February 2012
10 posts
Third date today
I’m excited. Now, if only my clothes could tumble a little faster.
“Every person I interact with is part of the person I am becoming.”
– Patricia Moreno (via anditslove)
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“Although I laugh and I act like a clown, beneath this mask I am wearing a frown.”
– The Beatles
Employee or Employer: Who Owns the Twitter... →
infoneer-pulse:
A blogger might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic damages after allegedly hijacking his former employer’s Twitter followers.
A lawsuit brought by South Carolina-based PhoneDog Media, a mobile-phone review site, raises a novel legal issue asking the simple question: Who owns an account’s Twitter followers, the employee or employer? For the moment,...
January 2012
20 posts
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“It’s just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn’t get things right.”
– Elliot Smith, Fond Farewell
“Newsflash: everyone is biased. The people who try to hide that bias are the ones...”
– Tech blogger (and general partner at CrunchFund) MG Siegler writing on the success of Apple (it’s Q4 earnings were…explosive) and noting how investing so much time in one company has finally paid off for Apple-focused bloggers the world over. (via newsweek)
Anonymous asked: i hear you. i generally agree. i do have a number friends in their early 20s either engaged or already married. i think their marriages will last though. only 1 of them ive thought was a mistake.
Anonymous asked: maybe they want their wife to be their life?
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To all those people rushing to get engaged in...
Get a life, not a wife.
“Gen-Yers are using their personal networks and profiles as an extension of their...”
– Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce (via thenextweb)
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Watchmarkcoatney:
Livestreaming: The State of the Union
“Most newspapers are stuck in the late 20th century formulas, scarcely varied...”
– Melanie Sill, Take it from Former Editors: Newspapers Need Bolder Change.
H/T: Kevin Anderson.
(via futurejournalismproject)
December 2011
32 posts
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The contstant interview: The lead →
constantinterview:
“Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.” —Harry Reasoner
Every journalist knows that the beginning can make or break an article. After all, there’s a reason it is called a “lead” because it must lead the reader to continue. Ideally, a strong lead makes a reader crave to the point that...
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#8905
ohnewsroom:
Editor: “So, can we start referring to Kim Jong Il’s successor as ‘Lil’ Kim’?”
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The Justice Department just laid the smack down on... →
shortformblog:
Voter ID laws tend to have a chilling effect on low-income and minority voters in particular. South Carolina has to go through the Justice Department for approval on laws related to voters because they’ve done a poor job in the past of protecting the rights of black voters.
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“Heart beats fast. Colors and promises.
How to be brave. How can I love when...”
– Christina Perri, A thousand years
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Everyone should listen to Motown artists.
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