"Newsreader" is Brit for "Anchor." In the US, anchors traditionally started as reporters. The BBC (and thus other UK news broadcasts) de-emphasized the reporting skills of the presenter.
- John Craft
Oh, okay. To me, "newsreader" is the program I use to organize and read RSS feeds!
- Rochelle
"Two nations divided by a common language," indeed ;)
- John Craft
This is a great idea and helps to stamp out prejudice.
- Bill Masson
Good for them. I can't imagine any of the US news programs doing it, sadly.
- Spidra Webster
You know, as much as it is difficult to look at some of these unfortunate people, it is a stark reminder of the real world. One that I'm grateful for.
- Roberto Bonini
That's interesting, CH, but I still can't see a US program using an anchor that had a facial disfigurement (unless it was an established anchor that became disfigured later in their career).
- Spidra Webster
It's a challenge to people's sensibilities. Peeled your face off in a Meth rage; no anchor position. Saved a baby in a circus fire; read the news. In Bree's case she was born that way and her hands were always front and center when she read the news.
- Christopher Harley
from iPhone
ZillionTV, "le spectateur ne veut plus payer un abonnement pour un contenu qu’il ne regarde jamais" - Clémentine Gallot (ElectronLibre.info) - http://www.electronlibre.info/Zillion...
"Après un buzz favorable au MipTV, la jeune plateforme de vidéo à la demande ZillionTV, née il y a deux ans, s’est enfin ouverte il y a un mois aux Etats-Unis et vient de signer avec deux nouveaux studios. Entretien au Mipcom avec son vice-président, Matt McKee."
- Miguel Caetano
from Bookmarklet
I was rudely awoken by my wife and the first thing I saw was the second plane embed itself in the side of that building. I was unemployed then as well an spent the next 2 weeks glued to the TV. It was not a fun time for me or America.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I was at the bank, changing Greek currency. I was about to fly to Greece in a few hours. When i first saw the news i thought it was an item about a new movie.
- Nik
I had just woken up, and was watching news, though I initially thought I had turned on a movie. I still remember that eerie feeling once I figured it out...
- Bette Cooper
I was just getting up and heard it on the news. They were mentioning that it seemed like a small plane and that it was likely pilot error. I had just recently read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor (I think that's the one) where Japanses terrorists fly a plane into the Capitol and so I immediately though terrorism. By the time I got to a TV it was everywhere. My daughter was 3 at the time and I remember trying to keep her from seeing it on the TV that day (a near impossibility).
- Kenton
I was driving to a work-related conference in Plano, TX when I heard it on NPR. When I went inside the hotel, it was all over CNN. They delayed the start of the conference for over an hour because of it.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
I was home sick, got up late and reading e-mail from friend in Capitol that said: "We're all safe here in DC" and I wondered WTF Safe!!?? by the time I had CNN truned on 2nd plane had hit... Visited site a year ago and its all construction cranes but the St Pauls church yard was a great space to meditate
- WarLord
Kenton, I had just read "Debt of Honor", too. I thought I was going to be sick.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
@Brent, i was not afraid to fly, the terrorist could not bring down every plane, and they were probably not interested in a flight from Amsterdam to Greece. What amazed me most, was the kind of surreal atmosphere at the airport, like nothing had happened a few hours earlier. The news was all about heavy security measurements but i did not notice any of that.
- Nik
I thought at first I was watching a movie preview and My wife didn't know what to think, So bizarre ...
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I was in DC, watching CNN before the office opened. The coverage cut over and we watched as the 2nd plane hit; someone pulled the fire alarm in the building after the plane hit the Pentagon, and we evacuated just in time to hear the emergency barriers and missile banks open up. In parts of the city, you could actually smell the Pentagon burning.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I was living in West LA and my roommate woke me up after the first plane hit.
- Rodfather
I was in college in San Francisco, up and getting ready for my day. It was one of those days where I had class from 10:00am to about 3:00pm and then I had work from 3:30pm to 8:00pm so I was up and preparing for a long day. The phone rang and it was my mom in So Cal asking me what i was doing and to turn on the TV. I remember getting mad because I was busy and didn't have a cordless...
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- Katie: Whelmed Overly
I was walking into the directors office of the company I worked for. The TV was to the side of a corridoor and as I walked in I saw the assistant staring at where the TV is with her jaw open. I spun round to see what was gobsmacking her as the second plane slammed into the towers. My response "woah, what movie is this?" her whimper "BBC News". I was due to go to Florida on the 13th. I never got that holiday.
