Posts in "upphittat"

Upphittat 16 januari 2018

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.”

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Distracted in 2016? Reboot Your Phone with Mindfulness

  11. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

  12. 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.

  13. Typography on the Subway: A Trip Around the World

  14. 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.

  15. Japan public TV sends mistaken North Korean missile alert

  16. 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. 

  17. JavaScript Systems Music
    Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno.

  18. Efter succén med Bodyflight – nu startar Micha Velasco VR-centeret Vrex

  19. 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.

Upphittat 13 januari 2018

  1. 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.


  2. Mr. Amazon Steps Out

  3. How The Last Jedi Avoided Script Leaks

  4. Listen: Duran Duran’s ‘Girls on Film’ demo with early singer Andy Wickett released

  5. Svårt för svenska medier att översätta ”shithole countries”

  6. How My Photo Ended Up in the New York Times Without Credit

  7. McLuhan has Been Released

Upphittat 10 januari 2018

  1. How newsrooms will be adopting artificial intelligence in 2018

  2. 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.

  3. A tribute to James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, who has tragically passed away at age 36

  4. 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

  5. A letter about Google AMP

  6. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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

Upphittat 7 januari 2018

  1. 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.