linkdump for 2007.03.21
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Goodbye Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, hello Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz
The Alamo cinema chain’s downtown location is moving from the Warehouse District to the old Ritz theater on Sixth Street. An Alamo projectionist and RTF doctoral student discusses the implications of the move.
(del.icio.us tags: film austin)Searching for King Leopold’s treasure
According to this blog post, mining interests are poring over musty old maps in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa, looking for what I presume to be coltan in the DRC. The blogger argues that the museum should make the maps available freely online,
(del.icio.us tags: Congo crowdsourcing map)Fall of Autumn: How Offset Printing Works
In this video interview, an offset printing practitioner explains his reasons for choosing offset printing for his publishing projects.
(del.icio.us tags: oldmedia publishing zine interview video production print anarchism)Cat Holocaust
Neal Pollack offers a very touching account of how his wife’s cat Teacake died from eating the tainted pet food now under recall. He goes on to suggest that economics and administration are responsible for these pet deaths.
(del.icio.us tags: publicpolicy economics blog)GNE Museum
Screenshots of The Game Neverending, the predecessor to Flickr reveal the initial design plans of the social software service. I never played GNE, but when I started using Flickr in 2003, it was weird.
(del.icio.us tags: Web2.0 history Flickr information_design)Valleywag: Web 2.0 buzz
Valleywag has created a chart of mainstream media mentions of Web 2.0 as extracted from Nexis and suggests that the buzzword is peaking.
(del.icio.us tags: Web2.0 buzzword news hype)Escapable Logic: The People Law trumps the Power Law
From Weblogsky comes this interesting discussion of social media audiences that attempts to erode the importance of the idea of “power laws.”
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