May 2012
12 posts
“My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via languagemagic)
May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and...”
– Wendell Berry (via azspot)
May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 5th
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NPR: Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And... →
May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 1st
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Agile, social, cheap: The new way NPR is trying to... →
Interesting read from Neiman Journalism Lab.
May 1st
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April 2012
28 posts
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Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Lester Bangs: April 30, 1982  →
Remembering an influential journalist today.
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
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Science is awesome: Scientists at the University... →
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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“Writers and video producers live in dread of the wandering eye. Audio producers...”
– Julia Barton on Nieman Storyboard (via mialobel) This is the kind of radio I want to make.
Apr 17th
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WatchWatch
newshouramgrad: Hoping to Change Odds, Las Vegas Gambles on Once-Failing School As you can see from this NASA video, Las Vegas had been the fastest growing city in the country. Casinos drove employment, employment drove housing. Vegas, with an economy based around construction and entertainment, was one place in America where you could go with little education and still make a decent living. ...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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The 25 Most Beautiful Public Libraries in the... →
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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NPR: The 2080 Census: The World As We (Don't) Know... →
I love time travel and census data, so this is a win-win.
Apr 15th
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Clearly I need to figure out who in my apartment building named their wireless network “TARDIS” and be friends with them.
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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“Notewise, whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary,...”
– David Sedaris on his reading habits (via angelashetler) Love this
Apr 14th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Why Community Is the Most Popular Show on the... →
-saturdaynightlive: For all of its surreal humor, the show is almost shockingly sincere, and more often than not ends with an earnest monologue about friendship — as New York Times critic Mike Hale noticed last month: “[I]t seems safe to say that the web of allusions woven by the show’s creator, Dan Harmon, and his staff serves a double purpose. It’s potentially funny in its own right […] but...
Apr 12th
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NPR: How many people would bother to impersonate a... →
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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The Transom Review: Chana Joffe-Walt  →
This is all kinds of amazing. She has a brilliant method for breaking down complex topics for Planet Money, and in her Transom post uses the same sort of logic to break down the the process of breaking down complex stories.
Apr 9th
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Apr 6th
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January 2012
12 posts
WatchWatch
shortformblog: mashable: “Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.” -Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.” Watch this, all. “The threat...
Jan 19th
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barackobama: “While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” - The White House, responding this morning to a petition on SOPA and online piracy
Jan 14th
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Soup: Jon Stewart takes over Stephen Colbert's... →
soupsoup: Dear Super PAC Super Members, Hi there. I’m Jon. It looks like I’m running this thing now. All the details are in the press release below. Quick question: does anybody know where the key to the Super PAC bathroom is? Thanks, Jon Stewart President Pro Tem Americans For A Better…
Jan 13th
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newsweek: A Strange Animal: The U.S. troops are leaving, but the journalists are staying in Iraq, working under deadlines and death threats. In a short documentary special for Newsweek & The Daily Beast, filmmaker Richard Pendry reveals the new techniques — more John LeCarre than J-school — reporters have devised to get the story in Iraq. Fascinating viewing for anyone interested in the...
Jan 12th
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Jan 9th
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“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (via foreverinprogress)
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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