November 2011

minusmanhattan: Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Fearsome Foursome of the Los Angeles Rams football team (1968) by Bill Eppridge. This photo is just so bad-ass. Amazing. I highly recommend you read the post that accompanies this photo (and others) by Eppridge on Wired.com. An exerpt: Bill Eppridge knows the rules of photography have changed. The […]

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But this re-setting of the scoring dial and the fall out, really underscores the fundamental flaw in any attempt to measure “influence” so dependent on subjective context (a problem I noted back in May.) In fact, now I am beginning to wonder if ANY externally driven Influence scoring methodology is useful given the complexity in

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minusmanhattan: topherchris: SOPA: The Internet Blacklist Bill See also: H.R.3261 on OpenCongress. This is important, watch it! Re-blog! Seriously? What how what? (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/embed Very interesting presentation based on data: 99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement – animation It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months – but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the

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Social media is fun. Olivier Blanchard (@thebrandbuilder) gave a great talk this morning at General Mills for Mima on what exactly an Online Community Manager “is”. [I’ll link up to the video of the talk when it’s posted.] My tweet is actually his joke. Fun.

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puelhathnofury: “I don’t think it requires us to go negative in the sense of us running a bunch of ads that are false, or character assassinations,” Obama said, as reported by Univision.”It will be based on facts.” “We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim,” he added. Well, dang.

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