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(original pic via VVoice Blog)

“If you look at ad spend by medium in the United States, I pulled this data from the U.S. Statistical Abstract. Of course, the big gorilla in the room is TV. You look at broadcast and cable TV, you’ve got by far the largest expenditure on advertising on those two media. Surprising enough, the next biggest thing is direct mail. Then after direct mail comes the — comes the newspapers. You look at how things have changed over the years, broadcast TV has gone down a little bit. Cable TV has grown by quite a bit, almost a factor of three. The internet’s grown from nothing in 1995 to about 5% of ad expenditures in 2008. And newspapers, As you can see, have contracted from about 23% down to maybe 13% or so. So the big changes are apparent in this diagram. And I guess the next talk is going to be perhaps some more up-to-date figures on the advertising business and newspapers. Newspapers, of course, are still about three times as large in terms of ad revenue as the internet, so there’s still quite a major force in the advertising world.”

- Hal Varian

from Nieman Lab: “Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism.” The above is a quote and a slide from that talk. (See more in Nieman Lab’s post).

(DARUSHIMO.com Note: From this point forward, all quotes from anyone who is at the time working at Google will be attributed to “The Google”)

Portspace

Portzone

Portworld

Portplace

Porthole

Portlanta

Port-au-Oregon

Pooregon

So now we have our finalists, which shall it be?

UPDATE: Votes are in and we have our winner! It’s….

…..POOREGON!

The profile description from a fake profile on OkCupid (chrysaliis82). This profile’s avatar is a 28-year-old blonde girl. The photos are of 3 different, slender blonde girls, two of which are wearing bikinis.

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My self summary:

I have a strong, bitter, determined character. I’m cynical, and probably too sarcastic. Luckily enough, I may be considered quite handsome (from a certain angle and a certain light), and I never had problems finding someone to hang out with. All that is gold does not glitter, wrote Tolkien. I don’t know if I’m made of gold, but I’m quite sure not to glitter…

Trying to describe myself. I spent my childhood moving. Rolling from place to place. Not learning any idiom enough well to feel it “my” language. Feeling a stranger in a strange land… Then I grew up, and kept moving. This feeling of “not-being-part-of” is probably the most striking aspect of my persona.

[Still unfinished, come back later]

What I’m doing with my life:

Wasting my time, working as a secretary in a uselessly big company. Daydreaming about a change.

I’m really good at:

Hiking and camping alone. Solving differential equations.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food:

Books. These are some authors I love (in random order): Jack Kerouac; Hermann Hesse; Don Winslow; 川端 康成 (Kawabata Yasunari); Allen Ginsberg; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ray Bradbury; Richard Dawkins; 村上春樹 (Haruki Murakami); Kurt Vonnegut; 三島 由紀夫 (Yukio Mishima); William Burroughs; Charles Bukowski;Stephen Jay Gould; Bertrand Russell; Philip Dick; Tariq Ali; Alfred Tarski; よしもと ばなな (Banana Yoshimoto); Kurt Gödel; Douglas Adams; Noam Chomsky; 井上 靖 (Yasushi Inoue); Neal Stephenson; Jonathan Stroud; Thomas Bernhard.

Music: European classical, I love baroque.

Food: if I can swallow it, I shall digest it.

Education

Dropped out of space camp.

from a presentation “delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a party retreat in Boca Grande, Florida on February 18.”

(Politico)

“Bring It All To Me” - Blaque and JC Chavez (And don’t forget “Blowin’ me up with her love”)

Bust A Bucket - Dan Reed and the Portland Trailblazers (1990)

“Do you have a Spouse or Fiance in the China?”

(via)

still from Ha by Juvenile

“Printing A Book, Old School” - How Books were made in 1947

There’s nothing/too much I could say about this video. Just watch it. All of it. (v maudnewton)

via @ericwareheim

Skalpel - 1958

Hold On - En Vogue

This is a rad video, but Free Your Mind is the cut. I’d forgotten how many amazing songs En Vogue made, including Giving Him Something He Can Feel, Don’t Let Go from the Set It Off Soundtrack, and, of course, My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It).

xkcd - Honor Societies

Boondoggle

this is a funny spoof. Funny in that it exists.

I have to guess that at least one of Google’s trademarks or patents was infringed upon by this video.

Solange Knowles w/ Dirty Projectors cover “Tell Me” by Groove Theory. The Solange/Dave do the Girl/Guy back and forth around 2:15.

What’s Up - Seasoning’s Greeting

jeopardy theme 84-91

“Tegan and Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Sarah”

Dr. Horrible Emmy Broadcast Interruption - 2009

Apple - Switch Campaign (02-03) - Hamilton Morris

wonderbreadhead:

jertronic:undo

Charlie Brooker - How to Report the News

via laughingsquid

This is AWESOME

(via pantsetc)

via pleasegoeasyonme

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

“It just feels right to hold the internet in your hands”

“You don’t even think about it you just…do.”

the iEye

if this product were a ship, i’d want to be captain.

Apple’s Tablet Vision 1990’s

Happy Tablet’s Eve, everyone. Here’s a holiday classic.

via daringfireball

still from my viewing of this video, which F*** Yeah Philosophy! describes as “Jürgen Habermas making the case for intellectualism”

So Insane- Discovery- A Video Animation

The first thing I did when I heard this song was dance. The second thing I did was to start thinking that it would be cool to do a fun little video or animation for it, yet I don’t have any cool software like after effects or photoshop. So whats a girl to do?!?! I used what I had: paint, powerpoint, and iMovie. It’s not top notch but I had a vision and created it anyways…I hope you enjoy and ….I hope you dance. (lol)

This is Awesome.

(via antifreezehyperdrive)

Introduction to Cybernetics (PDF) by Ross Ashby, the first major book on the subject. (See wiki-p for descript) Google’s new patent. I don’t know what the patent is, and cannot tell whether or not this should be patentable. “The meaning of Network Culture” (v omnivore) by Kazys Varnelis, which may or may not be the best example of how theory is “just so far behind the real world.”

this is pretty great.

(via nickzed)

by carlplanton

tv 6 news update. so many great shots.

“baobao Said” from the Meaning Full Spam series

Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles

letterheady:

Albert Einstein, 1932 | Source

terrysdiary:

Me and Lindsay

Imagine she’s 4 ft tall and he’s picking her up by her nape. like a puppy.

bruce bickford - inversion layer

(This post is in honor of Monkey Town, in wBurg, where many good memories were made and where I first saw this. Sad to see them go.)

“howgreatisourgod” by stephainehowell8

Epik High - “Map the Soul”

zoom ubbie dubbie rap (v laughing squid)