- The A to Z of David Bowie Podcast
Having been a superfan since 1972, Marc is more qualified than most for his next project, The A to Z of David Bowie by Marc Riley and Rob Hughes podcast, which launches on Tuesday 30th January at 3am, with subsequent episodes released every Tuesday at the same time.
- The Follower Factory - The New York Times
Everyone wants to be popular online.
Some even pay for it.
Inside social media’s black market.
- CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat’s Video Company
“I couldn’t find answers. I would sort of disappear, and I would hide, and I would make YouTube videos for my channel because at least I would be able yield something,” Neistat said. “I don’t think I’m giving CNN what I want to give them, and I don’t think they’re getting value from me.”
- Google pilots Bulletin, an app for sharing hyperlocal “stories” on the open web
- Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder – med nyckeln till internet
Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder har inte bara 30 års erfarenhet och kunskap om internet. Hon har också nyckeln till det.
- Wyatt Tee Walker and Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil rights crusaders in the Birmingham jail
- Elton John Announces 3-Year Farewell Tour
He will retire from touring after the 300-date trek wraps up in 2021.
- A Bunch of TV Writers Are Building a Salary Database
In order for women and minorities to reach pay parity in Hollywood, they’re first going to have to know what type of compensation their peers are receiving.
- SVT filmar ny Gardell-serie
SVT har påbörjat inspelningarna av Jonas Gardells nya tv-serie De dagar som blommorna blommar, i regi av Simon Kaijser.
- Building a Lightroom PC
Why I switched to Windows and built a water-cooled 5.2GHz 6-core editing machine.
- WikiTribune – Evidence-based journalism
WikiTribune is a news platform that brings journalists and a community of volunteers together. We want to make sure that you read fact-based articles that have a real impact in both local and global events. And that stories can be easily verified and improved.
- Annika Hagströms stora kamp – för sjuke maken
Hon var den första kvinnliga chefen någonsin på Expressen - och på redaktionen träffade hon även sin livskamrat, författaren Anders Ehnmark.
Han har följt henne genom tv-succéer som "Caramba!" och "Rikets affärer" och gästprofessuren på JMG.
Men sedan Anders pulsåder brast bor han på ett boende och Annika Hagström sover ensam i dubbelsängen.
- Anders har varit mannen i mitt liv och han är det fortfarande, säger den 75-åriga journalisten.
- 10,000 Classic Movie Posters Getting Digitized & Put Online
- Janne Josefsson – skjutjärnsjournalisten som föll i gråt
Få journalister personifierar “skjutjärnsjournalist” som Janne Josefsson. Han framstår som en hårdhudad murvel, men bakom tv-masken finns en gråtmild klassresenär. Där mamma Elsa är ständig följeslagare.
- Projekt Z live
Två timmar direktsändning om ensamhet, mobbning, prestationsångest, ätstörningar och annat som unga brottas med idag. Vi pratar med inbjudna okända och kända gäster kring dessa frågor. Programledare: Ida Höckerstrand, Sofie Hallberg och Daniel Holmström.
- Die With Me
The chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery.
- Laws of UX
Laws of UX is a collection of the key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces.
- Office for Mac 16 Gains Real-Time Collaborative Editing and Other New Features - Mac Rumors
Office for Mac today received a major update, with Microsoft updating the software to version 16 and introducing new features for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Microsoft is introducing real-time collaborative editing, allowing multiple people to work on the same document at the same time. In Word and PowerPoint, flag icons will let you know what others are working on and what's been changed.
Changes to documents, worksheets, and presentations stored in the cloud will be saved automatically, and updates will be synced in seconds. A version history will let you roll back to earlier versions of a document if necessary.
- Sexist midcentury ads re-created, flipping gender roles
Visual artist and photographer Eli Rezkallah has turned the tables on some of the most nauseatingly-sexist (and 100% real) midcentury ads in his latest project, In a parallel universe.
- MS Paint, redone in Javascript
The goal is to remake MS Paint (including its little-known features), improve on it, and to extend the types of images it can edit. So far, it does this pretty well.
- Sofia Wadensjö Karén blir vd för UR
UR:s styrelse har beslutat att Sofia Wadensjö Karén blir ny vd för UR. Hon kommer närmast från tjänsten som vd och chefredaktör för tidningen Vi.
