Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

Last night I tweeted the following about the New York Times article, “Militia Charged With Plotting to Murder Officers“: The tweet resulted in a few responses (the second of which, from @kichigai,  made the strong case that “I can’t help but think their being Christian helped kill off the label. IE: Terrorists can be white [...]

Via @timoreilly, Add-Art replaces online advertisements with curated art images via a Firefox plug-in: This will obviously raise eyebrows in the the advertising community, as well as in companies that depend on advertisement revenues. But it also raises important questions about authorship, the dissemination of art, hacking theory, and web site design. Who, for example, is the [...]

Via ReadWriteWeb, the New York Times has announced the release of 2.8 million articles with 28 searchable fields in an new API (Application Programming Interface). Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb writes: What do you do when your industry is shifting under your feet? Taking the lead with radical steps is one strategy. The New York Times did [...]

On November 6, 2008, reports began circulating online and on TV that Sarah Palin did not know (or could not grasp the idea) that Africa was a continent and not a country. The story, embedded with other Palin-McCain-infighting-related revelations that were, according to FoxNews’ Carl Cameron (see below), “put off the record until after the [...]