Links 2-8-11: Olbermann on Current, Bar Karma, Your Boss is Amazon
Top of the Interwebs:
Keith Olbermann will become the chief news officer for Current TV, Al Gore’s cable channel. His high profile voice may be just the thing to help pull the excellent Current channel out of obscurity. Oh and he’ll be able to continue making those donations to Democrats.
Self-aggrandizement:
In what, I promise, is a total coincidence today I wrote about Current TV’s new community-powered show Bar Karma and the remarkable tool they use to aggregate community content, Storyteller. If you are interested in tools for building narrative and communities, you should check out my analysis.
Pwety:
“Design trumps content in launch of first major tablet newspaper” says fontsinuse.com. The Daily’s font use is broken down in this wonderfully detailed post. Now you too can type like Rupert Murdoch.
Worth looking at today:
The New Yorker has a great article on how the internet gets inside us.
After a government official saw her ‘tweets from last night’ in the news she tried to sue the Daily Mail. Unfortunately for her, the UK courts found that your tweets aren’t private and can be quoted in the UK press.
Amazon adds real pages to the Kindle software, finally you can coordinate your reading with your Kindle-less friends. Too bad for them.
The Catholic church gives its blessing to an iPhone app made to guide worshipers through confession. As if Jobs didn’t have enough of a god complex already.
At Carnegie Mellon, the My Boss is a Robot project is trying to determine if the Mechanical Turk and its caste of low-skill laborers will be able to replace journalism. The new future: Amazon will use your payphrase as a trigger to help complete complex tasks… and kill!
Twitter has a great article up on how Al Jazeera leveraged Promoted Tweets in their coverage of Egypt.
One more vote against Gawker’s redesign from The Next Web.
