July 2012
1 post
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/
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April 2011
2 posts
““There’s no evidence of any gaps in your perception—no darkened stretches...”
– The New Yorker, April 25, 2011, “The Possibilian” by Burkhard Bilger
February 2011
2 posts
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,...
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…
December 2010
1 post
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...
November 2010
1 post
“it is not the critic who counts; not the main who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt, “The Man in the Arena” Speech at the Sorbonne April 1910 