Year: 2007
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Anonymous & Scared
My NYT Anonymity Project is going well– so far I’ve close to 150 unique reasons that people give in order to be granted anonymity as a source in the New York Times. One big motivation is plain old fear– a large number of the reasons indicate that people are scared shitless about what will happen…
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Buses, Cameras, and Cops: Not Practical in Real-Time
The CTA has announced that Chicago police will soon be able to tap into the buses on the street and see what’s going on inside them. This kind of idea sounds great on the surface, but you can see that’s overly tight and a little unpractical. Second City Cop points out that the cameras are…
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Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together: Suge Knight and the Washington Post
Here’s a pairing I really had never considered: WaPo and Suge. A transcript of a live chat from this last Monday between the founder of Death Row Records and randoms off the internet. My favorite snip: Rockville, Md.: Suge, From many of your employees, it sounds like you are a great and generous guy to…
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Random House Insight Web Service
Here’s an excellent example of the book industry staying relevant in a Web 2.0 world– Random House Insight Web Service. Amazon and Google have been eating publisher’s lunch with their Inside the Book and book search services. Instead of whining, Random House is putting out really well-designed widgets of their own that provide another way…
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“The Goddess Speaks.” Script
Page 10, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Ever since I got a new scanner I have been wanting to scan a whole bunch of stuff from the (40 or so) boxes of crap I have relating to plays, performances, tours, books, etc. that I’ve done over the years. Here’s a handwritten script for a play I…