Having a great time using wifi on a plane from LAX to MINN
June 2011
43 posts
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I work at the intersection of the news business and the web. The news industry is becoming part of the high-tech industry; my children, who are seven and nine, won’t see Google and the New York Times as belonging to separate industries. Over the past ten years, and even more intensely over the…
“I sometimes visualize the ongoing cycle of racism as a moving walkway at the airport. Active racist behavior is equivalent to walking fast on the conveyor belt. The person engaged in active racist behaviour has identified with the ideology of White supremacy and is moving with it. Passive racist behaviour is equivalent to standing still on the walk way. No overt effort is being made, but the conveyor belt moves the bystanders along to the same destination as those who are actively walking. Some of the bystanders may feel the motion of the conveyor belt, see the active racists ahead of them, and choose to turn around, unwilling to go to the same destination as the White supremacists. But unless they are walking actively in the opposite direction at a speed faster than the conveyor belt - unless they are actively antiracist - they will find themselves carried along with the others.”
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Beverly Daniel Tatum, an excerpt from “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” (via pnasty)
this is a really good analogy.
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RT @mlevander: Today: 40% of city of Oakland’s budget is in its redevelopment agency that could be put to public health use: Marice Ashe …
RT @angshah: We’ll be in conversation with @mwfreivogel to kick off the #ohjf weekend. What is “journalism of engagement”?
“BUSINESS INSIDER: Earlier this year, Patch gave its sales people the option of switching to an incentive-laden compensation package that included a smaller salary, but a potentially higher net payout. You described this to me as a defacto pay cut. Why? I guess you could make the argument that the commission structure would be juicier. The problem is that the commission structure is very tough to attain given the lack of product and the very low retention rate. What happens is, people in the sales teams that are successful have to sell the product to an ignorant lot of small business owners that can’t differentiate between branding and performance-driving results. How’s company morale? Sales have dropped dramatically so there’s a tremendous morale problem within Patch. The editorial staff has been worked to death and they’ve already changed it over once, effectively. The same thing is going on the with sales force. You say you don’t believe Patch makes sense financially. How come? When it gets down to paying the editors, paying the sales staff, paying the management and the requisite expenses that go along with that, the numbers just do not compute. The advertising cannot support the local Patch model the way it stands. From a dollar standpoint, it simply will not add up.”
—Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: “It’s Been A Disaster”
“Promoting greater civic engagement and investing in the capacity of citizens to engage with civic information and one another to solve public problems are among the recommendations made by the Knight Commission. Civic Engagement and Community Information: Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication, a new policy paper by Peter Levine, calls on community and elected leaders to adopt sensible strategies to strengthen civic communication and citizen engagement. (Download PDF or Read Online)”
—Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication | KnightComm
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