- Thought of the Day
Would it be such a terrible thing? If newspapers were managed by new groups of people with no real romantic link to the glory days of newspapers, and freed from management grown fat and lazy on the easy profits of the glory days of American local newspapers maybe titles can innovate again and start thinking about how they serve audiences better in print and online rather than arguing about trivial details of the content of dying Monday to Friday newspapers or creating unreadable wrappers for supermarket inserts on Sundays.
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- Print the Truth
Very cool looking site that has a daily political poster ready for printing out and distributing far-and-wide.
Some of my favorites:
- Go Cubs Go!
I’ve been slacking quite a bit on this blog especially in terms of talking about the Cubs but honestly I was holding my breath for today, waiting for the playoffs to start. Of course, now my anxiety is going to be even worse since the Cubs should be considered favorites to win the NL pennant. They have the best team in the National League and a really good pitching staff with arguably four closer-type arms starting with Dempster, Zambrano, Harden and Lilly.
This really could be the year but it won’t be easy.
Bill Plaschke thinks it will be a Dodgers-Angels World Series and dismisses the opening round series with:
The Dodgers open against a Chicago Cubs team that hasn’t won a World Series in 100 years and will mess it up again. You know it, I know it, and, most important, they know it.
It’s always funny how non-Chicago writers can talk up the futility of the Cubs because of their history yet doesn’t mention the Dodgers haven’t won a playoff game since the 90’s. For more Chicago-friendly coverage, you should check out the Trib.
But enough about that, today is the start of hopefully an amazing October. I have my Cubs shirt on, walking around Downtown LA and have already received a few Go Dodgers! in response.
Let’s play ball!
- Clearing the Tabs on a Saturday Night
10 Books that will substitute a computer science degree - ugh, I’ve only read a couple of them. I guess I know now what to add to the Amazon Wishlist.
5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know
Sexy layouts for the not-so-sexy-programmer - I do take offense to the not-so-sexy assumption though…
Archiving Angeles: The Times Building
Ma.gnolia: Jumping into the Stream
Reia Programming Language - a Python/Ruby-like scripting language for the Erlang virtual machine.
- protoFilter
A former co-worker of mine has started a new blog, protoFilter. Looks good.
protoFilter aims to simplify dry, hard-to-read, lengthy articles and research papers for those interested in web applications and technology. Additionally, at times we’ll attempt to provide easy to digest takeaways from each article from the perspective of a Internet Marketer (e.g. SEO, SEM, social networker, email marketer), Product Manager, and/or Product Marketing Manager.
- Space Invasion
Space Invasion looks like a game I might just need to put on the iPhone.
- Top 125 Places to Have a Beer
All About Beer magazine has come up with a list of the top places you should have a beer before you die. I’m a little bummed that there isn’t one entry for Los Angeles and that I’ve only been to a few of these places.
Lots of work to do.
- Political Browser
The Washington Post launched a new site, Political Browser. It looks like a very useful place to check every day for the latest political thoughts and ideas. I do find it a bit disheartening though that such a big deal is being made at the linking out to other sources of information.
Are we still that scared of linking to other people? Really?
- Some things I’ve liked recently
Here’s a few things I’ve come across the last few days which are pretty nifty…
- The Las Vegas Sun’s weather page. Extremely clean design with lots of data but easy to read and understand unlike ours.
- EveryBlock is now in LA… Watch out.
- Simple Update Protocol looks like a mix between a cache and sending out Pub-Sub notifications.
- The Onion has invaded Chicago.
- The Blueberry Mint Lemonade from Lemonade is absolutely amazing.
- LED Football for the iPhone.
- Fumblerooski is a perfect compliment to the start of college football.
- Looking forward to trying the Nickel Diner
