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Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority differs from personal or institutional authority, and has, I think, three critical characteristics. http://www.shirky.com/weblog... - Hutch Carpenter from email

Jim did say he was down in the dumps. - Louis Gray

Did Jim gain any new perspective? - Otto

And in a splendorous true to form irony... rounding out the most "popular" items column to the right on Huffington Post is... "Thigh Highs: Which Celeb Wears Them Best? (PHOTOS, POLL)" - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet

And of course you'd call it out :) - Taylor Davidson

I pick up on these things for some reason. :) - Jay Cuthrell

"We sometimes collect things for good reason: need, for example, or the perfectly natural human impulse to curate beauty. But the main reason we cling to things..." inspiring post - Valeria Maltoni

nice idea: "a way to automatically filter your Twitter stream so that the most relevant Tweets come out on top." - arjo

Mark: the my6sense digital intuition technology is optimized to rank content from within the different types of streams you're subscribed to within the service. there are already other cool personalized, open web search engines...we will however consider opening our platform API to the developer community - Ilana Gurman

A freemium model makes sense indeed. - Meryn Stol

"Freemium" is exactly the right term Meryn. - Hutch Carpenter

http://www.friendfeed.com/zachfla... - Louis Gray

that is a good one - (jeff)isageek

The question, of course, is what those situations are: what makes us more creative at times and less creative at others? One answer is psychological distance. According to the construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance, anything that we do not experience as occurring now, here, and to ourselves falls into the “psychologically distant” category. - Hutch Carpenter

I baulked at the word 'easy' which appears in the same sentence as 'creativity.' I think the article would be better served by replacing the word 'creativity' with 'problem solving' which is what it discusses. - Kate Foy

Fuck yeah Jack Sprat? Hehe. - Phil Glockner from iPhone

Oh man, Ginger Makela Riker recommended http://heavygirlswithskillyguy... but that's not a bad one, too! - Mark Trapp

I smell a publishing deal if you do it;-) - Brandon Mendelson

i've always been a fan of vimeo's coding and aesthetics, this is just icing. ascii txt ftw! (future project of mine i can't wait to get around to: http://asciigram.com/) - nate beaty

oops. i commented on your blog and it told me, "pssssst! brainfag is retired! i’m now at natebeaty.com" hehehe. ah well... - Bryan Landers

You are loved. - April Buchheit

Never, never settle. - Susan Gardner

I thought I’d put out a post after I received my first earnings report (which I received today) from stock photography agency Getty Images. I signed up to have Getty represent 60 of my individual photographs as part of the recent deal between Getty Images and Flickr. The Flickr/Getty arrangement is by invite only and Getty initially selected about 90 of my images. I listed all of the images that they asked for that didn’t need model releases (which was 60). Most of the other images that they wanted where model releases were needed are of me or my family, so I’ll probably add those to the collection as well in the next few weeks. So in my first month of production with Getty I sold two of the 60 images. Those two images totaled $689.97 in fees to Getty and $138.00 (my 20% cut) to me. At the same time that I’d signed up with Getty I also listed 24,917 of my photos with the upstart stock photography agency Clustershot. Clustershot, started by Canadian web development company silverorange... more... - Thomas Hawk

that's the market right now jcunwired. At least at Getty. 20% is also what they pay at iStockphoto. Right now they are the market leader. It would be interesting to see Corbis come out with a similar program to throw a little competition in there. I'm sure a lot of this will be changing in the next few years. I've always thought 20% feels low, even though Getty brings an awful lot to the table and not just in terms of their existing buyers. Their service is quite strong and professional as well. - Thomas Hawk

Are hashtags here to stay? - Justin Whittaker

@brian: That is my point exactly. Especially when using event/conference tags. Using the event hashtag deliberately puts your content into the event stream for others to see. Hashtags are not necessarily there for searching, but for grouping content together. - Mike Templeton

companies like Disney and Apple come pretty close to commoditizing the experience #wif09 - Stuart Miniman

They definitely productize it. In terms of commoditization, I think of it economically. As in an asset produced by many which competes on price. In that sense, Disney and Apple aren't commoditized. - Hutch Carpenter

"But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City. What the center’s scholars have found among the 126 rolls over the last several months are a number of previously unknown shots by Capa, one of the founders of the Magnum photo agency and a pioneering war photographer, and by Taro, his professional partner and companion, who died in 1937 when she was struck by a tank near the front, west of Madrid. But more surprising has been the wealth of new work by Seymour, known as Chim, that was in the cases. Another of Magnum’s founders, he was known not for his battle photography but for penetrating documentation of Spanish life in the shadow of war." - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

http://museum.icp.org/mexican... - Thomas Hawk

It's the new IBM dark suit, white shirt and tie. - Hutch Carpenter

I wonder what the next "uniform" will be... - Taylor Davidson

Haha. "Honey I'm going to go workout" probably works better than, "I'm going to Joe's to watch the game." :) - Jon West

I confess I extended my treadmill session a good half-hour longer to watch a bit more! - Bryan Landers

And apparently there are many who believe that it is their special place to recreate the process ;-) - David HC Soul

Freud was a jerk. (See, I'm civilized.) - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo