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Get excited...: What’s next?

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:33:16 -0400

(Poster by Matt Jones on my office wall)

After 7.5 years at Al Jazeera, I’ve decided to move on to explore further opportunities. Having worked at the intersection of media, technology and entrepreneurship, I’m interested in exploiting the structural changes in the media industry…

Tumble again?

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:16:14 -0400

Wondering whether I should be tumbling again…

"Gupta has gotten more attention than most searching for organ donors online, and he’s using his..."

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:09:59 -0500

“Gupta has gotten more attention than most searching for organ donors online, and he’s using his platform to promote how simple donating bone marrow has become. No longer is a painful needle to the hip the only method. Instead, the process is similar to giving blood. It usually takes two to four sessions of two to six hours each for a person to give bone marrow. Unlike donors of vital organs like kidneys, marrow donors can give again and again. “Rather than just one transplant they could enable 10 or 20,” said Montgomery.”

- Photojojo Founder Amit Gupta Uses Social Media to Find a Bone-Marrow Donor - The Daily Beast (via steph)

Spectral Alphabet: Fukushima

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:46:35 -0500

Spectral Alphabet: Fukushima:

spectralalphabet:

Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.

Backyard, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.

Paulo & Joe, Iwaki, 2011.

Earlier this month, I rode with the Safecast crew out of Tokyo and onto Fukushima Prefecture. It was raining and in the back of the van we each had Geiger counters for…

Awesome. Via Mika Ueno Anyone know the source? Would love to...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:15:00 -0400

Awesome.

Via Mika Ueno

~~Anyone know the source? Would love to attribute but it’s an orphan image..~~

Thanks for the Sleuthing Joey!

Possible source of image.

Nice dubstep

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:52:00 -0400

Nice dubstep

Applying computational linguistics to Cyberbullying at the Media Lab

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:10:55 -0400

Applying computational linguistics to Cyberbullying at the Media Lab

Stop the hysteria (by TheDanielKahl) Daniel’s plea to...

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:18:59 -0400

Stop the hysteria (by TheDanielKahl)

Daniel’s plea to foreign media from Japan.

ニュースの深層3/17(木)「福島原発事故　メディア報道のあり方」1/3 (by chorochannel)

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:10:50 -0400

ニュースの深層3/17(木)「福島原発事故　メディア報道のあり方」1/3 (by chorochannel)

Japanese nuclear problem described with a story about poop.

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:07:27 -0400

Japanese nuclear problem described with a story about poop.

brownearedbulbul: otsune: 枝野さん仮眠中。 #edano_Nero on...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:05:39 -0400

brownearedbulbul:

otsune:

枝野さん仮眠中。 #edano_Nero on Twitpic

素晴らしいコラ。心が和む。ところで枝野さんちゃんと寝たの？

“Rescue scene bringing tears to folks across Japan. After...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:34:19 -0400

“Rescue scene bringing tears to folks across Japan. After being trapped for 3 days, beaming old man, says ‘Daijoubu! Let’s rebuild!’ Words of those old enough to remember destruction of WWII carry special weight.” via Mimi

Main stream media echo chamber sounding false alarm about TEPCO staff evacuation

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:56:00 -0400

This morning at ~~8:30AM~~ 11:15AM March 16 JST Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano held a press conference to talk about the smoke billowing from Reactor 3 at Fukushima.

At this press conference, he explained that the radiation levels spiked and that TEPCO staff would be temporarily moved to a 安全な地域 or “a safe region”. He probably should have said 場所 or “location” as Hiroko Tabuchi pointed out to me.

The foreign press misunderstood this and started reporting that the TEPCO staff had evacuated the reactor causing a broad panic. Hiroko Tabuchi of the New York Times contacted the Nuclear Industry Safety Agency and TEPCO directly to clarify and confirmed that they had not in fact been evacuated, but just moved temporarily to a safer area inside the plant during the spike. Jun Seita then reported that as of 11:30AM, NHK was reporting that the staff were back to work.

