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Ethics In Journalism And Stolen Phones
I really like the story of the new iPhone, not because I like iPhones (though I do) but because it’s a great study in journalistic ethics. I am not a tech writer or a pundit, and I don’t want to be. Forgive me if I gloss over tech issues; I like thinking about ethics and [...]
September’s 8
Inside Baseball – Ken Silverstein’s Harper’s blog Washington Babylon is some of the best political reading around. I’ll always be wonky, I guess. Mobile Reading – The Typography Manual app (no link right now) for the iPhone is a handy tool for a wannabe typeface nerd like me. It’s a toolkit and a textbook. And [...]
About Walter Cronkite
I wasn’t alive for any of Cronkite’s evening broadcasts, but I did study him a lot in school. I think that makes me unqualified to say much about him. I love Cronkite’s work, and I’ll leave more meaningful remembrances to more competent writers. They’re going on now about how there will never be another Cronkite. [...]
Good News For Wonks
Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com has a book deal. His polling data mining made him a hero for math and political science nerds (like me). According to the article, one of his books will be inspired by Freakonomics, a book I really enjoyed. Good for Nate Silver.