February 2012
24 posts
Feb 25th
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“I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs,...”
–  - Mitt Romney on his love for Detroit-made cars. In a speech that seems to be quite similar to one he’s already given. So…how many cars does the dude have? My whole family, mom, dad, brother, sister, husband, self…we own three cars. Oliver only bought his last week.
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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“…So complicated traveling and talking to people. Please come back, get...”
– Somehow I stopped reading Tricia’s blogs, including mycrasianmother, which is full of misunderstandings like resting and enjoying life being incompatible with traveling and talking to people.
Feb 22nd
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“i could have been more humble—but if i’d been more humble, i wouldn’t have been...”
– hannah wilke, 1985 (via karaj)
Feb 22nd
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“By 4.30am, we are eating breakfast crackers and drinking soda. It’s so hot...”
– You should read this.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Journalists connect the dots between data &... →
lifeandcode: daniscalifornia: Data journalism is named a very important skill for students by basically everyone. My question is, why is this on the rise? Was it not important five years ago? Why the change? The tools have changed.  Think of it this way: widespread availability of free, easy-to-use blogging software triggered a huge outpouring of writing on the web.   What’s happening here...
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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“the basic outline is I take College of Journalism students who know nothing...”
– This should be everywhere.
Feb 9th
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Entrepreneurial Design Syllabus | SVA Interaction... →
I’m collecting interesting syllabi, especially at the interesection of news, community, entrepreneurship, and technology.
Feb 8th
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“In short, he made a very nice strawman and beat the tar out of it.”
– A good response to Chris Hedges’ weird article about the black bloc as cancer.
Feb 7th
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http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/your-random-numb... →
Jer Thorpe on teaching data visualization. From 2010.
Feb 7th
Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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January 2012
40 posts
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Election 2012: Send us your audio comments |... →
Souncloud + PIN + Marketplace = a pretty interesting crowdsourcing project.
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
46 notes
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“I post people’s stories as they tell them to me. I am not a journalist. I...”
– Actually, Chris is a journalist and this is journalism.
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Grateful for Nadalex, Fluxus, Madeline. We make our own reality.
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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We Have Decided Not to Die →
I heard a rumor that Occupy Cal State (possibly Cal Arts?) had adopted “We have decided not to die” as a slogan. I love it, though I can’t find any actual evidence of that claim. 
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive »... →
I think there’s something creative to be done with statements to the press in the form of “we can[not] balance the budget on the backs of [___].”
Jan 23rd
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“Under the new law, drivers will still receive tickets for violating alternate...”
– I think this is what Brisbane was talking about in his much mocked truthiness column. This would be a good place for a reporter to challenge Quinn on the idea that sending someone out to write tickets is somehow significantly cheaper than sending them out with a stack of stickers.
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 19th
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“But that language is in the EULA itself, a contract of adhesion which I was not...”
– I’m not convinced that clicking is sufficient.
Jan 19th
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“The number of things Journalism is asking its journalism schools to teach could...”
– Matt Waite
Jan 19th
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Amit Gupta likes you! // Many of you have asked,... →
New thing I learned today: a “Hickman line” goes right to the heart.
Jan 19th
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CoLab Radio » Blog Archive » Redesigning Queens... →
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“One example mentioned recently by a reader: As cited in an Adam Liptak article...”
– Plenty has been said about this rare glimpse into the [insert richly derisive adjective] minds of The Times. What no one seems to have gotten around to pointing out is that the column is exasperatingly short on links. Say, hypothetically, that I wanted to read the whole Adam Liptak story for myself....
Jan 14th
“One-third of mobile users downloaded news apps in past month”
– Nielson (via screengeek) Because they love to read news? Or in an ongoing and as yet inconclusive effort to make news readable? There is a difference.
Jan 14th
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