January 2012
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“The crusty one-legged man is Bill Hansbury, though everybody calls him Boston...”
– “A crusty man becomes perfect mentor for boy dealing amputation,” from The Tampa Bay Times, where mocking a Boston accent is apparently a suitable practice regardless of the poignancy of the subject matter.
Later we can discuss my problems with the adjective “crusty.”
“Above all, remember this: don’t panic, and take a nap whenever the...”
– From “Multimedia Storytelling,” a Knight Digital Media Center tutorial by Jane Stevens
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“People are stupid,” Mr. Salinger observed, glancing vacantly at the other...”
– Excerpt from a 72-year-old interview with JD Salinger, by an 18-year-old journalism student
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“Print certainly isn’t dead,” Miller says. “It’s just...”
– From “Think Ink: Why Print is Being Embraced By Designers,” by D’Arcy Doran
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“A few good maps won’t change the world. They won’t eradicate self-interest or...”
– Really excellent Globe magazine article by Scott Helman on this year’s successful Massachusetts legislative redistricting
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SOPA Dead, PIPA Next? →
futurejournalismproject:
Via the Examiner:
In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had...
