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Whoa! What happened to today?
Sorry it's been so quiet over here. Guess this is what I get for actually having to work for a living.
To make up for it, and also to hopefully keep from chasing away the last five of you readers that are still here, I'm gonna just [...]
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Join us for a Saturday of presentations AND conversations, Dec. 12, 2009 from 9:30 until 1:30 at the Hickory Daily Record, 1100 Park Place, Hickory, N.C. 28603. An optional, informal lunch will follow with plenty of time for more conversation, networking and Q&A.
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The dirty shame, yet standard operating procedure of America Inc. -- especially after screwing it up -- has simply been to turn around and dump as much of it as possible -- in the abstracted form of paperwork, leg work, extra fees and surcharges, etc. [...]
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'Tis the season for Paris Photo, where 102 galleries and publishers from 23 countries are taking part in the world's leading photography fair. This year's fair, which runs through Sunday at the Carrousel du Louvre, spotlights Arab and [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:01pm EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:02am EST
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Apparently a prestigious global warming research institute in Jolly Old England had its e-mail server hacked, which has revealed a rather startling pattern of abject data manipulation.
Which, last I checked, wasn't part of the "pure" process of Scientific Inquiry which lie-b'ruls always say we Conservatives are destroying.
One wonders what [...]
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I've got a bit of morning madness to deal with over here, and after that, I will proceed to work on my Fairfax story that I mentioned last night.
Until then, here's a brutally honest commercial from someone who could possibly be the best salesman, ever:
Update: [...]
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Sad news to start off the day with. Late yesterday, it was reported that Jeanne-Claude, the French artist who was married to and collaborated with Christo on a wide-variety of massive projects that largely involved huge installations, like "The Umbrellas" in Japan and "The Gates" in [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST
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I promised Piper that this time, I would keep my distance so I wouldn't disrupt the fun she has planned for herself and her friends. She's so good and accommodating. She puts [...]
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This week we feature a CBS report that celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall by drawing upon the work and reminiscences of photojournalist (and longtime friend of NCN) Peter Turnley. Click on the image to view the video, or click here to read [...]
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Good user experience is often found in the most unassuming places. We have a new restaurant opening in my neighborhood this week and I’ve been anticipating their arrival for a few weeks now. They officially open today but two days ago revealed a very important lesson in user experience.
Two [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:07am EST
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Number of comments: 12 By Carlos Miller
Not a word has been heard from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since social media editor Kurt Greenbaum penned his explanatory post Wednesday afternoon where he tried to justify getting a man fired for writing the word “pussy” on the newspaper’s blog.
Meanwhile, more than 345 comments (as [...]
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Number of comments: 3 The original context, of course, was the Vietnam War, a storm cloud that, through the last years of the 60s, overarched our daily lives here in America with a terrible weight….What had been general and unbearable became specific and agonizing. At least that?s how I felt as I set out [...]
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Number of comments: 1  OpenGoo
Pictures are the easy part. A great deal of success as a freelancer is figuring out how to efficiently run one’s business. It’s a constant struggle keeping track of clients and leads and deadlines and tasks and invoices and estimates and late payments. A number of [...]
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 Finally made it to a Fairfax County Republican Committee meeting again. Hopefully this makes me a Republican in Good Standing(tm) again!
Got plenty to say about the three candidates running for Steve Cuccinelli's Virginia Senate seat, and a nice campaign speech to share with you, but I think I'm [...]
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You will never guess where the latest jobs Obama attempted to "save-or-create" were at. No, they were not in some fictitious congressional district. No, they didn't involve a shoe salesman or some processed cheese.
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Rather than taking up the right wing's "dithering" or "what's taking SO long" meme when it comes to Obama's Afghan strategy (in a situation that some see as having no practical urgency) perhaps the better question to ask is, what's [...]
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Number of comments: 15 By Abi Huynh Last year Mathieu Christe and Berton Hasebe wrote a very thorough article detailing the general day to day of the Type and Media masters program. With this article we hope to outline an historical overview of the course and provide a brief look at the final project [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:50pm EST by johno
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The New York Times is absolutely bubbling with rage at one of the following bumper stickers. Can you guess which one it is?
The obvious answer is below the fold, of course.
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High-flying advertising executive turned author James Othmer's new book, Adland: Searching for Life on a Branded Planet (Doubleday), offers an inside look at the past, present, and future of the ad industry. His tales of the wild and morally questionable ride from the days of Mad Men to branded [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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The most exciting operating system I've seen in years (and keep in mind that this comes from a de-facto OS junkie. Anyone else out there remember OS/2 Warp?)
Plenty of background info (including source code and build instructions) here.
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In the wake of the Fort Hood shooting tragedy, Hollywood actress Camryn Manheim believes its time this country did something about further restricting who can obtain a deadly weapon.
?There should be vast limitations on gun policy and tons of [...]
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Exhibit A: A 21st-century Korean interpretation of the ancient Australian art of the didgeridoo:
A little bit of early-for-Friday excitement, courtesy our good friend Eddie the Bear!
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We pick you up and then drop you back down. Sorry, but that's just how we roll around here. As positive as that last post was about the Billings Index rise, that doesn't necessarily mean much to a project that's getting shut down. So it is for [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:01am EST
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Have we survived? Have we really put these dark days behind us and come out alive? So it might seem when you hear the news that the AIA's Architecture Billing Index is finally back to the levels it was at in August of 2008, right before [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:04am EST
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If you like interesting or attractive scenery, but particularly if you enjoy looking at it through windows, 2009 is going to be a red letter year for you, given that there are two new books available that provide just that. First up is Matteo Pericoli's The [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:01am EST
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 Sohrab Hura - Touch - Joop Swart Masterclass
The 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass has just published the participants’ work on the theme “touch.” Sohrab Hura is a favorite recent discovery, having first seen his work a year [...]
