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Guatemala: Archive of documents from Rios Montt genocide trial, overturned 10 days after guilty verdict

May 9, 2013: A public art project in Guatemala City, one block from the courth where Rios Montt was convicted on May 10. "Si hubo genocidio," the sign reads. "Yes, it was genocide." Photo: Xeni Jardin...
Heartwarming: man leaves $1K tip to help waitress realize dream of visiting Italy

On the Casual Cynic Tumblr, a heart-warming story about a waitress who got a $1,000 tip from a diner she'd met for the first time that night, who wanted to help her realize her dream of visiting Italy...
Internet of Things and surveillance

Bruce Schneier's got smart things to say about surveillance in the age of the Internet of Things: In the longer term, the Internet of Things means ubiquitous surveillance. If an object "knows" you hav...
Mat Ricardo's London Varieties returns May 30

London impressario Mat Ricardo writes in with news of the next London Varieties show: We had a ball last month at London's Leicester Square Theatre with a show that featured the very silly JOHANN LIPP...
In defense of the selfie

Sam Kassé defends the selfie, blight of social networks: "I know most people hate selfies. They groan and complain about them, from the duck lips to the filters. Why, just the word “selfie” can i...

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Medical school in blog form

Why go to medical school when you can just read this Medical School tumblr blog? Includes posts on open heart surgery, sickle cell anemia, and a simple suturing demonstration: Tags: medicine &n...
America is bad for your health

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." And I'll give them heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and a shorter lifespan. A growing body of research sugge...
Does good music need to be good?

I enjoyed and agree with much of Sasha Frere-Jones' take on Daft Punk's recent album, Random Access Memories. Daft Punk's fourth studio album, "Random Access Memories," is an attempt to make the kind...
Unknown mathematician hits a home run

Yitang Zhang, an unknown mathematician who worked at Subway while trying to find an academic position earlier in his career, has written a paper that makes significant progress towards understanding t...
The Sea's Strangest Square Mile

You've heard of Weird Twitter but now there's Weird Ocean. This square mile of water in the Lembeh Strait has some of the strangest and most unique marine life on the planet. Includes an appearance...

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#115: Remembering Jody Sherman

Jody never took a call by saying “Hello.” He always answered by barking his own name into the phone: “Jody.” As if that voice could have belonged anyone else. He was often in a...
#114: The Answer is Just a Click Away

About twenty people walked into the room, sat down and slid their phones, iPads, and other devices towards the center of the table. It was the last session of the conference and the rules were simple.
Confession #113: Get Off My Stoop

When news of the unthinkable comes, we all head for the front stoop. Today, that stoop is virtual, and the digital neighbors with whom we share the news of the moment communicate with us via tweets, s...
Confession #112: Screen Rage

At five years-old, it’s no fun getting interrupted while you’re focused on something. As a parent, I compensate for that by employing a series of intricately planned measures to guide my s...
Confession #111: They Know You’re Reading This

I was recently complaining to a teller at my bank that the another bank down the street had given my 3 year-old daughter a stuffed horse for nothing more than walking past the front door. I jokingly a...

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Summers of “42”

Junior Gilliam, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson… That’s how I remember the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 1956 lineup from the one time my d...
Total Information Awareness: The Sequel

In the Comment for this week’s magazine, while acknowledging the seeming efficacy of the government’s anti-terrorist program over the past decade, I do some hand-wringing about the immense...
Obama and Marijuana: Then and Now

What was your favorite badaboom in President Obama’s routine at the White House Correspondents dinner? Here’s mine, from when he was talking about how “the media landscape is changin...
The Weirdest Sentence in the U.S. Constitution

Earlier this month, at the inaugural Spur Festival in Toronto, Chrystia Freeland and I pontificated about “Vested Interests in Politics” in our two countries. (Although Christia lives in N...
Thatcher, 9/11, and Boston

In this week’s Comment, I note the obvious truth that Margaret Thatcher, whom one eulogist described as “a tough consensus builder who cared about everybody,” had nothing but contemp...

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He plays banjo, too.

