March 2011
32 posts
“And, in what may be the first tangible result of journalists gathered in a bar...”
– David Carr, Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home
“The proposed settlement was without precedent in its scope. The settlement had...”
– My buddy Joe Mullin analyzes the collapse of the Google Books settlement over at Paid Content.
“Corporate and academic labs have access to the most sophisticated instruments,...”
– Tim Studt, Biopunk Realism, from a review of my book, Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life
“One problem confronting anyone who seeks to explore these questions is the habit...”
– Steve Coll, The Internet: For Better or Worse
“It is possible, of course, to beat the New York Times meter, or for that matter...”
– Steve Yelvington on the logic behind the Times’ new payment system.
“They’re not offering anything to readers other than the Times’...”
– Media gadfly Dave Winer on The New York Times’ paywall announcement.
“One former crack dealer in long-term counseling at Impact House in Pasadena said...”
– From a 1995 L.A. Times investigation into racial disparities in federal prosecutions of crack crimes. The newspaper found that “not a single white (was) convicted of a crack cocaine offense in federal courts serving Los Angeles and six Southland counties since Congress enacted stiff...
“The future of news may look more like a Flipboard app than a New York Times app...”
– Josh Clark, a programmer and designer, at SXSW panel with Jennifer Brook, Information Architect at The New York Times, and Erin Sparling, Lead Design Technologist at The Wall Street Journal : “Do Tablets Dream of Electric News?” (via poynterinstitute)
“Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said that in addition to evacuating residents in...”
– Jeff Barnard, The Associated Press, California harbors cleaning up damage inflicted by tsunami
“Douglas Adams came up with the following rules about the way we react to new...”
– Keith Blount in The Atlantic
