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Reads of the Week: November 2, 2012

Reid All About it

In response to thousands of retweets of erroneous Weather Channel and CNN reports that the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded with “three feet” of water, Twitter users, some reporters and many not, were relentless: photos of the outside of the building, flood-free, were posted. Do paywalls work? Actually, it’s not even past.

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Reads of the Week: October 26, 2012

Reid All About it

The New York Times led me to this new productivity-killer that operates on the Pandora principle: “With 275 galleries and 50 museums and institutions as partners, Art.sy Then, check out the symbolist collection in the Google Art Project.

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Mizz Information: New York Times and Other Excitement

Mizz Information

New York Times and Other Excitement. Thanks to the fact that my friend Tonia Ries is a rockstar, the story got picked up by the New York Times , so I will now be able to go down in history--much to my mothers chagrin--as the mom who helped her 13 year old lie to get on Facebook. July 2012 (3). June 2012 (4).

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Reads of the Week: September 28, 2012

Reid All About it

Read more on DIY retooling in this New York Times article by Shaila Dewan: To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop. “As far as I can tell, we do not yet seem to be offering much of a voice in the public conversation about the growing skill (and knowledge) gap and the critical need for effective lifelong learning.”.

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Reads of the Week: November 9, 2012

Reid All About it

He references an excellent David Carr article in the New York Times to discuss an example of “disruption in journalism.” Not another Lance Armstrong story! Yes, but this story by Mathew Ingram at GigaOm is really about “ the democratization of content.”

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Mizz Information: BlogWorld Expo New York Recap

Mizz Information

BlogWorld Expo New York Recap. July 2012 (3). June 2012 (4). May 2012 (4). April 2012 (5). March 2012 (4). February 2012 (4). January 2012 (5). Mizz Information. Thursday, May 26, 2011. It has been a whirlwind few days in my world, to say the least. Follow this blog. Get this badge.

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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

According to The New York Times , living with the pandemic “has pushed us to reckon with our deepest questions … [about] how we make meaning of our time on this earth.” This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.