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Dr. Journalism, I presume?
From the Metaphor Dept.: I point you toward this essay on the explorer and journalist Henry Stanley (of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” fame) for a couple reasons: — It’s an fascinating read for history...
View ArticleClay Shirky on the unavoidable revolution happening to newspapers
I try not to do too many of those “You’ve got to read this” posts. But you’ve got to read this. Clay Shirky: Print media does much of society’s heavy journalistic lifting, from flooding the zone —...
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Arthur Sulzberger & Walter Isaacson on making money online — in 1995
This week, I sat in on a conference on the future of journalism that was held 14 years ago. I was able to take in the proceedings through a two-volume transcript shelved away in the library of the...
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How our bits shape us: James Gleick’s “The Information”
1. Circumscribing information, or words as things God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere. — Alain de Lille, 12th century, glossing the Corpus Hermeticum...
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Lessons in blogging (and tweeting) from Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys was prolific, keeping a constant narrative of his life and the world around him from 1660 to 1669. That’s pretty damn impressive by most standards, especially considering the only reason...
View ArticleStoryTracker is a new tool to track how news homepages change
Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web’s most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single...
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To commemorate the 1967 race riots, Timeline is embarking on a two-month-long...
1967: More than 75 race-fueled riots engulf communities across the United States, sparked by angry mothers hosting a sit-in at a Boston welfare office that turned violent. 2014: Venture capitalist...
View ArticleSerwis Bunk proponuje nowy sposób nauki historii
Dlaczego opłata za pobyt w żłobku moich dzieci jest taka wysoka? – Okazuje się, że jednym z powodów są antykomunistyczne obawy związane z prowadzoną według sowieckich wzorców opieką nad dziećmi. Czy...
View ArticleBunk aims to set history free with a site that doesn’t feel like a textbook
Why’s my kids’ daycare so damn expensive? Turns out that anti-communist fears of Soviet–style government-run childcare play a role. How strange it that Donald Trump is blasting NFL players on Twitter?...
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