Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky

If you work in or around journalism, you need to read this essay. Every word. “Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.”

(culture, future, internet, journalism, newspapers, print, revolution, trends, web)

Old School [dive into mark]

“When two spokespeople give you two different answers to a simple question, chances are that both of them are lying.”

(class, culture, kids, pbs, sesamestreet, tv)

Slash7 with Amy Hoy - Help Vampires: A Spotter's Guide

(community, culture, opensource, programming, vampires)

Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es

Really, really tempting.

(culture, email, lifehacks, writing)

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

The always-awesome xkcd knocks one out of the park. Hope that last panel becomes a t-shirt…

(comics, conspiracy, culture, funny, god, humor, xkcd)