Bookmarks for 19 May 2009
- Twitter Culture Wars at 'The Times': 'We Need a Zone of Trust,' Bill Keller Tells Staff | The New York Observer
"When you’re in an internal meeting that is not public where you’re discussing policy, you would no more Twitter it than pick up the cell phone or call up one of your friends and say, 'Hey you’ll never believe what Bill Keller just said!" (twitter social_media privacy nytimes ) - The enemies of reason: BNP uses foreigners in election leaflets
"Go here and read this story about the folks appearing the BNP leaflets up and down the country. At first glance it would appear that these are the ordinary folk who are voting BNP because they're fed up about stuff like immigration. But wait a minute… they're not at all! They're just stock images!This 'doctor', for example, [is] a model who is easily found in iStock's photo library. Not only that, but he's almost certainly American – you know, a foreigner!" (bnp politics stock_photography propaganda )
- WoodWing and Acquia: moving from print to the web | Dries Buytaert
(newspapers technology cms drupal ) - Pulse Laser: What if GPS worked like Here & There?
Some thoughts on the Here & There map of Manhattan — plus a video: "The Here & There projection is on the left, and the equivalent normal view is on the right. Click through and watch the HD version. It’s cool." (mapping visualisation video new_york manhattan ) - Missing the point « BuzzMachine
Prescriptive rules rarely work 100%. In this case I think Jeff Jarvis's prescriptive guide to Twitter usage is just as right — and wrong — as the WSJ's. (jeff_jarvis twitter journalism ) - The Daily Mail Dictionary
(daily_mail humour )