Dave Lee

This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 - And Beyond

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:03:03 +0000

This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 - And Beyond

"When I went in the local fans booed me, I felt a bit offended. But in the end they clapped and..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:33:46 +0000

““When I went in the local fans booed me, I felt a bit offended. But in the end they clapped and invited me for coffee and a meal, and the club managers gave me a shirt. They wished me a merry Christmas.””

- BBC News - Lone Udinese football fan wins hearts in Italy

"Longform is not about length or form, but actually about a mindset. Both the author and the reader..."

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:04:42 +0100

“Longform is not about length or form, but actually about a mindset. Both the author and the reader come together with one ambition: to weave a story that sucks everybody right in and doesn’t let go until it’s finished. The best longform is bewitching, captivating and deep — regardless of how long it takes you to get to the end. I’ve read pieces just a few hundred words long that feel more like longform than others that ramble into the thousands.”

- Bobbie Johnson, editor of MATTER

Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:59:42 +0100

Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center (via NASA - New York City on September 11, 2001)

Drug Smugglers Pose Underwater Challenge in Caribbean

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:10:15 +0100

Drug Smugglers Pose Underwater Challenge in Caribbean:

“For more than 24 hours last September, a Coast Guard helicopter and speedboat pursued drug traffickers and their contraband across the Caribbean Sea. Finally they caught up with the improbable vessel, the latest innovation in the decades-old drug war. It was a submarine.”

The Difference Between A $99 Suit And A $5,000 Suit, In One Graphic

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:47:13 +0100

The Difference Between A $99 Suit And A $5,000 Suit, In One Graphic:

Very nice from NPR.

"I got hit by a squirrel."

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:01:31 +0100

“I got hit by a squirrel.”

- - Scunthorpe manager Alan Knill

BBC Sport - Scunthorpe manager Alan Knill suffers squirrel accident

"If you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!"

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:41:30 +0100

“If you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!”

- - Barack Obama

I am Barack Obama, President of the United States — AMA : IAmA

Kobo Offers Independent Bookstores Ebook Revenue Share

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:18:39 +0100

Kobo Offers Independent Bookstores Ebook Revenue Share:

From The Next Web:

“Kobo has today announced a deal with the American Booksellers Association that will see its devices sold through independent bookstores across the US. Not only that, it will offer a revenue share deal on ebook sales.”

"Twitter doesn’t want you. The nerds, the tinkerers, the hackers, the people who build something from..."

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:36:16 +0100

“Twitter doesn’t want you. The nerds, the tinkerers, the hackers, the people who build something from nothing - you are not Twitter’s demographic.”

- — Very good read, looking hard at Twitter’s recent changes.

Curious Rat - Home - Twitter Doesn’t Want You

Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:14:16 +0100

Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates:

In what’s a refreshingly simplistic take on beating piracy, Aussie public broadcaster ABC is to stream the latest Dr Who for audiences down-under almost immediately after it airs in the UK.

They hope doing so will mean impatient fans driven to piracy will watch it legally online instead - after all, they’re just desperate to see the show.

The programme will air on Australian TV a week or so later.

"Everyday a Monday out here."

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:02:12 +0100

“Everyday a Monday out here.”

- A collection of heart-breaking letters home from Cyrus Thatcher, killed in action while serving in Afghanistan. Aged 19.

‘Hello mum, this is going to be hard for you to read …’ - Home News - UK - The Independent

Those Mars pictures keep on getting better. Here’s the...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:26:25 +0100

Those Mars pictures keep on getting better. Here’s the first high-res offering.

(via Curiosity rover sends back first high-resolution colour picture of Mars | Science | guardian.co.uk)

Keep in mind as you put together your Neil Armstrong packages tonight…

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:36:00 +0100

Keep in mind as you put together your Neil Armstrong packages tonight…:

Very interesting — and a glimpse of how tough it can be to get it ‘right’ when it comes to visuals.

“OK, Neil Armstrong is dead. Clearly, that’s a page-one story for most of you. Here’s one thing I do not want to see on page one tomorrow: Arguably the most famous picture taken in the history of mankind.”

"We believe Harry has compromised his own privacy"

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:18:04 +0100

“We believe Harry has compromised his own privacy”

- The Sun, on why it has posted the images of a naked Prince Harry in Las Vegas

Prince Harry Vegas Pictures: The Sun publishes photos of naked Prince | The Sun |News|Sun Says

Facebook recodes iOS mobile app to address speed complaints

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:37:00 +0100

Facebook recodes iOS mobile app to address speed complaints:

Facebook has rewritten its iPhone and iPad app from scratch to address complaints that it was slow to use.

The program had previously been created in the HTML5 language. A team of engineers has now rewritten it in Objective-C and says it should now respond to commands twice as quickly.

The move may encourage users to spend more time using the program, increasing their exposure to adverts.

It previously warned the wrong mobile strategy would damage profits.

How the next The Thick of It series was filmed three times faster than other shows

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:05:23 +0100

How the next The Thick of It series was filmed three times faster than other shows:

It took three years for the political comedy The Thick of It to start production again. But each episode took less than four days to film. The cast and crew explain how the show is filmed three times faster than others.

"[Harry] was overheard telling one of his security aides he had to be careful or else he’d be “up on..."

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:39:17 +0100

“[Harry] was overheard telling one of his security aides he had to be careful or else he’d be “up on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube thanks to somebody’s mobile phone camera.””

- Well quite.

In Las Vegas, Prince Harry wary of female attention - Chicago Sun-Times

"He wept in the way most of us would weep if we were told we were going to die. For Tony, the news..."

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:47:37 +0100

“He wept in the way most of us would weep if we were told we were going to die. For Tony, the news was worse. He was going to live.”

- Moving work from BBC Wiltshire’s Lee Stone.

BBC News - Tony Nicklinson: The trapped man

Opinion: Come off it. No one works in Tech City!

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:33:25 +0100

Opinion: Come off it. No one works in Tech City!:

“Unfortunately, many in the east London tech hub these days unwind before ever winding up in the first place. Indeed, some new-breed “entrepreneurs” appear to have had something approaching a work bypass.”