May 2013
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August 2011
1 post
Some say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn’t
Understand poems or songs.
You’d never know
Beauty comes from loss.
It’s deep inside every person:
A tear tinier
Than a pearl or thorn.
It’s one of the places
Where the beloved is born.
-Gregory Orr
June 2011
3 posts
April 2011
3 posts
Math genius Jeff Hammerbacher, former Facebook research scientist who later co-founded Cloudera. (via copyeditor
)
true that.
(via futurejournalismproject)
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
3 posts
Journalists are a busy lot, out reporting each day as fire breathing editors demand they fill news holes post haste.
No wonder the allure of a press release. Flip a word here and there, massage some copy and here you go, an article ready for publication.
Not so fast.
England’s Media Standards Trust has released a “churn engine” that lets readers compare articles to press releases to see whether what they’re reading is actually independently reported. Some results can be seen here and examples run the gamut from science to royal family reporting.
As the Guardian notes:
A new website promises to shine a spotlight on “churnalism” by exposing the extent to which news articles have been directly copied from press releases.
The website, churnalism.com, created by charity the Media Standards Trust, allows readers to paste press releases into a “churn engine”. It then compares the text with a constantly updated database of more than 3m articles. The results, which give articles a “churn rating”, show the percentage of any given article that has been reproduced from publicity material…
…In a typical example, the Express, Mirror and Sun all lifted of chunks of text from a press release last month on behalf of the Benenden Healthcare Society, which quoted a poll showing ‘British women spend more money on their looks than their health’. The Daily Mail copied 98% of the text directly from the press release.
January 2011
7 posts
December 2010
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September 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
loosy lucy - steeples.
June 2010
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May 2010
2 posts
“I like tequila and I will have a few shots this evening!” -Oprah
Silver or Gold for O? I wonder.
” —Read More: Oprah Likes The Tequila! | PerezHilton.com (via mexandthecity)April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
4 posts
The Black Keys - Tighten Up (produced by Dangermouse) via @hypemachine
(via clientsfromhell)
Solution: raise your rates so 5.5 mins = whatever the total was before. Voila, happy client!
February 2010
6 posts
fourtet - she just likes to fight
(they’re not talking about me this time. i swear)
Hate to answer questions with questions but are these things public? I swear I don’t even believe in privacy anymore. Speaking of, is there a way to run Tumblr feed via Google Buzz?
