February 2012
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WatchI’ve been talking bout decentralized social networks for awhile, here’s a documentary about exactly that.
Free The Network, coming soon to Motherboard on Vice
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“Our goal is not to please those whom we report on or to produce stories that...”
– NPR’s ethics handbook and Jay Rosen’s great post about it
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“The rich think of themselves as good people. All of this wicked excess must...”
– Hamilton Nolan
And be sure to read the angry, unintelligible hate mail he received from the PR company afterwards.
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“It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work. ...”
– Barack Obama
Notice he’s not talking about just four-year college. What a snob.
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WatchInteractive map of surveillance around the world via Wikileaks
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Mother Jones obtains Syrian government hit list... →
producermatthew:
From Mother Jones:
A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they believe that it is...
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“If you don’t have $1 million in assets or $200,000 in annual income, you...”
– Dominic Basulto
“Power resides only where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on...”
– George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“Technology stories involve blinking lights, whirring sounds, and someone...”
– Mike Daisey’s response to David Pogue’s dispatch on Apple/Foxconn is very much worth reading. (via cnnmoneytech)
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Shephard Fairey pleads guilty, faces up to 6... →
hydeordie:
I’m happy he owned up to lying, but for his sake hope he doesn’t have to go to jail.
Although that would be very Orwellian if he did…OBEY!
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Watchsbnation:
Jimmy Fallon as Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam sings “Jeremy (Lin)”
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“I think news organizations have to get really, really serious about creating a...”
– Khoi Vinh
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Tweeting a War: How One Journalist Is Using... →
Kazemi’s coverage provides a window into Afghanistan from a native writer’s eyes that simply can’t be matched by foreign writers. He manages this all while building an online following and readership the way any web-savvy journalist would: through interaction and engagement. He’s got just less than 3,000 followers, but that number’s going up every day. Kazemi makes it a point to respond to his...
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“Once upon a time, way back in the stone ages, when Noam Chomsky was first...”
– Matt Taibbi
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Watch50 years ago today, John Glenn becomes the first American man to orbit the Earth.
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“Serious questions emerging about the behavior of Representative Michael Grimm,...”
– New York Times Editorial
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The newsonomics of ads that go bump in the night »... →
shaneguiter:
Pew’s report underscores the fact that many of us have written about: Digital advertising, once the little sister, is surpassing print (newspaper and magazines) in the U.S. and Europe, and will pass whatever we mean when we say “TV” by 2016 or so. So news companies’ failure to get a larger piece of the fastest-growing ad segment — perhaps the fastest-growing ever — is a big problem....
