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Dallas: Smoking out, chickens are invisible
URL: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110625/UPDATE… This is a headline for my town. This is why I live here rofl See this Amp at http://bit.ly/jpalZS|topnews|text|Home Filed under:…
The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6830514157 Love me some Instapaper, this sucks. See this Amp at http://bit.ly/lZtji9 Filed under: Unfiltered Tagged: fbi, instapaper, server, stole, unrelated
FRONTLINE WikiSecrets
URL: http://video.pbs.org/video/1946795242 Just finished this, HIGHLY recommended. See this Amp at http://to.pbs.org/k4lUJL Filed under: Unfiltered Tagged: biggest, bradley manning, frontline, julian…
Klout… really?
And just like that, Klout steps up and delivers, almost on que! Complete with Justin Bieber cutout! http://klout.com/blog/2011/05/tales-and-winners-from-a-kloutwarming/ Filed under: Social Media…
You are the Smoke to Klout’s Fire
Every once in a while a political uprising, social catalyst, or even technological achievement will cause the winds of human interaction to change direction. New friends are made, more is learned…
Google Search Terms Used
I was browsing my Google Analytics this morning and got a chuckle out of a few of the search terms people have used the past few months to get to my blog. I omitted the 100+ mundane entries that…
Can Humans Predict the Future?
You are likely to be very painfully aware of the world in which you live; you keep up on current events, have developed opinions etc. etc. but as we enter this last week of 2010 the news well has seemingly dried and many, if not most, of our top “lamestream” media outlets are shoveling out their top predictions for the coming year and a few are tracking trends that they expect to flesh out at some point in the near-term.
I have never compiled a list of predictions; not publicly, not in private. I do love technology, new gadgets, and the awful things people do with them every single day. But for me there is nothing more exciting than BREAKING NEWS nor is there anything more inspirational than the purity of human triumph. This disconnect (oh yes, it is a disconnect) lies is fostered by my unwillingness to think ahead. There are so many things in this world that are available right nowand my interests are so diverse that it has always been impossible for me to be on the cutting edge of everything I wish to know. Twitter, RSS et al help a great deal but there are still only 24 hours in a day. My point here is that I am an “in the moment” individual that tries to keep up with what is and not what will be. My hopes and dreams revolve around the terms in which I estimate my own mortality. It has become far more pragmatic for me to get a solid handle on the things I need to know in order to function in this mortal coil than concern myself with the doom and gloom of a hackneyed pants-on-head intellect dishing out wanderlust, technolust, or even good ol’ fashioned lust in the biblical sense. I introduce my list of Things That Will Not Die in 2011 after the break!
This I Believe
When the holidays roll around people have a tendency to relax and work outside of their comfort zones. In this spirit I have decided to deviate from my usual format and share something from the heart. This draft is too lengthy for submission to the This I Believe project but at just over 850 words I hope that it is still short enough for you to enjoy here before I redact it.
Editing suggestions are always welcome but please be kind.
Keith Olbermann is so Very Wrong.
Update:
I have begun to curate a story over at Storify to capture the many angles and opinions: http://storify.com/ryanjz/keith-olbermann-suspended
It irks me when would-be journalist bloggers omit facts, don’t do their homework, and paraphrase their way through an “original” story. I’m not going to be a big jerk and start throwing bloggers under the bus (though that would be the journalistic thing to do) but rather lay out the facts of the Keith Olbermann suspension and why he is now on the interview circuit instead of preparing for today’s show.
- Keith Olbermann (AP photo)
There are black and white bits of this story as well as one crucial shade of gray. The real confusion with most media coverage is that they are using a sensational headline like “Olbermann Suspended for Giving Money to Dems”, which is partly false. Let’s get the “shade of gray” out of the way and then move on to the real reason Olbermann was suspended.
“We Must Challenge Candidates”
This afternoon I attended a conference call hosted by Jason Rzepka, President of MTV’s Public Affairs, in which incoming questions from student journalists attending colleges around the country were answered by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board. Secretary Duncan opened with a lot of bad news regarding graduation statistics in the United States and underscored America’s largest global education challenge: dropping from first place to ninth in the percentage of its citizens with college diplomas and how this has happened over the course of just one generation. This statistic alone was enough to raise awareness with President Obama and his cabinet.
In 2005 MTV founded the “Get Schooled” campaign alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation with the three-headed mission of preparing high-school students for college, helping new college students succeed in acquiring financial aide and pursuing the large number of available scholarships each year, and finally to assist existing college students in seeing their education through to graduation.
“… elections are coming up and voters need to promote the issue and challenge candidates who are pro-education”
Conan O’Brien Election Scandal! (Satire)
Say it ain’t so, Coco. Just this morning I was made aware that evening talk show host and comedian Conan O’Brien has knowingly donated thousands of dollars to democratic candidates Al Franken and Chris Dodd as reported by NewsMeat.com. O’Brien, with the weight of his 6 Emmy awards single-handedly strong-armed two relatively unknown extremist candidates into political office contributing no less than FIVE THOUSAND dollars to their campaigns. Courtesy of the Star Tribune
Is Your Local Media Conflicted or Just Slow?
As I post it has been over two hours since Wikileaks announced its mammoth release of war journals detailing the Iraq war. This has, of course, been the center of international headlines ever since Al-Jazeera broke their embargo 30 minutes early, presumably to scoop The Guardian, The New York Times, and other outlets that received the dispatches ahead of everyone else. Here in Oregon, however, a quick peek at the top broadcast news affiliate web sites,KATU, KGW,KOIN, KPTV, OregonLive, and Statesman-Journal have failed to mention this story at all, TWO HOURS later. The only reference to the story found on the front pages of these local news sites is in the form of an AP wire feed found two-thirds of the way down at KOIN.com.
