Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under enormous pride, phes, earthquake in china, countless thousands, delivering news, global team, ays, citizenry, traumas, tidal wave, digital cameras, safety net, earthquakes, triumphs, co workers, hurricanes, 1m, transparency, ace, sunlight | 
Not long ago, I was sitting across from the CEO of a media company. He showed enormous pride in the social value of his organization - in delivering news to the world via a global team of thoughtful, award-winning journalists.
He asked what made me proud to be at Sun. Among a number of things, I said I'm proudest of the role Sun plays in making sure stories like his are told - "Our technologies, after all, are how your journalists file their stories, and we play a central role in how you present them to the world via the network." I am unreservedly proud of Sun's role in making the world a more open, transparent place.
Beyond professional journalism, the network is a social utility for the world's citizenry - whose digital cameras and cell phones and blog postings and emails form a tidal wave of transparency. We live in a world whose traumas and triumphs are visible instantaneously. Sunlight's not just a great disinfectant, it's a wonderful safety net, too - you can't fix the problems you don't know about. But once you know about a problem, even small attempts to help, multiplied over the long tail of the internet, can make an extraordinary difference.
Over the past few days, the world has watched an earthquake in China lead to the death and dislocation of countless thousands. The San Francisco Bay Area, where Sun is headquartered, has felt the impact deeply - beyond co-workers, friends and family, we've suffered our own traumas with earthquakes. A cyclone in Myanmar triggered similar thoughts among those of us effected by hurricanes in New Orleans, Louisiana.
But the world's an increasingly transparent place. And any help, from $1 to $1m, multiplied over the world, makes a difference.
Which is why I'm sending personal funds to the relief organizations I trust to bring aid to those stricken.
And I'm encouraging you to take the time to make a similar choice.
Tagi: enormous pride, phes, earthquake in china, countless thousands, delivering news, global team, ays, citizenry, traumas, tidal wave, digital cameras, safety net, earthquakes, triumphs, co workers, hurricanes, 1m, transparency, ace, sunlight
Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under enormous pride, phes, earthquake in china, countless thousands, delivering news, global team, ays, citizenry, traumas, tidal wave, digital cameras, safety net, earthquakes, triumphs, co workers, hurricanes, 1m, transparency, ace, sunlight |
Not long ago, I was sitting across from the CEO of a media company. He showed enormous pride in the social value of his organization - in delivering news to the world via a global team of thoughtful, award-winning journalists.
He asked what made me proud to be at Sun. Among a number of things, I said I'm proudest of the role Sun plays in making sure stories like his are told - "Our technologies, after all, are how your journalists file their stories, and we play a central role in how you present them to the world via the network." I am unreservedly proud of Sun's role in making the world a more open, transparent place.
Beyond professional journalism, the network is a social utility for the world's citizenry - whose digital cameras and cell phones and blog postings and emails form a tidal wave of transparency. We live in a world whose traumas and triumphs are visible instantaneously. Sunlight's not just a great disinfectant, it's a wonderful safety net, too - you can't fix the problems you don't know about. But once you know about a problem, even small attempts to help, multiplied over the long tail of the internet, can make an extraordinary difference.
Over the past few days, the world has watched an earthquake in China lead to the death and dislocation of countless thousands. The San Francisco Bay Area, where Sun is headquartered, has felt the impact deeply - beyond co-workers, friends and family, we've suffered our own traumas with earthquakes. A cyclone in Myanmar triggered similar thoughts among those of us effected by hurricanes in New Orleans, Louisiana.
But the world's an increasingly transparent place. And any help, from $1 to $1m, multiplied over the world, makes a difference.
Which is why I'm sending personal funds to the relief organizations I trust to bring aid to those stricken.
And I'm encouraging you to take the time to make a similar choice.
Tagi: enormous pride, phes, earthquake in china, countless thousands, delivering news, global team, ays, citizenry, traumas, tidal wave, digital cameras, safety net, earthquakes, triumphs, co workers, hurricanes, 1m, transparency, ace, sunlight
Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under enormous pride, phes, earthquake in china, countless thousands, delivering news, global team, ays, citizenry, traumas, tidal wave, digital cameras, safety net, earthquakes, triumphs, co workers, hurricanes, 1m, transparency, ace, sunlight |
Not long ago, I was sitting across from the CEO of a media company. He showed enormous pride in the social value of his organization - in delivering news to the world via a global team of thoughtful, award-winning journalists.
