Rainy NYC
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A promising publish/subscribe protocol that could help connect disparate applications. [via anil]
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"...she decides that she will 'whisper in the ears' of Silicon Valley’s Who’s Who -- the entrepreneurs behind tech’s hottest start-ups, including Jay Adelson, the chief executive of Digg; Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter; and Jason Calacanis, the founder of Mahalo." The new world of social media PR.
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"...there’s a nearly infinite universe of things you might wish to express that simply can’t fit into 140 characters. It's not that the Twitter form forces triviality upon us; it's possible to be creative and expressive within Twitter’s narrow constraints. But the form is by definition limited. Haiku is a wonderful poetic form, but most of us wouldn’t choose to adopt it for all of our verse." [via sippey]
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Greenwald on Cronkite, Russert, Halberstam, Lapham, Hunter Thompson, and journalists as celebrities.
Portland Panorama
Music Share: Fly Me To The Moon
Since everyone has gone Apollo crazy, I'd like to join the bandwagon by sharing one of my favorite Groove Armada mixes, Fly Me To The Moon:
The track contains audio samples from the moon landing, so spoiler alert if you're planning to tune in live for the rebroadcast today. I like to think of it as an overture rather than a spoiler. You can find this track on Groove Armada's AnotherLateNight.
The track contains audio samples from the moon landing, so spoiler alert if you're planning to tune in live for the rebroadcast today. I like to think of it as an overture rather than a spoiler. You can find this track on Groove Armada's AnotherLateNight.
MetaFilter 10th Anniversary Party
These are some scenes from last night's MetaFilter anniversary party in Portland, Oregon. I had a great time talking with old friends and meeting new (to me) MeFites in person—the perfect way to celebrate 10 years. And a special thanks goes to MetaFilter member The White Hat for letting me use his wonderful song Chiefest Microns.
Sunny PDX
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"Reassuring people about privacy makes them more, not less, concerned. ...sites would much rather obfuscate the issue than compete on [privacy] as a feature."
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Book that contains historical arguments between Judge Matthew Deady and Judge William Strong about the official spelling of the Oregon river. It'd be fun to track down a copy.
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A brief history of the word Willamette, debunking a common myth about its meaning.
Remove Google Reader 'Likes'
Google Reader is adding some new social features, and one of them is Likes. You can mark that you like a particular post that flows through Google Reader and see other users who have done the same. The Like notification appears in a prominent position directly under the headline:
There's no way to opt out of the feature and I found it distracting. To disable it, I used Stylish for Firefox. I chose "Write new style", then "for www.google.com", and I added the following lines (after some CSS investigation):
There's no way to opt out of the feature and I found it distracting. To disable it, I used Stylish for Firefox. I chose "Write new style", then "for www.google.com", and I added the following lines (after some CSS investigation):
.entry-likers-n {display:none;}
.like-inactive {display:none;}
That removes both the Likes count and the button for marking something as liked. It's a lot like the MetaFilter favorites feature but it feels odd because there's little to no community interaction at Google Reader. I guess it might be neat to spot someone you happen to know in a liked-list, but what are the chances? (Showing just my contacts who liked something would be great.) Aggregate data might be fun to see, but I don't need the feature active unless I want to start Liking-posts-up to give them more attention on a list of popular posts somewhere. So until Google Reader liked-lists are more than just a list of random users who liked something, I'm going to mute it.Shipping MetaFilter Shirts
Last weekend we started selling t-shirts at MetaFilter and had the crazy idea that we'd ship them ourselves. Today we bagged, labeled, and dropped off a bunch of t-shirts at the post office. I took this video for posterity.