(In the event you’ve been wondering what Brian Beatty‘s been up to lately.)...
“Detach from station, and may god’s love be with you”

Tomorrow, Commander Chris Hadfield bids farewell to the International Space Station, meaning we won’t get our usual dose of his tweets and videos sent from space. But he’s signing off with...
Cat goat

(via Kevin Williams)...
Stabbin’ Cabin: World’s Swept

In the nameless midwest a puppy encounters a force he doesn’t understand. Music: “Evil Ball” by Sinoia Caves...
The best thing you’ll read today about junk food.

“We knew this was a breakthrough idea, so we put on our relentless hats and were determined to not let [this thing] beat us.” “I mean, it was actually important that we left the oran...

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Hiatus

This blog is on hiatus, but you can follow me on Twitter and at DIY Drones, where I’m posting daily. I’ll use this blog for occasional longer pieces that don’t fit either of those two other spot...
The Long Tail of Travel

For a recent speech to a travel company, we pulled together some data on the changing shape of travel due to low-cost carriers, online travel information and social-media driven word of mouth taking t...
Is this how the singularity happens?

This was one of those freaky moments when the future sneaks up and smacks you. I was on a plane earlier this week and took a break from work to watch the movie while they served dinner. It was Termina...
Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail

A team at Wharton did some Long Tail analysis on the Netflix ratings data the company released for its Netflix Prize. Although I don’t agree with many of the conclusions in their paper (like some ot...
A New York Times Bestseller!

If you checked out today’s New York Times Book Review section, you’ll see that FREE made the list in its first week of eligibility. It’s #12, tied for #11 (that’s what that little asterisk mea...

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Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read

Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. This is fantastic news, and–as if yo...
Cranking

1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame...
Scared Shitless

Merlin Mann - "Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) Learned to Love Being Afraid of Pretty Much Everything" Download MP4 Video of "Scared Shitless" This is the video of a talk I did last month at Webstoc...
Nerdiest Interview Ever: MPU Workflows Part II

MPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power Users Download MP3 Huffduff It I have the life that I have because I've made a lot of weird decisions, and they've worked out well.
Fear

So, yeah. I'll be speaking at Webstock pretty soon. Which is insanely intimidating. I think I may have my topic. ”Fear” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on...

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Death Star vs. Enterprise

(YouTube link)At first I thought this might be a sequel to the 2008 video Death Star Over San Francisco, but it's not. Oh yes, in this alternate reality, Earth is part of the Galactic Empire, but in t...
Shetland Pony Adopts Orphaned Lamb

Georgina Hirst, a veterinarian, spotted these two friends in the Black Mountains of Wales:"The lamb was obviously hungry and it's quite amazing that it learnt to suckle from the mare. It might have ju...
Mortarboard Slogan

Congratulations! And welcome to the adult world of debt. Remember: A Lannister always pays his debts, even if it might takes a long time. Link -via Blame It On The Voices...
How To Get A Woman Mad [no. 986 - @JohnDuffy21]

How to get a woman mad in two easy steps: 1. Take a picture of her. 2. Don't show it to her.— JD (@JohnDuffy21) April 24, 2013~Illustrated by: Stefan Hey~Get this on a T-shirt over at...
Swedishness

(YouTube link)A David Attenborough soundalike delivers a anthropological piece poking fun at Sweden's equality, agnosticism, tolerance, and sexual liberation. Featuring the actual prime minister of Sw...

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May 21, 2013: Morning

Fashion models are almost twice as likely as computer programmers to get visas to enter the U.S. Era of private space travel begins within the year, with more than 800 people signed up to blast off...
Siam, I Am (Not)

by Liz Entman Harper Small-screen post-Downton satisfaction for costume connoisseurs. It’s a dark time for the non-cable subscriber craving sartorial escape on the small screen: Downton Abbey i...
May 20, 2013: Afternoon

If we take the future at all seriously…then we need to leave a big percentage of the planet’s coal and oil and natural gas in the ground. Working-class white citizens in South Africa fac...
May 20, 2013: Morning

After Tennessee Rep. Debra Maggart, a lifelong NRA member, voted against a pro-gun bill, her onetime allies destroyed her. #guns Vertical timeline of congressional leanings on gun control. #chart If...
Paris in the Seventies

From his new solo show in the United States, black-and-white selections from Takuma Nakahira’s “Circulation: Date, Place, Events,” plus a reprint of his 1973 essay, “Looking at...

