually Makes Money
Short takes, because I'm editing stories these days, as well as writing 9 of the little buggers myself. First, there's the news that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is up for sale, and that if it doesn't sell in the next two months, it'll either be liquidated &...
TwitHacking Obama & Fox News: “Real Funny, Script Kiddies…”
I know that the Traditional Media Curmudgeons (should I just shorten that to TMCs?) will react with finger-pointing and howls of how you just can’t trust all this newfangled crowdsourcy fancypants technology, that if the Preznit-elect’s Twitter account has been hacked, then that means that you can never tell who’s behind the information you’re seeing on the screen.
Which is correct, as far as that goes.
But the larger point is one that was driven home to me recently – that the online check/balance system is pretty quick on the self-regulation; the account-hacking was pointed out, shut down & blogged about all before 10:44 a.m. And yeah, OK, in a fire, if some schiesskopf hacked a Fire Dep’t account and put up Tweets directing families into, rather than out of, the onrushing Wall O’ Flame we so often get in Southern Cal, that would indeed be A Bad Thing.
HDR Photo Expermiments
The landscape up here is so beautiful, and the light has been amazing. I've taken to experimenting with combining multiple exposures into HDR photos. Here's a view from atop Mt. Vision. This one needs a bit more adjusting - the fog clouds look pretty good, but...