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a few thoughts on academic time management

Somehow, Alan Jacobs managed to address all of my academic neuroses in a single, perfect blog post. I should probably read this every morning.

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yesterday

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Conference Papers Are Like Movie Trailers

Aimée Morrison offers some advice for making academic conferences better: "Everyone knows a movie trailer is not the same thing—can't do the same things—as a full-length movie. I think we should learn a similar lesson about the relationship between conference papers and full-length scholarship."

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2 days ago

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The Meme Generation

The Weekly Standard covers ROFLcon 2012.

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2 days ago

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Apis Networks

Web hosting provider. Recommended by Tim Lockridge.

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2 days ago

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Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition

A Google Map showing all of the PhD programs with rhet/comp specializations, courtesy of Jim Ridolfo.

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3 days ago

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Some random thoughts on the supposed collapse of the university as we know it

Steve Krause responds to several articles about the impending death of higher education. I like this bit: "I think the days of printing on paper are numbered, sure. But words in a row– even when those words in a row are about multimodality or digital rhetoric or what have you– aren’t going anywhere."

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6 days ago

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HTML5 For Web Designers

A free, online version of Jeremy Keith's excellent book.

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6 days ago

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Media Queries

"A collection of inspirational websites using media queries and responsive web design."

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6 days ago

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Source Literacy: A Vision of Craft

Karl Stolley's Town Hall presentation at Computers and Writing 2012: "My vision for Computers and Writing places craft at the center of what we do. And what we do is digital production. We make things from raw digital materials: open-source computer languages and open formats. Which is to say, we write digital things. To write digital things, we rely on a strong command of source literacy."

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8 days ago

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Wattpad

Online community for self-published fiction.

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8 days ago

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Storybuilder

Interesting application for creating iPad children's books. Invite only at this point.

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8 days ago

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The Most Comma Mistakes

Ben Yagoda reviews some helpful tips for correct comma usage.

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8 days ago

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Edits Quarterly

Ian Coyle pushes the boundaries of storytelling on the web. A beautiful blend of form and function.

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9 days ago

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Eephus League Magazine

Bethany Heck masterfully combines two of my favorite things: baseball and lovely web design.

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9 days ago

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Alan Jacobs on profanity

"We need to clean up our language, if for no other reason than to have room to make it dirty when dirty is really called for."

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9 days ago

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Top 50 Creative Writing Professors on Twitter

I am equal parts flattered and baffled by my inclusion this list. Not only am I an "intellectual heavyweight" (along with the other 49 professors), but my "posts are witty and informative."

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9 days ago

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Please Don't Learn to Code

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror pushes back agains the "everyone should learn to program" trend: "Before you go rushing out to learn to code, figure out what your problem actually is. Do you even have a problem? Can you explain it to others in a way they can understand? Have you researched the problem, and its possible solutions, deeply? Does coding solve that problem? Are you sure?"

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10 days ago

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Kickstarted

Om Malik interviews Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen.

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10 days ago

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Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media

The MLA issues new guidelines: "The pace of technological change makes it impossible for any one set of guidelines to account completely for the ways digital media and the digital humanities are influencing literacies, literatures, and the teaching of modern languages. A general principle nonetheless holds: institutions that recruit or review scholars working in digital media or digital humanities must give full regard to their work when evaluating them for reappointment, tenure, and promotion."

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19 days ago

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Rhetological Fallacies

Excellent collection of logical fallacies, explained with examples. Available as a poster, too.

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19 days ago

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Open Textbook Catalog

Great resource from the University of Minnesota. Not much in the catalog right now, but it shows a lot of promise.

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22 days ago

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(Font) Size Matters, Says Study

ABC News: "The study, published in the journal PLoS One, found that the positive (e.g. holiday) and negative (e.g. disease) words printed in a larger size elicited a stronger emotional brain response than smaller-sized words."

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23 days ago

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Sorry, Everyone—My Personal Website Is Now Behind A Paywall

Great McSweeney's piece: "I expect the majority of my readers will be unaffected by this change. At last count, in a typical month, almost 100% of my potential readership visited zero or fewer pages on the site."

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23 days ago

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Save Stadium Woods

Online campaign to prevent Virginia Tech from using 11 acres of old-growth forest for a new football practice facility. Interesting case study in digital rhetoric.

