My webcomics feed was full of all kinds of knowledge this morning. Here are a few morsels that felt particularly meaningful: • xkcd taught me to be grateful that Apple hasn’t named an OS iteration “Ocelot” yet. • Scenes from a Multiverse taught me that if Jon Rosenberg ever starts a band, that bunny panel … Read moreLessons from the week’s webcomics reading: 5/16/2012
If you aren’t from Korea or don’t have anyone close to you who is, it’s entirely likely that you don’t know about KakaoTalk. It’s an app (available for the iPhone and Android) that acts as an SMS-alternative messaging system. As I learned over the weekend, however, it also has an out-of-the-box Barack Obama voice alert. … Read moreKakaoTalk has a Barack Obama audio alert
If you haven’t been following my tweets for the last few weeks, you might have missed that I joined an exciting new D.C. startup called Industry Dive on May 1st as the company’s content director. I had been looking for the perfect D.C.-area opportunity that would involve multiplatform news editorial and production, and I’m happy … Read moreNew office and general update
News/Media • The New York Times did a laudable job assembling this interactive piece on the Trayvon Martin shooting. • Do you want to see how to take Facebook’s Timeline feature and use it to your media company’s advantage? Look no further than Spotify’s page. It’s one giant historical rundown of landmark music events, complete … Read moreBreakfast Links: ‘Games of Thrones,’ Spotify and Dark Energy
Any doubts about Pinterest being the social media break-out success of the first half of 2012 were further challenged by the ComScore numbers discussed today at Poynter. February saw site visits shoot up 52 percent, which is just astounding. Personally, I continue to see a faster adoption rate among my friends and colleagues than I … Read morePinterest use, growth and copyright issues
Every time I see Robert Pattinson in an image from David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis adaptation, I can’t help but think how impossible it sounds to get Twilight readers buying Don DeLillo books. (I remember picking up my hardcover up off the clearance shelf at a Barnes & Noble years ago.) But I guess stranger things have … Read moreNew ‘Cosmopolis’ teaser
Entertainment • Syfy debuted their trailer for “Blood and Chrome,” the new “Battlestar Galactica” prequel project, which may be a Web series or a pilot/TV movie. My first impression from this trailer is that it’s all action and “Immigrant Song,” so I worry that they’re trying to overcompensate for “Caprica” ditching outer-space dogfights for character … Read moreBreakfast Links: a BSG trailer, a ‘Doctor Who’ companion and the NYT paywall
Being that this is the first year I’ve been able to catch Washington’s cherry blossoms in full bloom, I took the camera along over the weekend and added a few cherry blossom photos to my Flickr account. I also did a little research before hitting up the Tidal Basin and National Mall, because, as with … Read more5 Washington cherry blossom facts
Being that this is the first year I’ve been able to catch Washington’s cherry blossoms in full bloom, I took the camera along over the weekend and added a few cherry blossom photos to my Flickr account. I also did a little research before hitting up the Tidal Basin and National Mall, because, as with … Read more5 Washington cherry blossom facts
After finishing Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story a few weeks ago, I was struck by how intimately he had thought through the impact of technology on human relationships. His book anticipates the evolution of Facebook, as well as the descendants of devices such as the iPhone and yet-to-be-released Google glasses. The novel also … Read more5 technologies explored in Shteyngart’s ‘Super Sad True Love Story’