April 2010
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“Conservatives also worry a bit about fairness and harm, according to the...”
– Aditya Chakrabortty, in A morality check for British politicians in Tuesday’s edition of The Guardian.
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“You can’t actually copy the text, to paste it into your own private commonplace...”
– Steven Berlin Johnson, in The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book, on manipulating text in iBooks on the iPad. Copied, natch, from Instapaper, saved as a on-device draft in Tumblr, then posted. Just to see if it could be done. (It can, but it’s not so slick if you’re offline.)
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“What TV did best, in this particular context, was to stage the debate: only a...”
– John Naughton: Old media, new media and the UK election. The whole piece is worth a read (as, I suspect, is the Peter Preston article he quoted from, which I haven’t read in full).
It’s certainly an interesting counterpoint to the Economist’s piece, quoted here, which claims that...
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“Get Elected, a political-research outfit, has examined 100 tight races, where...”
– Media and politics: The shock of the old in The Economist. The entire article is worth a read: it points out the ways the mass media still reach far more people, particularly older ones, who also vote more.
There were two other articles in the Britain section this week that caught my eye. One is on...
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Twitter Style and Privacy
@madmw asks in a comment on Daniel Jalkut’s sensible (if verging on obvious) guide to Twitter style:
What about people protecting their tweets? Protect from who? Don’t they use twitter search?
My Twitter account is private, and so are those of many people I follow, so I thought I’d make some suggestions as to why I’m private, and answer the other two questions.
When I set up...
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"Context - Local Area Developments"
More Euston goodness from the Archigram Archival Project, via Swiss Cheese and Bullets.
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“the piece Hekla, Op 52 (1964) by Icelandic composer Jón Leifs has been called...”
– From the “In popular culture” section of Wikipedia’s entry on Hekla, an Icelandic volcano.
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On Font Popularity
styledeficit:
Is Archer the next Papyrus?
I remember when FF Meta was on everything. Then… it wasn’t. Popularity can be a terrible thing.
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem....”
– Captain Eric Moody on British Airways Flight 9, the best example of why grounding flights when there’s volcanic ash about is a good idea. (via iamdanw)
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Free The Election Debates
This year’s UK general election sees the first televised debates between the leaders, bringing politics firmly up to date with the US. In 1960.
However, I think it’s worth asking about the step beyond that. Of the three debates, I can be pretty sure two of them - on ITV and BBC - will end up on their respective catch-up video services. However, I’d like all of them to be on all...
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“If I’d waited for some miracle I’d still be up there.”
– Jim Lovell, mission commander, quoted in a piece on BBC News: Apollo 13: Nasa’s finest hour?
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“Here’s a thing I’d like to see. I’d like a standardised logo/button for mobile...”
– Tom Insam: Offline web apps. Not a bad idea, that.
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Abe Bonnema, Architect
— Wim Crouwel
A lovely book cover, via swisscheeseandbullets.
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I love Moffat
The Doctor: It won't play for me.
Amy Pond: It played for me.
The Doctor: The difference being, the computer doesn't accept me as human.
Amy Pond: Why not?
The Doctor: ...
Amy Pond: Well, you look human.
The Doctor: No! You look Time Lord. We came first.
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