Stephanie Posterizes The Cloud

Friday night, at The Center for Fiction

Tickets: $8

All proceeds will go to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

A once-in-a-generation collaboration of bestselling authors combine their skills to create one incredible, spellbinding mystery, No Rest for the Dead (Touchstone).
 
This is the first time so many major bestselling authors have been involved in a single project. Contributors Peter James, Marcia Talley, John Lescroart, RL Stine, Diana Gabaldon, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Palmer, Jonathan Santlofer, Andrew Gulli and Gayle Lynds will read from No Rest for the Dead and speak about the process of creating a collaborative, serial novel.


No Rest for the Dead editors Andrew and Lamia Gulli have partnered with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and all royalty proceeds (excluding contributor expenses) will go to this foundation.

 

via centerforfiction.org

AND it's at the lovely Center for Fiction!

Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story - Andrew Winston - Harvard Business Review

So the journal article adds this up to an obvious conclusion: if you want to reduce your food's carbon footprint, eat less meat. In short, "Shifting less than one day per week's worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food."
via blogs.hbr.org

There is of course more to the story.....Click and read and enjoy. And eat more veggies! : )

How to Save the News - Magazine - The Atlantic

How to Save the News

Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what’s killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business, the company wants to fix it—for commercial as well as civic reasons: if news organizations stop producing great journalism, says one Google executive, the search engine will no longer have interesting content to link to. So some of the smartest minds at the company are thinking about this, and working with publishers, and peering ahead to see what the future of journalism looks like. Guess what? It’s bright.

Read the rest: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/how-to-save-the-news/8095/

More on the future of news. This time from the Atlantic, and Google.

I think that this is a really important topic I can't stop thinking about. New career? ;)

2011: From syndicator to curator

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Over drinks with my brothers recently, I tried and failed to share the insights I had gotten from a few trendcasting posts relating to online media I read just before the new year.

It all started with this incredible, thoughtful Lifehacker post from Gawker's Nick Denton on why Gawker is moving beyond the blog. It is deep and detailed, and got my mind spinning in a way that your average blog post pretty much never does. (I fully recommend reading the entire thing - the point I am about to make does not do the breadth of ideas justice.) This is a very narrow, concrete case that I think exemplifies a larger shift in how we experience, produce and consume media content.

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carry-on bag obsession

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I have been a bad blogger lately. Mostly because I am thoroughly engrossed in writing for eyebeam.org and elnya.org - a teeny bit because I just don't think about it. ;)

So anyway, in the spirit of getting better - Check out this sweet / informative email about purchasing the perfect carry-on bag from my boyfriend. :)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik
Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Subject: carryon bag obsession


If you want to get hooked start here: http://www.onebag.com

http://www.consumersearch.com/luggage-reviews
http://www.1bag1world.com/

http://www.redoxx.com/Airline-Carry-On-Luggage/Air-Boss/91018-Air%20Boss/100/Product
http://www.tombihn.com
http://www.toughtraveler.com/lug/carryon.asp
http://www.meipacks.com/TravelPacks01.html
http://www.briggs-riley.com/category/productDetail.aspx?id=Convertible-Cabin-Bag_224&sec=travel
http://www.ebags.com/product/ebags/weekender-etech-convertible/15026?productid=56582
http://www.flyertalk.com/

Might be best to stay away.

Erik

Are Cell Phones the Cigarettes of the 21st Century? (via GOOD)

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For anyone who watches Mad Men the unhealthy lifestyle choices so pointedly on display sometimes seem over the top. Contrived, even. But the reality is that smoking in situations that today would seem absurd or illegal—at the doctors office, in your own office, or while pregnant, for example—were a lot more common than our 21st-century political correctness might allow us to believe. Cultural norms are a powerful force.

Possible biological effects from wireless communication were found in 67 percent of studies without funding from the cell phone industry (28 percent from studies with industry funding), which Henry Lai, a research professor at the University of Washington, says is not trivial.

And while it's unlikely that the negative effects of cell phones are anywhere close to those of smoking, it does raise the question: Will our grandchildren look at us talking on our cell phones the moment our plane touches down, or while sitting in the doctors office, with the same mix of nostalgia and moral superiority that we feel toward those dated characters on Mad Men?

via good.is

Downgrading my (jailbroken) iPhone... because iOS 4 does NOT work on a 3G.

It is hard to refrain from speculations about while Apple would release an iOS that breaks your phone.....I don't even think I have to share my thoughts here, I know all us 3G users are thinking the same thing, reading the same blog posts.  So today in search of functionality, I downgraded back to 3.1.2 (which is where I was at, pre iOS 4 debacle). It is sucking up hours of my life as I watch my phone, connected via its umbilical cord to iTunes, relearn itself and who it is. This blows.

ANYWAY, the point of this post - Lifehacker, and then CNET via YouTube, posted some instructions online on how to downgrade. They are great, they are thorough. They didn't work for me. I looked up others, but they all basically had the same steps - and they didn't work. Maybe because my phone is jailbroken. Maybe I did something wrong.

So me, being the adventurous person that I am, made my own way. Here is what I did:

1. Connected phone to iTunes
2. Option clicked Restore.
3. Navigated to my PWN'd 3.1.2 ISPW file and select it.
3. Downgrade happened.
4. Restored to last back up, pre iOS 4.0, by following the prompts in iTunes.
5. VOILA. (unless you are on T-Mob, then you have to re-Unlock your phone, and THEN voila!)

It was easy. Slow only because of the resyncing I had to sit through.

Good luck!

ps. on a slight tangent: if you are jailbroken, and are having trouble with Cydia (like I did) this is a whole 'nother can of worms... Answers here-

• http://blog.c22.cc/2009/07/19/fixing-cydia/

or here

• You can also follow the direction in this .pdf to fix using diskaid for mac or windows
https://files.getdropbox.com/u/15373...Cydia18Jul.pdf

It is not fun and is slow, but be patient. Keep googling, keep trying! Success will be yours.