The frustrating thing was that once this corrosive and sensational misinformation was in the main stream media via the wires, it was very hard to get them to fix it. Al Jazeera was the first that I saw to edit their news story to reflect that indeed they had not been evacuated.

At the same press conference Edano accidentally said 1000 millisievert instead of 1000 microsieverts causing further confusion in the media.

"Globalization is the modern articulation of the ancient ideology used by past elites to turn..."

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:21:44 -0500

“

Globalization is the modern articulation of the ancient ideology used by past elites to turn citizens into serfs and the natural world into a wasteland for profit. Nothing to these elites is sacred. Human beings and the natural world are exploited until exhaustion or collapse. The elites make no pretense of defending the common good. It is, in short, the defeat of rational thought and the death of humanism. The march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet. At this rate by 2030 only 10 percent of the Earth’s tropical forests will remain. Contaminated water kills 25,000 people every day around the globe, and each year some 20 million children are impaired by malnourishment. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now are at 329 parts per million and climbing, with most climate scientists warning that the level must remain below 350 ppm to sustain life as we know it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that the measurement could reach 541 to 970 ppm by 2100. At that point huge parts of the planet, beset with overpopulation, droughts, soil erosion, freak storms, massive crop failures and rising sea levels, will be unfit for human existence.

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Good point… This ad on that page is ironic. - Joi

https://picasaweb.google.com/joiito/Irony?feat=directlink
Good

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- Chris Hedges

RSA Animate of Slavoj Zizek slamming charity. Interesting,...

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:47:14 -0500

RSA Animate of Slavoj Zizek slamming charity. Interesting, funny, some good points, very Zizek, but ultimately too negative and wrong. ;-)

These people make me feel sorry for the rest of the Americans.

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:37:39 -0500

These people make me feel sorry for the rest of the Americans.

sunsurfer: Massive Rogue Wave, Brazil photo via foryoulove

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:17:05 -0500

sunsurfer:

Massive Rogue Wave, Brazil

photo via foryoulove

Angry Birds vs Pigs peace process. French negotiator. ;-)

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:56:00 -0500

Angry Birds vs Pigs peace process. French negotiator. ;-)

laughingsquid: The Winners of the Pictures of the Year...

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:13:18 -0500

laughingsquid:

The Winners of the Pictures of the Year International Are Announced

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot + Egypt mashup

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:12:14 -0500

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot + Egypt mashup

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Get excited...: What’s next?

Tumble again?

"Gupta has gotten more attention than most searching for organ donors online, and he’s using his..."

Spectral Alphabet: Fukushima

Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.

Backyard, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.

Paulo & Joe, Iwaki, 2011.

Awesome. Via Mika Ueno Anyone know the source? Would love to...

Nice dubstep

Applying computational linguistics to Cyberbullying at the Media Lab

Stop the hysteria (by TheDanielKahl) Daniel’s plea to...

ニュースの深層3/17(木)「福島原発事故 メディア報道のあり方」1/3 (by chorochannel)

Japanese nuclear problem described with a story about poop.

brownearedbulbul: otsune: 枝野さん仮眠中。 #edano_Nero on...

“Rescue scene bringing tears to folks across Japan. After...

Main stream media echo chamber sounding false alarm about TEPCO staff evacuation

"Globalization is the modern articulation of the ancient ideology used by past elites to turn..."

RSA Animate of Slavoj Zizek slamming charity. Interesting,...

These people make me feel sorry for the rest of the Americans.

sunsurfer: Massive Rogue Wave, Brazil photo via foryoulove

Angry Birds vs Pigs peace process. French negotiator. ;-)

laughingsquid: The Winners of the Pictures of the Year...

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot + Egypt mashup

ニュースの深層3/17(木)「福島原発事故　メディア報道のあり方」1/3 (by chorochannel)