August 2011
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“Make no mistake about it, what we’re witnessing here is a catastrophe on...”
– Paul Krugman: The President Surrenders (via kateoplis)
July 2011
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signs off on... →
Follow the latest debt deal developments (say that five times fast) on the Reuters live blog that has engulfed the last week and 4 days of my life.
Tumblr seems to be stabilizing, might start to see more of me here again, barring any hiccups. Keep feeding your tumblbeasts.
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“Republicans — and even some Democrats — think that the Obama...”
– Ezra Klein
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More than 30 thousand ‘unfollow’ @barackobama on... →
kateoplis:
Yeah, it helped a lot.
I think they need a better social media strategy.
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Getting it right is platform agnostic. →
My thoughts on Twitter reporting.
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futurejournalismproject:
Felix: There’s been a lot of shamefacedness and embarrassment on Twitter from…
@poynterinstitute: Agreed if you include his statement that the organizations themselves (eg., @WSJ, @Reuters, etc) need be held to a higher standard. Doesn’t wash if @NYTimes posts errors and comes back saying, Don’t mind that, it’s idle water cooler gossip. —...
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Journalists on Google+
muckrack:
Over two years ago Muck Rack launched the definitive list of journalists on Twitter. Now we’ve assembled a list of journalists on Google+ by going through the 500 most followed journalists we’ve verified on Muck Rack. It so happened 140 (an omen?) of those 500 were on Google+. If you need link bait you could even extrapolate that to mean 28% of journalists on Twitter have joined...
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WatchFelix Salmon works in a Spinal Tap clip into a discussion about abolishing the triple-A bond rating, in a video with Reuters Markets Editor, David Gaffen
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It's not so funny now, is it?
jayrosen:
Ron Suskind in the New York Times, October 17, 2004
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I...
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Frustrated, annoyed and fed up
Tumblr has become terribly unstable. My theme just changed format for no reason whatsoever, my posts are showing up multiple times, posts are getting lost after I send them.
I can’t deal with trying to hack together fixes for this. I can’t spend time putting together posts only for them to be lost, wasting the time and effort to do it.
I’m not paid by Tumblr to maintain this...
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The cameras cut off as she fell to the ground. But... →
cheatsheet:
Wendi Daaaaang.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang son!
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In Cantor, hedge funds and private equity firms... →
Among the White House’s top demands for new revenue are changes in the tax code affecting hedge funds, private equity firms and real estate partnerships, which would raise an estimated $20 billion over 10 years.
For the past four years, Cantor has taken the lead in the House on fighting the same changes. He also has been one of the top recipients of contributions from those industries — last...
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Slowing Down to Savor the Data →
caro:
[T]he book comes packaged like a billet-doux: fastened with a blue ribbon and secured with an old-fashioned-looking embossed seal. In other words, the fast-information company is inviting its clients to a data slow dance.
So this is what I work on at Google, and why you probably haven’t seen me much lately. It’s a really exciting project and I’m working with some phenomenally smart...
News Corp's political meetings to be published →
The government will publish details of ministerial meetings with News Corp executives, seeking to dispel claims that the company was wielding undue influence when the government was deciding on its $12 billion (7 billion pound) bid for full control of pay TV company BSkyB.
“When it comes to my meetings with the proprietors and editors of all newspapers, we are very shortly going to...
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Phone hacking crisis shows News Corp is no... →
by Jay Rosen: “Rupert Murdoch’s news organisations are not in the news business. What they crave is influence”
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Donors’ Pledges to Reconstruct Haiti Come up Empty... →
Whatever the capacity constraints are, donors have a responsibility to fulfill their pledges. Rewinding 18 months, I remember vividly former President Bill Clinton calling not just for Haitian reconstruction, but for a complete overhaul of that country, supported by the generosity of the international community. Today, we’re at the point where the release of the Haiti Reconstruction Funds’...
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“There’s a lot of us, most of our friends are going. We feel what’s...”
– From the BBC’s Kate Forbes in Oslo:
A young Norwegian en route to an anti-racism march tonight in the capital
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Everything you need to know about the debt ceiling... →
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Gawker Will Go to Court in Fox Investigation →
Gawker, the popular blog based in New York, is going to court to investigate the relationship between the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
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“In the safest, most boring country, the worst lone gunman shooting happens. The...”
– Ola (via youmightfindyourself)
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“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will...”
– Robert DeNiro as Lorenzo Anello in A Bronx Tale
Amy Winehouse is the latest tragic member of the... →
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Norway attack live updates →
I’m liveblogging updates on the Norway explosion at Reuters. Hit the link for the latest news.
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WatchTaiwanese re-creation of Wendi Deng defending her husband Rupert Murdoch from a pie attack.
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Lulzsec sharing News of the World emails with... →
Follow updates on my live blog for Reuters
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Anthony De Rosa's Brain
alexleo:
BRB, DYING
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