September 2010
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Watchreal life blunder, electronically reproduced.
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Heroes, Villains, and the Science of Narrative in...
Nieman Lab: In policy development, what are the biggest hurdles to building successful narratives?
Michael D Jones: Believing you have to communicate narratively is the biggest hurdle. For example, I just don’t think Democrats do it. Democrats are stuck in this Enlightenment reasoning kind of thing, thinking that if you take the facts to people about a particular policy it will be enough. They...
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Watchwalkietalkies:
Finnish’d.
awesome.
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“The traditional media, governments and their security organizations just cannot...”
– from Wikileaks and Hacktivist Culture by Peter Ludlow for The Nation
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“Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are...”
– Benedict Carey for the NYTimes - Forget what you know about good study habits
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“I do not write experimental music, […] I offer a ‘finished product’; it is for...”
– Edgard Varèse as quoted by Ken Hollings in The Wire Magazine Issue #314 (via pantsetc — check out the awesome varese vids he just put up. that ionisation vid is one of the best things on the internet.)
“The equal-odds rule says that the average publication of any particular...”
– from john keezell’s Amazon review of Creativity in Science… and quoted in this piece by sebastian marshall. read the blog post. I like this way of thinking (if you want to make good stuff, you need to make a lot of stuff) because there’s something deeply positive about it.
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“Ooh, yes. No, child, mother wants to read to you every night in order to stupefy...”
– Captain Hook in Hook. I was thinking about Ayn Rand and this quote came to mind.
“Lobbyists had their biggest year ever in 2009, with expenditures of $3.5...”
– from “Washington, We have a Problem” by Todd Purdum for Vainty Fair
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