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If you’re in New York City during the evening of Tuesday, May 14, here is an opportunity you shouldn’t pass up: Social Network Soiree: Discussion, Champagne, Experiment at the Eyebeam atelier in Chelsea. Speakers include the night’s tipping point, Malcom Gladwell, esteemed technoartist Natalie Jeremijenko, social network visualizer Josh On, Nike ID guy Jonah PerettiContinue reading “Social Network Soiree”

You know you’re a geek when you tote your laptop to an apartment showing in order to assess the local wireless capital. And guess what: it pays. I looked at two today in similar neighborhoods.. pretty equal spaces, all things considered. But one has free wireless, and there you go. Maybe next time I’ll walkContinue reading “Wireless apartment hunting”

I always wanted to try this experiment: Wine experts fooled into thinking white wine is red.

Everyone with email receives the Nigerian email scam (also known as the “4-1-9” or “Advance free fraud” scheme); I receive a solicitation at least once a month, usually more. As Douglas Cruickshank of Salon points out, the scam is more than 10 years old, with origins in the standard postal system (the USPS has aContinue reading “Suckers to Nigeria”

Andrew Sullivan on The Blogging Revolution: Weblogs are to words what Napster was to music.

I spoke with a group from the Washington Post today, including a member of the subsidiary Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive. They haven’t thought about branding to the weblog community, but they should. Here’s why: unbeknownst to the rest of the world, they guarantee story and URL persistence. Link to a Post story, and it will neverContinue reading “Persistence persistence persistence”

The New York Times wins 7 of this year’s Pulizer Prizes. The Washington Post was awarded the prize for national reporting for its coverage of the war on terrorism.

David Hasslehoff made me wet my pants. (thanks aidan)

I was lucky enough to catch a unique panel last Thursday, part of the MIT Communications forum: Humor on the Web. Moderated by Henry Jenkins, the panel contained John Aboud and Michael Colton, co-editors of the Modern Humorist, and Tim Harrod, senior writer for The Onion. The session began with opening remarks from the AboudContinue reading “Humor on the web”

Everyone responds to tragedy in different ways. Some people make giant shoes: “James Syiemiong… hopes they will remind the world of the big steps required to root out evil.”