Bookmarks
Fri, 25 Jan 2013
- A gamer ‘leaked’ fake news on the new Xbox and it went mainstream within hours, wonderfully re-illustrating just how easy it is to be a ‘source’ in today’s ‘information age’. Nicely done, though seems to think this is lack of journalistic integrity is unique to video game reporters. If only.
- Kottke on inexpert experts: The challenges of conversational journalism
- So, this techwriter dies and goes to heaven…
- The best shots fired in the Oxford Comma wars
- The deadly history of Persia’s ancient assassins
- Yeesh… the strange, violent reach of Israel Keyes
- Interesting feature: Why you truly never leave high school
- Grantland: A battle for the best Chappelle’s Show sketch ever
- Prototype: a privacy visor that blocks facial recognition software
- Must remember this for the next time I have a pool and/or a party: projecting onto 65,000 floating ping pong balls