[People] are thinking about getting healthier… everybody’s pooping more

—Oprah considers the benefits of veganism.

Microsoft announces an H.264 plug-in for Google Chrome

Oh, snap.

It always has been an embarrassing word. First it was embarrassing because bloggers were these dirty, horrible people, and then it was embarrassing because our grandmas have blogs, God bless them.

—Choire Sicha on the end of blogging.

Basecamp is now mobile

All HTML, all in the browser, no app required. Looks like it uses 37Signals’ mobile JavaScript framework.

The folks at Readability are moving beyond just a bookmarklet, they’ve completely rethought, well, everything. They’re now building a full-on time-shifting service, complete with apps powered by Instapaper and a subscription model that – get this – gives money back to the publishers. It’s so simple it’s almost absurd, yet brilliant.

I really love The Atavist so far. This is certainly one of the great promises of digital storytelling finally realized and I can’t wait to read, watch and listen more. There are a few quirks in the app’s interface and chrome that I’m certain they’ll iron out, it’s definitely worth your time to investigate.

Google built a voicemail-to-tweet app over the weekend to help Egyptians without internet access get the word out

This is pretty incredible. The tweets themselves are linked audio files that Twitter users are then translating and transcribing.

The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero looks fantastic

Frank’s set an ambitious Kickstarter goal to fund his book, you can help him get it off the ground.

3D, real-world mapping using a Kinect sensor and an Android phone. This reminds me a bit of Radiohead’s House of Cards video.

donohoe:

The New York Times Introduces a Web Site
By PETER H. LEWIS
Published: January 22, 1996

The New York Times begins publishing daily on the World Wide Web today, offering readers around the world immediate access to most of the daily newspaper’s contents.

The New York Times on the Web, as the electronic publication is known, contains most of the news and feature articles from the current day’s printed newspaper, classified advertising, reporting that does not appear in the newspaper, and interactive features including the newspaper’s crossword puzzle.

The electronic newspaper (address: http:/www.nytimes.com) is part of a strategy to extend the readership of The Times and to create opportunities for the company in the electronic media industry, said Martin Nisenholtz, president of The New York Times Electronic Media Company.

The company, formed in 1995 to develop products for the rapidly growing field of digital publishing, is a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times Company, and also produces the times service on America Online Inc.

Mr. Nisenholtz reports to Russell T. Lewis, the president and general manager of The New York Times, and to Joseph Lelyveld, the newspaper’s executive editor.