December 2011
51 posts
Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford, via soupsoup
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some ...
What's the best way to use social media to cover... →
If you’re asking (on Tumblr, Twitter and Google Plus, too), then you’re already on the right track! Post photos, answer questions, post live updates that give your followers a sense of atmosphere.
Since it can get crazy with many social networks to update, a service like IFTTT can be helpful. That should cover the basics - what else?
danpatterson:
So it looks like I’ll be on the...
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“… “as soon as President Obama releases his grades and birth certificate...”
– With this response to a question whether his father will release his tax returns, “Mitt Romney’s son Matt is promoting the racist birther conspiracy theory about President Obama,” writes National Journal.
Also, hasn’t this been settled? (via zainyk)
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Is the Golden Age of Tech Blogging Dead? →
Such an interesting thought. Is the blogging space saturated, with social media journalism the new frontier? If you follow that thinking, social media isn’t just another distribution space for content that lives on a website, but it is the content.
futurejournalismproject:
Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst with the Altimeter Group, believes innovative tech blogging is done with.
He...
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ShortFormBlog: Adele's "21" scores biggest album... →
2011 in music, from shortformblog, who writes “What makes Adele’s album sales all the more impressive is that so much has happened since 2004 throughout the music industry”
3% increase in U.S. music sales in 2011 — some welcome news
5.6M number of copies Adele sold of her mega-popular second album, “21,” in the U.S. alone in 2011 — and the second-place album isn’t even close to...
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Mitt Romney’s Rhetorical Evolution: From Listmaker... →
“There are two broad categories of campaign messages: Stories and lists,” writes Michael Scherer at Time Magazine. Romney’s forte had been the list, Obama’s the grand story. We all know who won.
“But this time, for the moment at least, everything has reversed.”
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“Mr. Pastor buys a Powerball lottery ticket every weekend and says he does not...”
– With so many millionaires in Congress, can lawmakers understand the economic worries of their constituents? asks Emmarie Huetteman, a Medill classmate who contributed to this excellent piece from the New York Times.
Also interesting: With the cost of successful campaigns rising, incoming members of...
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“These are the kind of newsy, urgent features that you expect to find in the New...”
– “Who would have thought that “Bloomberg” and “BusinessWeek,” the two most plodding names in the history of journalism, could merge to create a superb general interest magazine?” raves Jack Shafer about Bloomberg Businessweek. I agree with him: It’s a fantastic magazine that...
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The Cheat Sheet: Frontpage: Wednesday, Dec. 28 →
cheatsheet:
Good morning, Tumblr! Gonna try numbers instead of bullet points today.
Ron Paul Retains Iowa Edge: Public Policy Polling says Iowa is between Paul and Romney, with Gingrich in a distant third.
North Korea Begins Kim’s Funeral: Tens of thousands of North Koreans braved the cold to see the hearse carrying their Dear Leader on Wednesday.
Newt: I’d Never Vote for Paul: On CNN,...
You are listening to New York. →
A city’s ambient sound.
cheatsheet:
youngmanhattanite:
Ambient music and live NYPD radio feed.
Everyone should skip that Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close movie and listen to this for two hours.
This is way better than that time in college when we had a computer voice read Kerouac poems over Rihanna’s “Pon de Replay”.
Also available for LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and Montreal.
State Department agrees with Biden: Not all... →
Politicalprof: Irony, Access and the Decline of... →
Interviewing is an art and a science, and yes, it’s difficult to get straight-up, interesting answers from people who want to evade questions.
dcdecoder:
politicalprof:
One of the remarkable things about watching media members interview politicians these days is just how bad the questions are. The journalist inevitably starts with a softball set up question that allows the candidate to...
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“The Lego Friends team (Lego’s new series aimed at girls) is aware of the...”
– From the Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on Lego’s new strategy to get girls interested in its products. A couple days ago, Daniel Sinker (the guy behind the Mayor Emanuel Twitter parody) wondered if Lego was evil for its rigid and stereotypical toys - Star Wars for boys, ponies for girls.
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“And I don’t think it’s a new idea in the world of journalism at all,...”
– Amanda Cox, infographics designer at the New York Times, explains her philosophy of showing patterns while preserving detail.
She also talks about the importance of guiding readers through graphics, saying “Nothing important is ever headlined ‘Here is some data. Hope you find something...
“All of them are good and all of them are bad.”
– Ron Paul, when asked to name his favorite Supreme Court justice. Mitt Romney, conversely, named four — Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas. (via shortformblog)
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“Then there are the candidates who have pinned all their hopes in Iowa: Michele...”
– To recap, here’s a post from CBS News on what to watch for in tonight’s GOP debate, the final one before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus. In short, watch for Romney getting more feisty, Gingrich being attacked, and the other five holding on for dear life, trying to make a good impression before...
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ONA Issues: Right now the Stop Online Piracy Act... →
Now that you mention it, has ONA taken an official stand on this bill? Update: “We’re taking a close look at the bill and we’re working on a briefing paper,” ONA responded to me on Twitter.
via onaissues:
Right now the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is being debating in a mark-up session in the House Judiciary Committee. (You can catch a livestream here.)
Elizabeth...
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“No app built for reading starts with the premise that the publisher has done an...”
– Brent Simmons argues that the rise of applications and services like Instapaper or Flipboard (and even RSS, which I don’t think is nearly as popular with the masses as it is with the techy crowd) mean one thing: People will find ways to read Web content the way they like it. Publishers better...
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Amanda Cox Talks about Developing Infographics at... →
via Dan Sinker.
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Daniel Sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil →
sinker writes that the unisex, “build something from your imagination” appeal of Lego has been replaced by gender stereotypes and Star Wars merchandise. This is sad. However, I bought some Lego last year (Yes, for myself. I don’t care if you judge), and I just got a bunch of basic building blocks and built myself a cool little Lego house.
So it’s possible to stay clear of...
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The coders who want to help Obama win in 2012 →
A fascinating read on how the Obama campaign is using the skills of developers and software engineers to gain an edge in targeting voters. It’s important for journalists to understand these changing tools of political campaigns.
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“And for some stations, it’s been an eye-opening experience in how original,...”
– A thousand times yes to this: NPR blog project finishes successful year, via the Nieman Lab
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Republican candidates seem to live in an alternate... →
Great column. I agree (in German).
soupsoup:
With a dragging economy creating a perfect weapon to defeat Obama, why are Republican candidates focusing so much of their time on issues that have no basis in reality?
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Without a # Tag →
“If only we paid as much attention to the African Summers as we did to the Arab Spring,” writes Al Jazeera’s Riyaad Minty in this story from the world’s largest refugee camp.
Update: Al Jazeera has created a hashtag for Somalia called #SomaliaSpeaks. Here is background on the project.
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5 ways brands can use Pinterest, the social image... →
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10 steps to better blogging →
Some really great advice in here, not just for bloggers. My favorite is No. 10.
via soupsoup:
This is a pretty great list by Dan Frommer. You could apply this to just about anything related to content creation.
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SOPA could be pushed aside for more-sane... →
An alternative to the much-criticized SOPA and PROTECT-IP acts that would have widespread negative impacts on the Internet is taking shape, per shortformblog.