interesting things
What’s Wrong With Online Reading, a slide presentation by Randy Connolly, argues that the relatively recent and increasingly popular approach to reading and learning – on computers, tablets and smartphones instead of traditional print – influences what and how we read, research and think, with disturbing consequences.
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/121581/Is-my-iPhone-Changing-my-Brain
Opinion: How to draft remarks claiming victory or conceding defeat at the end of a long campaign.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83339.html
Within hours of Netflix Inc. announcing that it had adopted a “poison pill” measure to block a hostile takeover, activist investor Carl Icahn responded with a broadside calling the move “an example of poor corporate governance.”
via L.A. Times – Entertainment News http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-ct-icahn-questions-netflix-poison-pill-20121105,0,830985.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fentertainment+%28Entertainment+News%29
This is not exactly the story we want to hear again after Sandy or on Election Day.According to the Wall Street Journal, Yoselyn Ortegas, the 50-year-old nanny charged with the first- and second-
via Runnin' Scared http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/11/accused_ues_nan.php
Businessman murdered in China reported on Bo Xilai.
The campaign seemed grotesquely bloated and all-pervasive, at the same time, miniaturized and ephemeral.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83379.html
Katie, look out behind you! After escaping her marriage to Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes has been publicly showing us that she’s just a normal…
via NY Post: Page Six http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/holmes_scientology_stop_xcol2LZ7tXRuQo5OEGaBoK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Page%20Six
It’s getting to a point where before you can claim the tumblr name for a brilliant website, meme, or app idea, the online hive mind has already beaten you to it. Instacane is the story of Hurricane Sandy, as told through Instagram photos. It’s pretty mesmerizing; I’ve been clicking refresh every minute to find out the latest. Internet, what will you think of next?
via Jezebel http://jezebel.com/5955670/instacane-brings-us-amaro-and-x+pro-tinged-photos-of-frankenstorm
Nearly half of registered voters still back capital punishment, but the margin has shrunk to 3 percentage points. Voters also favor easing the three-strikes law.
via L.A. Times – California | Local News http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-poll-death-penalty-20121026,0,7370020.story?track=rss
Defends Bain Capital for the first time