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kingtrash: Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 6 Every...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:31:04 -0500

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 6

Every Sunday

http://michaeldeforge.wordpress.com/category/sticks-angelica/

Journal of a Journalist: So Tumblr Just (Allegedly) Sold For A Billion Dollars

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:29:22 -0500

Journal of a Journalist: So Tumblr Just (Allegedly) Sold For A Billion Dollars:

Well done, David Karp, Mark Coatney, John Maloney, and all the other Tumblr board members and employees past and present who contributed to a massive sale of a blogging platform for more than a billion dollars.

The blog I write, Journal of a Journalist, has more than sixty thousand followers on…

npr: In her classic ’60s documentary, Shirley Clarke profiles a...

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:08:53 -0500

npr:

In her classic ’60s documentary, Shirley Clarke profiles a loquacious 33-year-old gay hustler who dreams of having a nightclub act. Her subject could hardly be more complex — and in examining him, she raises important questions about the relationship between fact and fiction.

— Peeling Away The Layers In A ‘Portrait Of Jason’

Photo: Milestone Film

glaad: GLAAD intern Hannah takes on NOM’s Brian Brown’s claim...

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:07:05 -0500

glaad:

GLAAD intern Hannah takes on NOM’s Brian Brown’s claim that young people support marriage equality because they’re naive: “Belief in the value of marriage equality springs from belief in love, respect, justice, and equality. Which, I guess according to Brown, only kids believe in?”

motherjones: longreads: “Schizophrenic. Killer. My...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:26:49 -0500

motherjones:

longreads:

“Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.” Mac McClelland, Mother Jones

We are a little biased, but we recommend this.

The Latest 'Downton Abbey' Addition

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:25:36 -0500

The Latest 'Downton Abbey' Addition:

“Downton Abbey” has cast Gary Carr to play the show’s first black character, a jazz singer named Jack Ross.

todaysdocument: “This is the private box in Ford’s Theater,...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:20:31 -0500

todaysdocument:

“This is the private box in Ford’s Theater, Washington, where President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, on the night of April 14, 1865. “

For another perspective on that evening, see the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police blotter of April 14, 1865.

kingtrash: Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 1 New weekly. Every...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:19:36 -0500

kingtrash:

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 1

New weekly. Every Sunday.

http://michaeldeforge.wordpress.com/category/sticks-angelica/

capegraphicnovels: It certainly feels like we’ve been in winter...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:49:58 -0500

capegraphicnovels:

It certainly feels like we’ve been in winter mode for, oh I don’t know, about eight months. Hope the King of Spring hurries up…

shortformblog: theatlantic: A Map That Shows the Dramatic...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:24:16 -0500

shortformblog:

theatlantic:

A Map That Shows the Dramatic Spread of Legal Weed in the U.S.

Very pertinent today, with a bill awaiting Maryland governor Martin O’Malley’s signature to legalize medical marijuana.

4:20, present day… —MD

FRANCE: Senate Approves Section One Of Marriage Bill By 179-157 Vote!

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:20:00 -0500

FRANCE: Senate Approves Section One Of Marriage Bill By 179-157 Vote!

todaysdocument: “An eager school boy gets his first experience...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:41:05 -0500

todaysdocument:

“An eager school boy gets his first experience in using War Ration Book Two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing.”, 02/1943

The rationing of meat, butter, and cheese began during World War II on March 29, 1943.

via the National Archives at Kansas City on Twitter

todaysdocument: usnatarchives: Get ready for Major League...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:38:38 -0500

todaysdocument:

usnatarchives:

Get ready for Major League Baseball’s 2013 Opening Day with a new, free eBook from the National Archives!

“Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives” tells the story of baseball in America through documents, photographs, audio, video, and other records preserved at the National Archives.

The book can be downloaded for free on your iPhone, Android, iPad, and eReaders.

Learn about the two world wars, contract disputes, civil rights, equal access and opportunity on and off the playing field, the steroids era, Presidential involvement, improvements to the sport, Little League, Opening Day, and more.

(Today’s Document may be quiet the rest of the afternoon as we’re off to see the Nationals take on that expansion team from the Bronx. Go Nats!)

Excellent — on the eve of one of the coldest Opening Days in the history of Minnesota Twins baseball.

