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Pew’s State of the Media: Ignore the doomsaying. American journalism has never been healthier.

American news media has never been in better shape. That’s just common sense. Almost anything you’d want to know about any subject is available at your fingertips. You don’t need to take my analysis of the Cyprus bank bailout crisis as the last word on the matter: You can quickly and easily find coverage from [...]

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When In Academia – WHEN A COLLEAGUE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT ‘DIGITAL HUMANITIES’:

When In Academia – WHEN A COLLEAGUE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT ‘DIGITAL HUMANITIES’:.

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Washington Post to begin charging regular website, mobile app. users for digital subscriptions

The Washington Post says it will begin selling digital subscriptions this summer, asking frequent visitors to its website and mobile apps to pay a fee supporting the company’s journalism.

The Post announced plans Monday for a metered subscription model. It will require a paid subscription after the viewing of 20 articles or multimedia features per [...]

Culture | Current_Events | Ethics | Journalism | Media | Rhetoric

CNN Reports On The Promising Future of the Steubenville Rapists, Who Are Very Good Students

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Excellent analysis of the emotional impact when TV journalism shows gripping footage of convicted rapists breaking down in tears while the victim, whose identity is protected by privacy laws, remains anonymous and invisible.

It is unlikely that Candy Crowley and Poppy Harlow are committed rape apologists; more likely they simply wanted a showy, emotional angle [...]

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New Voices For The Voiceless: Synthetic Speech Gets An Upgrade

Wonderful, inspiring article that uses text, photos, and audio samples to tell how a researcher remixed wordless sounds to create an artificial voice for a voiceless child.

Patel can take that sound, run it through a computer and find out all kinds of things about how that person would sound if that person could speak [...]

Cyberculture | Media | Personal | Social_Software | Technology | Usability

Can’t upload photos to Facebook from my MacBook

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I spent 30 minutes trying to upload about 10 photos, but I only succeeded in uploading two. I’ve tried Safari and Chrome… I’ve tried uploading photos individually and in groups.

The rest uploaded part of the way, and then froze, seemingly forever, with this bar.

Oh, well… I guess that’s why I don’t upload [...]

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Fired for Making a Game: The Inside Story of I Get This Call Every Day

He knows that if he’d instead posted a song or a poem or a comedy routine on YouTube, the bosses would have watched that, and might have understood what he was trying to say to them. If he’d created something that told the same story through a more traditional form than a game, he’d probably [...]

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Science — D.I.C.E. Summit Awards

Gaming ledends Dave Lebling and Mark Blank honored for their pioneering work in text-adventure games, at Infocom. (Clips from Jason Scott’s GET LAMP documentary follow Dave Lebling’s introduction, around 1:35 or so.

Welcome to the Official D.I.C.E. Summit Website.

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Video games ‘teach dyslexic children to read’

Playing games which require children to follow fast-moving events, track moving objects and pay attention to all areas of the screen teaches them to draw meaning from written words, researchers explained.

Dr Andrea Facoetti of the University of Padua in Italy, who led the study, said: “Action video games enhance many [...]

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The Joy of Text – Page 4 of 4

I’d like this article better if it weren’t divided up into four ad-generating chunks, but here’s the payoff:

It’s not all about colossal caves and twisty little passages any more. Here are a few IF highlights that show off how varied the genre can be, from card-based trips to the ‘Neath to hunts for lost [...]