February 2012
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I’ve neglected my own photography of late. Not taking photos - I’ve been out with the camera more and more - but I don’t think to put much of it here. I have considered starting an tumblr specifically for my photography but I’m still undecided as to whether I’ll go ahead with it. For the time being, there’ll be a few here.
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You may think journalism is cutthroat, but you... →
columbusdispatch:
Our Columbus historian writes of two local newspapermen’s violent shootout:
On Feb. 8, 1891, William Elliott had called Osborn a thief in the Sunday Capital. On Feb. 22, Osborn’s Sunday World had accused Elliott of “drunkenness, lewdness, domestic brutality” and said the women of his family were unchaste.
Osborn was standing near the Neil House, across High Street from the...
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Clarke’s Third Law
Clarke’s three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(via ecastro)
“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful,...”
– Certainly a writer ahead of his time. This almost sounds like a prediction of the digital era.
J.D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye (via bookmania)
“Washington correspondents from newspapers around the country were as unabashedly...”
– Michael Nelson, Virginia Quarterly Review. Why the Media Love Presidents and Presidents Hate the Media.
Our Presidents Day reading brings us to the history of American political journalism.
(via futurejournalismproject)
January 2012
34 posts
“When any new form comes into the foreground of things, we naturally look at it...”
– Marshall McLuhan - on new media technologies (via tsparks)
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“The result of this consolidation that gives me cause for concern is the...”
– Use Google? Time to Get Real About Protecting Your Digital Self - The Atlantic (via courtenaybird)
Tech and gadgets: Wikipedia's blackout funnels... →
shortformblog:
8 million users looked up their House Rep. by Wikipedia yesterday source
» Well, that sure worked: During the “great blackout” yesterday, one of the only things you actually could do with Wikipedia was get the information about your local congressperson, so to…
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