Istanbul is burning and Erkan offers you trivia: "100 top movies, 10 books to define 20th century, 100 words to know etc etc
According to the Guardian:
The 10 books which the public felt best defined the 20th century, in order of publication, were:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
as "Paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century.."
(Via Kottke.org) The American Film Institute has refreshed their list of the top 100 movies...here's a listing comparing the new list with the one from 1998.
"Temporal anomalies in time travel movies, an investigation of how time travel is represented in movies like Donnie Darko, 12 Monkeys, and Back to the Future....
The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding
The 2007 MacTech 25 "honors the most influential people in the Macintosh community".
Pirate myths uncovered: they never said "arrr", there was no plank walking, and no treasure maps. The "arrr" and the pirate accent "originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s"
100 Words That All High School Graduates — And Their Parents — Should Know
- Blogger, 1999. Blog posts = public email messages. Instead of "Dear Bob, Check out this movie." it's "Dear People I May or May Not Know Who Are Interested in Film Noir, Check out this movie and if you like it, maybe we can be friends."
- Twitter, 2006. Twitter = public IM. I don't think it's any coincidence that one of the people responsible for Blogger is also responsible for Twitter.
- Flickr, 2004. Flickr = public photo sharing. Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake said in a recent interview: "When we started the company, there were dozens of other photosharing companies such as Shutterfly, but on those sites there was no such thing as a public photograph -- it didn't even exist as a concept -- so the idea of something 'public' changed the whole idea of Flickr."
- YouTube, 2005. YouTube = public home videos. Bob Saget was onto something...."
Loic Le Meur on How the Internet is changing politics:
1. more authenticity, transparency, fewer lies
2. new leaders
3. more participation
4. ease to raise funds
5. new way to govern, listen more, govern with the people
6. risk of acting short term rather than long term
7. groups, kids, can have a collective voice (positive: against war in Iraq, negative: terrorists hiring young muslims)
8. making current institutions and media history
9. more global versus more local, raising influence of private internet organisations such as Google, Gates investing more than the World bank
10. power shifting to the long tail ? will current organisations survive the Internet ? (new light organisations can touch tens of millions, such as Bebo few employees but 10s of millions of users)
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Posted by: Hans A.H.C. de Wit | June 26, 2007 12:48 AM