HTML5 Super Friends

The unicorn reminds me of Marcotte. What?! In a good way!

The Hacker Journalists

I stood onstage with Mediashift’s Mark Glaser a couple weeks ago and talked about what I do at my day job. This is a great rundown of what we talked about.

You’re writing for Newsweek, the premier magazine Americans turn to for week-old news when they’re sold out of Time.

—Now I’m doubly pissed that Gruber was out of town when I was in Philly last week because I would’ve loved to have bought the man a beer for that

EveryBlock’s new “custom neighborhoods” feature is awesome

Draw out the area you’re interested in following instead of being limited to the official neighborhoods.

Interesting messaging there. The man on the walkway is Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, recently released from prison.

I can’t recommend this look at the future with Charlie Stross and Paul Krugman enough

Probably Bad News

News fails, because journalism isn’t dying fast enough

The London Royal Opera House is using Twitter to write an opera

And, of course, it won’t be over until the failwhale sings

…someone said Sarah Palin’s web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up.

—Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga) in an interview with Ezra Klein on euthanasia and Obama’s so-called death panels.

tr.im is shutting down

Turns out there’s no money to be made in redirecting URLs. They claim that since they don’t have an inside connection at Twitter, they have no motivation to continue developing features.