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"I understand that a lot of people view Twitter as stupid, and certainly not worth $1 billion dollars. But step back for a second and look at it this way: For much of this argument, I’m just using “Twitter” the way my colleague Steve Gillmor uses it, which is to say, as a word not tied to one brand but meaning the “realtime web.” It doesn’t matter what method we use for this realtime information dissemination, what matters is that it is happening. And this is the future." - MG Siegler, Nov. 27, 2009 - Derek Lerner

Derek Lerner "Unfinished" & Skullphone "SMILE YOU'RE IN NYC" mixed media on sheetrock 2009 Site-specific work at Fuse Gallery 93 2nd Ave, NYC, 10003 - Derek Lerner from Bookmarklet

Every night throughout the world hundreds of people dream about this face. - Derek Lerner

no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner - Derek Lerner

facial reconstruction, facial analysis and in transforming 2D portraiture into 3D sculptures - Derek Lerner

"There are few criminals pursued with more vigor than those who make their own money. Counterfeiting is considered such a threat to the fabric of the United States that it is—with treason—one of only two criminal offenses named in the Constitution. "... "Albert Talton says he did not have any grand plan in mind when he started his operation. It was just an experiment, "to see if I could do it," he tells me in a letter from prison, a few months after our initial conversation." - Derek Lerner

Julius Genachowski, the FCC chairman, told The Hill that his agency will support “net neutrality” and go after anyone who violates its tenets. - Derek Lerner

"Advertising, as is clear by now, is contracting. Spending dropped 2.9 percent in 2008, to $210 billion. For 2009, Veronis Suhler expects advertising to end up declining 7.6 percent, with a 1 percent decline to follow in 2010. Advertising will again grow in 2011, the firm projects. The segments where advertising will decline most rapidly in 2009, according to the firm’s estimates, are newspapers (down 18.7 percent, to $35.5 billion); consumer magazines (down 14.8 percent, to $11 billion); radio (down 11.7 percent, to $15.8 billion); and broadcast television (down 10.1 percent, to $43.0 billion). Veronis Suhler expects a few sectors to increase their advertising dollars this year, including mobile (up 18.1 percent, to $1.3 billion) and the Internet (up 9.2 percent, to $23.8 billion)." - Derek Lerner

Shan Nicholson directs Downtown Calling, a documentary about the evolution of New York City’s fertile music and art subculture during the chaos of the late 70’s. GHAVA was brought in to develop the title design, as well as the promotional materials. Music supervision by otaku - Derek Lerner from Bookmarklet

a flash driven visualization model for mapping the transmission and internal structure of top links across the blogosphere. It explores the idea of meme propagation by assuming a parallel with the spreading of most cited URLs in daily weblog entries. - Derek Lerner

one million square inches of land in Detroit, Michigan that can be purchased and controlled by people around the world for $1 an inch - Derek Lerner

Intel is working on what it terms an 'immersive connective experience' (ICE) where devices will increasingly overlay the digital world onto the real one. - Derek Lerner

Evan Roth photographed more than 2,400 graffiti tags in Paris and then cataloged the images by letter. The site holds a selection of tags each containing one of the ten most used letters to illustrate the wide range of styles. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presents Born in the Streets—Graffiti, on view from July 7 to November 29, 2009. - Derek Lerner

It looks like people prefer the Helvetica theme -- by a long way. Fresh and Blue Wave coming in second and third, respectively* - Diego Barros 

Helvetica FTW!~ - Derek Lerner

Inspired by Yahoo's Pipes, DERI Pipes is an engine and graphical environment for general Web Data transformations and Mashup. Pull in information using RDF, XML, Microformats, JSON or a binary stream and then output it in XML, RDF or JSON. Can publish as a stand-alone site, or be embedded it into an existing application. - Derek Lerner

Shows live tweets around your location on the horizon - Derek Lerner

Very beautiful film. Truly Moving. - Derek Lerner from Bookmarklet

Creative Time, Friends of the High Line, and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation are pleased to announce the inaugural art commission by Spencer Finch for the opening of the first section of the High Line as a public park in June 2009. - Derek Lerner from Bookmarklet

seeks to record logos which contain the New York skyline with the iconic twin towers - Derek Lerner

Gumdrop-sized mic allows you to record crisp, clear audio on iPod + iPhone - Derek Lerner

Steve Wright's "Digital Compositing For FIlm And Video" is by far my favorite application-agnostic VFX textbook. Incremental, accessible, and eminently practical, it's packed to bursting with strategies for triumphing over real production challenges. Although written primarily for node-based compositing systems (eg. Nuke and Shake) most of the examples can be easily adapted for use in layer-based systems such as Photoshop and After Effects. Still, this is perhaps not the best text for an aspiring After Effects artist (I'd start instead with Mark Christiansen's book, above). But once you've become comfortable with the basics in your chosen application and are looking to gain a real understanding of the hows and whys (and cheats and hacks) of professional digital compositing, this is the book I'd turn to next. - Derek Lerner

Allows you to render your Render Queue items in the background while you can continue working in AE. Runs as an embedable panel that is saved as part of your workspace. - Derek Lerner

This is good - prince

In the spirit of "Ideas Worth Spreading," TEDx is a program that enables schools, businesses, libraries or just groups of friends to enjoy a TED-like experience through events they themselves organize, design and host. We're supporting approved organizers by offering a free toolset that includes detailed advice, the right to use recorded TEDTalks, promotion on our site, connection to other organizers, and a little piece of our brand in the form of the TEDx label. It's an experiment that we hope will nurture the growth of a truly global TED community. - Derek Lerner from Bookmarklet

The USC one was good. - Anthony Citrano

OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

By Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg - Derek Lerner

Capturing your life in data. One tweet at a time. - Derek Lerner

Combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i. Go to any profile page like twitter.com/glennjones and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i. It makes extensive use of Google’s Social Graph API to find out about which sites an individual has profiles on and then uses YQL API to collect the information. - Derek Lerner

watch video only without anything else - Derek Lerner

Kutiman mixes YouTube - Derek Lerner

open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics. - Derek Lerner

Speed up RED post. Start using an Efficient Red workflow from Avid, Final Cut to Color, Smoke, etc. - all editing and grading platforms. Rename reels. Browse footage using thumbnails. Copy and Render footage by browsing, or from an EDL or XML. Render across multiple machines. - Derek Lerner