Later On (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
This interview in New Scientist is quite interesting. It begins: Under the name Belle de Jour, Brooke Magnanti wrote about her experiences as a prostitute for a London escort agency, and her blog became a bestselling book, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, and a television series. She has a master’s degree in genetic epidemiology [...]
BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here’s my talk on CUNY’s New Business Models for News at our summit in New York: Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo. And here’s my latest Prezi:
memoirs on a rainy day (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here are 2 more interviews with famous sex blogger Belle de Jour, who revealed herself as a research scientist named Brooke Magnanti. One from the New Scientist and one from Freakonomics. From what I read last week, it appears that she only outed herself because the Daily Mail was going to bust her. She got wind [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lucy Mangan on the people in the headlines Stripped blogger Belle de Jour The blogger-turned-bestselling-author who documented her secret life as a call girl revealed after five years of carefully maintained anonymity her true identity as scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti this week, apparently in a pre-emptive strike against an imminent Daily Mail exposé. For all those who had long held the dream...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tavi Gevinson is getting more famous by the day. She was all over New York Fashion Week — on many a front row, at that — and “defines Rodarte for Target,” the Mulleavy sisters told Teen Vogue . ( Teen Vogue adds the designers have been fans of her “cutting fashion commentary” since they first read her blog StyleRookie , and even sent her a custom pair of hand-knit...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive apps for both the Android and BlackBerry, which are now available for download...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As the founder of Weblogs Inc., Jason Calacanis is, in many ways, the cofounder of the new AOL, which will be built around the company's network of 80 blogs and content sites. So when we asked the Mahalo CEO for his take on AOL's future, we thought he'd toss a helpful quote our way. We got much more. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Kudos To AOL's Tim Armstrong... Here's To A New Beginning...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp , Seesmic's Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn't giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that's a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you'd expect a canned response along the lines of "we may do that in the future"...
A Wandering Eyre (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I have been listening to TWiT, The Week in Tech podcast, for a little while now and I really like the banter on the show. I am a couple weeks behind, but show 219 had a great discussion of net neutrality. The transcript is available, but here are my two favorite quotes: Jason Calacanis: But for [...]
New Scientist - Love (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The professional scientist and former prostitute Brooke Magnanti told her agent, "If New Scientist asks for an interview, I'll do it." We did ask
Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Originally published in MediaPost's Search Insider , October 29, 2009. A few years ago, I interviewed usability expert Jakob Nielsen about where search might go in the future. He shared an interesting insight: " I think there is a tendency now for a lot of not very useful results to be dredged up that happen to be very popular, like Wikipedia and various blogs. They're not going to be very useful...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Julian Ware-Lane / @warelane It is pleasing when you hear of someone who enjoys their work. In Belle de Jour ’s case she would appear to be in a minority in her chosen area of employment. But that Dr Brooke Magnanti has had to out herself in an act of pre-emption against the Daily Mail perhaps suggests a hint of disingenuousness on her part. Just over three years ago I worked a stint in Amsterdam....
An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As a break from editing the bare breasts and sex out of my Egyptian novel Eye of the Moon for a US publisher, I’m reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? simultaneously. The three make very odd companions while I shift from 1500 BC to the 16th century, and then on to the digital world of now. In What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis suggests we have to...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Blogger Tavi Gevinson will be the guest of honor at Comme des Garcons' holiday party.
Microsoft 10 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The popular Twitter application from Seesmic is moving away from the Adobe AIR platform and over to Windows where it will use .NET and WPF technologies. The company also announced a Silverlight version is in the works for some sometime next year which will re-introduce the cross-platform capabilities previously offered via Adobe AIR. Considering that some of the top Twitter applications currently...
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