I love that Microsoft seems to have awakened to the fact that it's 2012 with the introduction of their Surface concept. Here's hoping they can actually ship this and do so at a decent price. It'll be …
How to craft social media rules for journalists
This is a bit old, but I hadn't seen it until today, thanks to the topic rearing its ugly head again around the recent Barrett Tryon kerfuffle. Anyway, here's John Paton, outlining his company's …
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The forecast is hyperlocal
I walk for about an hour every day. Which means, if I don't want to get rain-soaked occasionally, I'd better know when the storms are coming. That involved a lot of guesswork and inference on my …
Why do we love to highlight the downside?
My feed reader lit up in the past day with an interesting bit of primary research on some numbers that Kickstarter doesn't make particularly easy to find: the percentage of successful vs. failed …
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Why all commenting systems should have a “like” button
From a comment thread on the rebuttal by Ryan Chittum to Howard Owens's rebuttal of David Simon's paean to the paywall, Steve Buttry nails it: Chittum writes: "When it comes to paywalls, the question …
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We’re not special
I wonder how much harrumphing filled the air as this sensible high school commencement address by teacher David McCullough, Jr. unspooled. Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your …