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A place belongs forever

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” �...
The only things

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember. – Jean Renoir, as recalled by James Salter, in the New Yorker.
Scrapbook

Apartamento, a magazine out of Spain, but written in English, is one of my favorite magazines. The latest issue just arrived in the mail today and I am happily listening to YLE and leafing through it.
Proust on Newspapers

What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four times in our lives do we read a book in which there is something really ess...
Jack Gilbert and H.D.

Poetry! Just this week I’ve met two other poetry fans. It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I’m not familiar with. One of them recommended Jack...

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Cute-Fight: New Fighter Profile Pages

Over at Cute-Fight, we've completely revamped the fighter profile pages.Read this post online:Cute-Fight: New Fighter Profile PagesBy Derek Powazek...
Why I Blocked You on Twitter, A Compilation

I've blocked a hell of a lot of people over the years and occasionally I'll make a mental note of why I did it. Here's the list so far.Read this post online:Why I Blocked You on Twitter, A Compilation...
If You Don’t Know How A Startup Will Make Money, Neither Do They

This, I hope, will remind people that the business plans of the startups they use are, indeed, their business. They should find out how the company is making money now and what their plans are in the...
I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet

"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." I don't know who said it first, but the line has achieved a kind of supernatural resonance online. And for good reason - it describes a kin...
Cute-Fight: A Twitterrific New Venue

We're thrilled to announce Cute-Fight's newest venue, the ultimate cage match, the Twitterrific Thunderdome!Read this post online:Cute-Fight: A Twitterrific New VenueBy Derek Powazek...

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Dictionary of Numbers

Chrome add-on puts large numbers into human terms [via] ...
Flickr launches major redesign with 1TB free space, new apps

looking pretty great ...
Marco Arment on the Tumblr acquisition

great early personal history of Tumblr ...
Yahoo approves Tumblr acquisition for $1.1B

the community isn't taking it well; let's hope Yahoo learned from their first billion-dollar mistake ...
Doodal

now you're doodling with portals ...

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The GovLab

Several years ago, my friend and now collaborator Beth Noveck began developing a program that she called Peer-to-Patent, a software platform that allowed outside experts and informed amateurs to contr...
What Peer Progressives Really Believe

If you have patience for this kind of online debate, The New Republic is now running my extended response to Evgeny Morozov's review (along with a new response from him). It cites a number of the misl...
Tilting At Windmills, The Internet Edition

Evgeny Morozov has written a long and entertaining critique of my book Future Perfect in last week’s issue of The New Republic. It’s mostly an attack on the “quasi-religion” of “internet-cen...
Bill Clinton On "Creative Networks of Collaboration"

Yesterday marked the opening day of the Clinton Foundation’s “Health Matters” conference in Palm Springs. I had heard a bit of advance word about the conference from a friend who was headed down...
A Quick Roundup Of Future Perfect News

I've been so crazed with the book tour for Future Perfect that I haven't had a chance to put together some account of the response the book is receiving. I've tried to capture at least some of this on...

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LINK: Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio

Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio I talked about software design and seeing through the customer’s eyes for 30 minutes on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio. In my favorite part we thoroughly debunked personas a...
Don’t have the right gear? Make it.

I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat,...
LINK: The 37signals Report Card

The 37signals Report Card We’ve long believed in the value of transparency at 37signals. It’s why we write about how we work and why we provide real-time information about our customer hap...
VIDEO: “If you wanna meet with me… come…

“If you wanna meet with me… come to the garden… with your shovel… so we can plant some shit.” -Ron Finley...
Wanted: 25 special customers.

We’re working on a entirely new product, and I’m looking to meet some potential customers. We can meet in person, over the phone, or via Skype, etc. The tool is for the small business o...

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Help The Mavs Design Our Next Uniform !

The Mavs are going to re-do our uniforms for the 2015-16 season… if we get a unique and original design. What’s the best way to come up with creative ideas ? You ask for them. So we are go...
The Dumbest Words In New Media

How many times have we heard someone talk about the future of media and they immediately use their child as an example of what we all will experience in the future. “My daughter will only use a...
Want Your Newborn to be an Athletic Superstar ?