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24 days ago

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Stry.us

"We don’t care much about big headlines or news of the day, and we’re not easily distracted. We’re just a band of reporters in pursuit of great storytelling. We tell stories about the issues that affect our lives." (Bonus: beautiful, responsive web design.)

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25 days ago

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Suit Up or Die Magazine #1

Now that's how you build a slide show in HTML.

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25 days ago

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Here's How to Condescend to 900 Job Applicants With a 3,000-Word Rejection Letter

Salon.com sent a *very* long rejection letter to hundreds of job applicants and Gawker got ahold of it. Yes, the author comes across as a condescending jerk, but buried in all of that snark is a lot of great advice.

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25 days ago

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Permanently Convert WordPress Blogs to Static Pages

Helpful instructions for archiving a WordPress site as static HTML files. Not sure if this works with a multisite installation.

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25 days ago

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Talking With Your Fingers

John McWhorter, in the NY Times: "A sense that e-mail and texting are 'poor writing' is analogous, then, to one that the Rolling Stones produce 'bad music' because they don’t use violas. Note that one cannot speak capital letters or punctuation. If we accept e-mail and texting as a new way of talking, then their casualness with matters of case and commas is not only expected but unexceptionable."

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25 days ago

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iTextEditors

Brett Terpstra's exhaustive comparison of iPhone and iPad coding/writing apps.

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29 days ago

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Pears

A collection of interface patterns, with accompanying CSS and HTML code. Also available as a WordPress theme. Yet another beautiful contribution to the world of web design from Dan Cederholm.

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29 days ago

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MetaFilter member SMPA offers several links to help another member get better at public speaking

"You will see significant improvement for every 5 minutes you speak in front of groups - I am not kidding here at all."

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5 weeks ago

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Build a responsive site in a week

Paul Robert Lloyd's five-part series shows each step of the responsive process.

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5 weeks ago

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Ethan Marcotte answers your responsive web design questions

Interesting interview about the current state of responsive web design. Marcotte mentions a few resources I hadn't seen before.

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5 weeks ago

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Pitfalls of WYSIWIG: Self Publishing Hell

Luke Maciak makes a great case for ditching MS Word and switching to Markdown: "There is simply no way around it. As we move towards more open-ended, more web driven environments, Word is an archaic, led anchor that drags everyone down, and restricts their movements. Word hurts productivity by forcing you to fiddle with it every time you are trying to collaborate or publish your stuff online."

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6 weeks ago

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What is HTML5?

A short video explaining some basic (*very* basic) concepts related to HTML5.

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6 weeks ago

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Waxy.org Turns 10

Andy Baio reflects on 10 years of blogging: "Most of the interest in writing online's shifted to microblogging, but not everything belongs in 140 characters and it's all so impermanent. Twitter's great, but it's not a replacement for a permanent home that belongs to you."

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6 weeks ago

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Adventures in Cheating

Great tongue-in-cheek Slate article evaluating the quality of various paper mills: "Yes, it's ethically blah blah blah to cheat on a term paper blah. The question is: How do you do it right? For example, the chump move is to find some library book and copy big hunks out of it. No good: You still have to walk to the library, find a decent book, and link the hunks together with your own awful prose. Instead, why not just click on a term paper Web site and buy the whole damn paper already written by some smart dude? Que bella! Ah, but which site?"

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6 weeks ago

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The Shadow Scholar

Confessions of a paper mill freelancer: "In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper."

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6 weeks ago

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Some Thoughts On Grad School

Cal Newport offers some great tips for succeeding in grad school. "A simple truth: you’ll have more urgent things on your plate than you’ll have time to complete. If you spend your days only putting out one fire after the next as they arrive in your inbox — paper review requests, articles to read, extra experiments to conduct for your advisor — you’ll get very little original research done."

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6 weeks ago

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Am I a Content Strategist?

Mark Baker: "The debate between centralized control and distributed authority is eternal. The Web, with its capacity for both personal connection and instantaneous global distribution, profoundly affects this dynamic, generally in favor of distribution of authority. As David Weinberger says, hypertext subverts hierarchy. Can one have a content strategy based on distributed authority?"

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6 weeks ago

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Instructions on a smoke grenade: Don't be a dick

Technical communication at its finest.

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8 weeks ago

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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

The Atlantic: "In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent."

