Flicker Fusion

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There are really so many things to love about this. The ridges on the nigiri. All of the specialized utensils. The spherized roe!

(Thanks, Anna!)

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Remember Panic’s awesome status board? A soon as they started talking about it, people came out of the woodwork asking them to “open source” it or some such thing. Geckoboard appears to be taking a crack at building a product out of “widgetizing” the various stats you might want to collect about your business.

It’s an interesting idea and an interesting business model (charging per device per month), though, I wonder how useful such a thing will be using public feeds and stats instead of the kind of custom feeds the Panic guys built. Oh, hey, how about that, they have an API for your custom data feeds. Well that’s smart.

Old-media types don’t feel right about rewriting the copy of their competitors and calling it a story. Huffington glories in carving the meat out of a competitor’s story, throwing a search-engine optimized (SEO) headline on it, and posting it. She even claims to believe that she’s doing the originator a favor by sending traffic back to it via a crediting link.

Old-media types don’t feel right about rewriting the copy of their competitors and calling it a story. Huffington glories in carving the meat out of a competitor’s story, throwing a search-engine optimized (SEO) headline on it, and posting it. She even claims to believe that she’s doing the originator a favor by sending traffic back to it via a crediting link.

—Jack Shafer’s somewhat backhanded compliment explaining the success of the Huffington Post.