Well I have no idea how to make sure he or she gets there. But what I do know that is if you have any such aspiration for your soon to be bundle of joy, then there is one thing you must do: You must s...
The Real Problem with the Twitter HackCrash

In case you missed it, the @AP twitter account was hacked , which resulted in a tweet that sent markets spiraling down only to recover a few minutes later once it was revealed that the tweet was a fak...
Sometimes I truly do get GREAT advice from NBA fans

I pity Your IGNORANCE all that Money and U still don’t have a CLUE – Brittney Griner born 10/18/1990 Inbox x Gary to Mark.Cuban HOPE YOU READ THIS CUBES , BECAUSE I AM MAKING A POINT -...

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And this after the most pleasant twos

Lately it's often about food choices. Sometimes about clothing choices. Last night it was, briefly, because it was getting dark. 46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out. Funny because it's...
75th Anniversary of the Hindenburg

Last May was the anniversary of the Hindenburg Disaster. Here is the amazing Atlantic spread commemorating the day. Image 14 is the very essence of the 1930s-future....
Job disparity starts at the beginning of women's careers

WSJ: Men Get the Jobs That Get Them Ahead, Study Finds. I've tended to believe that a lot of pay disparity is based on women's inability or unwillingness to negotiate as aggressively as men - your sta...
Obama's data-crunchers

The day of the election, I heard a Political Science professor say that the Obama campaign had an unbelievable amount of information about voters. What they were doing put Nate Silver in the shade, he...
2012 Halloween Costume Winner

Seriously, the most awesome Hallowe'en costume ever. (thanks, jjg!)...

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Why I Love UX Week

Every year, San Francisco company Adaptive Path hosts a conference called UX Week, and I sometimes get to go for a day or so. This year, I was at the opening and the closing days of the conference, an...
Library

A few weeks ago, I rejoined the Library and promptly put several books from my Amazon wishlist on the "request" list. They were sent to my local library (the Chinatown branch, which is near...
Sindy's 1972 -1976 Wardrobe

Oh I love the Internet. I was daydreaming about my favorite doll growing up: Britain's answer to Barbie - Sindy, and I decided to see if I could find images of the outfits I had for her when I was you...
Jamie and Me

This is classic procrastinator behavior. When I was in Ireland, fellow lazy blogger Dave and I made a pact that we would do two blog posts before the end of February, so what do I do? Two posts in one...
Tim

We found out on Friday January 29th that my dad's scan had revealed colon cancer which had spread to his liver. By Monday, February 1st I was on a plane home. I just couldn't stand to not be there. I...

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Apple iWatch Design Predictions
The First Internet Company In Shoreditch

In 1994 I started the first Internet company, Realtime Anywhere, in Shoreditch, what is now, 20 years later the center of London’s ‘Tech City’. What was London’s Internet cente...
Skunk Puppying: dealing with legal threats with cute animals.

I registered designskunkworks.com, thinking it would be a good name for an Internet product company, not realizing that Skunkworks was a real, trademarked facility run by Lockheed Martin or that you c...
5 principles of invisible web design

The term design is associated with visual things, we design magazines, products and buildings but not music or food and this visual association has carried across when people speak about web design. B...
Use Case Study House #1 - A house designed like a web application

User Experience House Design Since I’m both an architect and a web product person, I thought it would be fun to design a building the way that web applications are. Web Design vs Building &...

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A giant TOUR catch up. Also, we wear the same boots.

I need to get back to blogging. Too many things are stacking up, and I'm paying attention over on Twitter and Tumblr and such, but not here, and really, this is still the most important place to check...
(Not actually Science Fiction) Double Feature...

As tickets go on sale in half an hour, I thought I had better put something up here about....“You Show You Mine, I’ll You Show me Yours: The Neil & Amanda Double Features”When you start a re...
It's a Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! World.

It's World Book Night.Last night I was in Cambridge Ma. and I was on a World Book Night panel (as co-author of Good Omens) at the lovely Cambridge Public Library, along with Vanessa Diffenbaugh (who w...
Unnatural Creatures, and other things you don't see every day

Last year I edited an anthology, as a benefit for 826DC. This year -- in two weeks time -- it will be published.826DC is also known as the Museum of Unnatural History, so a book of unnatural creatures...
YOUR LONG, PAINFUL WAIT IS OVER! A Cover is Revealed!

This is the cover of the UK edition of Fortunately, The Milk, illustrated by the amazing Chris Riddell.And when I say illustrated, I mean there is a glorious Chris Riddell drawing on pretty much every...

