Media
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“Don’t fuck this up!”
The Morning News has a long interview with David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker since 1998, which covers a wide range of topics (including how he got the gig).
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The Grey Lady Drops “Tweet”
“Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And ‘tweet’ — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.” The New York Times has banned the word “tweet.”
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A Second Set of Eyes
“This wide disparity in editing editorial content isn’t wildly surprising; the disparity has grown markedly over the last decade, and certainly the blogosphere making each one of us our own editors has taught us new uneasy conventions. We’ve gained a…
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“Facebook Announces New Privacy Features”
“The theme here is clearly ‘simple’ — an easier way to stop sharing information with people, websites and applications that you don’t want to have access.” Facebook does some damage control.
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Cash Money Tweets
“In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing).” Twitter has released new terms of service,…
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MetaFilter to the Rescue
“The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter this week was no game. If not for the intrepid…
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More Bad News for Facebook
“In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its inattention to users’ privacy concerns, the social-media site Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn’t even asked to see it.” Looks like more issues for…
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“Many authors have waited their whole lives for a nod from the gray lady.”
“My view is very much eastern, very much old school, where a book review from the Times was the only sure sign that an author had arrived. But maybe it’s time to rethink that, and this rethinking has been long…
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Abandoning the Mothership
We’ve all heard the stories about people getting fired from jobs because of overly revealing Facebook photos, or of couples breaking up by changing their Facebook “relationship status” before even talking to one another. Though Facebook is meant to exist…
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“There is not much capital…”
“Yet for some — possibly foolhardy — reason, a lot of people still want to work in journalism, and even amid the depths of the recession, there have been stirrings of creativity. A multitude of younger, nimbler enterprises have popped…