Shawn Medero » olympics http://shawn.medero.net An Online Notebook Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:20:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Daily Brief, February 18th 2010, Afternoon Edition http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/18/daily-brief-february-18th-2010-afternoon-edition/ http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/18/daily-brief-february-18th-2010-afternoon-edition/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:34:56 +0000 Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/?p=240
  • HTML5 is doing just fine. Maybe
  • Cholesterol-busting wonder drugs, those that supposedly help prevent a heart attacks, increase chances diabetes
  • The Plastic Ono Band reunites for Yoko Ono’s birthday
  • Two-time Olympic gold metal winner, Shaun White, on how he chooses which companies to lend his likeness too
  • The “godfather of rap” is back and it probably will be televised.
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  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden, book editor, explains what exactly the “agency model” means when it comes to publishing ebooks. At least “one major publisher” may not be excited about such a model though
  • MTV has a new logo
  • New York Times Interactive Feature: Vancouver’s Olympic Venues (requires Adobe Flash support)
  • Matt Haughey interviewed about online communities including Facebook, Reddit, and Haughey’s own MetaFilter. Haughey, as always, paints a cautionary narrative on managing growth
  • (NSFW) 4chan founder moot asks members of /b/ message board what he should talk about for his upcoming TED presentation. Contains 15,000+ responses so far. (Seriously, don’t even click on this if you aren’t aware of what 4chan’s /b/ message board is) 
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  • David Hyde presents the work of Anton Stankowski
  • Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer, informs readers on Adobe Featured Blogs that “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.” The post doesn’t address Mozilla’s comments that Flash support had to be removed from Fennec because “The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards.”
  • Journalists will be asked to pay CAD $260 for internet access at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games
  • The International Coffee Organization warns of a global coffee shortage as production will fail to meet demand by about 5 million bags
  • Viewing Flickr photos is now an option in Google Street View A search for the Space Needle in Seattle provides a demonstration. (Hat tip: Kellan Elliott-McCrea)
  • A man is held for trial in Florida but his native language is the Mayan tongue of Mam. The court system keeps given him Spanish interpreters though and no one is sure if the defendant understands a word. Interesting side-note: Checkout the expanded online coverage the St. Pete Times provides with their feature to hear the same word in Spanish and Mam
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