Aram Zucker-Scharff

Top of the Interwebs: What Makes Andy Carvin Tweet? The latest TechCruch interview talks with NPR’s senior strategist on his role as a node of information and curator. Self-aggrandizement: Ebooks’ greatest obstacle is their inability to escape from the metaphor of bound paper. Pwety: The infographic that spoofs infographics. Worth looking at today: New Evernote release. I’m […]

I’ve been thinking of how to engage more of a participant’s senses as they read printed content. I’d really like to figure out a way to go beyond the standard tricks or video clips and animated text. If you are not familiar with the term, a music cue is the use of sound, usually musical, to signal a performer […]

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Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy a while back and has now put itself up for sale. This isn’t really top of the internet as much as it is ‘everyone on the internet saw this coming in 1999.’ The slow-to-awaken video rental chain, which is now $1 billion in debt, is fielding an offer for $290 million.

The quickly spreading unrest has now hit Libya, Iran and other locations. It is both inspiring and horrifying. I’d do a round up, but you are better off just scrolling Andy Carvin’s Twitter stream. I really hope someone is archiving everything he puts out.