Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.
Isaac Asimov
(via Isaac Asimov on Science and Creativity in Education – brainpickings.org)
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, has tweeted an interesting list: ten principles of “open journalism.” I’ve embedded them here for future reference. Continue reading
Update 2012.03.23: Never mind.
Tweets of Note was going to be a weekly newsletter, created with TinyLetter, that compiled links and other stuff from my Twitterings. I promoted it a bit on Twitter (it got 12 subscribers — thanks!) and put together the first edition. When it was ready (666 words!), I hit send. And…
“Message was not sent because its content is flagged as spam”
Oh. They don’t give me an option to edit my email either. ‘That looks like spam’, yoink. If I hadn’t emailed myself a draft, I wouldn’t have any copy at all.
So the idea has been nixed by an algorithm. While I don’t consider the newsletter (linkletter?) to be spammy, I can’t think of any way to provide an email full of links without it looking spammy.
I’ve included the text from the newsletter below. Consider this the first and final edition. Sorry if you were hoping for more. Continue reading
This is a great talk, full of clever ideas and inspiration.
Bret is a natural speaker, and here he’s talking about the importance of finding a guiding principle for your work, using the example of his own principle (that ‘creators need an immediate connection to what they create’). Continue reading
Worth watching large. I love the vehicle design in this. The universe is appealing too. Continue reading
Yesterday I merged all 106 posts from ChromaFeed.tv into this blog. You can browse all the short films I posted there via the main menu, or the category navigation in the sidebar. (The big categories are Animation and Sci-fi.) Alternatively, all posts are tagged ‘Chroma Feed‘. Continue reading
This American Life are this week dedicating an entire episode to retracting their earlier episode “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” (an episode that became the most popular podcast in their history).
Ira writes:
I have difficult news. We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth. This is not a story we commissioned. It was an excerpt of Mike Daisey’s acclaimed one-man show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” in which he talks about visiting a factory in China that makes iPhones and other Apple products.
Mike Daisey has employed the ‘I’m not a journalist‘ defence: “My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it’s not journalism. It’s theater.”
The blame really does lie with the journalistic entity though, and in dedicating literally a whole episode of This American Life to apologising for and explaining their mistake, they will surely not lose, but gain trust and respect. Continue reading
This is clearly a work of genius! Like Falling Down for the me generation.
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. He finds an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement.
Out 6 April 2012.
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Note: This post is imported from ChromaFeed.tv, a short film blog I created and ran from 24 May 2011 to 15 March 2012. All of the films have been organised under the ‘Short films‘ category on this blog, and all of the posts tagged ‘Chroma Feed‘.
In two days I am letting the hosting for Chroma Feed expire, and this blog will go offline.
Kara by Quantic Dream
Read more on the PlayStation Blog.
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This is one of my pet hates.
It’s sad that marketers have figured out how to get their brand into my timeline, even when I have chosen not to follow them. And even sadder that it works.
The Curator’s Code is a standard for attribution — a way of providing credit to the creators of content being shared online, and those who helped you discover it.
Curation is something I do a lot, and something I have thought about in detail. The fact that so many users of sites like Tumblr and Pinterest share content without providing a simple link back to the originator (and sometimes even going to some effort to remove a credit or copyright notice from an image) is maddening. An initiative to combat this problem is very welcome. Continue reading
London-based graphic designer Stephen McCarthy reimagined what newspapers would look like if they were purely in pictographic forms.
In his project ‘Pictograms: The Newspaper’, McCarthy reinterpreted a whole newspaper (namely, ‘The Sun’) in pictographic content.
Designer Reimagines News As Pictograms, So Don’t ‘Read’ All About It – designtaxi.com
Another fascinating Kickstarter documentary project.
Wikipedia is a corrupt political environment, and it should be disrupted.
“The Encyclopedia Game” is a documentary film about Wikipedia vandalism. The film focuses on the stories of a handful of Wikipedians who have managed to be banned from the site for one reason or another. All have been accused of some sort of vandalism or disruption. Are they guilty? Are they innocent? Or is the truth more complicated than that? This is a quirky character documentary with fascinating stories that shed light on the inner workings of Wikipedia, the world’s largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia.
Filled with enthralling stories of Wikipedia vandalism, quirky and eccentric characters, and offering a look behind the scenes of the world’s most used and trusted source of information, “The Encycopedia Game” is at once amusing, intriguing, and endearing.
More of the interview with ‘Cognition’ below. Continue reading
A quick tour of a Minecraft village that has gottten a bit out of control, plus a look at some of the Iron Golems, new to 1.2.
tl;dr I was congratulated on Twitter for having a picture of mine published in the South Wales Echo. I was first angry that they hadn’t asked permission, and then confused that I didn’t recognise the picture. It was in fact taken by a Twitter user who has my username in his bio. Derp. Continue reading
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