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My greatest triumph!

Sorry. I can't resist. John Carson, a fellow runner from Canada, unearthed this photo from the archives of the Toronto Star. It's the finals of the 1500 meters at the Ontario 14-year-old championships...
Drug Development

On Forbes.com, the drug industry analyst Avik Roy has written a comment on my piece "The Treatment" in last week's New Yorker. A few small points, in response. Roy is of the impression that...
Speaking Tour!

I will be doing a short tour of the U.K. next week, speaking on a brand new mystery topic! I'll be in Edinburgh on Sunday May 9th, Oxford on the 10th, Manchester on the 11th and Newcastle on the 12th.
Pinker, Round Two

In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Steven Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the “lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe�...
Letting Igons be Igons

From "Blowing Up," by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, April 22,2002...

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Shared: How to Do Philosophy

How to Do Philosophy: If you’ve ever suspected that most classical philosophy is a colossal waste of time, Paul Graham tells you why you’re probably right.Comments...
Shared: TIME: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

TIME: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us: Stephen Brill follows the money to uncover the pinnacle of corruption that is the U.S. Health Care system. A must-read article if there ever was one.Comments...
Shared: DIY Dot Org

DIY Dot Org: A beautifully designed site full of fun and challenging DIY projects. I could spend months on here.Comments...
We Are Expanding the Design Team at Twitter

First things first: we are expanding the Design Studio at Twitter! A few days ago, I opened 8 new positions, which can be viewed here. If you have fantastic design, production, or research chops and y...
Shared: The Steve Jobs Video Archive

The Steve Jobs Video Archive: A collection of over 250 Steve Jobs videos in biographical orderComments...

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Where Tumblr Came From

Seven years ago, my wife Alaina Browne and I were living happily in San Francisco when she went off to NYC to visit with our...
The Web We Lost, and Other Losses

I got the chance to revisit some of the themes of the Web We Lost in the broader context of how we confront our mortality...
Zuckerberg's FWD: Making Sure They Get It Right

Mark Zuckerberg built himself a political action committee called FWD.us, and they're diving headfirst into trying to change immigration policy as their first priority. They...
I like blogging software.

I lament the end of the personal CMS market; I was happy to back Ghost on Kickstarter today for the same reason that I back...
Hold The Door Open

Though it's currently in vogue to threaten the President with ricin, the fashion when I was a younger man was to intimidate newspapers with anthrax....

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on "black box"

If you missed it, Jennifer Egan and The New Yorker started serializing her new short story "Black Box" on Twitter tonight, coming from the @NYerFiction account. Earlier today, Egan posted a bit on the...
helping the kids think about infinity

The "all the grains of sand on all the beaches" metaphor is played out. What we need are some new ways to help kids think about infinity. Here are a few that I might use with mine. * Every pixel...
the silence of mike daisey

Reading the transcript of the Retraction episode of This American Life is one thing; listening to it is another. The most interesting bits were the silences, not only because Daisey is so clearly unco...
competing v. fulfilling expectations

I was listening to an episode of The Talk Show (I know, I know…) with Chairman Gruber and John Siracusa on the way to work this morning, the one where they talk about Mountain Lion. A good part of t...
status updates

It's my last day at SAY Media. Proud to have been part of such an incredible team here and at Six Apart.— Michael Sippey (@sippey) January 20, 2012 It's time for new challenges: very excited to join...

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The One-Person Product

In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going...
→ Welcome to Google Island

Amazing. By Mat Honan. (Via John Moltz.) ∞ Permalink...
→ Accidental Tech Podcast: Animated Kale

In this week’s episode: Our theme song, too many to-do apps, Google I/O keynote reactions, localization, Google kicking Apple’s butt in services, Google Play Music All Access Glass Map Han...
→ The Great Google Goat Rodeo

By Mark Wunsch, the web developer: There is no unified Google that is “good” or “evil”. There is just an organizational clusterfuck that is unable to decide what it thinks is truly the bes...
→ The Android Detour

For Google, Android was a detour from their focus on owning and dominating web services; it ensured that those services would be freely accessible in this new world of computing, including on the iPho...

