The Individualization of the Right to a Free Press

Every person is now a reporter and distributor of news on an instantaneous and global scale. What first got widespread notice with the “social powered” Arab Spring took a step further with the tragedies in Toronto and Aurora, as the following posts and articles note:

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/22/learning-from-this-weeks-crash-course-in-citizen-journalism/

http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/rss.jsp?rssid=615&item=http%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fnational%2freddit-community-abuzz-over-colorado-movie-theater-shooting%2f2012%2f07%2f20%2fgJQAfAxfzW_mobile.mobile&cid=-1

Reddit Responds to Shootings in a Way Most Media Organizations Can’t
TIME
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://techland.time.com/2012/07/20/reddit-responds-to-shootings-in-a-way-most-media-organizations-cant/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAAOABAk9WogAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=R2n3apMrgJg&usg=AFQjCNG_1y_foOZ2NjXgNpu3XcTHOf1lKw

Reddit report grabs world’s attention
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/20/3715478/reddit-report-grabs-worlds-attention.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATABOAFAk9WogAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=R2n3apMrgJg&usg=AFQjCNE5gDrPqwd7Wn0oqt33l6f-EzbNLwKansas City Star

‘Techie Computer Programmer Guy’ And The Website Reddit Deliver The News
NPR (blog)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/07/20/157133680/techie-computer-programmer-guy-and-the-web-site-reddit-deliver-the-news&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATACOAJAk9WogAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=R2n3apMrgJg&usg=AFQjCNESq3tpmehUqkxrmz5gVYZwOkC60g

‘Denver Resident Here. Reddit, I’m Doing My Best to Update This.’
The Atlantic

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/denver-resident-here-reddit-im-doing-my-best-to-update-this/260115/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATADOANAk9WogAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=R2n3apMrgJg&usg=AFQjCNF3U7dxPz7a5QIo3fNAFvoZLtd8BA

Reddit Transforms Into Incredibly Informative Real-Time News Source …
TechCrunch
Victims and witnesses of last night’s horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado have turned to Reddit for support and news updates, transforming the online news aggregator into one of the best sources of information on the evolving story.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/20/reddit-aurora-shooting/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAHOAdAk9WogAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=R2n3apMrgJg&usg=AFQjCNHYCfdp187pnzqoWRGBHjWTm_2svA

Colorado Shooting Coverage On Reddit Is Better Than What You’ll See On TV
WebProNews
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.webpronews.com/colorado-shooting-coverage-on-reddit-is-better-than-what-youll-see-on-tv-2012-07&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAJOAlAk9WogAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=R2n3apMrgJg&usg=AFQjCNEwBKDeczcJPj05SbJH3uy9CZ-KdQ

My favorite Corp Dev associate… you know who you are!

“There’s no evidence of any gaps in your perception—no darkened stretches like bits of blank film—yet much of what you see has been edited out. Your brain has taken a complicated scene of eyes darting back and forth and recut it as a simple one: your eyes stare straight ahead. Where did the missing moments go?

The question raises a fundamental issue of consciousness: how much of what we perceive exists outside of us and how much is a product of our minds?”

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—	The New Yorker, April 25, 2011, “The Possibilian” by Burkhard Bilger

Better than a Refrigerator Magnet

Middlemarch and Me

What George Eliot teaches us.

by Rebecca Mead

[In which the author is unable to prove the provenance of a quote, “It is never too late to be what you might have been” as Eliot’s yet leads us to a more perfect appreciation of a life’s work:]

“… the compulsion to work, and the awareness of the gratification to be derived by working well, remained irresistible. ‘My mind is embarrassed by the number and wide variety of subjects that attract me, and the enlarging vista that each brings with it,’ she wrote…. By the time she wrote those words, Eliot had become better than anyone at what she did; but she could not have done so any earlier, or any more easily. It took all that she had been to make her all that she was.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_mead#ixzz1F7clmzt5

m00nbender: Reddit! »

m00nbender:

When I’m not programming, studying ethical hacking, or dabbling on some random imageboard, I spend a lot of time on Reddit.

Reddit has risen up into a massive community. This tid bit from Wired is a great story.

Did you know a billion pages are getting served up by Reddit, monthly? That’s…

Announcement

New York, N.Y., December 13, 2010 – Andrew D. Siegel has been named to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development of Advance Publications, Inc., it was announced today by S.I. Newhouse, Jr., Chairman, and Donald E. Newhouse, President, of Advance Publications, Inc. His appointment is effective January 3, 2011.

Mr. Siegel has been Vice President of Corporate Development at Yahoo since 2009. He previously served as a senior M&A and Business Development executive at General Electric.

Steve Newhouse, Chairman of Advance.net, the digital arm of Advance Publications, Inc., noted Siegel’s strong background on both the east and west coasts. “Andrew brings great experience in strategy and business development,” Mr. Newhouse said. “He will help us take advantage of attractive growth opportunities in the media space.”

Advance Publications, Inc. is a diversified media company with leading positions in national and international magazines through Condé Nast and Parade Publications, daily and weekly newspapers, business journals through American City Business Journals, internet sites, cable television systems through Bright House Networks, and a significant interest in Discovery Communications.

it is not the critic who counts; not the main who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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—	Teddy Roosevelt, “The Man in the Arena” Speech at the Sorbonne April 1910