What have I learnt today? Blogging about books, media, words, Singapore and the world today. The blog that was Blowin' in the Wind.
What’s behind the enduring appeal of The Great Gatsby? The lives and dreams of its star-crossed lovers? Or the fact that it reads like a dream?
Reading it again, I was utterly entranced, such is F Scott Fitzgerald’s gift as a writer. He can show you beautiful people and places and make music with his words.
Now you can shoot the whole neighborhood and never worry about where to store the bodies. Stash them in the cloud. Your free Flickr account just got bigger than your hard drive. Visit Flickr and see what it says: “Smile. Everyone gets a free terabyte.” That’s equal to 537,731 6.5 megapixel photos, it helpfully adds. [...]
Continue reading...Did you read the Guardian riffing off me, reminding Yahoo screwed up big-time with GeoCities? And did you read Tumblr founder David Karp’s memo announcing the marriage with Yahoo? He signed off with the F-word and a “yeah”. Rock on. This guy’s copacetic. He was not being rude. It was Tumblr being Tumblr. And that [...]
Continue reading...Yahoo is ready to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, many of whose users want nothing to do with Yahoo. I have been tracking Tumblr posts on Yahoo and here are two examples of how Tumblr users feel about the deal.
Continue reading...Let’s hope Tumblr survives a deal with Yahoo, which pulled the plug on GeoCities. Remember GeoCities, an online community like Tumblr? Founded in 1994, GeoCities was the third most visited site on the World Wide Web by 1999 when it was bought by Yahoo for $3.57 billion in stock, according to Wikipedia. You could build [...]
Continue reading...Did blogs come first or newspapers? The Daily Courant, first published in 1702, was the first British daily newspaper, we are told. It was a one-page newspaper, with advertisements on the reverse side, according to Wikipedia. Better known by far, however, are the periodical Tatler (1709-1711) and the daily Spectator (1711-1712) founded by Joseph Addison [...]
Continue reading...The pen is mightier than the sword. Look at what happened to the word, “magazine”. There was a time when it meant an arsenal, an armoury, a storehouse for arms and ammunition. Maybe that is how the cartridge-holder for rifles and machine-guns came to be called a “magazine”.
Continue reading...Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak can’t be happy with The Economist calling his a “tawdry victory” in the recent general election. But how did a saint lend her name to something so cheap as “tawdry”?
Continue reading...Could positive thinking and the law of attraction be inspired by religion? We have all heard the saying, “Faith can move mountains.” That is a paraphrase from the Bible. The words are spoken by Jesus Himself. Here is the story from the Book of Matthew.
Continue reading...Now Flipboard users can curate their own magazines on Android phones and tablets, too, just as they have been doing for some time now on iPhones and iPads. What’s more, they can add articles, pictures and videos to their Flipboard magazines straight from the desktop using a new Flipboard bookmarklet called Flip it.
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