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links for 2008-07-23
Household Waste Incinerators | UK Without Incineration Network Buy your next home next to a household waste incinerator! (tags: mapping maps household-waste incinerators) The Guardian’s excellent Web 2.0 blog-up | The Register Web media aren’t that different. Just like the dead tree merchants they can pontificate worthily to small audiences, scream less worthily to larger…
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The seductive powers of early television and advertising
Raymond Williams in 1974 talking about the attractions of telly and advertising, from the truly dreadfully titled Television: Technology and Cultural Form – page 132: Many people who are aware of the manipulative powers of television and radio, or of its apparently inexhaustibly appeal to children, react in ways which implicitly suppress all the history…
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links for 2008-07-22
Why Newspapers Shouldn’t Allow Comments | Gawker “Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper’s site… You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion.” (tags: gawker journalism media comments newspapers blogs) Online viewing won’t kill TV – CBS | Reuters.com…
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Harold Evans on the New York Times
Great interview with Harold Evans in the Independent: “Should The New York Times be redesigned? Absolutely,” he says. “To give you one simple example of newspaper design. If you have one very attentive ear, you can hear rows in New York as people try to follow a section jump, from the first section to C…