On May 7th, Robert Krulwich gave the commencement speech to Berkeley Journalism School’s Class of 2011. That’s Robert Krulwich, who hosts the singular radio show Radiolab, one of the most accomplished pieces of science broadcasting in any nation. Robert Krulwich, who won a Peabody Award for broadcast excellence a few months ago. Robert Krulwich, whose [...]
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It! VISIT LINK: Foursquare is an endless string of meaningless buzzwords we just couldn't bring ourselves to transcribe (tags: 2010 article critique culture facebook foursquare fun funny humor humour internet journalism media mobile network networking news nytimes satire social socialnetworking socialnetworks socialmedia technology twitter web [...]
A hedge fund, Magnetar, helped create arcane mortgage-based instruments, pushed for risky things to go inside them and then bet against the investments.<br /> And make sure to listen to the full story (free streaming) on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/inside-job VISIT LINK: Magnetar: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going (tags: Magnetar ThisAmericanLife [...]
"Those words could stand alone as a monument to Wales’ wrongness – a warning for future generations on why we must never heed the advice of a man who calls himself ‘Jimbo’. But the very fact that Wales was invited to opine about the future of news at a major conference despite having no identifiable [...]
Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time and mandating that testimonials reflect typical results. The FTC will require that writers on the Web clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get [...]
Digging Alexa – how the geek demographic doubled overnight It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight. (tags: blog web internet blogs culture search interesting technology tech toread statistics analytics articles imported journalism metafilter Digg traffic alexa [...]
Archives historiques, 200 ans d’histoire en ligne LE TEMPS a souhaité assurer les conditions de conservation et de consultation à long terme du patrimoine écrit dont il est dépositaire et ainsi rendre accessible une source d’information inestimable. Chaque article de chaque édition est à présent disponible de manière électronique. L’accès aux contenus se fait par [...]
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Search tip: Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE [...]
The Money Meltdown Everything you need to know about the global money crisis of 2007-?. (tags: news business culture History interesting links international money economics journalism finance usa capitalism america crisis meltdown economy subprime …)
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