Category Archives: The Human Condition

Web 2.0 Suicide

TechCrunch car­ried a story this morn­ing about a new site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. The site does just what it says, almost. You give the site your social net­work­ing cre­den­tials and it auto­mat­i­cally starts delet­ing your friends and con­tacts and posts on Twitter and Facebook. Once you start the process, there’s no stop­ping it. [...]
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Blogs and Web logs

John Naughton, on the dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for Web and writ­ing for print: The other dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for print and writ­ing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘fin­ished’ and dis­patched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a sense, [...]
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Citizen journalism has a cost

Normally, I’m pretty gung-ho for social media and cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. I really do believe that jour­nal­ism isn’t some high-and-mighty, elit­ist pro­fes­sion. Real peo­ple with drive and curios­ity can report news and write analy­sis, regard­less of their educations. As such, cit­i­zen report­ing is a good thing because I gen­er­ally think “the more infor­ma­tion to work with, the [...]
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Much healthcare coverage ignores Everyman’s needs

Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander says that readers are crying out for more basic coverage of healthcare reform that focuses on how it affects normal people, not on the political maneuvering.
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Not since the Greeks...

We are in the middle of a literacy revolution, the like of which has not been since since the Greeks invented writing in the first place, says Standford writing and rhetoric professor Andrea Lunsford.
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