January 2012
Rebecca Solnit is the best-selling author of numerous books, including A Field...
– Forum on the Humanities and the Public World, Rebecca Solnit
SAIC’s Master of Arts in New Arts Journalism at SAIC is designed to...
– Master of Arts in New Arts Journalism : SAIC - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
December 2011
Now is the time for President Obama to complete his evolution on the subject of...
– Ruth Marcus: Backing same-sex marriage not politican suicide for Obama | The Baxter Bulletin | baxterbulletin.com
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Duke professor, Cathy Davidson about what...
– Cathy Davidson | Brain Science
It’s not about prediction. It’s developing an actionable vision for the future...
– The newsonomics of tomorrow » Nieman Journalism Lab
Occupy Wall Street has become a lens through which more and more issues are...
– Roundup: The Intersection of Occupy Wall Street, Journalism and Technology - Josh’s Notebook
November 2011
Poet and novelist Simon Armitage has been writing about Britain for decades now. In the latest in our National Conversations series of interviews, Armitage talks to John Harris about the obstinate nature of poetry and the culture of violence in Britain that he believes precipitated the UK riots (via Simon Armitage: ‘poetry is a form of dissent’ - video interview | Books |...
A recent Victoria University review of e-learning technologies observes:...
– Universities must adapt or die in the e-learning world | The Australian
Gavan Titley, an expert on the politics of racism in Europe and co-author of the...
– Far right on rise in Europe, says report | World news | The Guardian
October 2011
Reuters news stories like the one about OWS are held to a very high standard of...
– On George Soros, Occupy Wall Street, and Reuters | Felix Salmon
(via Steve Jobs: The man who changed the world, a genius like Leonardo and Einstein)
September 2011
I’m a firm believer in journalism professor Jay Rosen’s argument that journalism...
– Is it Google’s job to somehow improve the media? — Tech News and Analysis
This constant drizzle of “there the two parties go again!” stories...
– Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout
My belief is that the second chart is a more accurate comparison to the 90-9-1 rule since all users have to be doing some activity to account for the 100% of the sample. So based on the data in that chart, there are a few interesting things we can learn: All but one online community had more Commenters than the 9% the rule suggests. So, people seem to be more open to editing and commenting on...