August 2012
27 posts
“To our dismay, Twitter has restricted our users’ ability to ‘Find Twitter...”
– A Tumblr spokesperson on Twitter’s unfriending. (via newsweek)
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Study: Local TV News Tops in Believability
Why newspapers have to figure out video. People trust it, and they trust local video: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/local-tv-leads-the-way-in-believability-ratings-pew-study-finds_b57198#.UC5mK3yQJGY.tumblr
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Look! Someone else committed journalism and called... →
think-progress:
Someone who’s not CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.
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Knight News Challenge Round 2: Announcing Knight... →
newschallenge:
Photo Credit: Flickr user girl_onthe_les
We’re excited to announce the theme for the third Knight News Challenge of 2012: mobile. We hope to learn about new approaches for using mobile to inform and engage communities, and build the foundation for others to do more in the future. We…
“Taken together, its proposals would produce the largest redistribution of income...”
– Paul Ryan, take II: Here’s how the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities summed up the budget proposal that made him famous.
Tumblr is leaning Ryan.
Beware the Olympian in the Seat Behind You
washingtonpoststyle:
“A drunken spectator threw a bottle onto the track! I HAVE BEATEN HIM.”
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Dutch Judo champion Edith Bosch in a tweet, after seeing a nearby spectator hurl a bottle from the stands just before the men’s 100m finals yesterday; she then hit him on the back with the flat of her hand.
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Women 'are the foot soldiers of climate change... →
poptech:
“Kusum Athukorala, one of the country’s leading experts on water management, agrees that women are key to adapting effective measures to deal with water challenges and changing climate patterns.
“Women are the foot soldiers of climate change adaptation,” said Athukorala who heads the Network of Women Water Professionals, Sri Lanka (NetWwater) and the Women for Water Partnership…
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“So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Ask the questions that...”
– –Wendell Berry, The Country of Marriage (via sterlingcollege)