- alphaxion
I had good friend, she was on plane Paris to Amsterdam (then MN) mid air when she heard. Standed in Amsrerdam for a week. Literally did not know WHEN she would ever see US
- WarLord
I was watching Katie Couric on the "Today" show (NBC). First reports were of a small plane, then it got worse. I was unemployed at the time, so I remember stepping outside later that day and thinking how eerie it was not to have planes overhead (we lived directly under the primary flightpath for the San Jose, CA, airport). Later that evening we attended a prayer service at our church.
- Glen Mistletoe
I didn't have to work that day, so I was sitting down to my computer to read the news. My neighbor was walking by when she got a call from her boss not to come in. She worked at the Pacific Stock Exchange, and he told her the news right as I was reading it. I didn't believe what I was seeing at first, so turned on the TV. She came in to tell me about it and we watched as the second plane hit.
- Admiral Anika
I was living in LA at the time. I was asleep (had gone to bed at 4am) and my best friend, w/ whom I was living, knocked on my door v. early, which in itself sort of put me into "uh oh" mode. She was on the phone w/ my partner (then in NC), who'd called to say—and this was the sentence she said: "David says to turn the TV on. A jet just hit the World Trade Center." And in my grogginess,...
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- Ayşe E.
Funny about the movie. Adrian was asleep and I went in to tell him. He mumbled something to me and went back to sleep. When he got up, we were still watching TV. Aaron Brown was on and they showed the clips of the planes hitting. My husband asked me what movie it was. I said, "This is the news. This in NYC, man."
- Admiral Anika
i was at work. every website was clocking/down and a bunch of us ended up going down to the window of a bar and watching on a tv they had set up in the window. eventually they sent us home.
- Bill Kinney
At the time I still owned my bookstore. It was my day off and I was reading. My oldest friend (since we were 12) IMed me and asked me if I had heard. I looked around online and saw the details. How was I...well, I had a very uncommon reaction. I wasn't surprised at all, really. I had been expecting something like that for some time. Ever had really crazy neighbors or housemates, and get...
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- Neal Jansons
i was driving in to my office in downtown Ft. Worth, blissfully unaware until i saw all the MPs redirecting traffic to improvised checkpoints and the jet fighters out of Carswell JRB circling in the sky. then i turned on the car radio to hear everyone screaming and weeping and freaking out. so i parked and went up to 36 at City Center II and asked the VP "WTF ARE WE DOING HERE IN A SKYSCRAPER?!?"
- Joe Silence is not dead
Sleeping after having worked a double, woke up to a phone call from my dad telling me to turn on the TV, and my first reaction was "A remake of towering inferno?" then I realized what was going on, wasn't surprised at all, but definitely didn't like what was happening. I then went out to get breakfast and some regular shopping that needed to be done for a while, since I knew lines...
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- Tsali, The Native of FF
I was in my first class of the day, and they randomly called us all back to our homerooms before our teachers broke the news to us (at that point it was still developing and we got updates throughout the day, but I didn't see any footage until I got home). I remember panicking every time I heard a plane go over because I knew flights from Logan were grounded — even though I knew they were just the fighter jets over Boston it still freaked me out, heh.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I was in a church staff meeting at a church near Cleveland, OH. When we first heard that "a plane crashed into one of the trade center towers" we continued with our meeting thinking it was a small private plane and wondering why they would have told us about that. A few minutes later someone came in and tearfully told us that the first tower fell. We prayed and then adjourned our meeting. I ran home just in time to see the second tower fall.
- Jim Hearts FF
Very interesting/moving to read these accounts. Mine could go on and on. The day is so vivid.
- Ayşe E.
Unfortunately, I was on the phone with one of my Bond servicers at the Bank of New York on Barclay Street across from the Towers. The conversation got broken up by a huge "OMG". Then folks started to freak and my line was dropped. By that time it was on our monitors at the brokerage house and then they dismissed us in case it was going to be attacks across the nation. I went to my ex's home and we watched the TV, prayed, cried, and tried to do checks on our friends in the city.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Ayse E, I have a very vivid memory of that day as well.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I was at work, sitting at my desk, when the first plane hit. A coworker who was looking at news online said, "Some jackass just crashed his plane into the World Trade Center!" I walked over and we looked at the story and the pictures, and noticed the clear blue sky. "I'm not sure that was an accident," I said. "The sky is perfectly clear." Then the second plane hit. The coworker went...
