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Etaoin Shrdlu: Today we face another crisis too valuable to waste
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Friday, November 02, 2012. Today we face another crisis too valuable to waste. A veteran political observer I know is fond of quoting the aphorism, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”. It means, among other things, that sometimes only crisis can break through governing gridlock and make things happen. In today’s climate that feels truer than ever. That opportunity was squandered, like so much else, in the bombs over Baghdad. I’m too old fo...
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Etaoin Shrdlu: 01/01/2012 - 02/01/2012
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Monday, January 23, 2012. Davewiner Re your comment about idealists, heres a self-portrait from a few years ago :). From edge and flow. Sunday, January 15, 2012. 9832; flavors.me/howard. From edge and flow. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This site is being retired. Much of my work will continue to be collected here, but you can find my commentary more reliably at edge and flow. Or my Sacramento Bee SacConnect site, Quantum Dice. What is Etaoin Shrdlu?
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Etaoin Shrdlu: 11/01/2012 - 12/01/2012
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Thursday, November 08, 2012. Manifestations of Nate Silvers analytical journalism in the 1980s. With all the Nate Silver inspired debates about analytical journalism going on, I can't resist referring to the work Richard Mauer, Larry Makinson and others did at the. Not suprisingly, this is noted in my book, Write Hard, Die Free. See story below for some early recognition from Time magazine. From edge and flow. Friday, November 02, 2012. The crisis ...
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Etaoin Shrdlu: 11/01/2011 - 12/01/2011
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. Royal California Surf and Gun Club. Spotted in downtown Sacramento. No grizzlies, no surf, plenty of funs. From edge and flow. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This site is being retired. Much of my work will continue to be collected here, but you can find my commentary more reliably at edge and flow. Or my Sacramento Bee SacConnect site, Quantum Dice. Most of my digital datastream is linked from here. What is Etaoin Shrdlu?
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Etaoin Shrdlu: Alaska becoming a swing state? Not so fast, Mr. Silver
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Friday, December 07, 2012. Alaska becoming a swing state? Not so fast, Mr. Silver. I took mild issue with Nate Silver on Twitter yesterday about his article ". Alaska: Future Swing State? I said it was "proof that Silver is better with numbers than analysis.". Ted Cuzillo (@datadoodle) asked what I’d have said if I was his editor and promised him more than 140 characters in reply. Here goes:. I grew up in Anchorage and practiced journalism there fo...
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Etaoin Shrdlu: 07/01/2012 - 08/01/2012
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Saturday, July 14, 2012. This is taken from a blog post I did in July 2008. At the moment, things feel precisely like the condition social theorist Fredric Jameson. Described as “the postmodern sublime” – the simultaneous apprehension of dread and ecstasy. Will CareerBuilder’s trustworthiness and value-added features be able to compete with the fraud-and-freebies world of Craigslist? Stay tuned for the conclusion in a future episode. Time is the fi...
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Etaoin Shrdlu: The Postmodern Sublime
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Sunday, July 06, 2008. The strum und drang. Around here and on our new wiki McClatchyNext. Might sound to some like an unruly chorus of confusion about editorial direction at McClatchy. It doesn’t sound that way to me. As I’ve said many times here. You are manifestly not failing. Everybody recognizes the challenges we face. Most immediate, at the moment, is revenue. I’ve written a great deal about that in this blog. That hurts, and it’s doubl...
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Short Schrift: Our Neanderthal Neighbors
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Notes on news, art, pop culture, politics, and ideas big and small. Caution: Reading may cause you to learn something. Thursday, July 09, 2009. Svante Pääbo, " Mapping the Neanderthal Genome. One thing that we're beginning to see is that we are extremely closely related to the Neanderthals. They're our relatives. In a way, they're like a human ancestor 300,000 years ago. Which is something that leads you to think: what about the Neanderthals? Would they be in a zoo? Or would they live in suburbia? Philad...
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Etaoin Shrdlu: 12/01/2012 - 01/01/2013
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A place to talk about the changing news media landscape. Friday, December 21, 2012. The NRA is not stupid . These thoughts were passed along to me from a friend's spouse. If he posts them himself I'll link. Till then, I thought it important to share this insight now, early in the debate:. The NRA is not stupid. They are trying to re-frame the gun debate and tangle everyone up in an issue that is ridiculous. Instead of focusing on "How can we prevent assault weapons from falling into the hands of lunatics,.
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Short Schrift: The Ripped Veneer Of Inhumanity
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Notes on news, art, pop culture, politics, and ideas big and small. Caution: Reading may cause you to learn something. Tuesday, July 07, 2009. The Ripped Veneer Of Inhumanity. For Andrew Sullivan, AIDS explains why 1990 was the year. American attitudes towards gays changed:. See also this appreciation of Bayard Rustin. Who wrote "The New Niggers Are Gays" and "From Montgomery to Stonewall" in 1986:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Philadelphia, PA, United States. I also blog at Snarkmarket.
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