December 2011
how many writers does it take to change a...
thestoryofastory:
If you use this at your next party, and don’t lie, you know you will, you may thank this dude, Mike Pope, a technical editor at Microsoft in Seattle.
Q. How many writers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A. Ten. One to change it; nine to think they could have done it better.
Q: How many writers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: But why do we have to change it?
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“The world doesn’t wait for you. The world doesn’t wait for anyone,...”
– exhibitj
“I’m not procrastinating. I’m working on deadline. #partylikeajournalist”
– James Brosher (via partylikeajournalist)
Tumblr is hiring a Tumblr Editor →
Also, here’s a story I wrote for Poynter on Tumblr for journalists.
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
The New York Times R&D Lab Explores How Content is Shared
OWNI published its thoughts on the ten most creative digital projects of 2011. Included is work from MIT’s Media Lab, independent artists and scientists, design firms and open collaborations.
Above, we have Cascade from the New York Times R&D department.
Via OWNI:
Cascade is a by NYTimes R&D...
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“We need some angry nerds.”
– Jonathan Zittrain, Technology Review. The Personal Computer is Dead.
Jonathan Zittrain, whose 2008 book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It explores the transformation of the open Internet to one that’s increasingly closed and controlled, writes that the growth of “App Stores” is putting...
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Fact Checking Santa Claus →
futurejournalismproject:
The Physics of Santa and His Reindeer
Not to be a buzz kill but… Via Snopes (and with apologies for quoting in its entirety):
No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
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“People just get things wrong. They read them wrong, or remember them wrong or...”
– What Is Good Fact-Checking? | Mother Jones (via rubenfeld)
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420-Character Stories Challenge Still On!
publicradiointernational:
Lou Beach’s new book of very short stories – 420 Characters – packs vivid descriptions into tiny narratives.
We want to read your 420-character story! Submit yours here to enter our contest.
→ The story must be 420 characters or fewer — including spaces.
→ Only one entry per author will be considered.
→ The deadline to be considered for our contest is 11:59 EST...
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A Content Methodology Primer →
There’s always been a need for methodology in content. From the invention of written language to the printing press, our communication processes have been codified. Sometimes, that codification takes a long time: the march from Gutenberg’s original printing press to Richard March Hoe’s rotary press took 400 years. Now, we need to create new methodologies in days.
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Language, Free →
onaissues:
Columbia Journalism Review has a great round up of language blogs and sites. Brush up on your grammer skills, get pointers from great copy editors and see critiques of language use on popular sites.
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Typhoon Sendong: Did illegal logging cause flash... →
climateadaptation:
“Philippine President Benigno Aquino ordered an investigation on Tuesday into flash floods and landslides that sent mud and logs crashing down on residents, killing about 1,000 people on a southern island.
The national disaster agency said 957 were killed and 49 missing on Mindanao after Typhoon Sendong (aka Typhoon Washi) triggered the slides. Most of the casualties were...
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“It was not until 5 pm Thursday that Pagasa… announce that a storm was...”
– The Anatomy of Murder: Tropical Storm Sendong/Washi
“I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a...”
– Bill Watterson (via samueladamclark)
“It’s been said it a thousand times before, by me and many others, but it’s worth...”
– Steven Johnson, who knows a great deal about where good ideas come from, on the anatomy of an idea (via curiositycounts)
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Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? →
American Scientist piece by @StatModeling on how Freakonomics duo misled the public with erroneous claims
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Stanford offers free online classes
onaissues:
Stanford University is offering seven computer science courses next semester that you can take for free. All are online courses and open to the public.
The available computer science courses are:
Computer Science 101 http://www.cs101-class.org/ Machine Learning (one of the offerings this past fall) http://jan2012.ml-class.org/ Software as a Service http://www.saas-class.org/...
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“The next generation of politicians and despots won’t care at all about land —...”
– Columnist Trevor Butterworth quotes John Kindervag, of Forrester Research, in his roundup of 2011’s most important ideas. (via thedailyfeed)
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Eye candy + data = abs-cbnNEWS.com Multimedia →
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