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- Ladybug Heather
Back then, i was living in Coimbra, Portugal. I was just finishing lunch (it was almost 14h here, and was listening to the radio when they broke the news about the first plane. Everyone thought it was an accident with an ANG plane. I turned the TV on, and i remember thinking it was a beautiful day there, lots of visibility, how did that happen? While the tv anchor was trying to...
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- Alexandre Gamela
from twhirl
I was in a history class, some other teacher came in and said "a plane just crashed into the trans world center", we were all WTF. Then my instructor said, that there were no Spanish Conquistadors on the flight, and if it was important we would see news of it later. Well we finished the lesson early, so we turned on the news just to see the second plane hit. Yeah turns out it was kinda important.
- Ryan
At work. We had a TV in the waiting room and we all ran there to see the news. I work in a state office building/courthouse. All government buildings were ordered to close. A friend drove me home; my car was in the shop that day.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I was in a staff meeting at the jail. Someone came in and handed a note to the director. After the meeting, she asked someone to turn on the TV. Having no idea how big the news was going to be, I left to go to the restroom and found out when I returned to the conference room. After watching at the jail for a while, I drove to the library where I was scheduled to work and was sent home...
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- Alan Simpson
I was at marching band practice. My hint that something was wrong was that the sky was absolutely clear and quiet. It was eerie. No planes or helicopters or anything. Came inside with a weird feeling. Went to my German class and watched TV for pretty much the rest of the day.
- Jordan Hofker
I had meningitis and was resting at home; earlier that morning I had had a nightmare in blue about the inside of a building collapsing, but was able to go back to sleep and was resting when my mom called and told me that I should turn on the TV because a small plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. My father was in charge of some of the World Financial Center projects and as such I had spent a lot of time playing at the World Trade Center while he worked weekends in Manhattan in 1986/1987
- RAPatton
This story -- yes, from 2006 -- is a chilling account. It is from NORAD, with the audio and transcripts of what was happening at the command bunker that morning. Every time I read it, I find myself crying. http://www.vanityfair.com/politic...
- Ladybug Heather
I was at work and the news started reporting on the first plane hit. I called my brother-- who was living in NYC at the time-- and talked with him for a while. I was on the phone with him when the first tower fell. I could hear the rumbling over his phone. Since I lived in NYC for several years, the whole thing hit me pretty hard. It still makes me tear up to think of it.
- Jason Huebel
I was living in SF. Set my alarm for 6 am because my parents were flying in from Florida that day and I needed to straighten up a bit. The clock radio came on with a nebulous report from NPR about a plane crash in NY. I turned on the TV and watched, even the second plane hitting the second tower when no one in the broadcast booth seemed to recognize what was happening. I saw the report...
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- Kevin Pedraja
At work, the day was finishing. Once back home I logged in on my PC and went straight to online version of SF Chronicle. That's where I saw a picture of one of the 2 towers burning. I thought it was odd but could hardly find any more details as the net was saturated with people trying like me to access news websites.
- lelapin
yep. but they reserve the right to transfer, sublicense, re-broadcast your content, ofc. Robert what do you think, should this be an insight of a new business model?
- Alberto D'Ottavi
"Your tweets may appear overtop of Fox re-runs at any time."
- Matt Mastracci
I like the format they used, too. Very friendly.
- randulo
Looks like the D.C. area chose the red pill. At Huntington Parkway in Bethesda, a happy little electronic sign was only too eager to inform us "Glitch in Matrix" yesterday. This would be decidely more pleasant than that whole My, My, GW Parkway, Aren't We Saucy Today? thing in June, when hackers broke into two signs on the George Washington Parkway in Rosslyn to replace road instructions with inchoherently hilarious curse words. Note we said this WOULD be. Because if there's a glitch in the Matrix, that means the Agents changed something, but we really can't figure out what. And the sign is back to normal, with nary a clue for us to go on. Just remember, there is no spoon.
- Eric Logan
from Bookmarklet
Did they try switching off and back on again?
- Kevin J Hatton
When confronted with the necessity of offering news for free, editors are quick at pointing at the cost involved in news production. Which of course is beside the point. Information on the Internet is as common as snow in the arctic. You can’t expect Eskimos to buy a snowman. But, hey, wait; this is not just another rant with the usual talking points. After producing news site after news site for a wide range of customers, we actually have something to contribute:
- Paul Bradshaw
my only problem with this is that solo gets to play bass while vader looks like he's playing a synth axe (via bella fleck & the flecktones). every ounce of me shouts "vader on bass, vader on bass," ;)
- chaz2b
Paul Bradshaw: "Los periodistas cada vez tienen menos tiempo para investigar" - Medios_Redes_Redes - Medios_Redes - ABC.es - http://www.abc.es/2009090...
