April 2011
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In which I use Tumblr to settle a disagreement
Serial comma: Yay or nay?
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Twitter Hedge Fund Delays Launch Citing Demand →
A hedge fund that plans to utilize Twitter feeds has postponed its debut due to growing demand by potential investors, according to a report.
The fund, created by London-based hedge fund investors and brothers Paul and Simon Hawtin, was supposed to launch April 1 with $40 million in assets.
However, the fund has gained interest from investors worldwide. Fundraising that totaled almost $100...
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“You need an edge. That’s the basic rule for information-based trading, whether...”
– Richard Bookstaber
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“Listen, you motherfuckers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent.”
– Donald Trump’s strategy for trade negotiations with China.
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BusinessInsider: This Startup Just Solved Every... →
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“There is an old Midwestern saw that says “you can’t blame a dog for being a...”
– Colby Hall: Trump Saturation Coverage Simply Reflects Classic Media Bias
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“After concluding that well-written, well-punctuated, grammatical reviews...”
– Zappos hires Mechanical Turk to proofread product reviews - Boing Boing (via jryu)
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“Only a legally verified candidate can provoke the equal time rule. … Trump...”
– Lawrence O’Donnell, pointing out why Donald Trump can say he’s running for president in 2012 whenever he feels like it.
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I wrote something about Wall Street and social networks for Mashable:
Wall Street’s interest in using social networks is far-reaching. Many other social media platforms are receiving attention from investment managers who are searching for the next edge; looking to slice and dice content from social networks to arrive at meaningful conclusions. They are not traditional Wall Street...
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“In the past, The Atlantic has covered birtherism in the context of other stories...”
– The Atlantic politics editor Garance Franke-Ruta responds to a collective plea from Tumblr users for media outlets to quit covering what birthers say.
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Important man holds historic press conference that... →
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“I know that there’s going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we...”
– President Obama, on his futile attempt to placate birthers.
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“I don’t like one bit that time and taxpayer money are being spent to defend the...”
– Jonathan Capehart: Hate DOMA, respect Paul Clement
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Slate Rethinks its Aggregation Game →
futurejournalismproject:
Slate’s Slatest has long been a favorite for catching up on what’s happening around the tubes. Even though they’ve done the job well, there’s always room for a rethink and redesign.
Via Nieman Lab:
Today Slate is quickening its pace again with a rethink of Slatest. It has hired Josh Voorhees, formerly Politico’s energy reporter, to be aggregator-in-chief and Slatest...
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“We often hear the term “smart power” applied to the tools of development and...”
– Two actively serving military officers, CAPT Wayne Porter, USN and Col Mark “Puck” Mykleby, USMC, publish something (.pdf) that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle would rather you not read. Among their recommendations: Invest in education, health care, and infrastructure, and quit...
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motherjones:
For the first time in the history of the Federal Reserve, the chairman is holding a press conference. Tomorrow. Here’s what we’d like to ask him.
Character Flaws We Celebrate - Conor Friedersdorf... →
silas216:
On his Twitter feed, Howard Kurtz writes, “You’ve gotta say this for Trump: He takes reporters’ calls, doesn’t hide behind flacks. He relishes the combat and never tires of promotion.” I understand why journalists value candidates who make themselves available for questioning. Doing so can expose valuable information to the public. But I never understand why so many of my colleagues in...
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For your information: It takes this policy paper [.pdf] that argues against healthcare reform’s constitutionality, published this morning by the Cato Institute, roughly three pages of copy to slip into hyperbole:
Today, instead of serving as a shield against state interference with free trade, the Commerce Power has become a sword wielded by the federal government in pursuit of a boundless...
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WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets... →
Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose.
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“…what we’re looking at is the closing of the conservative intellectual universe,...”
– Paul Krugman
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Seeing the Atlas Shrugged movie because, clearly, I hate myself.
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Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community... →
In a statement issued on Friday, Oracle announced that it intends to discontinue commercial development of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite. The move comes several months after key members of the OOo community and a number of major corporate contributors forked OOo to create a vendor-neutral alternative.
OOo is one of many open source software projects that Oracle obtained in its...
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Exclusive: Donald Trump has no interest in running... →
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Journalists learn what works (& doesn’t work) on... →
copyeditor:
futurejournalismproject:
Today we’re going meta with a Tumblr love fest: The Copy Editor writes for Poynter Institute and interviews me, SoupSoup, Producer Matthew, Josh Sternberg and Mark Dodge Medlin:
As more journalists use Tumblr, they’re starting to see how it can help them engage with users and reach new audiences. For insights, I interviewed journalists via email about...
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“… I can’t think of anything less ratio-changing than a panel about...”
– Elizabeth Spiers
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Something I’ve been working on:
[T]he editors at leading media brand Nearshore Americas have launched this week a new online news provider dedicated to high-performance outsourcing. Global Delivery Report (@GlobalDeliver on Twitter) will offer both practical insights for outsourcing business managers and also localized perspectives on a rising star in the outsourcing universe: Guadalajara,...
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“We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting...”
– Barack Obama (via squee-gee)
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The Dangers of iPhones Recording Your Every Move →
theatlantic:
Today, two British security researchers raised eyebrows with the discovery that the Apple iPhone records users’ every move for as long as a year. The information is stored on a file called “consoidated.db,” which includes latitude-longitude coordinates and a timestamp. The file is unencrypted, easily-accessible and the information is transferred to any machine the iPhone syncs...
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It’ll be worth watching as Facebook continues to influence how readers experience reporting and journalism. TechCrunch today reported on Trove, the Washington-Post-owned “social news site”:
The news site factors in a reader’s likes and dislikes, combining algorithms with ‘expertise from the newsroom’ (news of the day selected by an editorial team).
Trove takes advantage of...
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“Blah blah blah blah rain blah blah blah Niese blah blah Astros blah blah Mets...”
– Best lede ever? The New York Daily News gives Florida’s WFTV a run for its money. (via motherjones)
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Reuters to transition towards consumer news →
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2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists →
Auto reblog.
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How fixing one typo on a resume could lead to a... →
In summation: Job searching is hard and I’m thankful I don’t have to do it currently.
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divineirony:
I’m no economist, but… It seems that the sole reason for a business to hire is because of demand for the product or service that business provides. If you own a widget factory, how does a tax cut on your widget profits spur job creation when nobody is buying widgets to begin with? Wouldn’t it be better to put more money in the hands of widget consumers? Maybe some...
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“If we want to hold our leaders accountable, I believe we need to hold them to a...”
– Squashed: Same Facts, Different Meaning
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“[B]y and large, the hard work of fixing the fat part of the budget has already...”
– Annie Lowery: How Congress can balance the budget in eight years by literally doing nothing. This is not a joke.
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theatlantic:
Letters of Note:
On August 2nd, 1939, after consultation with fellow physicists Leó Szilárd and Eugene Wigner, Albert Einstein signed the following letter to then U.S. President, Franklin Roosevelt. The letter warned that the construction of an atomic bomb using uranium was indeed possible, advised the U.S. Government to invest time and money into its research, and then hinted...
