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Who gets to say when an argument’s over?
Welcome back, my friends, to the argument that never ends (Scott rosenberg, 4/4/06)
“Until quite recently, it was the newspaper’s editors who nearly always got to say, “This argument is at an end.” Gone are the familiar rhythms — last week’s chatter about Andy [...]
NYtimes.com
Any news org should be able to do more with corrections than this…
Denver Post 8/30/2007, p. 2B
Or this… What? You can’t see the corrections on that page?
Denver Post 8/30/2007, p. 2B
…Look way down here in the corner
Even the best journalists and editors sometimes make mistakes. Or sometimes new information surfaces that proves old stories — [...]
I am totally not a phone person. I tend to use the phone only when I absolutely have to, or to call people I already know and enjoy talking to. Right now, I only have a crappy little low-end prepaid mobile phone because I only want it to coordinate with people when I’m traveling. Most [...]
NYTimes.com
The NY Times doesn’t want to removed disputed articles — but shouldn’t they investigate and correct them?
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Can newspapers fix old errors?
“If the NYT is truly the “paper of record,” and its archives deserve high Google rank by virtue of their unimpeachability, the paper should divert some of the [...]
David Chief, via Flickr (CC license)
How many people use feeds? Probably a whole lot more than you think.
In my Aug. 21 post, It’s not about your site anymore, I talked about how web sites are becoming less important for online content distribution as RSS feeds (with their many uses) are enjoying increasingly mainstream usage.
Basically, the [...]
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Last night’s total lunar eclipse.
Last night, after a day of mostly overcast skies in Boulder, CO, the clouds finally dissolved around 3am leaving a clear view of the total lunar eclipse. I was out in my driveway with my husband, who’d set up his whompous Meade LX 90 12-inch telescope, and [...]
Ernoldiño, via Flickr (CC license)
“Vs. thinking” sucks. Can we all just get along?
How ‘vs.’ thinking drags everyone down - Lost Remote TV Blog
“Blogs vs. news. Web vs. print. You can find tons of “vs.” at every j-conference. “Vs.” supposes there are 2 choices. Assuming we need a “vs.” is a major reason why traditional media [...]
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Matt Waite, you owe me a drink. At least one.
So today I downloaded and installed Django, the web framework that apparently is one key to creating kick-ass data-driven sites. Adrian Holovaty just wrote a book about it (due out in September, I’ve pre-ordered it). Smart web developers and database [...]
San Diego Supercomputer Services
One way to envision dark matter; sci fi stories are another.
This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but I’m a major science fiction junkie. I always have been. Forget space operas and epic Arthurian fantasies cloaked in spacesuits — I want the hardcore sci-fi. Where the science or speculative reality [...]
Editor & Publisher
E&P story feeds internet fear.
‘Hey - more reasons not to try stuff on the web!’ - Lost Remote TV Blog
“From Editor and Publisher, “Web Editors Reveal Online Flops and Failures,” it carries some good warnings about taking care when executing projects online, but will reinforce conservative attitudes too many media people have.” (tags: [...]
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