Maybe the republicans should use American Idol to find “Rising Stars.” Their latest attempts don’t appear to be working so well (Palin, Joe the Plumber and now this clown)
[From Gov. Bobby Jindal's volcano remark has some fuming - CNN.com]
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Wow, Spiky Haired Guy is new in stock photo usage! Also got to love Older White Guy.
[From Shared Status - Simple Task Collaboration and Team Management]
Murmurs.com was around in 1996, as a blog for REM news. Just not called that.
[From The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine ]
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“The newspaper paradigm is executed in such a way that growth into the new media industry is hampered by lack of resources and funds. However, with the use of a common database subsystem and a minor alteration of newsroom and newspaper development workflow, the execution of a standard print media version of a newspaper, as well as a new media (i.e. Internet) version of a newspaper could be seamless and indistinguishable from each other.”
And this makes me sad.
And more from this same essay:
“Evolution of Work Flow
When the Register on the Web was first created, the workflow was extremely simple. An online editor, technical director and an online assistant constituded the web team, so task delegation and work flow management was simplistic, as it only involved three people.
After the departure of The online editor, Val Cohen had responsibility for content and development of the site. In June of 1996, Nan Bisher was given the position of Deputy Editor, New Media.
Bisher, from then on was responsible for the task management of our web site. In addition, the web team received additional members, Mark Uyemura from the newsroom and Reuben Guerrero, Kirk Williams, Dawn Kusick, Ginger Neal, Tracy Williams and Lelani Blumer from Ginger Neal’s New Media Marketing Group.
Subsequent to this merger of sorts, the work flow of the web site has become rather convoluted and inefficient. We only have roughly 4 people capable of writing and implementing complete web packages, two people who are capable of implementing CGI scripts and only 4 people capable of uploading data to the web site.
This limitation of resources causes severe bottlenecks in our desired workflow, as the burden of web development is concentrated on only a select group of people. Furthermore, these people are not in the same department, or in the same cost center, causing conflicts of responsibility to arise.
Aside from the New Media division, the entire workflow of the Register is an exercise in redundancy and inefficiency.”
An interview with me about our use of Drupal
I’m not a graphic novel/comics fan in general. I never have been, and really haven’t grown into one. That being said, I do appreciate graphic novels and occasionally read them, usually after any hype has died down.
I read Watchmen this year, mostly because of the movie coming out. The book, obviously, is amazing. Very dense, cinematic and prescient in today’s climate.
The movie however, exceeded all my expectations and completely kicked my ass. I saw the movie at a screening with a lot our artists, including former animator/graphic novelist Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance (we’re putting out the soundtrack), and not a soul moved through the whole thing.
Echoing Wil Wheaton’s opinion: it’s an amazing piece of work.
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1999 was an amazing year in movies, and almost as importantly, an amazing year in movie soundtracks. There were a lot of movies that year (Rushmore, Magnolia, Iron Giant) that made me say “holy fucking shit” after seeing them. Incidentally, I was still in film school in 1999, making a documentary and trying (unsuccessfully) to make a narrative short. My professor was JP Gorin, who worked with Jean Luc Goddard. So all around quite a film year for me.