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"The unemployment figures are frightening. It is likely that they are going to get much worse. But this slide shows us a deeper trend. What it shows to me is that the idea of "Job" as a full time object that can support a person or even a family, is disappearing. There has been a huge jump in recent months – but the long term time line of this data shows us that this is a structural change."
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Vikki Porter says this is "Something new Knight Digital Media Center is trying this year — a boot camp for digital journalists who have great ideas and don't know what to do with them. It's our attempt to bring some basic business/strategic planning skills to folks who have spent their lives trying not to think about where the money comes from. This is not a skills camp. The folks we want have already figured out the technology and that's why they've got great ideas for how to serve community news and info needs in the public interest. We hope we can at least help some folks put together a sustainable business plan and understand how to find funding support (if that's what they need). Hey, who knows, maybe we'll get some folks in shape to win the next Knight News Challenge!"
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"Remote Diagnosis Disorder (RDD) is my new addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
"People afflicted with this personality disorder suffer from an uncontrollable urge to diagnose individuals as suffering from one or more psychological disorders, specifically individuals which the RDD sufferer has had little or no direct personal interaction with. RDD sufferers often diagnose specific mental illnesses and may go so far as to offer treatment suggestions.
"…Despite having little or no direct interaction with those they diagnose, RDD sufferers often remain strongly convinced their diagnoses are accurate. A side effect of this disorder is that RDD sufferers will typically avoid prolonged direct interaction with those they diagnose, as this could corrupt the benefits they obtain from RDD by proving their assumptions inaccurate."
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