After 33 years with the company, on Monday James Caraher “sent a ‘very short email’ to the board and staff that … said he had decided to resign, effective immediately.”
Tag: 05.01.14
Sonic Boom: The Difference Between Sound (Good) And Noise (Bad) And How Digital Tech Is Changing The Balance
Megan Garber looks at the nature of sound, how acousticians are changing the way cities regulate noise, how engineers can alter sound levels in everything from earbuds to buildings, and how appliance manufacturers calibrate the noises their products make so that the sounds become marketing tools. (includes audio deconstruction of a vacuum cleaner)
Twitter Is Not Dying – It’s About To Get Even Bigger
“Wall Street – along with everyone else who’s down on Twitter because it has ‘a growth problem’ – is making a mistake by comparing it to Facebook. Twitter is not a social network. Not primarily, anyway. It’s better described as a social media platform, with the emphasis on ‘media platform’.”
The Best Art Deco Designer Whom Almost No One Remembers
Hildreth Meière’s murals, medallions, mosaics, and stained glass windows earned her success and admiration during her lifetime, and many of them can still be seen today – from Radio City Music Hall and a Manhattan synagogue to the Cathedral in St. Louis and the Nebraska State Capitol.
Al Feldstein, 81, ‘The Soul Of Mad Magazine’
“He had been a writer and illustrator of comic books when he became editor of Mad four years into its life and just a year after it had graduated from comic-book form to a full-fledged magazine. … Feldstein gave Mad its identity as a smart-alecky, sniggering and indisputably clever spitball-shooter of a publication.”
The Furshlugginer Greatness Of Al Feldstein’s Mad Magazine
“In fact, the Jewishness of Mads humor cannot be overstated: It was, for many people outside New York, the first place they ever heard words like knish and shnook. … We would not have had Spy magazine without Mad, nor The Daily Show, nor Colbert, nor CollegeHumor.com, nor Gawker.”
Seattle Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Dies Suddenly
“The death came as a shock to Jerry Manning’s wide circle of friends and colleagues in Seattle and beyond. In early April he told the Times he expected to recover fully from the operation, and he announced a line-up of plays for the 2014-15 season.”
Copyrighting Marx: Challenging The Ownership Of Ideas
To some, it was “uncomradely” that fellow radicals would deploy the capitalist tool of intellectual property law to keep Marx’s and Engels’s writings off the Internet. And it wasn’t lost on the archive’s supporters that the deadline for complying with the order came on the eve of May 1, International Workers’ Day.
How Netflix Is Changes The Economics Of The Internet
“Now that companies like Netflix and Google are pushing such enormous amounts of video across the network, the economics of the internet are changing.”
Paper – Still The Essential Reading Device?
“Maybe it’s time to start thinking of paper and screens another way: not as an old technology and its inevitable replacement, but as different and complementary interfaces, each stimulating particular modes of thinking.”