This is were I post my curated links on digital media, new technologies and their implications on media and journalism (as well as other stuff I find interesting). Follow me here on Tumblr if you want a sneak peek at the links I’ll be posting throughout the day on Twitter - plus additional bonus material! Follow @cgranier Come… drink my Kool-Aid!Tumblr (3.0; @cgranier)http://cgranier.com/<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/">IMDB's rating of "This Is Spinal Tap" goes to eleven</a>: <p>This Is Spinal Tap (1984)</p>http://cgranier.com/post/18070372091http://cgranier.com/post/18070372091Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:40:44 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzf79ngCwP1qz735mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course<br/> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968</a></p> <p>(</p>http://cgranier.com/post/17647012152http://cgranier.com/post/17647012152Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:58:35 -0500<a href="http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/02/sample-app-with-backbone-js-and-twitter-bootstrap/">Article: Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap</a>: <p>Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap</p> <p><br/> (</p>http://cgranier.com/post/17646790487http://cgranier.com/post/17646790487Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:51:57 -0500<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/10/network-michael-rigley/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=8bdb1f9203-c%3AOm+Says+-+Saturday%2C+February+11%2C+2012+d%3A02-10&utm_medium=email">Network: The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated | Brain Pickings</a>http://cgranier.com/post/17422611588http://cgranier.com/post/17422611588Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:12:46 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz71zyxNgL1qz735mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669003/smarter-than-you-think-us-highways-mapped-like-a-subway-system">Ingenious Infographic: U.S. Highways, Mapped Like A Subway System</a>)</p>http://cgranier.com/post/17383576838http://cgranier.com/post/17383576838Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:23:58 -0500<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-roger-boisjoly-20120207,0,2248999.story">I did not know this side of the story: Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch</a>http://cgranier.com/post/17208206045http://cgranier.com/post/17208206045Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:26:49 -0500<object width="400" height="284"> <param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011X/Blank/ShawnAchor_2011X-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ShawnAchor_2011X-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1344&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work;year=2011;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=what_makes_us_happy;event=TEDxBloomington;tag=business;tag=happiness;tag=psychology;tag=science;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="400" height="284" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011X/Blank/ShawnAchor_2011X-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ShawnAchor_2011X-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1344&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work;year=2011;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=what_makes_us_happy;event=TEDxBloomington;tag=business;tag=happiness;tag=psychology;tag=science;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object> <br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html">Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | Video on TED.com</a>)</p>http://cgranier.com/post/17157492062http://cgranier.com/post/17157492062Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:47:18 -0500““In a more futuristic energy-saving scenario, customers’ virtual networks could migrate from one data center to another around the world, temporarily settling wherever power and cooling cost least.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://m.technologyreview.com/computing/39631/">Technology Review</a></em>http://cgranier.com/post/17152303839http://cgranier.com/post/17152303839Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:35:00 -0500<p><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SI1QmkSNR8M/Ty2124SR3kI/AAAAAAAAAQw/09FJZJ3dtqQ/s1600/GVPsmallversioncolor.jpg" alt="Patriots v. Giants"/></p> <p>(Source: <a href="http://twitter.com/mklopez/status/166332447313772544">http://twitter.com/mklopez/status/166332447313772544</a>)</p>http://cgranier.com/post/17128666491http://cgranier.com/post/17128666491Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:31:00 -0500<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-GXO_urMow&sns=em">The future can't come fast enough - amazing video</a>http://cgranier.com/post/17029568764http://cgranier.com/post/17029568764Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:23:42 -0500“Huge quantities of black ink spewed into Window Bay, alarming local environmentalists given the extensive damage caused to the area’s local mice and penguins. The spill ocurred as a giant tanker, the Epson-Valdez, ran aground due to a faulty driver.”<br/><br/> - <em>As seen on “<em>Driver fault causes huge spill</em>” - posted on <strong>May 08, 2003</strong> on my original Radio Userland blog.</em>http://cgranier.com/post/16929831080http://cgranier.com/post/16929831080Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:21:24 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lys5m9B3fd1qz735mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Computer Languages Family Tree</p>http://cgranier.com/post/16929704368http://cgranier.com/post/16929704368Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:18:08 -0500<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/02/indiana-senate-passes-bill-putting-religion-in-science-class.ars">Going nowhere fast: Indiana Senate passes bill putting religion in science class</a>: <p>Indiana Senate passes bill putting religion in science class</p>http://cgranier.com/post/16919487854http://cgranier.com/post/16919487854Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:08:36 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq7vbTi3v1qz735mo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The Intersecting World of Reality TV - an infographic</p>http://cgranier.com/post/16871211235http://cgranier.com/post/16871211235Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:11:34 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq301Ove31qz735mo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEAQ7H30TB64/">OWC drives</a> will praise and admire your Mac ;-)</p>http://cgranier.com/post/16867401516http://cgranier.com/post/16867401516Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:26:25 -0500<a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/02/01/the-ultimate-test-of-your-logos-effectiveness-a-5-year-old-kid/?awesm=tnw.to_1D1ap">Really cool study on logo recall</a>: <p>The ultimate test of your logo’s effectiveness? A 5-year-old kid</p>http://cgranier.com/post/16864499255http://cgranier.com/post/16864499255Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:52:00 -0500“”[…] to describe more censorship as “less censorship” by comparing it to even worse hypothetical censorship is a caricature of free expression.””<br/><br/> - <em>early-bird-special.html</em>http://cgranier.com/post/16864151034http://cgranier.com/post/16864151034Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:38:47 -0500<a href="http://brooksreview.net/2012/01/if-i-were-ceo/">Food for thought for any evolving industry: If I Were CEO</a>: <p>If I Were CEO</p>http://cgranier.com/post/16347729827http://cgranier.com/post/16347729827Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:51:41 -0500<a href="http://i.imgur.com/QKquv.jpg">Autographed? Epic Fail</a>http://cgranier.com/post/15829568505http://cgranier.com/post/15829568505Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:55:30 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx02uxBYsn1qz735mo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.splatf.com/2011/12/better-blogging/">10 steps to better blogging</a><br/> Dan Frommer, <a href="http://www.splatf.com/2011/12/better-blogging/">splatf.com</a></p> <p>Now pic­ture me look­ing seri­ous.</p><p>Almost 5 months into writ­ing SplatF, I’m start­ing to type up some new ideas — most­ly for myself, but also for folks like my ad part­ners — of where I’d like to take the site and what I’d like to do with it o…</p> </blockquote> <p>A good place to start…</p>http://cgranier.com/post/15009714092http://cgranier.com/post/15009714092Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:52:09 -0500