July 2012
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WatchMy segment for NBC Nightly News on social media and the Olympics.
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Damning account of how Bush & Obama handled... →
He is Neil Barofsky. Remember him — the man whose job it was to police the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program? And his new account, a book titled “Bailout” (Free Press), to be published on Tuesday, is a must-read.
His story is illuminating, if deeply depressing. We tag along with Mr. Barofsky, a former federal prosecutor, as he walks into a political buzz saw as the special inspector...
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How the media shouldn't cover mass murder →
If you don’t want to propagate more mass murders…
Don’t start the story with sirens blaring.
Don’t have photographs of the killer.
Don’t make this 24/7 coverage.
Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story.
Not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero.
Do localise this story to the affected community and as boring as possible in every other...
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“In one sense, at least, it’s a game of equals; by broad consensus, the two...”
– Kathryn Schultz
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“Chances are, a lot of compelling video will be shot on mobile phones and...”
– David Schlesinger, chairman of Thomson Reuters China, former Editor-in-Chief of Reuters on the draconian rules of the Olympic committee
This was written back in 2009, today we are still under very strange rules. One of them tries to control how you link to the Olympics. (see 5. Linking Policy)
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AMC To Provide Dish Subs Live Web Stream Of... →
AMC Networks will provide Dish Network customers access to the Season 5 premiere of Breaking Bad on Sunday, July 15, on its website, after the satellite operator dropped the programmer’s networks last month.
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Every Single Media Outlet Is Misreporting Obama’s... →
Obama is not proposing that families making up to $250,000 a year keep their tax cuts while families making more than that don’t. He’s proposing that everyfamily keep their tax cuts on their first $250,000 of taxable income (which isnot the same as “income” or “earnings,” by the way).
That includes families with taxable income of $260,000, $1 million, $5...
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Tweetbot for Mac →
parislemon:
With its mixture of speed and features, Tweetbot long ago became my go-to Twitter client for both the iPhone and iPad. And today it launches for the Mac as well.
It’s in the pretty early alpha stage, but it works. Users of Tweetbot for iOS will feel right at home. Most importantly for me, it’s retina-ready, meaning I no longer have to look at the abomination that is Twitter for Mac...
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Do newspaper editors know what an internet is?
felixsalmon:
You’d think they had no idea, from reading the financial press. For instance, the WSJ’s Pui-Wing Tam started an article today by talking about “little-known social coding start-up GitHub”. Or consider this, from the FT’s Barney Jopson:
Most consumers still view Amazon as an online book retailer. Some are surprised to find it sells much more than the single product with which Jeff...
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“Sure, we as a nation have always killed people. A lot of people. But no...”
– Tom Junod, The lethal presidency of Barack Obama 