Things that are worth your time
Adam Hocschild’s article from Congo, about mining, which I blogged about earlier, is online. Read it. Amazing. “Africa to Appalachia,” Jayme Stone’s collaboration with…
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On telling the muse, “Go bother someone else today”
My sister sent me a link to this TED talk, from last year, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat Pray Love wasn’t really my kind of…
Read MoreThe Internet just got (more) awesome
Thank you, Oxford University Press. The scholarly publisher has just launched what one magazine I’ve never heard of but is published by Conde Nast…
Read MorePregnant and embedded: Not your usual Afghanistan story
I just finished reading this remarkable piece by Elizabeth Rubin, a foreign correspondent who’s been coming and going from Afghanistan for quite awhile. Her…
Read MoreWill Steve Jobs’ #iPad kill free speech?
I would have seen that headline and rolled my eyes, except for this: The man who just won the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons can’t…
Read MoreWatch for it
This book, I mean. This discovery saved what would otherwise have been a wasted hour screwing around on the Internet, link to link to…
Read MoreMeaning and myth through the photographer’s lens
Much ado about pictures lately. Not long after I asked last week whether portraits of Rwandan survivors that got a nod from the NYT…
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Creepiest Google searcher ever, and a confidentiality conundrum
Like a lot of bloggers, weird Google search terms will send people my way. I used the word “thighs” in a blog headline once,…
Read More‘How we know waterboarding works,’ by the CIA
Remember that guy who went on ABC and said, “Waterboarding works. One douse, and this al Qaeda guy totally opened up.” (Okay, maybe it…
Read MoreIs anyone on the Internet under 30?
I gave a talk yesterday in the stellar Rosemary Armao’s upper-class undergraduate journalism class at SUNY-Albany. As an aside, Rosemary Armao is a woman…
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