Mobile News Network.
Go to it with a mobile phone.
It’s got some of the best optimized-for-the-iPhone web design I’ve seen. That said, if I were an AP client newspaper with any kind of web presence, I would be pissed. The bigger the online presence AP has, the less room there is for [...]
An Upstart Up Against a Jewel - New York Times
Good article laying out the basics of the Takeway, where I’ll be officially starting in just over a week.
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Well, O.K., his opening was a little lame; the reference to Grand Theft Auto had to do with the fact that the latest version of the game was [...]
Via Warren Ellis, an excellent 15-minute talk by someone with the unlikely name of “Clay Shirky” about what he calls the “cognitive surplus,” how we’ve dissipated it in the past, and how we might dissipate it in the future.
“Looking for the mouse” is a fantastic metaphor. Well worth watching the whole thing.
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Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’ - New York Times
From the Department of Bad Ideas With Bad Repercussions:
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.
Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent [...]
Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment
From a summary of a report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization on the environmental impact of global livestock. Emphasis mine. If you buy their methodology, it implies that some moderate changes in diet and some moderate changes in food/water subsidies could make as big a difference [...]