the love
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
-Hugh MacLeod
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All roads lead to…Cork?
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Here’s a secret: I am pretty shy. Sometimes. But not most times! Like today when I jumped in the elevator and started talking to a guy I’d just seen check into my hotel here in New York. I could tell he was one of them there You’re-a-peein’ types.
ME: Where are you from?
HIM: Bay Area.
ME: Yeah, […]
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British legislation “an extended press release”
Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Wow, I never thought I would approvingly quote John Redwood (not in public, anyway), but he definitely nails it here. (I think exactly the same could be said of US legislation.) Thanks to Brian Micklethwait for the pointer, in a post in which he also nails something wonderful about the Labour regime in Britain (but […]
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Snapshots from New York
Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Random moments from just one hectic day in the Big Apple…
Madison Square Park:
NBC News at 30 Rock:
The best little bayou bar in, er, Manhattan:
All in a day’s work!
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Permit this, beeyotch
Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
We were doing a shoot this morning in Madison Square Park with Andy Plesser of Beet.tv when the park police (or whatever they’re called) rode up in their mini-Popemobile and tried to shut down filming. Why? We didn’t have a permit to film. What I loved was filming this whole thing and streaming it live […]
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New York, New York
Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Dean & Deluca goodies
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I’m back in my home away from home, Manhattan. Lots to do this week, and I’m glad I was able to find a great rate for The Alex, a beautiful, modern hotel in midtown. Staying somewhere plush really isn’t a luxury when you’re working a brutal schedule that kicks […]
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Moving on
Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
We shall hardly notice in a year or two. You can get accustomed to anything.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Rage platter for one
Posted on July 12th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
I can be a bit of a tyrant. I have specific ideas about how things should be done, and when someone does them differently, I can go a bit nuts. I try to keep this reaction to myself; often, I fail. I was discussing this over brunch with Hillary today and she pointed out a […]
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Why was this a b-side?
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
This is much better than many of the a-sides Richard Ashcroft has released. It was a b-side on, I think, Song for the Lovers (I’m too lazy to check). It has never made sense to me that it was relegated to such a lowly status.
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The professionals are getting good at being amateurs
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Or something like that. When the demand side starts supplying itself, what does that do to traditional suppliers? In the case of mainstream media, my friend Brian Micklethwait argues that it has made many of them better.
It’s as if, when the telephone first arrived, only a few hobbyists had seen the point of it, […]
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On the Home Office
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
My friend Michael Jennings now has his British citizenship! So smooth sailing with the Home Office from here on out? Not quite:
It is not terribly encouraging that my first interaction with this Service after becoming a citizen involved their making an error for which they blamed me, charged me, and inconvenienced me, even though I […]
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On China
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Claire Fox (yes, THAT Claire Fox):
The possibility that China could become a fully industrialised and urbanised society, with living standards akin to our own, has become the ultimate environmentalist nightmare.
Re-blogged from Samizdata without shame.
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The Vatican is using Qik
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
Believe it or not, this is one of about a dozen very cool things that have happened at work over the last couple of days. But it’s probably the only one that’s made me think, “Gosh, I wish my grandparents were alive to see this.” Big Pope fans, they were.
The first large use of […]
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External microphone + Nokia N95
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
If you’re recording Qik videos that you want to have professional quality audio, it’s relatively straightforward to attach an external mic to, for example, your Nokia N95. This will deliver sound that is much enhanced over what you can capture with the Nokia’s existing internal mic. All it takes are two cheapo connectors from Radio […]
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