- StatSheet Is Writing Sports Stories With Software – NYTimes.com
"This month, StatSheet unveiled StatSheet Network, made up of separate Web sites for each of the 345 N.C.A.A. Division I men’s basketball teams. Beyond statistics galore, each site has what the company calls “automated content,” stories written entirely by software, including write-ups of the team’s games, past and future." (artificial_intelligence sport journalism statistics )
- How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked | World news | guardian.co.uk
"I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing … [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history." (wikileaks security )
- The Ed Techie: A conspiracy of sentiment
"I don't believe in conspiracy theories, I know all those involved haven't got together at some late night meeting and decided to make a random citizen's life a misery. But when something so nonsensical progresses through multiple stages and possibilities to put an end to it, then you have to look for some explanation. I think although there is no outright conspiracy, what we do have is a conspiracy of sentiment." A rather sensible explanation of how Paul Chambers came to lose his appeal. (twitter legal )
- Embassy cable reveals Labour minister was ‘a hound dog with women’ | Media | The Guardian
"One cable reveals how the London embassy passed on intelligence about a British Labour minister, apparently picked up from civil servant contacts, saying he "reportedly remains a bit of a hound dog where women are concerned"." Who could it be? Place your bets… (wikileaks government )
- And Another Thing: Don’t tell me to go to the cinema, Simon
"Now it's probable that when Simon Pegg and Nick Frost see a film it's in a nice preview theatre in Soho with airplane seating and proper projectionists. They don't have to sit, as we did tonight, in a room that feels like a strip club. They don't have to watch an expensively shot commercial for Orange being screened in the colour pink, proof, if proof were needed, that nobody is actually running the programme and making sure that we are seeing things as they are meant to be seen." (cinema advertising )
- The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product
"The only magic I’ve found in designing compelling social products that have the best shot at breaking through the noise and capturing people’s time and money is in being extremely clear on how your social product meets a few key design principles." (design entrepreneurship tips social_media product_development )
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