@honeyhuyue The best way to determine it is to do side by side searches. I've used it for a couple of days and it has produced some interesting results, I found useful results on their first page which I can't find in the first ten pages of Google's results. I don't think they're better, but I do see advantages to searching both simultaneously.
- Michael Fidler
:-) Newman's makes organic Oreos. We had a lot of them at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center http://spiritrock.org because they were one of our sponsors. I used to joke that pretty soon we'll have organic Twinkies!
- Mitchell Tsai
"DJ or collector, there is something about the feel and sound of vinyl records that keep people coming back for more. We’ve amassed some of the world’s best record collections to date, from the largest ever sold to the private apartment of DJ Ricardo Villalobos. It’s interesting to take a step back and observe how these people keep their collections in check. Be sure to vote on your favorite setup."
- Miguel Caetano
from Bookmarklet
"I've explained at length elsewhere exactly why I do this, so I won't go into detail here, except to summarise by saying I don't think we can stop others from copying – it's a lost cause. Copying is actually wonderful, and I have copied my head off since I first snuck into the photocopy room at my dad's office in 1980. My problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity, and free ebooks generate more sales than they displace."
- paula simoes ☃
from Bookmarklet
not if I can help it. A much better tech and more open tech than FaceFeed is around the corner. It's just a matter of waiting a while before getting on board that. #GoogleWave
- vijay
Vijay; I feel your pain on this, because it's the second time this has happened to me this year. The first time was when socialmedian was acquired by Xing, which to their credit still functions independently, but it no longer gets new feature updates. Hopefully they will capitalize on this, and start working on it again. Unfortunately, this is what many startups do when they are unsure...
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- Michael Fidler
Michael, I have no problem with businesses making money or getting acquired. BUT FACEBOOK IS THE WRONG CHOICE. They will screw you over as they are already doing now (http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac...). Like I already said here > http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt..., I would be more than happy had they sold it to google.
- vijay
I'm hoping that all this pessimism is misplaced. The comments here and elsewhere remind me of when Yahoo! bough Flickr and the Flickr community then were predicting "the end of civilisation as we know it". However, I'm not familiar with how Facebook operates...
- Gordon Herd
Gordon, this is not a talk about the death of friendfeed: rather about facebook being the wrong choice. Facebook / friendfeed will be fine for decades to come.
- vijay
I guess we need to focus on the positive - i dont know what they are yet, Im with Michael - I *loved* socialmedian and now hardly even visit it.. its often taking a nap, hard to log into and takes too long. My new home was starting to be FF.. I like the idea of keeping business and personal stuff separate which I did well before.. now they are all merging.. Maybe LinkedIN will step up with some new functionality to rival it?
- Nigel Walsh
No more "closed" services for me Nigel. What if Facebook buys LinkedIn later on? Nope. Google Wave it is! Open is the future. I got my hands burnt enough with this incident.
- vijay
Nigel, I think you touched on the one reason this is a bad combination for me (emphasize me). Facebook is personal and I don't want to mix the two together. Besides you and maybe 15 others, everyone else there are "RW" friends. I've been very cautious about whom I add, and I don't see any other choice but to change my attitude about this now. I already started today, but they're people I would have added anyways. From the standpoint of openness, I agree with Vijay; Google would have been a better choice
- Michael Fidler
Ironically Michael, I believe all this is happening "because" of Google. Google is not an option for FF. Why is all this happening? FF had 2 choices till this deal happened: 1. Go against Google Wave alone with strained resources or 2: Team up with FB and use their resources to carry this forward and meet Google Wave head to head "while" making a cool stack of cash. It's obvious, to a...
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- vijay
( @ Michael; my previous comment up top might seem to lead you to believe I wish they sold to Google. That was not what I meant. I used Google as an example to show that I'm not opposed to a sale if the company buying FF was a good match. sorry for the confusion. )
- vijay
I guess consolidation is inevitable - and there will be a new poster child just around the corner... Its what makes this industry so exciting.
- Nigel Walsh
That's a great strip, vijay! I'm glad you did it. People often "ignore" or underestimate the efforts that other people put in providing content like these on FF. Really appreciate it! Ganbatte kudasai ne, shika baka! :)
- directeur
same goes for you sukebei directeur! =P Keep the Jazz flowin' and the Code rollin' :D
- vijay
Kuso! I'll miss your insults rokudenashi! :)
- directeur
whaaaaaat? I'm going nowhere directeur!; just changing the way I interact a little to take care of the crappy FB ToS.
