Scott points out that the New York Times premium content, NYT Select, is free for current students and faculty. It only requires a .edu address, so alumni with lifetime addresses would likely fly under the radar. YMMV
And because it wouldn't be a 2007 blog post with a Twitter mention…
I've signed up but still haven't gone through the registration yet. Twittervision is too time-consuming for me to have enough time to even skim the New York Times.
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After a relatively great blogging month (29 posts in 31 days), August has started off a bit slower. The reason is Lost. I am hooked. I just started watching it less than a week ago but I'm already 4 episodes into the second season (that's around 3-4 hours a day for those keeping track at home). The show is just so enthralling that I don't know how people could have watched this on a weekly schedule.
Lost is just the latest in a string of TV shows I picked up this summer, starting with Curb Your Enthusiasm and later The Office (US). I've noticed that though I'm pulling away from the mainstream with regard to audio and news, I'm embracing it more and more in the realm of video. Perhaps its just that audio can be produced well for cheap, whereas video requires a much larger budget. I love Ze Frank and enjoy Rocketboom but these and other short-form shows are nowhere near replacing mainstream television shows.
What I do think will change for mainstream TV is the distribution method. We're already seeing this with more and more networks adding shows to the iTunes Music Store, with ABC shows appearing on abc.com for free and (legality notwithstanding) with shows popping up here and there on YouTube.
So how exactly am I watching these shows when and how I want? Here's a hint: not by turning on the television.
Technorati Tags: TV, television, mainstream media, msm, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, ABC, Ze Frank, Rocketboom, iTunes Music Store, YouTube, distribution
I'm pretty close to unsubscribing from the Apple Slashdot RSS feed. In the age of Digg, del.icio.us, Newsvine, etc, having a service model where an editor picks what to post just seems so antiquated. This is a perfect example of the pre-filtering vs post-filtering that Chris Anderson talks about in The Long Tail. For what it's worth, the Apple Slashdot site has had only 8 posts in the past seven days and pretty much all of them brought news that I saw hours or even days before they showed up in my Slashdot feed.
The most recent example is Phill Ryu's fake Leopard screenshot contest results, which were announced Wednesday 7/26 at 1:44PM. While I did see it straight from his blog no more than 30 minutes after it was posted, had I not been subscribed to his feed, Digg picked it up less than 90 minutes after so I would have seen it then. If I happened to miss either of those two sources (highly doubtful, considering one is the primary source) a link to the blog post appeared on many, many other Apple-related blogs. When did it show up on Slashdot? Tonight, Thursday 7/27 at 10:54 PM. It's "only" a day in real world time, but in blogosphere time that's an eternity!
And what about the tens or even hundreds (on a good week) of Apple stories that showed up in the past week? There's no mention of them anywhere on Slashdot. They bill themselves as "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." but there's a lot more that matters in a week than 8 stories. But I suppose that tag line became as irrelevant as Slashdot itself did a long time ago.
Technorati Tags: Slashdot, Digg, blogs, news, editors, Long Tail, del.icio.us, speed, relevance, editors, social media, traditional media, Web 2.0, community
Here's a pair of links to tradition media (gasp!) prince VH1's Best Week Ever Blog.
The first video is a take on the current Apple "Get a Mac"
ad campaign, featuring a hip guy as a Mac and a nerdy guy as a PC. The second video is a take on Adam Sandler's movie career summed up in just a matter of minutes.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Get a Mac, PC, spoof, parody, commercials, trailers, Adam Sandler, movies, VH1, Best Week Ever, blog, old media, traditional media, television
Here is a video of part of Kevin Smith's talk two nights ago at Irvine Auditorium here at Penn. There's a lot of bad words in it, so keep it away from sensitive ears.
The file is around 30mb, so download it if you can. It should work on iPods with video, but I haven't tried it yet on mine.
Direct link to file.
Technorati Tags: Kevin Smith, Silent Bob, Clerks, Clerks II, Chasing Amy, View Askew, Q&A, Penn, University of Pennsylvania, UPenn, speech, humor, video, explicit
Just got back from watching Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) give a 4 hour Q&A session here at Penn. I captured some audio that is hopefully decent quality (on my phone) and some video of a story he told.
He also showed a cool clip from Clerks II (which he was pretty adamant about no one recording), which I imagine has never before been seen. The clip features a small clash between Lord of the Rings fans and a Star Wars fan in the restaurant and another scene where Jay starts dancing in the drive-thru.
I'll try and get the stuff up tomorrow. I wish I could have captured more as he had some great stories to tell (all very Not Safe For Work, however).
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I realized my grandmother is an old-school, real-world blogger. She came over today with several newspaper articles for me to read, offering her input on them and expecting my comments in return. In blogosphere-speak, she posted a link to a news item, offered her input and left comments open. If I was her age and used to that form of communication, I'd have passed the clipping on to another friend of mine offering and expecting the same thing.
Old people have a desire to share opinions and information, and they have had this desire before email was around, much less blogs. The old-school way and the Web 2.0 way are analogous, with both the old school and the new school grabbing ahold of whatever technology they feel comfortable with in order to fulfill this desire. The difference lies in that the advent of blogging has made it become possible to do share with a much larger group of people all over the world in a quick, easy and cheap fashion. This is why blogging is that much more powerful than anything we've ever seen before.
Imagine 6 generations down the line when our grandkids' grandkids scoff at their grandparents for sending them a link to a post on our crusty old blogs about something they find interesting. "Get with the program, grandpa. I don't want to read a stupid old webpage; why don't you just send me the page straight to my brain on the worldwide neural net that's been around for 50 years?"
Technorati Tags: blogging, newspaper, media, sharing, information, future, communication
