These are the 40 most recent links I've shared over the Net, ranked by the number of times they've been clicked. Themes: rebooting the news, press criticism, political journalism, new media, digital culture
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What a sad, pathetic tale of public radio's timidity. How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job. http://jr.ly/tv9t (3071) |
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Hey, there's a new post at PressThink. "Low information voters" and the political press. http://jr.ly/7inf Especially for politics nerds. (2613) |
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Amazing. (3349) |
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Stop Forcing Journalists to Conceal Their Views from the Public http://jr.ly/7czj Recommended. (Picks up from my own work on viewlessness.) (3046) |
2202 |
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Spectacular job by @ProPublica: what the key players in the financial crisis did to earn the contempt of #OccupyWallStreet (3124) |
2189 |
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Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State. http://jr.ly/chuu So far the best thing I have read on this horror. (2679) |
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"One of the best things about Occupy Wall Street is the way it confuses and ignores the shrill pundit class." (3135) |
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Unhappy with poor reporting on #occupywallstreet, this guy (@ErrataRob) goes down there and does it himself. http://jr.ly/7ecr Recommended. (3551) |
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Have you seen Matt Taibbi's advice to the Occupy Wall Street protesters? You haven't? Well... (3473) |
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Just posted at my Tumblr: Sensing a theme? http://jr.ly/dj6w Occupy movement goes global. (3397) |
1688 |
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Just posted at my blog... Occupy PressThink http://jr.ly/ck9x (2555) |
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Digital First CEO: John Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print by @carr2n. (Disclosure: I'm an adviser.) (2704) |
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"But it is also with some pride that I have stopped writing for publications that aim for journalistic objectivity." http://jr.ly/dzai (2662) |
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Just posted at my Tumblr: Tim Pool, the guy behind @TheOther99, is bringing the Max Headroom prophecy to life. http://jr.ly/cizz (2544) |
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Occupy Wall Street as API. http://jr.ly/ciqp Sometimes @alexismadrigal just kicks ass. This is one of those times. via @emahlee (2587) |
1193 |
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Brilliant column by @felixsalmon: The future of online advertising. http://jr.ly/7j7h (2690) |
1188 |
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A new media ethics code for journalists by @dangillmor: 1) Be human. 2) Be honorable. 3) Don't embarrass us. http://jr.ly/fem6 Perfect. (3018) |
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"The media have a history of getting mass social movements wrong." http://jr.ly/7eyn True. But why? My answer: movements aren't savvy. (3484) |
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How Occupy Wall Street Is Like the Internet by (NYU journalism grad) @Conor64 in The Atlantic. http://jr.ly/7i7f It's good. (3340) |
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You wanna bet NPR fires this person? http://jr.ly/2dmm Freelancer, host of an opera program on NPR, is caught in the culture war crossfire. (3292) |
1073 |
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Less friction but no less peril for the leaker. That's why Wikileaks and other dead drops may not work, @carr2n argues. (2883) |
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Running the numbers on press attention to Occupy Wall Street, @fivethirtyeight finds it pulling even to Tea Party coverage (3555) |
945 |
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International Museum of the Newsroom Curmudgeon phoned about this recent find. Whaddaya think? Curmudgeon pride exhibit? (3075) |
905 |
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"American institutions are flailing, unable to self-correct." That is quite an idea for a beat, isn't it? http://jr.ly/7hie (2944) |
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"Anyone who says he has no idea what these folks are protesting is not being truthful." @rushkoff on #occupywallstreet... http://jr.ly/f9xa (3604) |
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Why did Wikipedia succeed when other such projects failed? http://jr.ly/wj8t Anyone who tries to understand online life thinks about this. (3471) |
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Study of 13 mainstream news organizations shows they use Twitter mainly to push their own stuff. http://jr.ly/7hsw via @jeffcdi (2692) |
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What happens when a community loses its newspaper? http://jr.ly/cj4h Maybe it depends on whether it was "the" newspaper or "our" newspaper. (2883) |
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Awesome savaging of citizen journalism by the editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. http://jr.ly/7huf Behold the guild mentality. via @Romenesko (2691) |
809 |
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I got a number of things wrong yesterday in Tweeting about Lisa Simeone, host of NPR's World of Opera. The latest on her: (3267) |
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The e-mail rumor mill circulating politically salient untruths is largely a conservative phenomenon. http://jr.ly/ck35 Why is this? (2592) |
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My interview with @onthemedia's Brooke Gladstone on political timidity, false balance and transparency in public radio. http://jr.ly/7j4h (2899) |
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Hiding who you are from the users is getting more and more expensive for journalists, as @conor64 explains. http://jr.ly/eimx
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"Citizen journalism" notwithstanding, without journalism jobs, we don't have journalism. http://jr.ly/ck3x Yeah. I agree 100 percent. (2586) |
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Memo to the AP. From @mathewi: Twitter is the newswire now. So get real... http://jr.ly/7ihb (2634) |
754 |
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Wisely, the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger, has dropped "platform agnostic" from his stump speech. http://jr.ly/7hcg (2966) |
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You can build a user base with short fast and frequent. Or with long form and more occasional posting. http://jr.ly/7nye But you need data. (2018) |
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The Bernie Madoff of social science: http://jr.ly/g4dw Via @Penenberg (3026) |
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Another columnist, Bloomberg's Caroline Baum, just cannot figure out what #occupywallstreet is about http://jr.ly/cdkg How hard did she try? (3603) |
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Bloggers are the bigger problem, says the chair of the UK's press commission. Not the tabloids or phone hacking. http://jr.ly/7gxg via @Suw (2707) |
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