July 2012
27 posts
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“My background in physics and mathematics was essential to my growth as a...”
– How Gödel Saved Mark Changizi from Physics
“completion of a rigorous course in mathematics — it is not even necessary that...”
– Do software engineers need mathematics?
“I suspect there’s a formula at work there: traffic thus revenue thus...”
– I see clouds over New York news
“Mobile itself is the nuts, bolts, and infrastructure, while mobility is the...”
– The Future Isn’t About Mobile; It’s About Mobility - David Armano - Harvard Business Review
“we focus on publishing content our readers love so much they think it is worth...”
– BuzzFeed’s strategy - Chris Dixon
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Finding the Right Metric for News
pilhofer:
What should emerge from this fellowship is something far more enduring and impactful: A framework, methodology and tool set for newsrooms to study and answer these questions for themselves.
The ideal outcome would be a suite of open-source tools, techniques and best practices that, in aggregate, help all of us understand readers better and enhance the impact of our journalism. At a...
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“For ProPublica, “publishing is not the end — impact is the end,” Klein said....”
– ProPublica gets $1.9 million from Knight to expand its efforts in data journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“Targeting-desk staffers processed the results of hundreds of thousands of weekly...”
– The Romney Campaign’s Data Strategy — Slate
“I hope you’ll take it not as a nostalgic yawlp but rather a considered statement...”
– Games in the street « Snarkmarket
“That’s just about my favorite thing about kids: their willingness to transform...”
– Games in the street « Snarkmarket
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“Technology, although shrouded in notions of logic, reason and profit, is a...”
– Rhizome | Linear Development
via a RT by @JamesGleick on Twitter
“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Paul Rand on The Role of the Imagination | Brain Pickings
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“I believe that to be an artist, you must immerse yourself with great passion in...”
– Celebrating John Cage: 40 Years of Visualizing Music Notation Around the World | Brain Pickings
“What makes such information so thrilling is that we think of music as a mirror:...”
– When computers listen to music, what do they hear? - Boston.com
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“Productivity is the measure of how effectively you get done the things you...”
– Productivity is about your life, not just your work | Andrew Spittle
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“Yes, math is certainly a language and it’s also more than a language....”
– Life Imitates Math : NPR
“Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited...”
– William Gibson NYT Opinion
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“In time, all of science will come to be a continuum of description, an...”
– E.O. Wilson’s Advice to Young Scientists | Brain Pickings
Wonderful talk with great principles and advice
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“If technology looks like a black box, innovation becomes incremental. You’re...”
– stdout.be | If technology looks like a black box
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“#DASER Siewerdsen: Fundamentally, images are a measurement. In many areas of...”
– Twitter / CPNAS: #DASER Siewerdsen
I love this framing (no pun intended!)
“In great part, the reason is that we have been taught to mistakenly view online...”
– The IRL Fetish – The New Inquiry
Hmmm…
“We’re in a new era of the Internet. In fact, the Net has moved beyond the Web,...”
– A Solution to the Twitter API Problem | Nova Spivack - Minding the Planet
“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable...”
– The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com
“It’s hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the...”
– The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com
“More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if...”
– The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com 