Links:

• Hunter Prey
• Serial Huntress
• Sleep Superbly

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!

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

• Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks
• Mammal Tracks & Sign

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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.

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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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.

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.