Future of media

"This file contains a deleted BBC news article on the toxic-waste dumping of commodities giant Trafigura. According to a September 2009 UN report, the dumping drove 108,000 people in the Ivory Coast to seek medical attention. Trafigura and their lawyers Carter Ruck had been pursuing an ongoing libel case against the BBC over a news story from on the case that aired in May 2009[1]." - Itachi from Bookmarklet

We are forever indebted to Barbra Streisand. - LogEx

[For those lacking qualifications to assess the significance of this, consider it a HUGE STEP towards a fully-scripted, dynamic, yet Flash-less web. jQuery, the parent of this, is a popular JS-engine [in reality a library of approx. 125kB size] for making web pages dynamic without each and every developer needing to invent her own syntax and methods. So putting it on mobile browsers –the library is simply another script call in the headers– is a welcome, long-needed addition. At the simplest level, the jQTouch gives any iPhone/ Palm WebOS/ Android web page developer ability to listen and react to screen gestures, swipes [in any direction], transitions between screenfuls of data etc. All applied selectively only when page shown in a viewport of mobile devices.] - ianf ⌘ from Bookmarklet

A “fast touch” feature is enabled by default, improving responsiveness up to 500% in some cases. - ianf ⌘

[…] The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom. The sites, once the virtual streetcorners, pubs and clubs for millions of 15- to 24-year-olds, have now been over-run by 25- to 34-year-olds whose presence is driving their younger peers away. Although their love of being online shows no sign of abating, the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who have a profile on a social networking site has dropped for the first time – from 55% at the start of last year to 50% this year. In contrast, 46% of 25- to 34-year-olds are now regularly checking up on sites such as Facebook compared with 40% last year. […] - ianf ⌘ from Bookmarklet

I've witnessed some of this first hand. Having the dad on FB really made life tougher for the son! He didn't mind me because a) I didn't friend him, b) I didn't even tell him my user name, c) we both dig boundaries. Dad, not so much. ;-) (Told him he'd regret friending his father, and so it was.) - Kathy Fitch

Short of printing out a one-page PDF-form, filling in by hand and rescanning it again, is there an easy, browser-agnostic way to do just that online? I tried http://docq.com/, but it turned out to be Firefox/ IE site, neither of which I use (Safari/Mac). I just want to put some words on "paper" for crying out loud & mail it off! - ianf ⌘

Which exact creator would that be? - ianf ⌘

Needed a truly portable extra harddrive for ongoing backups, powered off the USB port; ended up with this: My Passport for Mac, 320 GB, USB 2.0 http://www.wdc.com/en... - ianf ⌘

Nah, just haven't gone to bed yet - LANjackal from IM

All covers clickable and defaulting to Amazon.com chosen-title pages. Selection of n books picked randomly at runtime from potentially very large list. Interesting implementation of "what's on my bedside table" book list… - ianf ⌘

This is nothing short of "Real Life Multitouch" http://www.ironicsans.com/2009... come true! - ianf ⌘

This is very very awesome! - Toby Graham

Formally, it's a static picture/pdf-to-dynamic-pages online application / tool for creating hypertextual multimedia content. It lies dormant, nobody seems to be using it, I wonder why. I wish it was reworked into a tool for making standalone iPhone OSX (Cocoa Touch) multimedia ebooks – now that once-promised TouchBooks Reader/ ebook generator for iPhone is no more. | http://www.touchbooksreader.com/touchbo... (via http://ff.im/4d8f7) - ianf ⌘

The only press review of note I could find is Sarah Perez's #sarahintampa article for #RWW, and repost of it in the #NYT. Addresses, along with a question to Sarah, http://friendfeed.com/sarahin... - ianf ⌘

What do we mean by newspapers? Anything you can make by putting ink on newsprint. We think lots of people will want to make things that are quite like the sort of newspapers we already know. But we also hope to encourage people to reinvent what newspapers could be. We're working on the art and engineering at the moment but hope to be in beta very soon. […] - ianf ⌘ from Bookmarklet

Is it? I don't know what it is. I thought it had something to do with bringing affordable large-format printouts to market, but now I'm not so sure. - ianf ⌘

"The Los Angeles coroner's office is waiting to run tests on the King of Pop's brain to help determine the cause of death • Sean Michaels • 7 July 2009 • Doctors have to wait at least two weeks before they can examine Michael Jackson's brain. • Photograph: Kevin Mazur/AP • Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain today after doctors retained it following an autopsy to help determine the cause of death. […]" - ianf ⌘ from Bookmarklet

Also, What.Did.I.Already.Say [though I was off by a celeb order of magnitude or two]: http://friendfeed.com/the-nex... - ianf ⌘