December 2011
21 posts
Why (Very White) Iowa and New Hampshire Mean So... →
“You’re hard pressed to find two whiter states,” says Matt Barreto, professor of political science and pollster for Latino Decisions, a polling firm that tracks the political leanings of Latinos.
And the lack of diversity has an effect on who gets initial attention from the media as the electoral process begins.
“The prominence and first-in-nation position of Iowa and New Hampshire do...
so-treu:
COLOUR-BLIND RACISM: The Four Frames darkjez:
ABAGOND—
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva asked samples of White Americans, most of them born between 1940 and 1980, questions about race issues. He noticed that at least half of them used each of the following four frames:
abstract liberalism – the key word here is “abstract”. Unlike Jim Crow racists, most whites now agree that all...
“We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an...”
– Dan Gillmor, Professor, Cronkite School of Journalism. 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly.
Nieman Lab is running an interesting 2012 preview series by asking prominent journalism observers what they think the upcoming year will hold.
Gillmor believes the open Internet —...
thechangelog:
As promised, LinkedIn sets IndexTank source freeFrom the [LinkedIn Engineering blog](https://engineering.linkedin.com/open-source/indextank-now-open-source):
> We are proud to announce that the technology behind IndexTank has just been released as open-source software under the Apache 2.0 License! We promised to do this when LinkedIn acquired IndexTank
Both...
Former Bing Product Lead: Why Personalized Social... →
But the issue has never been having access to social data, says Johnson—it’s figuring out how to incorporate it into search in a way that’s beneficial to the user and cost effective. “In the market, data is always seen as this panacea. Like, ‘Oh, we have all this data!’ But doing something with that data is really frickin’ tough,” Johnson says....
Important notice regarding Java packages in... →
it’s like Oracle is trying to do the wrong thing
zafar.se | Bloom Filter Notes →
“In short it would be difficult to come up with a worse hire if you were trying.”
– What’s the Matter with Kansas? : Lawyers, Guns & Money (via dixiecupua)
And this is still not a bad move for kansas. They’re irrelevant in the SEC and if Weis doesn’t change that, it won’t be a disappointment.
“Seems to me that circa junior year or so, I had to have a Duke dean call Sallie...”
– Student debt story: Dear Sallie Mae, I can’t afford you. You’re too high maintenance. And your cutesy name sucks « Natalia Antonova
We can all agree here: paying 40K+ for any degree makes no sense at all. Is it me or do all these loan stories come from students from private institutions?
“While Facebook isn’t acquiring the Gowalla service or technology, we’re sure...”
– A statement from Facebook • Basically emphasizing that they bought out Gowalla’s staff, not its service. It apparently was a marriage of mutual ambition: “It became clear that the way for our team to have the biggest impact was to work together,” said Gowalla CEO Josh Williams. The statements...
Kanye And The Grammys: Why No Album Of The Year... →
nprmusic:
Leaving Kanye bereft of the one Grammy he likely wants the most keeps him in a certain place.
North Carolina's Anti-Abortion License Plates May... →
The ACLU of North Carolina is suing because six attempts to issue an accompanying “Respect Choice” or “Trust Women. Respect Choice” plate have been denied. Today, a federal judge sided with the ACLU, issuing a preliminary injunction to keep the DMV from releasing the plates.
The issue in the case is whether license plates constitute private speech or government...
Geeking with Greg: Browsing behavior for web... →
How Republicans are being taught to talk about... →
rafer:
spytap:
joshsternberg:
The Republican Governor’s Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?
1. Don’t say ‘capitalism.’
2. Don’t say that the government ‘taxes the...