Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong

with Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington
in Technology, Current Affairs
on Thursday, February 17, 2011 * * * * *

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Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong on AOL's purchase of The Huffington Post

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    1. doodah  02/23/2011 08:31 AM Report

      I found this on the uncurated internet. Which means, it could be true, OR complete and total nonsense. We need AOL's blessing and Arianna's Good Name. Alright, BREAK!

      "Digital Curation (definition)

      Digital curation is not a term that is broadly used yet. What is it? (emphasis added)

      Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use. (DCC)

      The term digital curation is...the actions needed to maintain digital research data and other digital materials over their entire life-cycle and over time for current and future generations of users. (DCC)

      ... it is the active management and appraisal of digital information over its entire life cycle. (Pennock)"

    2. JohnGelles  02/21/2011 08:23 AM Report

      AOL plus the HUFFINGTON POST equal CURATED content -- you can compare theirs with other BRANDS and find them worthy of your TRUST -- or NOT ???

      Quoting (and editing) some of the transcript:

      ..... TIM ARMSTRONG: A little bit, maybe. There`s a content platform which will allow us to create any quality and scale we want, and then there`s actually strategy we will use for the type of content we will have. And those two things get confused on the Internet today.

      We have a lot of technology, Arianna has a lot of technology, some of the best technology about creating content. It`s important how you use that technology. We believe strongly in journalism and in edited content. We

      believe in premium content and really serving consumers` needs.

      ... We have a different model from our competition -- which is we`re going to serve and help people with content. And I think when you think about the migration, the next phase of the Internet it is going to be in Silicon Valley. It`s also going to be New York and Los Angeles and London and it`s going to be in Bangalore. And a lot of that content that comes out of those areas is going to be driven not on self-service platforms but for curation. As

      the world is getting bigger people need more curation. You, Charlie, are a prime example of that.

      CHARLIE ROSE: I hope so.

      What is it you and Arianna have to accomplish?

      ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: I really believe that we can provide incredible service here. ... we can improve education and people can share their stories -- this is really important.

      ========================================

      So we are and will be looking for equal or better branded curated content from this purchase/merger -- better NEWS that is -- than we find on the WSJ, NYT, SLATE, the NYKR, SALON, VANITY FAIR, and dozens of other outstanding foreign and focused brands that we have at the moment.

      I hope one or more of them address the revolution of our time in Wisconsin and the Arab nations that seeks to find jobs and income for tens of millions of unemployed persons -- including readers of tweets and slogans.

      There is a slogan about sacrifice in America where the customers we hope to revive are being fired to save money. We do than all the time, and then wonder why we have depressions. Rose, Huffington and Armstrong all have this under control -- read them tomorrow and you'll be educated too.

    3. blank  02/19/2011 01:52 AM Report

      she was saying something about having the same vision and moving forward together and he was saying something about getting married the audio quality needs to improve on these videos cuz it's like hard to listen to my head starts trippin i'd rather wait longer for the video to load and have better audio quality it makes my ears start ringing all messed up especially the satellite interviews from other countries

      http://charlierose.http.internapcdn.net/charlierose/digitalgrill_content/021711_4.flv

      it downloaded to my computer but quicktime wouldn't open it so i couldn't find out what the audio quality is (62.7 mb)

      itpc://www.charlierose.com/view/itunes/11489

      i couldn't get that to work on itunes

      it doesn't matter but this is the result of low internet sound quality

      "see i took a shower then i passed out i just woke up and i was dreaming i was in lebanon or something but it was really egypt but i was visiting my mom in some neighboring country like a ten minute walk away and i was with somebody i ran into people from my high school and college who were working abroad there and making a lot of money but it was an awful place i thought i woke up my bedroom door was open so the refrigerator was going rrrrrrrrrrrrr at it's hard full blast my computer was stuck on something and the fan was going hard at full blast my ears were screeching crazy pain and my jaw was stuck and pain in my face and it was all so bad i was borderline convulsing from being sick and throwing up and it's still really bad it's gotten into this super high pitch that makes me want to throw up and if i bite my teeth together it gets way louder and even way more higher pitch and i really don't want to live i want to kill myself i can't take life it's really the worst thing i can imagine and i think maybe there are some type of massages that relax your head or exercise but i can't even get the energy to go and every time i wake up my heart is going all crazy i feel like i'm going to have a heart attack and i think i'm going to die from all these years of never sleeping but being too tired to move i'm not surviving i'm in the worse hell that i can imagine and i want to die"

      see that's why the audio quality should improve the internet it's serious just a little amount i think this audio quality is below average plus actually i know it is because 62.7 mb is very low for 14 minutes of video

      if i talk to somebody in real life it doesn't do that to me it's the lower quality the audio on the internet the worse it gets

      http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/phys-ed-what-really-causes-runners-high/

      now would you rather live in a country without free speech i am in full support of overthrowing all of these dictators

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12462491

      freedom of thought

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12508074

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11784603

      there should be an easy way for a democratic process/constitution to go into place after something like this in egypt happens why be forced to invent the wheel all over again every time it happens

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12512732

      i would actually like to completely escape from the middle east and just work on my own problems i can't handle it i'm not even for freezing settlements i think they should just go for it get whatever land they can then declare a border for israel and nice memories of palestine their country got stolen from them it was a nice memory why people would go to the desert and try to create a country in that world is beyond me oh yeah it's because they read some book and it turned out it's their holy land

      let's see they went to the middle east because jerulsalem is their holy city they created a whole country and then you want to block them from having the city that would defeat the whole purpose and logic of why they went there the whole meaning of why they exist

      http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5788/screenshot20110218at902.png

      see it's the site of the dome of the rock

      http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2414/screenshot20110218at908.png

      see look at the map

      http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8153/screenshot20110218at916.png

      if i put my hands on my ears and tap the back of my neck with my fingers there are all these crazy harsh clanging bell sounds so really it's just coming down to reality

      they at least need to move the people from the gaza strip to the west bank and make the gaza strip israel or do they want to make israel and palestine one country (with multiple states within it) with everybody living there equally and free or do they want to kick the palestinians out of the israel and into neighboring countries

      or should all jewish people get massacred in genocide i don't see what the issue is

      all i know is i'm extremely messed up and i gotta get better i can't see a doctor and do everything i need to do (for whatever reason i'm not saying it's somebody's fault) and so the two state solution is giving me NOTHING and so people are going to DIE from existing in my mind as a result i'm the only real terrorist around here

      also something like audio quality might have ten times the effect on me but i'm sure it's subconsciously affecting other people

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution

    4. doodah  02/18/2011 08:16 PM Report

      ...bye bye Arianna, enjoy your retirement. That's what's going to happen, after 'Slick' owns your name. Did you hear that?, he said, "the world is getting bigger." ..oh yeah

    5. doodah  02/18/2011 07:59 PM Report

      My introduction into the internet was through AOL. And that is something I will never forgive. I have no respect for anybody associated with AOHell.

    6. REMant  02/18/2011 12:22 PM Report

      AOL needs something, that's for sure. Their problem, as I think was well-illustrated here, lies in the persistent attempt to control the universe. I nearly never look at the Huffington Post, and when I do, I find a lot of opinionizing and meaningless plaudits from the peanut gallery. Unfortunately, news sites are all going in this direction. It isn't news aggregation, but audience aggregation, and I see this if not as a Hail Mary pass, at least an Albert Haynesworth acquisition. There's no doubt that if the Internet is going to be worth anything, it is going to be because of its content, but that content is being generated by users themselves, and it will be difficult for anyone to live off it. No one has so far.