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The Citizens Agenda in Campaign Coverage

The idea is to learn from voters what those voters want the campaign to be about, and what they need to hear from the candidates to make a smart decision. So you go out and ask them: "what do you...
The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

"In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerf...
Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion: A Few Notes for Marcus Brauchli

"Reporting can be trusted if it is cured of opinion. Reporting can be trusted if it is dusted with opinion. Or even completely interwoven with opinion. It can lead to conclusions. Or the conclus...
The Politico Opens the Kimono. And then Pretends it Never Happened.

"Think about what the Politico is saying: an experienced beat reporter would probably not want to 'burn bridges' with key sources by telling the world what happens when those sources let their gu...
Fixing The Ideology Problem in Our Political Press: A Reply to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder

"If your job is to make the case, win the negotiations, decide what the community should do, or maintain morale, that is one kind of work. If your job is to tell people what's going on, and equip...

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Selling ads by time, not space

I just saw some mind-bending work Chartbeat is about to release about measuring the time users spend exposed to an ad online. As background, to quote Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile: “Chartbeat monitor...
Apologies

Howard Kurtz screwed up, yes, but he also just showed an admirable example of accountability in apologizing on his CNN show Reliable Sources — saying that as a media critic he should be held to...
Advice

I didn’t know until this week’s Howard Kurtz kerfuffles that I was even listed as a member of the advisory board to his Daily Download. I did indeed give some advice to Kurtz and Lauren As...
And now the news: Here’s what we *don’t* know at this hour…

I often tell my students that where they see a problem, they should find the opportunity. Well, we’ve been told over and over this weekend that we had a big problem with misinformation after the...
A media attack

The attack on the Boston Marathon was designed to maximize media coverage: a popular event with cameras everywhere and a narrative that will be sure to follow about innocent enjoyment henceforth ruine...

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Crowdsourcing limitations: How you can become a part of Phil Hansen’s latest art piece

As an artist, I’m always interested in looking at the defining moments in our lives, understanding how these moments affect us and finding different ways to represent them. We all face limitations.
Responding to the petition to disinvite George Papandreou from TEDGlobal

An online petition was posted early this past weekend, asking that “the TEDGlobal conference organizers remove George Papandreou from the speakers list.” Papandreou is the former prime m...
North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee reunited with the man who saved her family

A total stranger helped Hyeonseo Lee pay her mother and brother’s way out of jail as they fled from North Korea. Now, four years later, Lee has been reunited with that stranger, getting the chance t...
Fuel cell symphonies and art from gift bag wrappers: The Reimagine Project launches with the TEDActive 2013 artists-in-residence

Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Andy Cavatorta performed with punk bands in the early 1990s, has worked with Bjork and is a graduate of MIT’s Media Lab. His counterintuitive resume has led him to cre...
20+ resources for better giving and living a more altruistic life

Every day, most of us do something morally indefensible — we go about our lives without sending help to the 6.9 million children under the age of 5 who will die this year from poverty-related di...

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May 21, 2013: Morning

Fashion models are almost twice as likely as computer programmers to get visas to enter the U.S. Era of private space travel begins within the year, with more than 800 people signed up to blast off...
Siam, I Am (Not)

by Liz Entman Harper Small-screen post-Downton satisfaction for costume connoisseurs. It’s a dark time for the non-cable subscriber craving sartorial escape on the small screen: Downton Abbey i...
May 20, 2013: Afternoon

If we take the future at all seriously…then we need to leave a big percentage of the planet’s coal and oil and natural gas in the ground. Working-class white citizens in South Africa fac...
May 20, 2013: Morning

After Tennessee Rep. Debra Maggart, a lifelong NRA member, voted against a pro-gun bill, her onetime allies destroyed her. #guns Vertical timeline of congressional leanings on gun control. #chart If...
Paris in the Seventies

From his new solo show in the United States, black-and-white selections from Takuma Nakahira’s “Circulation: Date, Place, Events,” plus a reprint of his 1973 essay, “Looking at...

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Scandal Befalls McGruff the Crime Dog by Jory John

Ahem. Testing. One two. Woof. Is this thing on? Yes? Hello. Thank you for coming out today. My name is McGruff Thomas-Clegg, but you probably know me better by my professional moniker, McGruff the Cri...
Going Where the Southern Cross the Dog: A Column About the Blues: Eddy and the Cutaways by Jason Edward Harrington

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