July 2011
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About Those Longshot Challenges
longshotmag:
So, this time around, we didn’t just give you a theme (DEBT) but also five challenges. We did this for a couple of reasons. First, we wanted there to be easier ways to contribute to the magazine. We kept hearing from people that they really wanted to do something but they were hungover had too much work or forgot until the last minute were stuck at a cousin’s wedding. So, the...
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Apparently, it's Really Easier for a Poor Man to...
This is a really nice summation of what’s so wrong with Rick Warren’s latest “the poor are poor because it’s their own fault” tweet (or, as Fox News calls it, “Pastor Rick Warren Shoots Down Obama’s Class Warfare”). Warren deleted the Tweet, because, he explained, it “sounded mean.”
But that’s not what’s wrong with it. This...
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byagi asked: Hi Mark! I saw you mentioned on Mashable for the things you've done with the Newsweek Tumblr, and I was hoping you could point me in the right direction. I have a tumblr and a wordpress site, and I'd like to integrate the wordpress design into my tumblr, so that it's more of a part of the main site. Is there anywhere you would suggest to look for information on doing this kind of...
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Down But Not Out: 'I'm not stupid but I sure have... →
downbutnotoutletters:
My story won’t be any different from the article and stories I read on your website but it is good to know I am not alone. Everything people wrote about feeling horrible about themselves and not sleeping, not going out, not having money for food is true of me! I have a BS in Education and taught…
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Postal Service targets 3,600 offices for closure →
msnbc:
The U.S. Postal Service is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to close more than 3,600 post offices, mostly in small communities, to close a widening budget gap, according to published reports.
One of those is my hometown post office in Linwood, KS (which, apparently, is too small for Google to have bothered sending a Street View truck through). It was a community hub, and will be...
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“It feels, you know, weird. Very weird. The idea that with all these things that...”
– Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, pondering how weird it is that his firm was vilified after the financial crisis. (via officialssay)
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Kicking the Spotify tires: Here's a drinking... →
braiker:
Bottom’s up!
Somehow, there’s only one Pogues song on here, but it’s still excellent nonetheless!
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I'm Pretty Sure a Deal to Accept Satan as their... →
(Mediabistro, How Reelz Got Ten Emmy Nominations for The Kennedys)
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Fox going light on News Corp. scandal coverage →
msnbc:
Cable channels MSNBC and CNN dedicated five or six times more airtime to the topic than News Corp.’s Fox News Channel, according to a study by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
To be fair, maybe this means CNN and MSNBC are going heavy on coverage.
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A Serious Question for Tumblr Users
Is “Trenton Makes, the World Takes” the most passive-aggressive city slogan ever?
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“Phoebe Connelly, a Yahoo News editor who worked with Roth on the project, and...”
– Really nice bit on Nieman Lab about Yahoo’s excellent Tumblr of stories about unemployment in the United States.
—(Yahoo News examines joblessness in Down But Not Out Tumblr » Nieman Journalism Lab)
Lost in Translation: The 50 Americanisms That... →
vanityfair:
nightline:
As collected by the BBC:
14. I caught myself saying “shopping cart” instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I’ve never lived nor been to the US either.
23. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it” - horrid!
36. Surely the most irritating is: “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.
#50 FTW.
The Britishism that...
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“Rupert Murdoch has apologized, profusely and with genuine humility, to the...”
– Um, I don’t know, maybe not allowed this bad behavior to happen in the first place?
—(Murdoch and His Critics | The New York Observer)
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“Blogging, as defined here, is almost certainly the enemy of pitching. Pitches...”
– Really nice bit from Bethlehem Says; see the whole thing here.
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Newspapers on Tumblr
csmonitor:
So, we’ve seen an uptick in smaller newspapers jumping on the Tumblr wagon. Or, in some instances, we have just discovered some awesome papers that have been here for quite some time. We want to know who is out there!
We’ve been following Columbus Dispatch for awhile and here are a few others that caught our eye - Denver Post, Texas Tribune, Lake County News (CA).
Do you have a...
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“Contradicting the official U.S. government report on the operation, a new...”
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Al Qaeda Magazine: Bin Laden ‘Confronted’ SEALs in ‘Fierce Battle’ - ABC News Radio
I’ve always wondered what it’s like to be an ad sales guy for the official magazine of Al Qaeda.
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“I remain hopeful that those who want to cripple this consumer bureau will think...”
– Elizabeth Warren: Enemies Await Consumer Financial Protection (via kateoplis)
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“When I say Rupert, you say GO. Rupert. GO! Rupert GO!”
– One of the many colorful chants against Murdoch from the protesters down at the Houses of Parliament today. Watch a livestream of the former and current London police officials getting grilled by lawmakers over the phone-hacking scandal here. (via msnbc)
Huh. So in the UK saying “Go...
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Oh, Hi There, NPR Music →
nprmusic:
On its third album, the Swedish quartet sharpens its sound without losing the dreamy pop sensibility that makes its songs so addictive. Hear Ritual Union it its entirety.
So glad to have NPR Music on board.
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“The central tension for the Tea Party grass roots isn’t between the Big Brother...”
– Chrystia Freeland, on some fascinating research into what the Tea Party people want.
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Robin Dunbar: We can only ever have 150 friends at... →
untanglingtheweb:
I’ve interviewed Oxford Professor Robin Dunbar on a couple of occasions over the last few years, asking the evolutionary anthropologist most renowned for identifying the “Dunbar Number” - the theoretical maximum number of connections for a functioning human social group - about the effects of the Web on friendship.
This is one of those interviews, from The Observer in March...
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“News America was led by Paul V. Carlucci, who, according to Forbes, used to show...”
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For News Corporation, Troubles That Money Can’t Dispel - NYTimes.com
Nice bit from David Carr here.
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