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April 30, 2011
— an experiment with anonymous, communal Twitter accounts anyone can post to via @cshirky #
— parsed phrases from a subtitle file, then strung them together with Popcorn.js #
— MIT can’t sell the shares or participate in management, but will receive dividends #
April 28, 2011
— nearly 600k people pledged over $53M so far, 85% goes to successful projects #
April 27, 2011
— good news is they’re keeping it alive; bad news is they’re deleting all data from people who don’t migrate #
April 26, 2011
— loving the new album, stream it here #
— that explains the week-long downtime; passwords, billing info, and probably credit cards were taken via Make #
— or use Cave to hide all their activity, a technique I used on Upcoming to great effect #
— at its peak, they were saving 5 TB/day before Google backed down; a generalized LOIC for archiving would be huge #
— Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and OK Go’s Damian Kulash produced eight songs in eight hours #
— one month’s notice for a site most people haven’t visited in years via twitter.com #
April 25, 2011
— the entire Eisner-nominated short story comic #
— an animated GIF mashup by Evan Roth via Laughing Squid #
— Merlin Mann on the difficult balance between work and family via twitter.com #
— a tale of two pricing algorithms gone awry #
— a huge success for protecting user-contributed data; huge kudos to Archive Team for organizing a response via twitter.com #
— eloquent take on differing community norms and where Adams went wrong #
April 23, 2011
— more spare animated GIF work, reminiscent of IWDRM via Matt Haughey #
April 20, 2011
— including a critical piece missing from Business Insider: Odeo investors were offered Twitter stock #
— quickly share localhost over the web; related: localtunnel, a geekier free alternative #
— update: Gaga’s manager takes the blame, and she loves the song #
— your minute-by-minute movements are recorded and synced to your PC, but it makes pretty charts! #
April 19, 2011
— crazy hack uses Bit.ly as a document store for larger texts #
— by Everynone, who previously made Words and RE:Words #
— fun correlations, including Twitter/masturbation, vegetarians/oral sex, and wealth/sex drive #
April 18, 2011
— try to beat my high score of 73 hours and 46 minutes #
— slash and burn, with two weeks’ notice; why was migrating to YouTube not an option? #
— a Coudal mini-doc about the collectors behind very niche online museums #
— 2100’s going to be a rough year, but at least we’ll be clean-shaven #
— Archive.org donated 100TB for storage; join the Archive Team effort here #
— like Tenori-on meets Conway’s Game of Life #
April 15, 2011
— 796,025 ghosts eaten so far; naturally, they added “Report Maze” for flagging obscene boards via Kottke #
April 14, 2011
April 13, 2011
— including a long interview with Noah Glass, Twitter’s lost cofounder via twitter.com #
— analyzing 49 infographics; related: Phil Gyford, Dave Fields’, and Buzzfeed’s pseudo-meta-infographics #
— finally, a bubble sort you can dance to via MetaFilter #
April 12, 2011
— great talk from CodeConf #
— I hope “CRAPR” catches on #
— amusing Markov-generated tweets from your own Twitter history #
April 11, 2011
— lessons learned by the creator of Newspaper Blackout via Kottke #
— a Tumblr of fake GUIs in film #
— 33 minute video of every displayable Unicode character, one per frame #
April 7, 2011
— finally, a music documentary focused on accuracy; the insanely-cast short’s written/directed by MCA #
— “Which shape wants to hurt you?” #
April 5, 2011
— Joshua Benton tracks the number of shared stories on Twitter #
April 4, 2011
— from Christine Love, creator of the brilliant Digital: A Love Story via Indie Games+ #
April 1, 2011
— amazing performance; the original “Funky Drummer” is taking an innovative approach to sampling #
