The Week's Links: October 10, 2014

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Facebook is more important to news distribution than you think, and journalists are freaked out | Poynter.http://owl.li/CfCWz
  • ◉ What Drives Success? http://owl.li/Cdari
  • How to make tea correctly (according to science)http://owl.li/CfSFy
  • Twitter, MIT Create New Research Lab to Analyze Every Tweet http://owl.li/CfD1Z
  • 20 Terrifying Two-Sentence Horror Stories.owl.li/CfNXG
  • Watch rare footage of the Senators beating the Giants in the 1924 World Series owl.li/CFO
  • Vice News to Develop Scheduled Live Shows With Skype Deal owl.li/CfF6K
  • The Story Behind The Web's Weirdest, Hardest Riddleowl.li/CfEQp
  • The reporter who brought down the Secret Service's director owl.li/CdHX5
  • How the humble umbrella became a HK protest symbol owl.li/Cdol9
  • Why do honeybees die when they sting? owl.li/CdHKU
  • ◉ Simon Sinek: Leadership Is Not a Rank, It's a Decision. owl.li/CdakQ
  • Why Rumors Outrace the Truth Online owl.li/Cdoa3
  • ◉ Steven Pinker On Bad And Good Writing -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/10/9…
  • The Off-the-Grid Chat App That's Helping Hong Kong Protestors Organize owl.li/Cdw9c
  • French Author Patrick Modiano Wins The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature owl.li/CvXBR
  • The Airbnb of classical music owl.li/CdnYe
  • Sense of Humor Changes With Age owl.li/Cdw1Z
  • 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest owl.li/Cdvjd
  • Beautiful Aerial Photos Of Doomed Vacation Beaches, Captured Before They Disappear owl.li/CdmqR
  • The self-made man, history of a myth: From Ben Franklin, to Andrew Carnegie, to Sophia Amoruso.owl.li/CdhzL
  • Your Inner Drone: The Politics of the Automated Future owl.li/CdeoW
  • Photos are a new language: After Hong Kong, Instagram Isn’t Just for Brunch owl.li/Cdhju
  • ◉ Is Classical Music Culturally Relevant?owl.li/Cda9d
  • There is much to learn from the paper towelowl.li/CdfHM
  • ◉ The Alarming New Research on Perfectionism -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/10/8…
  • Ad of the Day: Leica Recreates 35 Famous Photos to Celebrate a Century of Photography owl.li/Cddfd
  • Is Coding Art? owl.li/Cdfod
  • Steven Levy launches Backchannel on Mediumowl.li/CrjLJ
  • British Museum to be digitally recreated in Minecraftowl.li/CdnLN
  • The Psychology Behind Costco's Free Samplesowl.li/Cdeyq
  • Century-Old Sherlock Holmes Film Discoveredowl.li/CdbbH
  • Inside The Newsroom: How To Go From ABC News Intern To Executive Producer And DC Bureau Chiefowl.li/Cd4Ju
  • What strategists need: A meeting of the mindsowl.li/CaWTK
  • 2 Japanese and 1 American Share Nobel in Physics for Work on LED Lights - NYTimes.com owl.li/CoZdB
  • The Untold Story Of The Peace Sign owl.li/Cd4Be
  • ◉ Great Work owl.li/Cda2h
  • The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisationowl.li/CaWPy
  • Everything Dies, Right? But Does Everything Have To Die? Here's A Surprise - Radiolab owl.li/Cd17d
  • ◉ Google And The Right To Be Forgotten -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/10/7…
  • ◉ Google And The Right To Be Forgotten -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/10/7…
  • What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean | TED-Ed owl.li/CaOic
  • Taking a Gap Year at 50: One Couple's Experienceowl.li/CcPVP
  • The Most Engaging Ideas Leave Something Outowl.li/CaYU1
  • Mozart's A major piano sonata K331: the manuscript is discovered! owl.li/Ca1AT
  • French Fries Around the World owl.li/Ca1r1
  • Travel Through Deep Time With This Interactive Earthowl.li/C8BDw
  • This is inspired: The Pixar Theory, Illustratedowl.li/Ca0VN
  • ◉ Anxiety owl.li/Cd9U0
  • Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF owl.li/C8AOk
  • Mathematician Predicts Who Will Live and Die in Game of Thrones. Or you know, read the books.owl.li/Ca0AH
  • ◉ Serial: The "This American Life" podcast spin-off -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/10/6…
  • What Do We Know About Human Intelligence?owl.li/C8AHl
  • Australian Heatwave Is Linked Directly to Climate Change — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/C8BOp
  • Wow: Antarctica Has Lost Enough Ice to Cause a Measurable Shift in Gravity owl.li/C8BHc
  • Stunning Entries From The 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest owl.li/CaDdT
  • The Bézier Game: Clever game to help you master the pen tool in design apps. owl.li/C7HcE
  • Clouds crashing in the sky owl.li/C7CHx
  • A clever way to estimate enormous numbers - Michael Mitchell owl.li/C7icn
  • Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci painting laid bare by new scanning technique owl.li/C7kvj
  • Hey There Little Electron, Why Won't You Tell Me Where You Came From? owl.li/C7hnW
  • Why Rumors Outrace the Truth Online - NYTimes.comowl.li/C7kld
  • What We’ll Be Doing in 2022 - Harvard Business Review owl.li/C7gwo
  • The US is ready to redefine “television” to include the internet owl.li/C7jhs
  • The Guardian has a new format for liveblogs to make them more readable owl.li/C7OfB
  • Human evolution: Fireside tales owl.li/C7iTT
  • Domesticated Robots And The Art Of Being Humanowl.li/C7fEx
  • A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem's Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom owl.li/C7eWG
  • Why Did Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets? owl.li/C3LTe
  • What Shakespeare Sounded Like to Shakespeare: Reconstructing the Bard's Original Pronunciationowl.li/C7eEt
  • Cricket Protein Bars Just Secured $1 Million in Funding owl.li/C00j8
  • The Real Link Between the Psychopathology Spectrum and the Creativity Spectrum owl.li/C7erE
  • Beyoncé’s Surprise Album Release to Be Analyzed By Harvard Business School owl.li/BZZSd
  • The Brains and Braun of Dieter Rams owl.li/C4wsL
  • Domesticated Robots And The Art Of Being Humanowl.li/C7fU4
  • New molecule found in space connotes life originsowl.li/C3LXS
  • A look inside the MIT Media Lab [slideshow]owl.li/BZUe0
  • One secret to the success of Quartz, BuzzFeed and Gawker: They look at news as a service owl.li/BZqLL
  • Netflix Takes a Lot of Viewing, May Not Hurt Ad-Supported TV owl.li/BZcKq
  • How NYTimes.com cut load times and got faster for users owl.li/BZpUm
  • ◉ Demands owl.li/BW1Hs
  • The Stunning Paper Sculptures Of George Nelson's Right-Hand Man owl.li/BYO6H
  • ◉ Confessions of an Advertising Man -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How Media Innovators Suroosh Alvi of Vice Media, Chet Kanojia of Aereo, and Eli Pariser of Upworthy Test the Limits owl.li/BZgt4
  • Jeff Goldblum Gets Topless For GE, NYC Gets A New Heart: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week owl.li/CfFEc
  • Milton Glaser and Cynthia Rowley on How to Use Design as a Competitive Business Advantageowl.li/BY1Ul
  • CNN, anywhere: How TV Everywhere strategy is evolving in the world of cable news» Nieman Journalism Lab owl.li/BZdqn
  • Where Books Are Banned, The Internet Can Be a Lifesaver | Electronic Frontier Foundation owl.li/BZd63

