EPIC 2014

from the Museum of Media History.

John Leo says

"The video appears to be an unusually dry satire, but taken at face value, most of it is plausible— and scary. Without gatekeepers, no one stands ready to verify reports as accurate, so there's no difference between real news and agreed-upon gossip or low-level fluff. Issues debated today— Are bloggers real journalists? Is there a clear line between news and entertainment? — would be irrelevant. Everyone would be a journalist. And though some contributors would be paid, it isn't clear that the flow of money would be enough to fund complicated reports and investigations. Reporters would be paid according to how popular their stories were. Good luck if your job is to cover Rwanda or global warming."

Interesting conclusion with more than a grain of truth- what do you think?

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:

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15% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

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What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Clusty

 Here's an interesting search engine. I like the list on the left side that categorizes the search. So instead of searching 102,987 hits, I can pick a category. This is still in beta, butI see they even have wikipedia on their tab

RSS-to-Javascript converter

Yesterday on del.icio.us/popular I found a site that will take any RSS feed on the web and generate a script that will load the latest items and format them so that you can add the feed to a webpage (like a blog template, for example). All you have to do is paste the script into the template. So I have added two feeds to the blog template (they're over on the bottom of the left sidebar): one for my del.icio.us bookmarks -- it shows the latest twelve I've added; and one that shows the ten most popular sites on del.icio.us based on recent bookmarks.