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8 weeks ago

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Explain Like A Pro

Interesting new Reddit, billed as "[a] friendly place to ask questions and get professional level answers, without fear of judgement or prejudice."

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8 weeks ago

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You Autocomplete Me

Will Oremus, in Slate: "Spell-check programs will probably never make spelling as easy as a calculator makes arithmetic. But at least now they can put two and two together."

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8 weeks ago

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The Rhetoric of the CV

Joshua R. Eyler, writing in the Chronicle, offers some good advice for job seekers: "The CV has a reputation for being purely utilitarian in nature and, as such, has less glamour than other application materials. I don't think I am going too far, though, when I say that the CV may be the most frequently and closely read of all the documents that candidates send."

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8 weeks ago

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Blockbuster Effects

Kickstarter demonstrates that big, successful projects (like Double Fine Adventure) actually help other, smaller projects: "Projects aren't fighting over a finite pool of Kickstarter dollars or backers. One project's backer isn't another project's loss. The backers that one project brings often end up backing other projects as well. Each project is not only promoting itself, but the Kickstarter ecosystem as a whole."

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9 weeks ago

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Screenleap

Easy, free, browser-based screen sharing application.

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9 weeks ago

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The 'tap essay' explained: How a unique story form blends old techniques and new technology

Great Poynter piece about Robin Sloan's "Fish" app: "As an essay, “Fish” is about how we have adopted certain ways of calling out good stuff on the Web – likes and faves – and yet we’re always moving on to the next thing.

"As an app, Fish is a post-Web way of structuring a narrative, a way of enhancing focus by eliminating choice. On the Web, each link offers a choice: keep reading this or see what’s on that other page? Fish, on the other hand, has no links, no back button, no way to skip ahead."

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9 weeks ago

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Fish: a tap essay

Robin Sloan's lovely iPhone/iPad app that explores "the difference between liking something on the internet and loving something on the internet." A perfect marriage of form and content.

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9 weeks ago

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Paper

Beautiful drawing app for the iPad.

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9 weeks ago

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Why I am letting my Google IO invitation expire

Jeffrey Zeldman skewers Google: "So Google wrote to my zeldman.com address, which they won’t allow me to associate with my Google+ address, to invite me to start a Google+ account (which I already have) on my zeldman.com account, which they won’t support. And if I do that (which I can’t), and some other complicated stuff, they promise that I will then be able to participate in Google IO, whatever that is."

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10 weeks ago

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Get the Look: Use @Font-Face + CSS3 Like the Stars

Sean McBride's presentation and accompanying materials from his SXSW talk. One of the best presentations I've seen in a long time.

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10 weeks ago

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Arne Duncan's SXSWedu Keynote, Storified from Two Perspectives

Jac De Haan: "I thought it would be fun to create 2 historical documents that use digital artifacts to tell very different sides of the same event."

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10 weeks ago

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Curator's Code

Not sure how I feel about this: "[A] suggested system for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, celebrating authors and creators, and also respecting those who discover and amplify their work."

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10 weeks ago

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4 important truths about Mike Daisey’s lies & the way ‘This American Life’ told them

Craig Silverman: "Mike Daisey thinks his work is serving a higher cause and purpose, and that makes him exactly the kind of source who needed to be thoroughly fact checked."

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10 weeks ago

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The Tie Bar

So. Many. Bowties!

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10 weeks ago

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Traditional colleges aim to boost LMS usage

Inside Higher Ed: "Institutions that approach Blackboard’s consultants with an LMS usage deficit typically report that fewer than 20 percent of faculty members could be classified as 'robust users' of the platform."

Gee, really? You mean that only 20% of faculty are willing to invest the time and energy to become expert users of a terrible product? I am SHOCKED.

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10 weeks ago

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Mike Daisey's First Public Talk After the 'This American Life' Retraction

Transcription of Daisey's talk at Georgetown. Keep digging, Mike.

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10 weeks ago

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Mike Daisey's talk in Georgetown about the TAL retraction

Someone really needs to tell Daisey to stop talking.

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10 weeks ago

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Separating the Baby From the Bath Water

John Gruber's take on the Mike Daisey debacle: "Daisey impugned the integrity of Apple — and the journalism of ABC News — in order to work people up regarding problems that don’t exist. This only served to draw attention away from the labor, health, and environmental issues in Apple’s Asian supply chain that do exist. He has hurt the true cause, not helped it."

