March 2010
peterfeld: This cartoon is from 1995, when Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich shut down the federal government when he felt snubbed after having to sit in the back of Air Force One. The public did not appreciate the shutdown, and opinion shifted in favor of President Clinton, who was easily reelected in 1996, just two years
Robot Journalist Takes Pictures, Asks Questions, Publishes Online This is the first robot I’ve seen that gathers primary source information from people in the field. That’s real journalism, even if it’s at a primitive level. What’s more, if our experiences with crowd-navigated robots have shown us anything it’s that people seem to like helping bots
http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socialdeadsshare-100321231756-phpapp01&stripped_title=test-3505949 Social Media Is Dead: Long Live Common Sense. Some good slides here. I like slide #s: 4 (Let’s do something viral)45 (New Process flowchart)49 (Learning to Fly) [via] (Source: http://static.slidesharecdn.com/)
Another truth: Joe [Mauer] could buy either paper [the Star Tribune or the Pioneer Press], and probably both, with his $184 million extension. But I suspect his financial advisors have other ideas. David Brauer, Health care versus Mauer: What gets the bigger front-page treatment? via MinnPost.com today.
And Now, Maybe that Number Will Finally Decrease
newsweek: leslieb: 22,000 Americans die annually because they lack health insurance. – Newsweek, 9/21/09
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The Other KSM
fimoculous: Foster told me that I actually don’t sound like a total asshole in this interview, so that’s all the incentive I need to link to it. I despise digital/creative agencies! They’re slow, ineffectual little monsters. And they bill you like lawyers. But I like to create companies around the fringes of what I hate.