February 27, 2013
App.net introduces free tier
— the only rational move for a social network; love that they started with a paid plan first #
Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution (1967)
— Leonard Bernstein on pop; performances by Brian Wilson and a 15-year-old Janis Ian #
Has A Kickstarter Project Won an Oscar?
— Inocente was the sixth Kickstarter-funded film nominated, but first to win #
Steven Brill's epic breakdown on why medical bills are so high
— infuriating 26,000 word feature story; I hope "chargemaster" quickly enters the lexicon #
Emoji Dick acquired by Library of Congress
— the only one of its 14 million items to credit Mechanical Turk for a creative role #
Chrome Web Speech API demonstration
— this could be useful for a first rough pass for transcription #
The Big Whobowski
— shot-for-shot remake of the Lebowski trailer in the Doctor Who universe; side-by-side comparison #
We Buy White Albums
— visit it in NYC until March 9; layered audio of 100 copies of side one (via) #
j.views covers Massive Attack with fresh vegetables and a Makey Makey
— YouTube comment: "you? give a whole new meaning to the word 'producer'" #
Kelly & Clive
— "This is music's Arab Spring. When the youngsters take power from the old men and refuse to give it back." #
Billboard makes YouTube part of Hot 100 formula
— this week, Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" was finally overtaken by "Harlem Shake" #
Media Molecule's 3D sculpture tech demo
— for me, the most interesting part of the PS4 announcement #
Photographer sues biggest Joni Mitchell fan site
— over the non-commercial use of four photos uploaded by fans #
Glenn Fleishman on the legality of Amoeba's out-of-print MP3 store
— charging for the works is begging for a court battle #
Posterous closing on April 30, one year after Twitter acquisition
— migrate your stuff to Tumblr; of course, Archive Team is on it #
Analysis of 10,000 porn stars and their careers
— scraping the Internet Adult Film Database for data #
Interactive map of Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree
— awesome hip-hop history comic syndicated on Boing Boing #
Fader's explainer on the Harlem Shake
— first time I've seen the sample source cited; YouTube's Content ID is paying off nicely for Baauer #
Tesla rebuts NYT story with log data
— the writer's rebuttal; I suspect the truth's somewhere in between #
Techdirt's story of engaging an attribution troll on Twitter
— if only his tongue was made of glass #
Leonard Cooper's win at the Jeopardy Teen Tournament
— a major turnaround and a silly moment of joy #
SlowPal, quick search and filtering of Paypal transactions
— Paypal's transaction history isn't real-time, they email you when searches are finished #