- The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of social media
The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on social media, culminating in a blockbuster ceremony in New York City. - Introducing Dagmar Studios – Helena Price
I decided last year that it was time for me to build a company. It’s been quietly running for a few months now, but today it’s open to the public. - Bridging the gap: How news organisations can better collaborate between departments
Project management skills can be helpful when translating expectations between people with different backgrounds. - WWDC 2017 Lightbox
I wanted to create something of a keepsake for each of the other members of our team as a personal gift to each of them. I’ve always loved the aesthetic of the Apple Design Award, and wanted to create something of an homage to that design, but using my favourite material: wood. - The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos
You’ve seen the video. Everyone on the internet has. A man sits in a cubicle and pounds his keyboard in frustration. A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it’s an old PC from the ’90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking it off the desk. A frightened coworker’s head pops up over the cubicle wall, just in time to watch the Angry Man get up and kick the monitor across the floor. Cut to black. - That time Buddy Holly called the record company to ask for his songs back (and recorded the call)
On February 28th, 1957, Buddy Holly placed a call to Decca Records. At the time, he assumed he had been dropped by the label. According to the terms of his original contract, Holly couldn’t rerecord any songs he taped while with the company for another five years—a lifetime in the music business. One of the songs Buddy was trying to get back was “That’ll Be the Day.” - Nukemap: interactive map of potential nuclear bombing fatalities
In these troubled times, Alex Wellerstein's interactive Nukemap allows users to survey the damage of various kinds of nuclear bombs aimed at major cities worldwide. In this example, a typical Chinese nuke hitting downtown Los Angeles would kill 1.3 million and injure another 3 million. - PRINCE: Live on the Big Screen Concert Event Announced
A new concert film and live experience featuring unreleased audio/video of Prince, accompanied live on stage by his musical collaborators. - Seal Under Investigation for Forcible Kissing and Groping
Seal is under investigation for sexual battery after he allegedly groped and forcibly kissed a former neighbor, TMZ reports. - Distracted in 2016? Reboot Your Phone with Mindfulness
- How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
- Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone?
In an effort to break my smartphone addiction, I’ve joined a small group of people turning their phone screens to grayscale — cutting out the colors and going with a range of shades from white to black. First popularized by the tech ethicist Tristan Harris, the goal of sticking to shades of gray is to make the glittering screen a little less stimulating. - Typography on the Subway: A Trip Around the World
- ONE LAST BEAT
One Last Beat is a homemade interactive* story about a regular guy who tries to give his life a meaning just some seconds before dying. - Japan public TV sends mistaken North Korean missile alert
- Svårt för SVT att hitta dokumentärer när Netflix sopar rent
SVT har fått allt svårare att ta hem de mest eftertraktade dokumentärfilmerna. Nu är det strömningsjättar som Netflix och HBO som styr marknaden. - JavaScript Systems Music
Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno. - Efter succén med Bodyflight – nu startar Micha Velasco VR-centeret Vrex
- Lägg inte ödet i Zuckerbergs händer | Malin Ekman | SvD
Om det inte var tydligt tidigare så står det nu utom tvivel att varje ansvarsfull publicist gör klokt i att inte lägga sitt öde i Mark Zuckerbergs händer.
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Upphittat 15 januari 2018
- Norge: Ny regering vill slopa TV-avgiften
- New Logo for This American Life
- Sir Richard Branson tells Virgin Trains to lift ban on Daily Mail
News of the ban emerged last week when an internal memo was leaked saying staff had raised concerns about the Daily Mail’s editorial position on issues such as immigration, LGBT rights and unemployment. - Sven Melander ska intervjua partiledarna
Upphittat 14 januari 2018
- Scripting News: Open source feeds for journalists
This got me thinking. What if a community created such a list of feeds, and did it over a period of weeks or months, with discussion, and a certain amount of deliberation.
Upphittat 13 januari 2018
- Musikjournalen: Jakob Hellman
“De sista melodierna är en specialtimme om Jakob Hellmans klassiska debutalbum och stora havet som släpptes 1989.Programmet, som sändes första gången 2007, har efterfrågats flitigt av många lyssnare. Jakob Hellman berättar om demokassetten som förändrade allt, arbetet i studion och vad som hände under och efter uppståndelsen kring debutalbumet. Medverkar gör även skivans producent Dan Sundqvist. Ett program av Rickard Nerbe och Simon Andrèn.
- Mr. Amazon Steps Out
- How The Last Jedi Avoided Script Leaks
- Listen: Duran Duran’s ‘Girls on Film’ demo with early singer Andy Wickett released
- Svårt för svenska medier att översätta ”shithole countries”
- How My Photo Ended Up in the New York Times Without Credit
- McLuhan has Been Released
Upphittat 12 januari 2018
- Svårt för svenska medier att översätta ”shithole countries”
- How My Photo Ended Up in the New York Times Without Credit
- McLuhan has Been Released
- App Idea: Inside Story
- The Making of Apple’s Emoji: How designing these tiny icons changed my life
- Facebook is making a major change to the News Feed that will show you more content from friends and family and less from publishers
Upphittat 11 januari 2018
Upphittat 10 januari 2018
- How newsrooms will be adopting artificial intelligence in 2018
- hooks:data – Real World Data in Real Time API
Get updates as webhooks when something important happens about thousands of topics, like weather, sports, events, news... in a single API. - A tribute to James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, who has tragically passed away at age 36
- Create a Slack Live Blog using Node.js, Express, RethinkDB, Socket.io, & Handlebars
I recommended “Create a Slack Live Blog using Node.js, Express, RethinkDB, Socket.io, & Handlebars” on @Medium https://medium.com/@caseymorrisus/create-a-slack-live-blog-using-node-js-express-rethinkdb-socket-io-handlebars-fcbf6e601fa5?source=ifttt--------------1 - A letter about Google AMP
- När Gunde skrek: “Du får vila sen!”
Det är ett av svensk idrotts mest klassiska citat. Under skidstafetten i Calgary 1988 åkte Gunde Svan bakom sistasträckans Torgny Mogren och skrek: “Du får vila sen!”. Det slutade med svenskt guld.
Upphittat 9 januari 2018
- EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Product Named "Portal" on Cheddar
Facebook plans a formal product introduction in early May at its annual developer conference and hopes to ship the device in the second half of 2018. - The Pet Shop Boys celebrate 30 years of hit album actually
On the 30th anniversary of its release, we discover how the Pet Shop Boys’ second album was informed by Thatcherism, a 60s singer living in a motel, Catholicism and ZZ Top…
Upphittat 8 januari 2018
- Let’s Dance (Demo) available now
At the end of the track, Bowie’s voice can be heard laughing saying "That’s it, that’s it! Got it, got it!”. Within four months ‘LET’S DANCE' would be one of the biggest and most influential hits of the decade. - Nintendo of America launches Nintendo Power Podcast
- New guide helps journalists, researchers investigate misinformation, memes and trolling
- Golden Globe Award Winners 2018: The Complete List
- Oprah Winfrey’s Speech: ‘A New Day Is on the Horizon’
- BBC News Editor Quits Her Post to Protest Gender Pay Gap
- Why Quartz is churning out short-run newsletters for big events
- Tysk mediejätte köper United Screens
Upphittat 7 januari 2018
- Så föddes drömmen om ett Sverige utan knark
Stockholms första cannabiskung var en nybörjare som inte kunde språket, gömde knark för miljoner under en sten och bodde inneboende hos gamla damer. Men bakom hans osannolika historia döljer sig en mörk bild av den svenska narkotikapolitiken. – Jag lägger ansvaret för mina kamraters död på politikerna, säger en av de inblandade.