February 2012
5 posts
There's a terrible stereotype about Web... →
“A terrible, pernicious thing has happened to journalists in the past decade, that’s had us second-guess everything we know.”
January 2012
6 posts
Thought You Should See This: Submit a Résumé?... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
No More Résumés, Say Some Firms is an interesting piece in the Journal looking at how companies are trying to implement more rigorous filtering systems for their hiring processes and avoid having to wade through countless impersonal CVs. Fred Wilson and his New York City-based VC firm, …
“All we are asking for is for a few channels where parents can be sure their...”
– Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. TV network lawyers are arguing that regulating nudity or profanity on any television channel violates free speech rights. (via thedailyfeed)
What Is Plagiarism? →
futurejournalismproject:
Salon gathers lawyers, academics, psychologists, the head of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists and others to debate what plagiarism actually is.
Notes Columbia University’s Emily Bell:
The core of what plagiarism is remains undented by the digital publishing environment. Copying out the words of others and passing them off as your own is still what it...
“Newspapers are struggling to learn new tricks. They are beginning to adjust to...”
– John E. McIntyre (via copyeditor)
December 2011
9 posts
Watchfastcompany:
The Power Of Circles (and we’re not talking about Google+ here).
In the 19th century, artists including Degas, Monet, and Renoir got together periodically to discuss their commissions, their patrons, and their industry. This circle met consistently, and the artists credited these small gatherings with not only making their careers but the rise of the impressionist movement.
Magazine?
Stephen Colbert: You used to be the managing editor of Newsweek, correct?
Mark Whitaker: I was.
Stephen Colbert: Okay, for some of my younger viewers, what was a “magazine”?
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November 2011
36 posts
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The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right →
Scientists are finding that the ability to detect sarcasm really is useful. For the past 20 years, researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance. Children understand and use...
The Vietnam Syndrome →
tetw:
by Christopher Hitchens
To be writing these words is, for me, to undergo the severest test of my core belief - that sentences can be more powerful than pictures. A writer can hope to do what a photographer cannot: convey how things smelled and sounded as well as how things looked. I seriously doubt my ability to perform this task on this occasion. Unless you see the landscape of ecocide,...
“Me: ‘I’m press!’ Lady cop: ‘Not tonight.’”
– @RosieGray of Village Voice on NYPD’s post-midnight raid of OWS (live stream)
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“We need more permeable media, moving from content providers to context...”
– Patricia Zimmerman on the future of nonfiction storytelling at MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 5 summit (via curiositycounts)
“The days of Excel spreadsheets and HTML tables are gone. Whether we’re watching...”
– “New Tools for Today’s Investigative Journalist,” Dan Meredith
(via lifeandcode)
“You must be the first mafia boss in history who didn’t think he was running a...”
– In a dramatic exchange in front of a parliamentary committee, James Murdoch, who is in charge of non-US operations of father Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation media empire, rejected suggestions made by Tom Watson, British member of parliament, that he had operated like a “mafia boss”.
Murdoch...
“We need to stop the daintiness and describe the... →
“We need to stop the daintiness and describe the alleged offenses for what they truly are in the vernacular to somehow try to capture the monstrousness. Not anal intercourse or oral sex, which sounds clinical, but butt-fucking and blowjobs and cock-grabbing and pants-groping and other assorted…
“Our computers have no intelligence without us, but they accelerate our...”
– Birth of the Global Mind is an FT piece from O’Reilly Media founder and CEO, Tim O’Reilly. As you might expect from a tech world maven, O’Reilly is in favor of technology-inspired progress, but he’s also level-headed enough to sound a note of caution:
The global brain is still in its infancy. We...
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“At a time of record corporate profits, a time when 14 million Americans are out...”
– The Woman Who Knew Too Much | Vanity Fair (via wreckandsalvage)
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“Alongside the familiar patterns of mainstream attention, there are a huge number...”
– The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky (via)
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BBC News Switches From Automated To Human-Made... →
jockohomo:
“Why @BBCNews has turned off its auto-feed during the day and how other news outlets can learn from the BBC’s evolution to human-powered tweets.”
AP releases a new edition of Social Media... →
futurejournalismproject:
example:
RETWEETING
Retweets, like tweets, should not be written in a way that looks like you’re expressing a personal opinion on the issues of the day. A retweet with no comment of your own can easily be seen as a sign of approval of what you’re relaying. For instance:
RT…