October 2011
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July 2011
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data journalism
Can you imagine a reporter not using the internet now? That’s what it’ll be like for reporters who can’t be bothered to learn to use a spreadsheet.
For me, I would say programming skills are unnecessary – you can do lots in excel, and even a simple database programme, like SQL. Otherwise, there are some great online tools you can use like Many Eyes or Timetric to produce simple...
WatchAn extra clip from this video shoot:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/meet-smartest-kids-google-science-fair/9742-1_53-50107831.html?tag=cnetRiver
Watchocean beach!!!
WatchThis is completely normal for SF.
looking for a cheap ticket that doesn't leave at a... →
WatchLong time no see but with skype and all it didn’t seem like any time had passed.
WatchYou know you are a regular when…
Damn You Auto Correct →
Watchwalking in the sand
June 2011
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That's Beautiful to Me →
WatchThe best tea I’ve ever had.
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BBC News - US builds scale model of internet for... →
nickdouglas:
Robert Gates up all night gluing little trees to Twitter accounts
Charlie Rose - Paul Allen
Paul Allen, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft on his book ‘Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11628
On writing
Thompson had an interesting way of studying the writers he loved. He would take and transcribe their works on his typewriter in an effort to discover each writer’s particular rhythm and flow. He typed ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘A Farewell To Arms’ in their entirety. He also was a constant letter writer and kept thorough records of his correspondences, much as...
The Paris Review: The Art of Journalism
Interviewer:
Almost without exception writers we’ve interviewed over the years admit they cannot write under the influence of booze or drugs—or at the least what they’ve done has to be rewritten in the cool of the day. What’s your comment about this?
Hunter S. Thompson:
They lie. Or maybe you’ve been interviewing a very narrow spectrum of writers. It’s like...
The Paris Review: The Art of Fiction
Joan Didion:
I always say Hemingway, because he taught me how sentences worked. When I was fifteen or sixteen I would type out his stories to learn how the sentences worked. I taught myself to type at the same time. A few years ago when I was teaching a course at Berkeley I reread A Farewell to Arms and fell right back into those sentences. I mean they’re perfect sentences. Very direct...
Why I Write by Joan Didion
From Why I Write: I did this. Some Fridays I took the Greyhound bus, other Fridays I caught the Southern Pacific’s City of San Francisco on the last leg of its transcontinental trip. I can no longer tell you whether Milton put the sun or the earth at the center of his universe in “Paradise Lost,” the central question of at least one century and a topic about which I wrote 10,000...
The New Silicon Valley Douchebag →
mikehudack:
This article is worth reading for everyone interested in tech.
The Streets
Cause this world swallows souls And when the blues unfold It gets cold silence burns holes You’re going mad Perhaps you always were But when things was good you just didn’t care This is called irony When you most need to get up you got no energy Time and time shit’ll happen The dark shit’s unwrapping But no-one’s listening your mates are laughing Your...
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“You Can’t Be an Environmentalist and Eat Factory-Farmed Meat”
– #PaceU law prof David Cassuto in Good Magazine on industrial-scale meat: ”Every aspect of the environment is being impacted in a significant way by industrial agriculture.” … “[F]ederal pollution laws only cover pollution from point sources,” he says. “Factory farms tend not to be defined as point...
A DNA story
The 2011 Pullizer Prize for explanatory reporting was awarded to Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood for their “lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.
“Passion, despite how often we use the term to tout company commitment or extol...”
– The Value of Following Passion in a Jobless World
“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy. If people look and see that...”
– Bill Gates told The Daily Mail.
Esquire: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox &...
BK: It’ll make my boss cringe, but it was pretty brutal, more brutal in the news business than in the average business. Plus, there’s a sort of existential question about the whole business model of news brought on by the digital revolution, and in tandem with that there’s the question of how you adapt a newsroom of people who grew up doing print to the audience and...
WatchWe found Twizzlers…
