Dexter, the Infinity Killer, and Hunter Prey
Posted on | September 3, 2010 | No Comments
The good people behind Dexter are running an “Alternate Reality Game.” The quotes are because I have only the vaguest idea what that might mean. It looks like an interesting way to extend the story off-screen.
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Free Download: Document Your Mammal Tracking Expeditions
Posted on | September 3, 2010 | No Comments
I’ve added a new download to the Mammal Tracking Resources page. You can also download it here.
I’ve been tracking for years, but only recently decided to start systematically documenting my finds. While there are excellent field note systems described in many mammal tracking books, I wanted a stripped down version. Once I designed it, I thought it would be nice to share. Enjoy!
5 Books for the Tracker’s Shelf & Pack
Posted on | August 31, 2010 | No Comments
While you may not want to carry all five of these into the field with you when you go mammal tracking, each one is a valuable addition to your personal library. I use them all on a regular basis and each has added to my knowledge of animals and tracks.
How to Track
- The Tracker’s Field Guide: A Comprehensive Handbook for Animal Tracking in the United States
- A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide To Nature Observation And Tracking
Field Reference
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Hmmm…. How difficult is it to embed a flickr image….?
Posted on | August 24, 2010 | No Comments
Apparently not that hard. Here’s an extremely quick lesson in how.
First, find an image on flickr you want in your post. Make sure you’re allowed to share it by checking the permissions listed under “License.” If it says you can share, you should be good to go. Be sure to give credit.
Second, find the following text that should be located above the photo: “Share this”. Click on it. In the menu that drops down, click “Grab the HTML/BBCode.” Follow the directions that appear.
Third, paste the code that you copied in the previous step into your blog post.
Fourth, publish.
Living a Good Life by Wrestling With Self-Imposed Standards
Posted on | August 10, 2010 | No Comments
There was a time in my life where I felt like I was sinking into a moral black hole. The way out was The Code. Now I’m sharing a free 11-page document that describes the problem I faced and the way I solved it. You can download it here:
The Code: Living a Good Life by Wrestling With Self-Imposed Standards
This is also the first post in a new category on this blog, one called A Principled Life. In this category you’ll get links to relevant articles, original blog posts, and news about documents like the one I’ve linked to above.
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Eaves & Owen:
Posted on | December 24, 2009 | No Comments
“Many newspapers fail to grasp that bloggers are their most avid readers,” Missing the Link.
Rosen and Shirky discuss “Journalism Primary Sources” on YouTube
Posted on | December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
Jay Rosen recently sat down for a Q&A with Clay Shirky and then posted it to YouTube in five parts. Shirky is the author of the excellent Here Comes Everbody, which I’ve recommended nearby. (Full disclosure: I’m a tad conflicted. If you buy it through my affiliate thing at the bottom right, I’ll get a cut. Just saying.)
In the first part, embedded below, Rosen starts the Q & A with his single prepared question:
On March 15, you sent me an e-mail at about 11 o’clock at night with a link to a post you had written called ‘Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,’ and the last time I looked this post had 1,100 links to it, which is, for [as] anyone who is a blogger knows, a very difficult feat to get that many in-bound links to one single post. When you sent me that e-mail at 11 o’clock at night, you said, “I’m becoming obsessed.” What obsession was this and why were you obsessed?
The Q&A goes on from there.
Part 2 (17:17), where they discuss Jeff Jarvis (briefly), an amazing thing called the “business model,” micropayments, the persistence of pressures on newspapers other than economic ones, Habermas, the origins of the press and the public, Tocqueville, infovores, the threat of surveillance, and the missing front page in online news.
Part 3 (8:03), where they discuss NewAssignment.Net & Huffington Post‘s Off The Bus and Barack Obama’s campaign.
Part 4 (13:34), where Rosen asks for Shirky’s opinion on why American public confidence in the American press dropped over the last 30 years despite the rise in journalistic professionalism, Rathergate, factchecking vs. after-the-factchecking, Trent Lott, and the forwarding of articles about priestly abuse.
Part 5 (4:35), where each explains why he studies media. Rosen shares his experience as a kid “marooned on the end of the television set, connected up to the media but totally isolated from anyone else.” Shirky describes his first experience with the Internet and then moves from that to his more recent reasons for studying media.
The bias against linking
Posted on | December 14, 2009 | No Comments
David Eaves has an excellent piece up today about the use of the hyperlink in journalism. He argues that online journalism that doesn’t link to other content, specifically its own sources of information and other relevant content, fails its readers.
In a similar vein, Eaves and Taylor Owen prepared a report for the Columbia Journalism Review in response to a piece by Robert Kuttner. Kuttner had argued that the “print-digital hybrid model,” where newspapers shovel their print content out through a digital platform, could save newspapers. Eaves and Owen disagreed.
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