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10 weeks ago

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The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey's Apple Attack and the Media

"Mike Daisey is an opportunistic fabulist and should be ashamed of himself for lying. Ira Glass and his team are ashamed for giving him wider attention, and have said so. But there are many more people who should be even more ashamed for taking Daisey’s lies at face value. There should be many more retractions and apologies in the days ahead."

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10 weeks ago

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Putting the I in Story

Matthew Baldwin reflects on his personal connection to Mike Daisey and offers a simple explanation for Daisey's lies: "The easiest way to make a story engaging is to personalize it, to say 'this is something that happened to me'. Everyone knows this on some level. Urban legends happen to 'a friend of a friend' because, just by adding that phrase, you have made the story twice as interesting as one that happened to someone to whom you have no link at all."

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Mike Daisey Was Wrong about Apple in China

Daniel Engber: "When we buy into the idea that Daisey’s story was substantially true, we’re aligning ourselves with the fantasy world that he created for us. That’s the one in which no one cared about the Apple employees who are being mistreated in China until Daisey spun his yarn."

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10 weeks ago

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How We Will Read: Kevin Kelly

A great interview with Kevin Kelly about the future of publishing, reading, and books: "My real focus is actually making it as easy as possible for someone to read the work. Make it easy as possible for them to hear about it, make it as easy as possible for them to get it, make it easy as possible for them to get into it, to read it. Right now any kind of impediment in any of those fields and you’re gone. Making it free was just one step in that direction."

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10 weeks ago

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Learning from competition

Marco Arment, Instapaper's developer, responds to Readability's launch with admirable honesty: "Reacting well to competition requires critical analysis of your own product and its shortcomings, and a complete, open-minded understanding of why people might choose your competitors."

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11 weeks ago

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DONTCLICK.IT

A demonstration of a web interface that doesn't require (nay, prohibits) clicking.

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12 weeks ago

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MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls

NY Times: "While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree."

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12 weeks ago

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Coca-Cola's Online Social Media Principles

Fascinating attempt by a big company to codify the principles that underlie its social media strategy.

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march 2012

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MATTER

Interesting Kickstarter project: "MATTER will focus on doing one thing, and doing it exceptionally well. Every week, we will publish a single piece of top-tier long-form journalism about big issues in technology and science. That means no cheap reviews, no snarky opinion pieces, no top ten lists. Just one unmissable story."

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march 2012

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Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions

Forbes article suggesting that there are really only three job interview questions that companies care about:
1. Can you do the job?
2. Will you love the job?
3. Can we tolerate working with you?

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march 2012

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git - the simple guide

"Just a simple guide for getting started with git."

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march 2012

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Intro to Version Control

A nice collection of Git-related links from the Praxis Program.

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march 2012

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Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success

Some good advice and great stories from Jesse Thorn: "Mostly, you just need to care, and try. You need to make something, and then make it again, a little better. You need to look around for money. You need to reach your hand out to meet someone when it would be easier to keep to yourself. You need to make something for you when it would be easier just do what someone else tells you to. All of these things are hard, but none of them require anything more than gumption. Which I bet you have."

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march 2012

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If Twitter Is a Work Necessity

NY Times: "For midcareer executives, particularly in the media and related industries, knowing how to use Twitter, update your timeline on Facebook, pin on Pinterest, check in on Foursquare and upload images on Instagram are among the digital skills that some employers expect people to have to land a job or to flourish in a current role."

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march 2012

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Subtle Patterns

A slew of free tiled images for your next web project.

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march 2012

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Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics

Guest post on ProfHacker by Miriam Posner: "Luckily, you don’t have to be a tech genius to whip your Google results into shape. Here are some low-investment, high-return ways to maintain a consistent, professional Web presence."

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february 2012

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NPR Ethics Handbook

A thorough and carefully written expression of the principles undergirding NPR's journalistic practices. More organizations need to create (and follow) documents like this.

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february 2012

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What are the best blogs ABOUT WordPress?

A great collection of links for learning WordPress on Ask MetaFilter.

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february 2012

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Right versus pragmatic

A great story about bathrooms, paper towels, and internet piracy from Marco Arment: "The pragmatic approach is to address the demand."

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february 2012

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