And Now a Few Notes on Plagiarism

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:35:03 -0500

And Now a Few Notes on Plagiarism:

futurejournalismproject:

Over at Poynter, Roy Peter Clark argues that “serious acts of literary theft have been mixed up with trivial ones. Carelessness has been mislabeled as corruption. Clear norms of personal morality and professional ethics have been confused with standards and practices.”

He’s writing, in part, against the backdrop of what Craig Silverman calls journalism’s Summer of Sin, which, in 2012 saw the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the Boston Globe, Fareed Zakaria and Jonah Lehrer among many others getting caught for plagiarizing.

Clark though thinks we’re oftentimes too quick to throw the P-word around, and doing so in many instances is like “shooting a fly with a bazooka”:

Too scrupulous an ethic on plagiarism will lead, I fear, to witch hunts. Plagiarism — along with its cousin fabrication — should be policed. The punishments for wrongdoers should be harsh. But the word plagiarism should be confined to clear-cut cases of literary and journalistic fraud.

So here are ten practices Clark believes are not plagiarism. Be sure to read through for his explanations of each:

The so-called act of “self-plagiarism” is not plagiarism.

So called “patch writing” — as long as it credits sources — is not plagiarism.

Inadequate paraphrasing of a credited source is not plagiarism.

Use of a clever or apt phrase — up to the level of the sentence — is not plagiarism as long as you thought of it independently, even if you find that others have used it before.

Literary allusions — even a mosaic of esoteric ones — are not plagiarism.

Boilerplate descriptions of news, history, or background are not plagiarism.

Ghost writing is not plagiarism.

Writing for genres — such as the legal brief or the sermon — in which there is a long tradition of borrowing without attribution is not plagiarism.

Copying from other writers in what are considered collaborative ventures –newsrooms, wire services, press releases, textbook authorship — is not plagiarism.

Copying from or borrowing the general ideas and issues that are emerging as part of the zeitgeist is not plagiarism.

Yes, he says, there are ethical boundaries in the above, but they should be seen and treated as such, and not labelled with a Scarlet P.

Roy Peter Clark, Poynter. Why we should stop criminalizing practices that are confused with plagiarism.

And, yes, I structured this to push Clark’s point. — Michael

theatlantic: This Street Art Will Blow Your Mind Since his...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:33:45 -0500

theatlantic:

This Street Art Will Blow Your Mind

Since his first perspective drawings appeared in a Paris apartment in 1979, the Paris-based artist has been prolific. His work has appeared all over the world, in Japanese plazas, Swiss hill towns, Welsh ports, and a number of galleries, museums and universities.

See more. [Images: Felice Varini]

ShortFormBlog: North Carolina town devastated by ponzi scheme

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:30:41 -0500

ShortFormBlog: North Carolina town devastated by ponzi scheme:

shortformblog:

50k the number of people taken in by a $600 million ponzi scheme called ZeekRewards … in North Carolina alone. The multi-level marketing scheme, which started as a penny auction site called Zeekler, was launched by Lexington, NC resident and former nursing-home magician Paul Burks, and…

shortformblog: think-progress: Men with loaded rifles...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:04:06 -0500

shortformblog:

think-progress:

Men with loaded rifles intimidate moms gathered at a gun safety rally. Watch what happened.

There’s protesting in favor of your cherished rights, which countless second amendment advocates have done reasonably, respectfully and unapologetically, and then there’s intimidation. Pretty hard to argue this as anything but the latter.

npr: In the interest of service, I sought out a few of the best...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:26:15 -0500

npr:

In the interest of service, I sought out a few of the best in the desk-lunching world, and asked them for help in compiling this definitive guide to desk-lunching, which may be applicable for dinner, too, depending on the extent of your workaholism: The Definitive Guide to Eating Lunch at Your Desk - Jen Doll - The Atlantic Wire

Photo: Flickr/JR Conlin

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My keyboard is full of crumbs from my desk-eating messes. =0( — tanya b.

theatlantic: Will Spain’s Leisurely Culture Speed Up if We Fix...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:25:13 -0500

theatlantic:

Will Spain’s Leisurely Culture Speed Up if We Fix Its Clocks?

Except on the very longest days of summer, the sun never rises before 7 a.m. in the western region of Galicia; in the winter it doesn’t rise until 9 — 20 minutes later than in Copenhagen.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

Interesting… —MD

Photo

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:22:57 -0500