Category: media

a sad occasion

BlogsNow history media

This is a sad day. The terror in London is on everybodies mind.

BlogsNow was written to be a fast reflector of what is going on in the world. Right now 64 out of the 100 links are related to the events in London. The top 17 links are all about it.

Here how other tools look right now:

technorati
people search allot for it, but the link list still focuses on yesterdays olympic nomination

blogdex
as usual blogdex has no clue, and it will be like this for a while

daypop
same here

BlogsNow
I wish I could have done this comparision with a more positive event.

3 hours later:
Server crashes. Again. Now I know that it is mysqlhotcopy when making a backup. While running the mysql repair I run out of disk space. All those bin-log files. Then I am stupid again and ctrl-c the repair. It would have waited for disk space. Then I tried to move the mysql data dir to another disk. Which takes some while. Then mysql does not want to start from that disk. Since I have no time for a dive into the manual I move things back and start it again. With the result that BlogsNow now shows results from 24 hours ago. Maybe I should learn something here?

Right now I like blogdex’ Version of the latest news much better. It is yesterdays. Yesterday was better than today.

games

daily life media

Violence in games is a good thing is the title. And it is written by a person who went to Columbine.
This get’s people to read it. I don’t see an satisfactory argument for the claim of the title in the text. But it illustrates a couple of aspects about gaming. And that makes it worth the read: Games are what is surrounding young people. If you grew up a while ago like me you have no idea what that really means.

eleven seconds

communication duke of count marketing media


Consumers today encounter from 3,500 to 5,000 marketing messages per day, vs. 500 to 2,000 in the 1970s, says J. Walker Smith, president of consumer and marketing watcher Yankelovich.

from USA today

the duke of count says:
assuming you are awake for 16 hours that means you get a new
marketing message every eleven seconds.
Nice!

look

internet media

who is cloaking: nothing less than the financial times.

As usual Wikipedia explains best what
a certain term stands for.

katie holmes

free of any reason media

is probably a clone

How many did he have made?

The Cartwrights and the Riddler of Baghdad

media politics

it’s worth the read

audio cassette : finis

coming to a museum near you daily life economy history media

the audio tape

remember what was on the first mix tape you made?
the first one you gave away as a gift?

If you should be that age.

From the above link:


Oddly, Philips did not charge royalties on their cassette patent, allowing numerous other companies to use their design for free. This ensured the quick acceptance of it as a new form of media.

Now isn’t that something that Sony (MiniDisc, MemoryStick etc) should read and read until they do understand it ?

and, of course, this commercial comes to mind

in their own words

history media politics

in their words

yahoo

internet media

pushes it’s shopping cart through the internet and drops websites it’s passes in it
They have the money, and with the flickr purchase (or did I dream that) and wikipedia cooperation (since they can not buy it) have proven good taste.

the other side of the tube

daily life internet media politics

while you are watching commercials for something this is what is going on