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Steven Pinker On Bad And Good Writing

The Economist in conversation with psychologist and word-usage expert Steven Pinker. He has produced a new style guide with cognitive sensibilities called "The Sense of Style".

/Source

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Alarming New Research on Perfectionism

Melissa Dahl in New York Magazine's Science of Us

In one 2007 study, researchers conducted interviews with the friends and family members of people who had recently killed themselves. Without prompting, more than half of the deceased were described as “perfectionists” by their loved ones. Similarly, in a British study of students who committed suicide, 11 out of the 20 students who’d died were described by those who knew them as being afraid of failure. In another study, published last year, more than 70 percent of 33 boys and young men who had killed themselves were said by their parents to have placed “exceedingly high” demands and expectations on themselves — traits associated with perfectionism.
/Source

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Google And The Right To Be Forgotten

Jeffrey Toobin, in The New Yorker, on the challenges of implementing the right to be forgotten law in Europe:

In 1998, a Spanish newspaper called La Vanguardia published two small notices stating that certain property owned by a lawyer named Mario Costeja González was going to be auctioned to pay off his debts. Costeja cleared up the financial difficulties, but the newspaper records continued to surface whenever anyone Googled his name. In 2010, Costeja went to Spanish authorities to demand that the newspaper remove the items from its Web site and that Google remove the links from searches for his name. The Spanish Data Protection Agency, which is the local representative of a Continent-wide network of computer-privacy regulators, denied the claim against La Vanguardia but granted the claim against Google. This spring, the European Court of Justice, which operates as a kind of Supreme Court for the twenty-eight members of the European Union, affirmed the Spanish agency’s decisions. La Vanguardia could leave the Costeja items up on its Web site, but Google was prohibited from linking to them on any searches relating to Costeja’s name. The Court went on to say, in a broadly worded directive, that all individuals in the countries within its jurisdiction had the right to prohibit Google from linking to items that were “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed and in the light of the time that has elapsed.”
The consequences of the Court’s decision are just beginning to be understood. Google has fielded about a hundred and twenty thousand requests for deletions and granted roughly half of them. Other search engines that provide service in Europe, like Microsoft’s Bing, have set up similar systems. Public reaction to the decision, especially in the United States and Great Britain, has been largely critical. An editorial in the New York Times declared that it “could undermine press freedoms and freedom of speech.” The risk, according to the Times and others, is that aggrieved individuals could use the decision to hide or suppress information of public importance, including links about elected officials. A recent report by a committee of the House of Lords called the decision “misguided in principle and unworkable in practice.”
/Source

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Serial: The "This American Life" podcast spin-off

This American Life just launched a new podcast spin-off called Serial. Unlike TAL, it will cover one story across many episodes in a serialized manner. Two episodes are currently available. It is engrossing and leaves you wanting to know more as they investigate one case. Beyond the journalistic work that has gone into making the series possible, it may single-handedly introduce a lot of people, all the TAL listeners, to the idea of podcasting, via a page that explains how to download podcast with an adorable video

 

 

 

/Source

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.