June 2010
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School Districts Steal from Handicapped Kids
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listening to "Empire State Of Mind - Jay Z ft... →
@KristinaWeise NYC is yours. Turn this shit up…
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“G20 protests hit Toronto in advance of summit”
– G20 protests hit Toronto in advance of summit
I’ll be in Toronto this weekend for the wedding of one of my oldest friends.
Coincidentally, the G20 will be in town along with the obligatory protesters. The last time I covered a protest of this size (RNC 2010 protests were actually much...
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The Runaway General | Rolling Stone Politics →
At the heart of the McChrystal controversy is this piece, ‘The Runaway General’ | Rolling Stone Politics http://dhp.im/b164BD
By Michael HastingsJun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT
This article appears in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22, 2010, on newsstands Friday, June 25.
‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a...
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T-Shirts of the past Pt. 5: Robert Johnson - Blog... →
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of Robert Johnson to the 20th century. Though he only made 42 recordings over the course of his short life, they have lived on, and inspired many, long after his violent death in 1938. His life has been mythologized to an extent that doesn’t seem possible our modern, materialist age, where myth has supposedly disappeared in favor of...
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“The media and entertainment industries have been through an unprecedented amount...”
– Memo to Media Cos.: Disruption? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
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Why Twitter Needs T.Co : Twitter Under Fire for... →
A few quick thoughts:
Why has Twitter decided to introduce it’s own short URL, t.co? More importantly, why has Twitter decided to wrap ever URL - even previously shortened URLs - in it’s own t.co wrapper? They say security, and while this may be factually accurate it’s also a convenient red herring.
T.co, like the other ‘features’ Twitter has introduced over the...
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Quick Thoughts on Broadcast Business Models - Dan... →
I’m no expert, but while riding the train home this evening I had a few thoughts on the economics of broadcast media business models:
The business models of broadcast media are based on scarcity - scarcity of a) distribution, and b) content.
The relationships look like this: Network produces original content and distributes it to the broadcast Affiliate (your local TV and radio...
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New York Times Plans Public Beta Site for Its... →
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The New York Times is building a public beta testing site where it will experiment with new ideas and applications before deciding whether they deserve to go live on NYTimes.com. The Times expects to introduce the site, to be called Beta620, in July or August. The “620” refers to the paper’s street address on Eighth Avenue in New York.
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Newsweek.com: Zombies Attack! -- Daily Intel →
Best. Meme. Ever.
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Oops. Overshare.
Damnit. Sorry everyone. Forgot my Flickr was attached. The over-share was unintentional but my apologies regardless.
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WatchRichard MacManus of Read Write Web discusses the real-time web with Dan Patterson of ABC News. MacManus, respected blogger, has built a successful media network by staying one step ahead of emerging technologies and trends. He’s most well-known for articulating abstract ideas like “the internet of things,” semantic data analysis, and the real-time web to a main-stream audience....
Interview: Webby Awards and NYC Internet Week... →
David-Michel Davis, or DMD as his friends and colleagues call him, spoke with Dan Patterson of ABC News about NYC Internet Week 2010. The two discussed innovation in New York, what the social… …
Interviews from UN Talk Radio Day 2010 (And: What... →
The annual Talk Radio Day at the United Nations is held every June in New York. These interviews were provided to @abcnewsradio [link] for broadcast and web distribution. On Friday, 4…
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UN Interview: Iraq Ambassador to the UN - Dan... →
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Title: Interview with the Iraqi Ambassador to the UNSubject: Hamid al-BayatiTopic: A discussion on Iraqi politics and it’s relationship with the West.Bio: http://dhp.im/hamid-al-bayati-bio Date: 4 June 2010Event: United Nations Talk Radio Day hosted by the Talk Radio News Service.Filed For: ABC News RadioReported By: Dan Patterson
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@joshuajwolff @brittheid I prefer the William Elliott Whitmore. Classic.
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Days of Planning Led to Flotilla’s Hour of Chaos -... →
The crack of an Israeli sound grenade and a hail of rubber bullets from above were supposed to disperse activists, but instead set them in motion. And when three Israeli commandos slid down ropes out of helicopters to take over the ship, a crowd set upon them.
“They ran at them without pause or hesitation,” Dr. Coskun recalled.
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The Times to Host Political Polling Site... →
The New York Times said Thursday that it would begin hosting the popular blog FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine.
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Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard, became a media star during the last presidential election season for his political projections based on dissections of...
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Hey there. Just a quick development update about my podcasts. I’ve rolled Protopodcast : Music in to my ‘primary’ podcast (known from here on out as simply Protopodcast.) To that end,…
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UN rights body votes to dispatch independent probe... →
Deputy High Commissioner Kyung-wha Kang (second right) addresses Human Rights Council debate
2 June 2010 – Strongly condemning Israel’s actions against the humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Human Rights Council votedtoday to dispatch an independent, international probe into violations of international law resulting from Monday’s incident.
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Tipper Gore, Al Gore Announce Separation: Scenes... →
Al and Tipper had a rarity in politics: a genuine partnership. Lloyd Grove reports on happier times with the couple—and what Newt Gingrich, Larry Sabato, Marty Peretz, and the pair’s other friends think went wrong…
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Obama Pledges Tough Inquiry Into Oil Spill -... →
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the worst oil spill in U.S. history.