a travelogue
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02/15/08
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A Data Point on Every Block
This is a fantastic interview with Adrian Holovaty, who’s something of a personal hero. His new venture, a hyper-local news site by the name of EveryBlock, is absolutely stunning in the amount of data to puts at your fingertips. Unfortunately …continue reading »
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12/14/07
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The 53 Places to Go in 2008
The Times bills this with the line: “From Laos to Lisbon, the travel choices for global nomads have never been more varied.” Yes, Laos is number one, very disappointing, but luckily only 6 percent of Americans actually have passports so …continue reading »
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06/25/07
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Travels With Herodotus
Count me as one of those whom this article says would have mistaken Kapuscinski for Polish espresso, but he certainly sounds fascinating. From the New York Times: “Ryszard Kapuscinski disappeared in the dead of winter, January 2007, half as well …continue reading »
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04/30/07
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Challenging The Web’s Endless Cacophony
Andrew Keen’s new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy accuses bloggers and other evangelists for the web of destroying culture, ruining livelihoods and threatening to make consumers of new …continue reading »
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04/30/07
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Beware Mob Media
Ephraim Schwartz on “citizen journalism.” “Let me offer a very cynical point of view: Citizen journalism is a form of fascism waiting to happen. Now I know fascism requires the centralization of power, and that would appear to be the …continue reading »
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11/21/06
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Get Me Rewrite!
A modest proposal for reinventing newspapers for the digital age. The old guard sees newspapers “as a cultural bulwark against the barbarians. The barbarians, on the other hand, don?t seem to care; they?d rather get the news they want, not …continue reading »
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05/17/06
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The Greatest Stories Never Told
In the former Soviet Union there was a literary genre called samizdat (the word means “self-published” in Russian) that consisted of subversive political manifestos and unsanctioned — that is, good — poetry and fiction, circulated only in typescripts, painstakingly reproduced …continue reading »