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Yes, the system should be “closed” to harmful programs, etc., but I can’t get behind the fascistic pick-and-choose style of approval. Apple should make it a democracy, with online voting and beta testing. If they don’t want to give us ALL a vote, we could elect Apple Senators (Senapptors?). I’d be good with that. But their tight-lipped censorship weirds me out. And when they start picking and choosing my literature, then hulk gets angry.

adamelend:

I’ve always wanted to speak the language of music, and now my brother-in-law, Jason, is teaching me music theory. Every other time I’ve tried to learn, I was also learning an instrument - something I did often as a kid, and was always terrible at.

So it’s incredibly refreshing for me to think about music without trying to make it.  I really love the math of it: notes defined by their relationships to other notes, understanding them through their context.

A note’s relationship with the other notes in the chord, it’s relationship with the notes played just before and after it, and it’s relationship with the key of the music are the three contexts we’ve explored so far.

I’m taking to it well because I see the world in contexts.  That’s what my contribution to Moblogic was all about.  Our initial concept for the show was that Lindsay would go out on the street every day and just have an open conversation with people about one issue, a conversation that would extend into the comment section of the show.

It was simple, it was web-centric, and I still believe in the concept.  But ultimately, it didn’t work.  We evolved Moblogic into a more dynamic show that tried a lot of other really innovative things.  Partly because we were learning and exploring, partly because people just weren’t so interested day to day in what “regular Joes” were saying, and partly because we just weren’t able to capture the real conversation going on in America in random interviews.  Although there were definitely moments…

That original concept actually wasn’t just focused on the everyday.  If we’d continued along that path, the ultimate goal was for us to frame the daily conversation about a given topic with context.

Last week, for example, I would have featured the segment discussing 2009’s State of the Union address, so you, as a user, could understand what the general expectations were for 2009 when the year began.  That’s context for when you watch this year’s address.  I’d also put up shows we’d done about John Edwards - when he was debating Dick Cheney in 2004, when he ran for President in 2008 and when the affair was first alleged.

Taking it a step further, we’d hoped to allow users to create their own timelines, to connect their own dots to make an argument - connecting four stories about healthcare to a timeline of news stories to show that Fox News was driving the debate, even connecting our different shows about torture to show that our questioning was biased.

I love what Moblogic became, and I couldn’t be prouder of it.  But if I get an opportunity to do a straight up “news 2.0” project again, this is what I’d propose.  Our team is better equipped to do it now that the technology side of our company has caught up with the video side.  The difference would be how we capture the conversation on video - I have several ideas brewing that would be really great to try.

Now back to my circle of 5ths…

Oh, how I miss MobLogic.

thedailywhat:

The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien: Conan teams up with Will Ferrell, Beck, Ben Harper, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and trusty house-band drummer Max Weinberg to close out the show in style with an unforgettable rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.”

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Love how Conan is just putting everything he has into his guitar. Choked up a bit, not gonna lie.

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Jon Stewart lays out Keith Olbermann’s over-the-top name-calling of Senator Scott Brown

Thanks you Jon!  Olbermann has had this coming for a long time.

Olbermann is quickly becoming the Rush Limbaugh of the Left. About time someone called him out for it.

On the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I want to remind everyone that there’s a reason we use the word “choice.” And that reason is what (I hope) we’re fighting for.

It’s not about abortion. It was…

blurredvision:

This is Pat Robertson claiming the Haitian earthquake resulted from a pact with the devil.

How is it possible we live in a world where a man like this gets air time?

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brieflynoted:

Ivan Reitman to direct Ghostbusters 3 - not Harold Ramis as speculated.

“The film will feature a young cadre of new Ghostbusters in addition to appearances (possibly as mentors to the young’uns) by the classic characters. One of the young ghostbusters may be Oscar, the grown son of Weaver character, and we can expect a lot of new gadgets and dimension-hopping tech.

(via /Film)

This could be the best or worst thing EVER.

#IheartTV09 Mission 1.5: “Trouble” (Over the Rhine) = Grace Hanadarko’s perfect theme song.

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