He asked what made me proud to be at Sun. Among a number of things, I said I'm proudest of the role Sun plays in making sure stories like his are told - "Our technologies, after all, are how your journalists file their stories, and we play a central role in how you present them to the world via the network." I am unreservedly proud of Sun's role in making the world a more open, transparent place.
Beyond professional journalism, the network is a social utility for the world's citizenry - whose digital cameras and cell phones and blog postings and emails form a tidal wave of transparency. We live in a world whose traumas and triumphs are visible instantaneously. Sunlight's not just a great disinfectant, it's a wonderful safety net, too - you can't fix the problems you don't know about. But once you know about a problem, even small attempts to help, multiplied over the long tail of the internet, can make an extraordinary difference.
Over the past few days, the world has watched an earthquake in China lead to the death and dislocation of countless thousands. The San Francisco Bay Area, where Sun is headquartered, has felt the impact deeply - beyond co-workers, friends and family, we've suffered our own traumas with earthquakes. A cyclone in Myanmar triggered similar thoughts among those of us effected by hurricanes in New Orleans, Louisiana.
But the world's an increasingly transparent place. And any help, from $1 to $1m, multiplied over the world, makes a difference.
Which is why I'm sending personal funds to the relief organizations I trust to bring aid to those stricken.
And I'm encouraging you to take the time to make a similar choice.
Tagi: enormous pride, phes, earthquake in china, countless thousands, delivering news, global team, ays, citizenry, traumas, tidal wave, digital cameras, safety net, earthquakes, triumphs, co workers, hurricanes, 1m, transparency, ace, sunlight
Posted by on under hydrogen fuel cell, science edu, s rays, horiz, fuel cells, auto makers, mdash, solar panel, compas, race car, h2, bastard, stati, o2, cue, horizon, ing, sun |
The original Horizon H-Racer hydrogen fuel-cell toy just got an update: Before, you could fill it with water and let 'er rip. Now, you can actually steer the bastard.
The new kit—because it may look like a race car but let's be honest, it's a science edu-toy—still comes with the solar panel and hydrogen station so that you can use the sun's rays to convert H2O to H2 and O2. But the car itself now has glowing LEDs, responds to an IR remote, and runs longer and faster with the same amount of fuel. 
Taking a cue from auto makers and gas companies who release literally green advertisements to convince the public they aren't part of the problem, Horizon decided to change the car's translucent tint from blue to, yes, green. The difference, of course, is that Horizon definitely isn't part of the problem. Only time will tell, however, if they are part of the solution. Meantime, here's a fun Christmas gift for anyone that still has $120 to spend on progress! [Horizon via Gizmag]
Tagi: hydrogen fuel cell, science edu, s rays, horiz, fuel cells, auto makers, mdash, solar panel, compas, race car, h2, bastard, stati, o2, cue, horizon, ing, sun
Posted by on under tokyo street, novel approaches, gizmodo, target, reticle, telling time, ants, last days, current time, graph, locks, watches, scope, bugs |
These watches from Tokyo Street take three novel approaches to telling time: one draws a target, the other makes a graph, and the last displays ants. Glowing, inscrutable little ants.
The Ever-Increasing watch slowly draws a graph of the time which, though it displays what some might call a rather predictable function, gets the point across just fine. The SCOPE II is more direct: a small targeting reticle locks onto the current time, which is arranged among a bunch of incorrect ones. Then there's the ANT.
It's not clear what each of the the ANT watch's ants symbolize, but if you take for granted that they probably correlate somehow to the current time, then you can accept that it's at least a useful icebreaker. The SCOPE II and Ever Increasing watches are priced at $180 and the ANT at $120 from Japanese ??berimporter and Gizmodo Gallery suppoter Gizmine. [Tokyo Street at Gizmine]
Tagi: tokyo street, novel approaches, gizmodo, target, reticle, telling time, ants, last days, current time, graph, locks, watches, scope, bugs
