NYT Magazine on Internet trolls and lulz culture
— journalist spends a few days getting to know Jason Fortuny, weev, ED, and the /b/tards; and yes, I’m part of the problem #Michael Wesch's Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
— highly recommended viewing from the creator of The Machine Is Us/ing Us via Fimoculous #YouTube introduces text search for political videos
— their speech-to-text transcription gets a public trial in limited fashion on their You Choose section via Fimoculous #Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding"
— incredibly thoughtful and well-reasoned defense of a mildly controversial children’s book via Matt Haughey #Deerhoof releases new single as sheet music, asks people to record their versions
— Matthew Walker’s cover is fantastic; Lucas Gonze contributed a MIDI score and guitar tab to work with via nymag.com #Speed Racer Video Mosaic
— every frame of the video is composed of hundreds of individual thumbnails #Diesel Sweeties leaves unprofitable print syndication, back to web-only
— Lore Sjoberg interviews R. Stevens about the switch via timemachinego.com #12 Glowing Men
— also: the 1957 version of 12 Angry Men is on YouTube in its entirety via MetaFilter #Don Hodges explains how to control the barrels in Donkey Kong
— I’ve linked to his kill screen work before; someone get this guy an RSS feed! via MetaFilter #Candid Camera-style show sends "Ugly Americans" to Parisian cafes, records results
— the locals were extremely tolerant and were only chastised by other Americans via Delicious #Amazon redesigns Mechanical Turk with web-based creation tools
— creating HITs now requires no programming; just pick a template and upload a CSV with the values #OSCON in 37 minutes
— 45 presenters summarize their talks in 30 seconds; I’d love to see this before every conference #fl0wer gameplay from E3 2008
— my other E3 picks: Ibb and Obb, Mirror’s Edge, Rhythm Heaven, Fat Princess, and LittleBigPlanet via Snarkmarket #Waiter Rant reveals his identity on eve of book tour
— NY Mag identified the restaurant, saying he worked there for six years via MetaFilter #So Open It Hurts
— SF Mag’s long profile piece on Tara Hunt and Chris Messina’s public breakup; Tara’s take #Derek Powazek's 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
— solid suggestions that would lead to a massive short-term decrease in comments, for the better #Metafilter on the end of Wired Magazine's Found column
— almost uniformly goofy, I’ll still miss it #Phillip Toledano's Days with My Father
— a 98-year-old widower with no short-term memory, but a great sense of humor via latimesblogs.latimes.com #LA Times on Sean Tevis' XKCD-inspired fundraising comic
— he hit his goal in 24 hours and raised a staggering $95k in two weeks, 8 times his old-guard opponent #GOOD Magazine on "vampire energy," power consumed in standby mode
— not surprisingly, plasma TVs, computers, and game consoles are the worst via infosthetics.com #Internal Apple video from 1987 predicts the year 1997, with tongue in cheek
— cameos from Woz and Scully; don’t miss the “Vista Mac” at 2:20 and the stock chart at 6:02 via friendfeed.com #
Vimeo decides to ban and delete gaming videos
— reminds me of Flickr’s screenshot battle, but they never deleted photos #NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech
— isn’t it against the utilities’ best interest to provide tools to monitor and reduce usage? #StupidFilter goes beta, releases code
— the classifier for identifying stupid comments; try the demo on random Digg comments via MetaFilter #College Humor's montage of top 10 eye-gouging scenes
— from King Lear to Blade Runner via jeffrubinjeffrubin.com #It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future
— selections from a vintage IBM sales presentation; I want a t-shirt of several of these slides via LiveJournal #
Charles & Ray Eames' "A Computer Glossary" from 1968
— charming animated primer on computers for IBM, music by Elmer Bernstein via LiveJournal #Mondo 2000's RU Sirius banned from Facebook for using a pseudonym
— shouldn’t they make an exception for people known primarily by their aliases, like Frank Black or Jello Biafra? #Journey's new album released on a pre-loaded, branded MP3 player
— with 11 songs re-recorded with their new singer discovered on YouTube via Delicious #Embracing the backchannel at the Start conference
— they’ve hired Flickr’s George Oates to act as an ombudsman #New Yorker digs into California's medical marijuana industry
— from growers to brokers to dispensaries to clients via Delicious #Rush plays "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band
— they failed the Expert level one-third through the song via Delicious #The Onion interviews Mike Patton on videogames
— he discusses Rock Band, Portal, Bionic Commando, and voicing the monsters in I Am Legend #Amir's Super Mega Burn
— anonymity can turn anyone, even superfans, into superjerks in no time flat via Andre Torrez #The Onion's Random Roles with Teri Garr
— like Random Rules, this format teases out insights and anecdotes from interview subjects #Friendfeed and Flickr
How often is Friendfeed hitting Flickr, and how many Friendfeed users are on Flickr?
We now have a glimpse into Monday’s traffic, thanks to a snapshot provided by Kellan and Rabble’s in their talk, Beyond Rest: Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub, presented earlier today at OSCON in Portland:
On July 21, 2008, Friendfeed hit Flickr 2.9 million times to get the latest photos of 45,754 users, of which 6,721 visited Flickr in that 24-hour period, and could have potentially uploaded a photo.
Three million requests for 6,000 updates. Clearly, polling isn’t ideal. Don’t miss the rest of the slides.
(Also, at its peak, Flickr is currently receiving 60 uploaded photos a second, “roughly 10 times the number of people born on Earth per second.”)