The week that was

10/02/2012

“All the News That’s Fit to Print”

La storia dello storico motto del New York Times, "le sette parole più famose del giornalismo americano"

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19/02/2016

“That’s me in the corner”

Venticinque anni fa oggi uscì la canzone che cambiò la carriera dei REM

19/09/2013

I don’t really care if the music is innovative or what genre it’s in. I don’t care if it’s me singing or someone else singing. All I care about is that magic moment that came when I was three and … Continua a leggere→

17/07/2013

Cortesie per i corvi

A wild raven perched himself on our fence and squawked for over an hour. I went to see what was up with him and saw that he had four porcupine quills stuck in him, three in the side of his … Continua a leggere→

08/04/2011

links for 2011-04-07

The Monica Effect -Jeffrey Toobin "But it’s worth noting that shutdowns are far from trivial events. It’s not just that the national parks close. There is a disorientation from ordinary processes that can have unpredictable effects on everyone concerned. It’s a lot easier to shut the government down than to open it up again. The [...]

19/04/2010

“È di qualcuno?”

Quelli di Gizmodo pensano che l’iPhone dimenticato in un bar californiano sia davvero il nuovo iPhone 4G Why we think it’s definitely real We’re as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and [...]

31/10/2011

Il giornalismo dei gatti

In my hand is a report from the ONA’s recent national convention in Boston. I am broadly summarizing, but near as I can tell, the main message given to the conferees was that, journalistically, to attract reader eyeballs, you want to publish more pictures of bacon taped to cats. Give readers what they want, whatever [...]

20/05/2016

Le foto della moda a Sydney

Alle più importanti sfilate australiane c'erano Bella Hadid, un marchio che piace molto a Miley Cyrus e modelle con pietre applicate sul viso

24/11/2010

La bolla di iPad/2

Da aggiungere a quel che dicevamo: It’s long been an article of faith among media optimists that the shift to digital publishing would be a good thing for publishers in the long run, freeing them of the burden of their biggest costs: paper, printing and postage. That’s why I was surprised to hear David Link, founder and creative [...]

06/03/2011

Prima di morire vorrei…

Un nuovo lavoro di Candy Chang, già autrice di I wish this was, torna a dar voce agli abitanti di New Orleans

22/07/2012

Monti e le prossime generazioni

31/10/2012

Il senno di poi, everybody

Divertente e rivelatore pezzo del New York Times sul fatto che comunque vadano le elezioni, sapevamo come sarebbero andate. Amid the many uncertainties of next Tuesday’s presidential election lies one sure thing: Many people will feel in their gut that … Continua a leggere→

26/08/2011

“So sounds like I was impressed?”

Josh Marshall di Talking Points Memo ha avuto la possibilità di conoscere Jon Huntsman e fargli un paio di domande, ed è rimasto impressionato. The Obama folks are right to hope he doesn’t get near the nomination. Because I think he’d be a formidable challenger in an economic climate as bad as the one we’re [...]

20/01/2011

links for 2011-01-19

The Blair Hitch Project | Christopher Hitchens "When Tony Blair took office, Slobodan Milošević was cleansing and raping the republics of the former Yugoslavia. Mullah Omar was lending Osama bin Laden the hinterland of a failed and rogue state. Charles Taylor of Liberia was leading a hand-lopping militia of enslaved children across the frontier of [...]

05/04/2011

links for 2011-04-04

Is It Better to Save No One? – Nicholas D. Kristof "It has been exceptionally rare for major powers to intervene militarily for predominantly humanitarian reasons. One example was the US-led Kosovo campaign in 1999, and another was Britain’s dispatch of troops to Sierra Leone in 2000 to end the brutal civil war there. Both [...]