July 2009
50 posts
“There’s nothing like dealing with two landlords and a move to make one...”
June 2009
61 posts
Use SSH tunnels?
marco:
I just discovered autossh, an SSH parent process that automatically reconnects and re-establishes tunnels if they disconnect (and nicely detaches into the background with -f without needing nohup or &).
For easy installation and management, it’s in the Dag Wieers/rpmforge repository for yum and the default repository for MacPorts.
Firefox 3.5 is out! →
Very excited to see this release. Now the fire is really under my ass to get our open-video player up and running.
WatchA brief history of the last several hours on the Michael Jackson Wikipedia article
“My iPhone 3GS, with low battery level mind you, came out 15 times as fast on the...”
– AppScout (via ericmortensen)
Apple should put the keyboard/mouse/monitor iPhone dock on their roadmap.
Starz looking to rip off Animated Web Series... →
I can’t believe people still think they can get away with this business. You too can submit your hard work to Starz for a chance at winning $4,000.00. All you have to do is give up all your rights. According to tubefilter, the losing entrants do get to retain ownership of their work, but the fine print shows that for all intents and purposes Starz can use it for whatever they’d...
Like Newspapers, Cable TV Seeks to Profit on the... →
evangotlib:
“…a recent poll by the Sanford C. Bernstein research group found that about 35 percent of people who watch videos online might cut their cable subscription within five years.”
Wrong. ”Cutting the cord” is going to happen faster and in larger numbers. This is happening now and it’s only going to accelerate.
Yep. Like landlines to cell phones, this is happening now. What’s...
My First Apperance On Live National Television →
innonate:
Nicely played getting a Foursquare mention in there! (via rachellehruska)
Drive by check in!
Confidential memo reveals US plan to provoke an... →
ericmortensen:
(via @charleshope)
A list of open web video blockers
I was inspired by all the folks at the Open Video Conference over the weekend and so I started working on an implementation of our Show Player using Firefox 3.5, the video and canvas tags, and javascript. As I thought out all the various features I would want to support in this player I realized there were several issues blocking me from creating a complete implementation. I reproduce them here...
Dear men of New York, We are not animals. Wash your God damed hands before you leave the bathroom.
“A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it...”
– “Violinist in the MetroA man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and start…” - My soup (via terminally-incoherent) (via peterwknox) (via mikehudack)
“The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the...”
– Obama blocks access to White House visitor list - White House- msnbc.com
The more things change …
(via jeffmiller)
(via soupsoup)
Jeeeezusss. making all of us who voted for him feel a little foolish. (via chriscavs)
If this whole thing ends up being more of the same we’re all going to...
NYC is doing just fine, thank you.
msg:
innonate’s comment on this terrible blog post by Scott Denne in the WSJ about First Growth Capital.
What ever are you talking about? The NY Tech Meetup “sprung up” and is about “networking”? The NY Tech Meetup is over 10,000 members strong and is about showcasing cool new tech. Elsewhere, the NY Angels makes a dozen or so investments a year; VC funds like USV, DFJ Gotham, RRE, Softbank,...
“I mean, I don’t’ give a sh*t how they’re tweeting in the newsroom… this is a...”
– Pat Kiernan on the 140 Characters Conference panel on Twitter in the newsroom. (via gillianmae)
Wow, if I knew Pat Kiernan was gonna throw around s-bombs, I would’ve considered the $895
(via adamiss) (via mikehudack)
I love Pat Kiernan. Jen has a huge crush on him and will only watch NY1 when...
“The problem with shooting protesters in Iran is that there will be a funeral,...”
– Juan Cole (via ericmortensen) (via mikehudack)
Mayor Mike cancels summer
Mayor Bloomberg announced today that summer in New York City would be cancelled due to budgetary constraints. “It simply costs too much to run all those air conditioners.”, Bloomberg said at a press conference given today. The city plans to set the dial to cool and rainy until winter, even going so far as to establish a deal to sell excess rainwater to the sun parched southwest.
Why do hotels buy beautiful HDTVs and drive them...
chriscavs:
(via mikehudack)
good question.
Because you can’t split an HD signal 250 ways cheaply. For most big == HD anyway.
Iran's political coup →
garysick:
If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history. One characteristic that has always distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in much of the rest of the Middle East was its respect for the voice of the people, even when that voice was saying things that much of the leadership did not...
“Quote in Sun’s NYT: “Digital TV is the front line of the digital divide. TV is...”
– brianstelter
I love that Brian Stelter, power media reporter for the New York Times, is becoming as thoughtful and prescient with digital media as with TV. (Of course, it is all content in the end..) (via dinakaplan)
Watchjaredklett:
Lumiere: blip.tv party preparations
Earning users' trust
jaredklett:
Earlier tonight I posted to @flickr on Twitter, asking why they have not added Twitter integration of some sort. The whole tweet is a little tongue-in-cheek and I thought about deleting it afterwards. That train of thought led to a question: why did I care so much about Flickr adding Twitter integration anyway? Why not just use one of the services that exist that provide that...