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  • Balanced News by Embracing Bias

    I had a thought in class for a newspaper. What if newspapers had two or more articles on the same topic, but from different perspectives? Would that be of any use? Would it change readership? Would embracing bias and showing both sides of the bias, counteract it?

    If not in the sense of traditional print media, then maybe a flag on google news that indicates, left wing, right wing or editorial? and maybe a view to see 2 articles side by side? On one side, the left wing, on the other, the right.

    Anyone up for wring an app like that? I’d be up for using it.

  • When the pressure is on

    When you have 100 [ not really, it just feels that way ] things on the go, when 20 people are hounding you, when all you golden plans are turning up smelling … not so rosie. How do you react?

    Be Honest.

    Do any of these suit you?

    Bring It

    Run

    The Good

    Simply put it, you shine. Call it a golden horseshoe, call it rising to the occasion. For some reason, you make it happen, in style. I picture you like Robert Redford in The Natural. Running round the bases with sparkles falling down around you – although pretty they are shards of hot glass from the stadium fields, and yet oddly, non hit you.

    The Bad

    You do it. You make it happen. But sure as hell the world will know your pain. EIther Walter Matthau or Jack Lemon kind of grumpy. Wether those around you laugh at your misery or cower in fear, is all up to you. The point is, you don’t like it. Not one bit.

    The Ugly

    Take the bad, which is understandable. Some might not like pressure. But for The Ugly, the pressure doesn’t like you. And the world explodes. You have tried to work under the gun, but you’ve learned that time and time again, when the pressure build, you break, it breaks. It just doesn’t work.

    The Shadow

    This one is in my opinion the more challenging. It’s basic fight or flight response, and you ain’t fightin’. You’ve stopped going out, stopped answering the phone, stopped the entire world. You’ll come out again eventually, but only when you’re sure not to see your shadow.

  • AirKast

    Mark gives a great tour of a great looking radio app from AirKast. Mind you I’m wondering if it’s an “app” or something else. A cross between app and website. Looked like a lot of navigation was through Safari …

    found via Hear 2.0

  • Gestural Interface

    found via Computerlove

    Anything can be a part of your media – even a wall.

    Throw out the term “media” and use “medium

    an intervening substance, as air, through which a force acts or an effect is produced.