- "Vi har jobbat på att göra TV4 Play till en go to-destination"
Inloggningen har möjliggjort för TV4 Play att skapa personaliserade tv-upplevelser – och få tittarna att stanna kvar. Det säger TV4:s operativa chef Mathias Berg.
- Världens kraftfullaste Apple-system gömdes i Malmö
Ett av 80-talets mest avancerade Apple-system stod i Sverige. Denna säregna men bortglömda datorpark spelar huvudroll i berättelsen om kampen om den digitala bildkonsten mellan svenska hippievänstern och slipshögern.
- ‘Fire and Fury’ to Be Adapted Into TV Series
Endeavor Content has purchased the film and television rights to the book, which goes inside the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency.
- Mike D Says Beastie Boys Book Is Coming Out This Year
Now, in an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1, Mike D says that the book will arrive in fall 2018. “We’re actually going to finish it, and it’s going to come out finally.”
- Native Instruments' new subscription service is Spotify for samples
Sounds.com, a platform owned by Maschine manufacturer Native Instruments that counts former Beatport CEO Matthew Adell among its staff. Like Spotify, the service offers a $9.99 a month paid tier and a free tier, each covering samples for making everything from mainstage EDM to sound effects for podcast producers.
- BBC Ideas aims to inform and entertain audiences with short factual videos
The videos will be created by the BBC Ideas team based on existing BBC content and suggestions from the audience, as well as commissioned from independent production companies.
- Pushed beyond breaking: US newsrooms use mobile alerts to define their brand
The aim of this research is to provide a comprehensive overview of how U.S. news outlets are using mobile push alerts to reach their audiences. Its objectives are to better understand how and why news outlets are using mobile push alerts, the decision-making process and workflows behind their use, how metrics inform strategy, and the major challenges presented by push alerts and how outlets have tackled them. The study intends to provide a detailed understanding of the use of mobile push alerts by news outlets of all sizes and backgrounds.
- Hans Rosenfeldt ny programledare för På Minuten
Hans Rosenfeldt är ny programledare för P1:s populära På Minuten med start 20 januari. In som ny panelmedlem kommer samtidigt skådespelaren Olof Wretling.
- Raoul Wallenberg Algorithm
The Raoul Wallenberg Algorithm estimates the level of compassion in the world by analyzing world leaders’ Twitter dialogues - in real time. Follow the temperature change and help us #WarmUpOurGlobe.
- British Library - Sounds
Listen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
- New Siri Podcast News Feature Begins Rolling Out in iOS 11.2.2
When you ask Siri about the news of the day via Hey Siri or another hands-free method, the personal assistant will provide Podcast news from NPR by default in the United States. You can, however, ask Siri to switch to news from Fox News, CNN, or The Washington Post.
- Announcing Nuzzel Media Intelligence
Nuzzel has developed a proprietary and scalable system that analyzes the millions of shared links that already flow through the Nuzzel system, determining which we consider news sources, and which we consider high quality. The appropriate sites are automatically added to the list of sources that are continuously scanned. Nuzzel Media Intelligence is currently scanning approximately 100,000 news sources, and we plan to make Nuzzel’s news search system the largest and most comprehensive on the Internet. Nuzzel is scanning almost 1 million stories each day, and growing.
- Comedy Central to Launch Podcast Network
The network will launch a global podcast network featuring brand extensions of its existing franchises as well as new original content. The Jim Jefferies Show will be the inaugural offering, debuting Wednesday. It will be available for download and streaming worldwide across Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher and other digital platforms.
- Google Memory Loss
I think Google has stopped indexing the older parts of the Web. I think I can prove it. Google’s competition is doing better.
- The Coral Project
The Coral Project brings journalists and the communities they serve closer together.
We fulfill this mission through open-source tools and practices for newsrooms of all sizes. Our software is currently in use in more than a dozen newsrooms, with many more coming soon. We also run events, publish academic research and guides to best practices, and we share everything we do online, for free. We can’t do it without your help.
- 99% INVISIBLE: 291- Thermal Delight
When air conditioning was invented in 1902, it was designed to take out the humidity in the air so printers could run four color magazines, without the colors becoming offset due to the paper warping from moisture. A young engineer named Willis Carrier developed a system that pumps air over metal coils cooled with ammonia to pull moisture from the air, but it had a side effect — it also made the air cooler.
- 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.
