“For younger readers, WordPerfect was the writing technology that replaced cave painting with aurochs blood.”
.@NickKristof seeks advice about Facebook and journalism; hundreds reply: “We love it when you ask us questions!”
Private citizens might have the skills “not to wait passively for news, but actively to go out and create it.” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/what-made-kate-gerry-mccann-object-of-so-much-anger
A small theory about the hidden weakness and vulnerability of people who choose to be trolls. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/what-made-kate-gerry-mccann-object-of-so-much-anger
In a museum, if you spend twenty minutes with a painting, unexpected things start to happen in your brain and heart.
“In the end we get the version of freedom that they choose to provide — and can justify to their shareholders.” https://gigaom.com/2014/10/08/for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now_879524
We’ve handed “our free-speech rights to [big social media] corporations, who are not bound by the First Amendment.” https://gigaom.com/2014/10/08/for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=for-better-or-worse-twitter-and-facebook-are-the-guardians-of-free-speech-now_879524
Moyers: Wrapped in the right kind of social network, tiny houses may have some fresh possibilities for the homeless. http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/06/are-tiny-houses-one-solution-to-homelessness/
“There is [60 times] more gold in a ton of mobile phones..than there is in a ton of mined rock from a gold mine.” http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/author/sophie-thomas/
Having a “posse” changes a young person’s chances for success: Deborah Bial’s @NYTCornerOffice interview. (@PosseFoundation)
Semaphore & Cairn 