miamime

provocations & observations by William Plasencia 

How to feed the world? Sarah Silverman has an idea?

Funny.

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The Cult of Mexican Coca-Cola - NYTimes.com

I didn't known that conspiracy theories had sprung up around New Coke and that there was such as a thing as Passover Coke that uses uses "sugar instead of not-kosher-for-Passover corn syrup."

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AP's Curley cries over spilled milk. Hey, Genie! Get back in the bottle!

We content creators have been too slow to react to the free exploitation of news by third parties without input or permission," Curley, the AP's chief executive, told a meeting of 300 media leaders in Beijing.

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Interesting conversation on publishing and reader demographics (via @jayrosen_nyu)

"If publishers owned their own system to capture demographic information about their readers and the content that they are reading, they could really gain a considerable amount of the power that they've lost in terms of being able to sell and the profits that they can extract from that business."

http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a10660.asp

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Let's fucking do this

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this site is often hilarious.

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R.I.P. Irving Penn

Irving Penn was one of the photographers I most admired when I first became interested in the medium. He died Wednesday in New York at the age of 92. Rest in peace.

Here's a slide show of his "Close Encounters" show, courtesy of the The New York Times

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The model of the new media model?

Wow. $70 CPM. If true, THAT's aggressive.

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Laporte said he charges $70 CPMs for ads. Some questioned the $12 CPM we included in our New Business Models for News, though we went with a conservative middle-ground based on the experience of existing local businesses.

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Will Hyperlocal Ever Scale? One Entrepreneur’s Story

...the game isn’t about one winner, with one best business plan and one best editorial policy. The game, it turns out, is about talented individuals banding together in loose confederacies that create new kinds of value.

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The Case of the Impossibly Skinny Ralph Lauren Model?

Boing Boing and Ralph Lauren exchanged some words when the clothier took offense to a bad Photoshop critique.

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"So, instead of responding to their legal threat by suppressing our criticism of their marketing images, we're gonna mock them," Doctorow promises. He then issues a scolding counter-threat: That any time the fashion house attempts such a weak legal maneuver, Boing Boing will again reproduce the original criticism, publish and mock the threat to make sure it is spread far and wide, and, my favorite: "Offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models."

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TechCrunch: Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: It Still Sucks.

Windows Mobile 6.5, we wanted to love you. We wanted you to come along and wash away the past, whisking away all signs of the antiquated 6.1 we’ve grown so tired of ragging on.

We went into this review with the full hopes of emerging with a generally positive outlook. Sorry, Windows Mobile 6.5 – it’s just not going to happen.

I've never understood the appeal of the overly bloaty Windows Mobile devices, except for the one thing that I wish other software and mobile hardware developers would get: sync is critical.

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