My afternoon with lonelysandwich. from Jeremy Fuksa:Creative Generalist on Vimeo.

God, I love this man

The rare Full Mrgan

Journalism as a Conversation: Blogs, Commenting and the Art of Interaction

A few thoughts in response to the ongoing debate between Joe Wilcox and John Gruber about blog commenting (see samples of their respective posts here and here.)

Jesus, Doreen is smart

A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

—Is this the best subhed you’ve read all day?

The truth is, Arrington been trying to sell TechCrunch for years — at least since 2007 when he hired Heather Harde, an M&A guru, from Fox Interactive, and named her CEO of TechCrunch. Back in those days Mike was full of talk about that big “liquidity event” that was right around the corner. Supposedly all the big brands were coming to him and begging him to sell. Now it’s three years later and he still can’t unload the thing.

—Speaking of TechCrunch’s impending sale, here’s Fake Steve.

I have no idea how to identify with you people. It is like I am on Mars.

—Michael Arrington doesn’t grok Seattle. He moved here a few months ago because Silicon Valley burned him out and now he seems to be saying we’re – what, exactly? Not enough like Silicon Valley? Or maybe he’s just hanging out because our dumb tax laws mean that he’ll collect a bigger paycheck when he cashes in on Techcrunch. What a douche.

Infochimps looks like an interesting data marketplace

Buy and sell all kinds of data. They’re building APIs around stuff like Twitter and the US Census.

indiemaps is doing some very cool work with javascript and shape files

There are several libraries out there for rendering shapefile maps in Actionscript, now the battle moves to canvas and the browser

everythinginthesky:

Google Earth for the iPad is now available on the app store.

Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And ‘tweet’ — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.

—Phil Corbett, New York Times standards editor, says “tweet” is to be avoided.