December 2010
The best long-form media writing of 2010, magazine edition - Yahoo! News http://yhoo.it/hPcm0P
44% of Online Sharing Occurs Through Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/WPUJf54 via @mashsocialmedia @mashable
Cruel Radiance: explores complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. http://bit.ly/h5G6n3
News Corp’s Christmas Day Strategy: Catch iPad Gift Recipients http://bit.ly/f2Z9FL
How news orgs faked photographs in 2010http://bit.ly/hWIRUc
Christmas gives good picture - Big Picture’s Christmas across the globe http://bit.ly/eBx3pE
Super-Fast Prefab: Flat-Pack Steel Frame Built in Just 1 Day | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://bit.ly/fUrdDW
Adding art and design to science education would put a bit of humanity back into the innovation engine http://bit.ly/hNv1LO
Unbelievable but true, check out his leering look: Acrobats strip for Pope Benedict XVI, perform topless in Vatican http://bit.ly/gGSzuA
Terrific multimedia blog feature at NYT City Room in memory of 50th Anniversary of 1960 Slope Park Plane Crash http://nyti.ms/etm6LC
The year in trumped-up pseudo-scandals http://shar.es/Xi1ct
Huffpost - Museums 2.0: What Happens When Great Art Meets New Media? http://huff.to/eiDpQn
Hillarious: Stuff that looks like Jesus http://bit.ly/hcba9p
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield http://bit.ly/efKBiN
Beautiful arch essay on Susan Sontag: Desperately Seeking Susan http://bit.ly/geXpz1
“Before you begin: Have all your photos for the slideshow cropped, rotated,...”
– Soundslides for Newspaper Journalists
Is transparency just as impossible as objectivity asks BBC’s @kjmarsh? http://bbc.in/hFsTOO via @journalismfest
Dalai Lama called for focus on climate, not politics, in Tibet, #wikileaks http://bit.ly/gby3z8 via @arusbridger
“It has given me enough anger about the situation to last me 100 years.” Assange on UK treatment http://bit.ly/dR5oJ4 #wikileaks
“A challenge to habitual patterns of seeing and perception motivates Rebecca...”
– Rebecca Beardmore : ON REFLECTION
Interesting new players in the content curation tools market. Bitly launches bundles. via @niemanlab @mathewi
“Journalism without effect does not deserve the special place in democracy that it tries to claim” http://bit.ly/eSP8nY
Jon Stewart takes aim at the hero versus villain coverage of Assange and #wikileaks http://bit.ly/fCZWQ7
Model arts jrnalism: NYT’s Holland Cotter gives context & history to Smithsonian’s cowardly censorship of Wojnarowickz http://nyti.ms/fjWM6Z
Due to web & YouTube many people now see censored artwork they would never know existed unless it had been censored! http://nyti.ms/fjWM6Z
David Marr gets the #walkleys gong for features for Rudd essay
Fascinating decision Lenore Taylor’s ETS shelved scoop beats Chris Uhlmann’s Gillard leadership coup scoop #walkleys
This where it gets interesting folks: @julieposetti wont apologise to Mitchell. Brava. #twitdef http://bit.ly/hTXxIT via @jonhew
RT @rightsagenda: regrettable & regressive step for human rights: US House votes to scrap #Guantanamo closure ABC News http://bit.ly/hkPN8c
RT @carolrosenberg: Unnamed Reuters source: Wikileaks has “the personal files of every prisoner” at #Guantanamo. http://ht.ly/3meOh
Oprah: “I’m not even kind of a lesbian…Why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life.” http://t.co/2XrT4YZ
Congrats to our local team at @illawarramerc on their #walkleys win
Fantastic @mearesy wins best online journalism at #walkleys for his twit pic coverage of election
The #walkleys for headline writing is a silly nostalgic attachment to dying medium
How will Assange arrest change media coverage of #wikileaks? ask NYT Media critics http://nyti.ms/dOZZ7s via @gregmitch
Incredible: News.com beats SMH.com with their own #wikileaks story on Mark Arbib as US informant http://bit.ly/gFra2d
The video new US GOP Leader John Boehner doesn’t want us to see http://huff.to/eElgUa & Why David Wojnarowicz Matters http://bit.ly/hpPCEC
Interesting discussion on #newsfoo, attention, tweeting and secret sauce at @stevebuttry’s blog