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The follow-up letters I receive from those prospective Ph.D.’s are often quite angry and incoherent; they’ve been praised their whole lives, and no one has ever told them that they may not become what they want to be, that higher education is a business that does not necessarily have their best interests at heart. Sometimes [...] Related posts:

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Seward reasonably points out that we’d be foolish to endow the newspaper industry as it currently exists. When I look at most local newspapers these days I see skeletons: businesses that have been systematically looted over the years, to send money to far-off corporate headquarters to pay fat executive salaries and boost stock prices. Preserve [...] Related posts:

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It has been very painful to watch papers like the Post offer buyouts to dozens of talented journalists at the height of their powers while shutting overseas bureaus and even entire sections of the paper. Not to pick on any one institution, but, from a constitutional perspective, how did we end up in a society [...] Related posts:

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So we’ve progressed now from having just a Registry key entry, to having an executable, to having a randomly-named executable, to having an executable which is shuffled around a little bit on each machine, to one that’s encrypted– really more just obfuscated– to an executable that doesn’t even run as an executable. It runs merely [...] Related posts:

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Legion of Tech announced the Ignite Portland 5 speakers. These sound amazing! Isaac Potoczny-Jones - Open, Mobile, and Linux: A basic introduction to Android G1 development Dr. Jayson Falkner - Science. It works, bitches. DNA Edition. John Metta - How to creatively destroy pesky, non-moneymaking community efforts A. L. Venable - Fashion! Music! Intrigue!: Why You Should Be Riding [...] Related posts:

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I think this tendency is very important to the blogosphere, because without the ability to become an arm chair CEO, people might begin to take us too seriously. There are always blogs telling us why Facebook should buy Twitter, or why Facebook should by Xobni, or why Twitter needs to support Laconica. Most of these [...] Related posts:

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Mere speculation, but this would be a huge hit to investigative journalism: Conde Nast shuttered Domino earlier today and unless things turn around quick (don’t hold your breath), the magazine publisher will undoubtedly be looking to make more cuts. Could The New Yorker be next? At first glance, you’d immediately assume no. David Remnick’s book consistently produces [...] Related posts:

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The better alternative is to act now, before panic ensues, and actually change the way we think about journalism. Is it a product that corporations sell to us in whatever form is most profitable, and only as long as the money keeps flowing? Or is it something that we think of as a public good [...] Related posts:

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“It will be the policy of my administration to reverse our dependence on foreign oil while building a new energy economy that will create millions of jobs” –Barack Obama “To keep our economy growing, we also need reliable supplies of affordable, environmentally responsible energy. Nearly four years ago, I submitted a comprehensive energy strategy that encourages conservation, [...] Related posts:

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If Philip Weiss’s description of a recent 60 minutes segment is accurate (I haven’t watched the segment), then it sure sounds like it. (Link via Robot Wisdom) The latest bombing campaigns in Gaza seem to be a turning point in the coverage of Israel in the US. Gone are the days when Israel could do no [...] Related posts:

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U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. Buried in a Department of Justice report released [...] Related posts:

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Radley Balko on Obama’s first 40 hours: # Obama rescinded Bush’s 2001 executive order allowing former presidents, vice presidents, and their heirs to claim executive privilege in determining which of their records get released to the public. Even better, he’s requiring the signature of both his White House counsel and the attorney general before he [...] Related posts:

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Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. “The National Security Agency [...] Related posts:

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After reading Josh Ellis’s article on what professional media is for and Ethan Zuckerman’s article on the coming collapse of advertising as a business model for newspapers, I came up with a new challenge for myself: think of 5 business models for professional media organizations, along the lines of my 5 business models for Twitter. [...] Related posts:

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As the number of jobs across the nation dwindles, more Americans are joining the military, lured by a steady paycheck, benefits and training. The last fiscal year was a banner one for the military, with all active-duty and reserve forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004, the year that violence [...] Related posts:

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