Stuff I’m reading- green fields of france - YouTubeBest anti-war song ever? Tags: sunday war
- I'm From Canada. Here's What It's Like to Live with Universal Health Care :: Politics :: Features :: Health Care :: Paste"It’s important to remember that Obama’s ACA was itself an effort to put forward a sensible, bipartisan compromise that could unify both left and right, and he was rewarded for his efforts by being called a Kenyan socialist who wanted to murder people’s grandparents." Tags: health care politics sunday […]
- I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People | HuffPostTags: sunday gop empathy
- Donald Trump in Iowa proposes immigration law that already existsTags: bullshit trump sunday
- President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List - The New York TimesGood work, but I'd like to see links to sources just to make it clear. Tags: bullshit trump journalism sunday
- Authoritarianism is making a comeback. Here's the time-tested way to defeat it | Maria J Stephan and Timothy Snyder | Opinion | The Guardian"Civil resistance is strategic. Movements articulate clear, achievable goals (achieving independent trade unions in the case of Solidarity; de-segregating public places during US civil rights movement) and know when and how to declare small victories. They must endure inevitable set-backs – like arrests, large counter-mobilizations by regime supporters, […]
- Stop spreading 'alternate facts'. (By Maki Naro) - 9GAGTags: facts sunday vaccines
- Arcade Fire to Lay Off 400 Nonessential Members by 2018Tags: humor sunday
- Cosby’s sex assault trial has ended with a mistrial. These people believe it’s all a conspiracy. - The Washington PostTags: facts conspiracies bill cosby bullshit sunday
- In the ‘Paris of the Appalachians,’ they’re not buying Trump’s climate talk - The Washington PostPissed-off Pittsburgh Tags: trump bullshit red states sunday
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Category Archives: blogging
Bloggers 1, British tabloids 1
Good look here at how a blogger doing a deep dive into research helped sway the British election to be a lot closer than The Sun and the Daily Mail would’ve wanted: How Newspapers Lost Their Monopoly On Influencing Voters … Continue reading
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Copyright vs. viral fun
Tough question here. In some cases, people are taking images and giving them new life in new contexts, and everyone wins. In other cases, people are ripping off photographers and artists who deserve to be paid for their work. Not … Continue reading
The Oatmeal, unfair critics and ink by the barrel
“Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel.” That’s the old saying, which MediaBistro tried to update for the digital age. And it applies to people today who have popular sites — or worse, a lot … Continue reading
The day the Internet finally discovered “community”
Not going to set it up any more than that. Just read … which famous person needs to come out already? : AskReddit.
Hey, reporters! Slow down, you move too fast …
So says Amy Sullivan at The New Republic, drawing heavily upon the CNN/Fox “oopsie” with the health care verdict: I know I’m often out-of-the-loop when it comes to journalism norms and conventions, but this one honestly confounds me. Has any publication … Continue reading
Want to get famous? Sue The Oatmeal!
It’s an old story: 1. Lawyer reviews Aggregation Site, finds that Creative Site has complained about Aggregation Site’s copyright infringement. 2. Lawyer demands Creative Site send Aggregation Site $20,000, or else we’ll all to court. 3. Creative Site tells lawyer … Continue reading
The Oatmeal doesn’t take the law into his own hands – he takes it to charity
It’ll be difficult to sum up the case of FunnyJunk v The Oatmeal any better than The Oatmeal does. It’s your standard “cartoonist complains about work being stolen, accused content thief gets all huffy, cartoonist laughs a little and lets … Continue reading
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