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Number of comments: 0 BAGnews is pleased to introduce Pete Brook, our newest contributor. This piece is cross-posted from Pete's superb blog, Prison Photography.
Still from video shown to the Baha Mousa public Inquiry showing Corporal Donald Payne,
formerly of the Queen's Lancashire [...]
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Somehow, this was read as a fireworks show.
And then, even after witnessing this, much of America was spun into buying this.
BAGnews is singularly dedicated to challenging the use of pictures for the purpose of sensationalism, oversimplification, infotainment or collusion by the shockingly over-concentrated corporate media.
You [...]
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Pentagram's Michael Bierut and his seven steps to success:
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- 2. Don't reinvent the wheel.
- 3. Don't reinvent the wheel, rotate the tires instead.
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- 6. Once you've come up with something, never let it go.
- 7. Make other people do the work.
The linked article [...]
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 Tyler Hicks - A Scrapbook From the Tribal Areas - NYT At War Blog
The New York Times’ blogs keep getting better and better. Everyone knows Lens, but perhaps At War isn’t [...]
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The Associated Press (yeah, it's that dastardly Lee Jin-man again!) provides visual proof that the coming Zombie apocalypse begins right here in the White House.
Before they color-corrected it, that is.
U.S. President Barack Obama reacts as he moves to Marine One at the Osan U.S. Air Force Base in [...]
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 Angry People in Local Newspapers - Comic Relief Pupils Sent Home
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I spent a year working for medium-sized community newspapers in the midwestern US. Maybe that’s why I like Angry People in [...]
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Well, the conservative budget-hawk Senate Leader has come out with his version of the Health Care plan. And wouldn't you know it, the minority party is all up in arms against it.
Ok, I know it didn't happen that way, but you know that it would.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has [...]
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I don't think I can stretch this one out into a full "News in Focus" post right now, so I'll just be brief: None of these people really look like they want to be there, and all most likely for vastly different reasons.
One does wonder if it's customary [...]
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DirectWrite font rendering has been announced for Internet Explorer 9. In addition to better performance, this technology shift also increases font quality and readability with sub-pixel positioning. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:00pm EST
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How did this read to me on first pass, through this week's media filter?
...A nation of umpteen billion people and Obama, a man recognized for wowing the crowds and stirring hope in the masses, especially overseas, is featured today on the newswires wrapping [...]
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By Carlos Miller
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s detention officer who was caught on video swiping a document from the case file of a defense attorney was found in contempt of court Wednesday.
But in typical fashion, he will get off with a slap on his wrist under Judge [...]
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It would seem to me, that if I was near to losing my home due to forclosure, I would not be protesting in Washington D.C. Instead, I would probably be spending the day working in order to make money to actually pay my mortgage. I might even get another [...]
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I was just perusing my web-email page and saw the latest news headlines. I just had to say something about them.
First up is this headline:
Obama warns of a 'double dip' recession
AP - President Barack Obama says he's worried that spending too much money to help revive the [...]
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Here is something that will just make you smile and grin all the whole day.
This is a video of a dog's reaction to its owner returning home from a long duty in Afghanistan.
Come on, we need something to make us smile these days. I don't know [...]
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 Sure, he could stop the war, but that would require a "decision," which doesn't seem to be his greatest strength.
Looking at the arrangement of the two posters in frame here, I find it hard to believe that Lee Jin-man came up with this shot without spending a [...]
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With the staggering investment that goes into advertising and advocacy images in this country, is it any wonder nobody's teaching, let alone preaching visual literacy?
Let's face it, pixels are playing a fundamental role both in the political and culture wars, as well as the commercialization [...]
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If "The Great Recession" label failed to catch on before the recession was called, and the "two Americas" meme somehow died with the fidelity of John Edwards, symbols of gross entitlement -- as represented by the incestuous merger of corporate and political power [...]
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Number of comments: 3 This photograph may be one of the more ordinary images in recent photojournalism, and all the more eloquent for that.
The caption stated that “A labourer rests near his makeshift tent home in a park” in Charlotte, North Carolina. Attentive readers will have noticed the British spelling [...]
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Number of comments: 13 By Carlos Miller
Anthony Medlock says his ten-year-old daughter sometimes shows signs of having emotional issues.
But that was before an Arkansas cop used his Taser gun on her.
Now it’s no telling how she will turn out emotionally.
The girl was throwing a tantrum at her mother’s house when the mother called [...]
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 Our latest UnBeige contest is now entering its final days. The prizes: fame and free iTunes downloads of the documentary we've been talking about since it was in pre-production: Gary Hustwit's Objectified (find it on iTunes here). Entering is as easy as finishing this sentence:
The [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:39am EST
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Number of comments: 5 By Carlos Miller
Earlier this month, we saw a video of a detention officer swiping a document from the case file of an attorney during a legal proceeding in an Arizona courtroom.
Now we have a Las Vegas court officer detaining a group of journalists inside a courtroom to [...]
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Number of comments: 13 Update: Does Kurt Greenbaum need to resign?
By Carlos Miller
St. Louis Post-Dispatch social media editor Kurt Greenbaum proudly tells the story of how he caused a man to lose his job after the man posted a vulgar comment on the newspaper’s blog.
Greenbaum says the man used a single [...]
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The AP couldn't express it in any taller terms.
As long as Stanley and the U.S.A. are fronting for the crooked, discredited Karzai, we've got nothing to say.
(photo: Anja Niedringhaus. caption: Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander for Afghanistan, talks in front of a [...]
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