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May 27
Money Is Not Important: Step 221: Carry at least $10 cash on you

adulting:

You never know when you’ll need it. Bus fare, the Lebanese restaurant that unexpectedly only accepts cash, the $2 tip obligation that springs out at you — it’s just a good, solid strategy. Don’t spend it unless there’s no way to use your debit card.

International readers:…
May 26
Summer in the city davelee57, instagr.am

Summer in the city
davelee57, instagr.am

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Just a Minute: Why New Orleans?

By THE EDITORS, nytimes.com

David Carr dis­cuss­es why New Orleans and Michi­gan are on the lead­ing edge of cor­po­rate exper­i­ments to end daily print news­pa­per pub­li­ca­tion in favor of Web-based news sites.
May 25
From cold calls to community building: ProPublica tries to make crowdsourcing more meaningful

Adrienne LaFrance, niemanlab.org

When reporters use social media for crowd­sourc­ing, they’re often just cold call­ing in the form of a pass­ing tweet — Did you lose your house to fore­clo­sure? Were you the vic­tim of dis­crim­i­na­tion in the work­place? Have you ever donat­…
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Audio: Veteran Times-Picayune Reporter on How Staff Heard the News

By DAVID CARR, nytimes.com

Bruce Nolan, who cov­ers reli­gion for the news­pa­per, spoke up at meet­ing led by Jim Amoss, the edi­tor of the news­pa­per, about the change to three-times-a-week pub­lish­ing.
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mediabytes: How a newspaper announces (in print) that it is cutting print editions. Via How Times-Picayune, Alabama newspaper changes played on their front pages)

mediabytes:

How a newspaper announces (in print) that it is cutting print editions. Via How Times-Picayune, Alabama newspaper changes played on their front pages)

(via transformthenews)

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theatlantic: How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus Last year, Google, which had dabbled in official social-networking applications, released Google Plus. The site has all the things you’ve come to expect in a social network. There is a rich profile builder, a place for your photos, a nice videochat feature, a conversation feed, and, of course, “Circles,” which allow users to sort the people they know into different buckets. Word at the time was that Google’s full weight was behind this social push. The journalists who knew the company’s insiders best declared that Facebook was CEO Larry Page’s obsession. I was bullish about Google Plus, even if it did feel like a Facebook clone. Google had built out a ton of infrastructure and was pushing Plus out through its major products. This had to be big! But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town. Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]

theatlantic:

How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus

Last year, Google, which had dabbled in official social-networking applications, released Google Plus. The site has all the things you’ve come to expect in a social network. There is a rich profile builder, a place for your photos, a nice videochat feature, a conversation feed, and, of course, “Circles,” which allow users to sort the people they know into different buckets. Word at the time was that Google’s full weight was behind this social push. The journalists who knew the company’s insiders best declared that Facebook was CEO Larry Page’s obsession.

I was bullish about Google Plus, even if it did feel like a Facebook clone. Google had built out a ton of infrastructure and was pushing Plus out through its major products. This had to be big!

But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town.

Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]

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Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret

lifehacker.com

Edi­tor: When soft­ware devel­op­er Brad Isaac told us he had pro­duc­tiv­i­ty advice from Jerry Sein­feld, we couldn’t turn down the chance to hear more. Read on for the whole story from Brad.

Years ago when Sein­feld was a new…
May 22
cmonstah: Found this in an old file. Though ‘composing rooms’ no longer exist, the rest all rings true.

cmonstah:

Found this in an old file. Though ‘composing rooms’ no longer exist, the rest all rings true.

May 21
memewhore: cespur: small town newsreporters Reporter did their job.  Editor didn’t.

memewhore:

cespur:

small town newsreporters

Reporter did their job.  Editor didn’t.

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Motivate workers through new models
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(via Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality - NYTimes.com)

(via Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality - NYTimes.com)

May 20
eatsleepdraw: Alfred Hitchcock. Portrait of the director, made up of images from his films.

eatsleepdraw:

Alfred Hitchcock.

Portrait of the director, made up of images from his films.

May 19
Writing is about inspiration. Here are 12 and a half inspiring things to get the creativity flowing. sekotakcokelat: Dear writers wannabe

Writing is about inspiration. Here are 12 and a half inspiring things to get the creativity flowing.

sekotakcokelat:

Dear writers wannabe

May 13
The Glacier Bandits: Lake Lanier

Great job documenting Lake Lanier. One of the most beautiful man-made areas of Forsyth, Hall and Gwinnett counties.

glacierbandits:

What a nice day to explore Lake Lanier (officially called Lake Sidney Lanier). About 45 minutes north of Atlanta, it was created to control floodwaters downstream for metro Atlanta. Built in the 1950’s, it encompasses about 59 square miles of water (that’s a lot, by the way. Because of the…