- vijay
I hate what friendfeed has just did :(
- sirishkumar
Vijay, I understood your comparison and you may be right about Google too, but it doesn't change anything does it? The only thing I can say is; change is what you make of it. I know you're not happy about this and neither am I, but it's the risk I took getting involved with a startup again. The funny thing is; I know I'll do it again! If there’s a need for another community like this, someone will fill it. With all the bad idea’s out there, it’s a no-brainer.
- Michael Fidler
Me and many others like me were absolutely sure FriendFeed wouldn't sell out and were in for the long haul. See this -->- http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... I don't spend as much time anywhere else online and had I known FF would sell out to a POS like FB then I wouldn't have spent the time I did here either.
- vijay
there's no changing what happened Michael, you're right. But with betrayal comes hurt and then you vent. That's what you're seeing. I will move on and so will everyone else... to Facebook and then onward to the next big thing and so on. All this venting is just the process of getting adjusted to sudden change.
- vijay
So, let's look at WallTweets, or Threadless, who have the potential of taking my Tweets and turning them into T-shirts or stickers. If they create one without my permission with my content, do I have the right to sue them for copyright infringement?
- Jesse Stay
Uh oh - is there a rebellion coming? Where's MG? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I must be missing it where do I find it on that page?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
No, Jesse's page on FB. I read the Twitter TOS and RSS my Tweets into my Evernote account but does the Twitter TOS explain how to apply a Creative Commons license to your content?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew, hmm, I must have removed it for some reason. Do a search on "Creative Commons" on facebook and you should be able to find it.
- Jesse Stay
It has been a few days since a last visited Mr. Lessig's site. I shall get on that. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
That is the beauty to Creative Commons licenses. Sharing with attribution. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
You can copyright text if it contains at least a minimum amount of original expression in tangible form. Short quips and phrases can not be copyrighted. This causes comedians some headaches, much of their material does not enjoy copyright protection. It is likely that tweets do not have copyright protection, creative commons or otherwise, and are in the public domain. http://www.iptrademarkattorney.com/2008...
- DGentry
By making our tweets public doesn't that automatically remove the possibility to claim ownership?
- lelapin
Copyright exists to protect ownership of works distributed in public. If you never publish anything publicly, you don't need copyright you just need good locks. Nonetheless I don't think tweets can be copyrighted, as they are too short to qualify for copyright protection (see 2 comments ago).
- DGentry
Lelapin, quite the opposite. "When is my work protected? Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." http://www.copyright.gov/circs...
- Mark Davidson
"These are some of the more common mistakes that I’ve seen in web copy and some tricks that I use every day to write effectively, from e-mails to site pages. You don’t need to be an English major to understand any of this advice either. It is written in plain English that everyone can understand."
- Oğuz Serdar
from Bookmarklet
آقا به خاطر فیل تر و استفاده از فریگت قابل مشاهده نیستن. لایک را هم با اعتماد به رای این خلقالله دادیم :دی اگه بشه جایی آپلود کنید و لینک بدین خیلی خوب میشه...
- مصطفام
آقا مصطفی محبت کردین. بعد از اینکه فری گت رو بستین میشه به صورت عادی عکس هارو دید آدرس عکیها با آدرس خود فرندفید فرق داره و فیلتر نییست. بازم اگهنشد بفرمائین جایی دیگه میزارم
- Nimaa
اوا نیمایی این همه کامنت و فید چرا خورده زیر این فید ناموسی؟ :))) پاکش اصلن :دی
- I /-\li
علی این همه لایک و کامنت سیخی هست در چشم تو :D
- Nimaa
من که عکس ها رو ندیدم.اما لایک می زنم بقیه ببینن به قول نیما شاد بشن.
- elmira
المیرا برات ایمیل میکنم ببینی با فریگت دیده نمیشن
- Nimaa
دومیه خیلی گوگولیه!نهمیه هم خیلی بانمکه!آخریه هم که تهشه!=))))))))))منم مستندشو توی بی بی سی دیدم!حس انسان دوستیت منو کشته!بعدشم من 16 رو برمیدارم به خاطر اسمم و هاله ی نور و این حرفا و اینا!کلا خیلی گوگولین دیگه بازم تعریف کنم؟:D
- Fereshteh
یه چهار نفر دیگه بیان لایم بزنن بشه 200 تا لایک خیلی خوب میشه!8->
- Fereshteh