October 2011
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“We were to have made a $60m payment to Unesco in November and we will not be...”
– State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists in Washington that the United States is cancelling funding for the UN cultural body Unesco after it voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians. Membership dues paid by the US account for about a fifth of the organisation’s annual...
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“With unemployment at 9.1%, Congress takes up resolution to reaffirm “In God We...”
– The Washington Post (via brooklynmutt)
All others pay cash.
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“No tool will save journalism. You will.”
– Jacob Harris argues that we should stop looking for a “silver bullet” that will save journalism and invest more in people. Read more in his thoughtful piece over on Nieman Journalism Lab, This post won’t save journalism. (Sorry.)
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“They’re going to come after me more viciously than they would a white...”
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Herman Cain, comparing himself to Clarence Thomas in an interview last May with The Washington Examiner’s Byron York. (via dcdecoder)
Man, does this guy love his country or what? He’s willing to become a national celebrity and make millions of dollars, and he’s doing it all for you...
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Government Good: Government Good: Wireless... →
governmentgood:
In 1912 the HMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. More than 1,500 people died, making it one of the worst maritime disasters in peacetime history. The Titanic was equipped with an emergency radio, with which it broadcast a distress…
An important reminder.
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“I think the big downfall for independent publishers is the difficulty in...”
– From a really nice Interview with Ernie Smith from ShortFormBlog; see the whole thing here
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Government Could Hide Existence of Records under... →
onaissues:
“A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.
Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.
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Calling all right-leaning Tumblrs (and those who... →
dcdecoder:
And just so you don’t think we just give love to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, follow liberal ThinkProgress for good measure. (And, hey, Heritage is already following The Nation).
Welcome!
#occupywallstreet: NYT says Mayors Across Nation... →
intelligentsia-in-flames:
The New York Times had a wide ranging report on the view of the Occupy movement from Mayors across the country. They claim that many of the Mayors of “several cities have come to the end of their patience and others appear to be not far behind.”
Point 1: The…
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Q. When was the first time you poured a beer down... →
And to think there are people who say American creativity is on the decline.
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“Fox added she and Henderson were afraid viewers would not understand the...”
– The Badger Herald has the scoop on Feminist Ryan Gosling.
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OK, Which One of You Guys are Responsible for... →
Introducing Newspaper Snack Machines, the Tumblr dedicated to the culinary decline of the nation’s media companies.
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“Someday people will look back and wonder, What were they thinking? Why, in the...”
– What Were They Thinking? by Elizabeth Drew | The New York Review of Books
Um, I’d like us to just skip ahead to that point, OK?
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Obama for America: W. on the job market facing... →
barackobama:
W. on the job market facing recent graduates:
I graduated with a BA in Psychology in May of 2010. I have been searching for a job since graduation and have applied for over 600 jobs that I am qualified for, or overqualified for.
I just got off the phone with a potential employer who let me…
It’s so nice to see the Obama campaign blogging submissions from former...
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The World is Full of Complainers →
But journalists are in a class by themselves.
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“Investors want to see growth and a return on the investment,” Arment said....”
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TIME Magazine: Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone — By Choice
Nice bit from the Mrs. on Marco, Instapaper and other single-owner startups.
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Hi, Tumblr.
barackobama:
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge collaborative storytelling effort—a place for people across the country to share what’s going on in our respective...
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“Just because an opinion exists does not mean that the opinion is worthy of...”
– Wouldn’t It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasn’t Shakespeare? - NYTimes.com
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Is This the Future of Punctuation!? →
By contrast, use of the semicolon is dwindling. Although colons were common as early as the 14th century, the semicolon was rare in English books before the 17th century. It has always been regarded as a useful hybrid—a separator that’s also a connector—but it’s a trinket beloved of people who want to show that they went to the right school.
More surprising is the eclipse of the hyphen....
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“No one, least of all me, is suggesting that running a newspaper company is a...”
– David Carr gives media execs who lay off workers while lavishing bonuses on themselves the SMACKDOWN. Worth a read. (via cmonstah)
This is a really important point that doesn’t get made enough: A lot of big media’s wounds are self-inflicted. To take an example from one truck that ran...
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“I’ll tell you the other interesting thing about Tumblr and GIFs in...”
– Joe Cornish on Tumblr and his film, “ATTACK THE BLOCK”
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“Here’s my bright idea for life on earth: better management. The CEO has lost...”
– W. W. Norton: Lucifer at the Starlite
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“Potential financing by Google for a bid for rival Yahoo has parallels with the...”
– Google Said to Consider Financing an Offer to Acquire Yahoo - Businessweek
Man, a dollar really went a lot further back in 1997…
NPR does the Best happy hours at National Public...
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Gaddafi's Forgotten Victims: News Copy Editors
newsweek:
In which we pause for a delicate rant by our own Andy Cohen, Newsweek/Daily Beast copy editor. Since this tumblr’s wee years as an intern at Newsweek.com, when she sat next to Andy Cohen, she has been hearing occasional bursts of Gaddafi versus Kaddafi versus Qaddafi outrage from his cube. Finally, an outlet:
With the death of Muammar Gaddafi, there’s one group of forgotten victims...
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“He learned my library. “You already own that, Connelly. Same cover, but a 1980s...”
– Paris Review – Love Stories, Phoebe Connelly
Really nice from Phoebe.
Also, the moral here is that you can never have too many copies of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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“I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American...”
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NPR freelancer Lisa Simeone • Discussing her firing as the freelance host of two NPR music shows, Soundprint and World of Opera, for playing spokesperson for Occupy DC. We can to some degree see her point, but … this is NPR we’re talking about here. They’ve had to fight off two pretty significant...
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Continuations: The B Corporation →
continuations:
I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common form of organization is the C Corporation which has as…
Read this; really interesting. So much of corporate behavior is tied to the...
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“The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white,”...”
– Some really interesting thoughts from Chris Poole. This, I think, is one of Tumblr’s greatest strengths—it’s about self-expression, identity that you control, rather than identification.