bloom county
Back in Bloom (County)
The fact that this exists, is on Facebook and is embeddable here makes me so very happy. Bloom County is back – for a while, at least.
charlie hebdo
The Charlie Hebdo Backlash
A swath of prominent American literary figures are worried by the support for Charlie Hebdo [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/05/america-s-literary-elite-takes-a-bold-stand-against-dead-journalists.html] after the shootings earlier this year. but their arguments don’t always tarry with reality: > Elsewhere, the #JeSuisCharlie brigades were admonished for affiliating with
jargon
news:rewired: the open, crowd-sourced, interactive jargon drinking game
A digital journalism jargon drinking game for attendees of the news rewired conference.
cartooning
Charlie Hebdo, the French tradition of satire, and cherry-picking cartoons
There’s been a growing consensus online that Charlie Hebdo [http://www.charliehebdo.fr/index.html] is a “racist” magazine. In fact, I’ve ended up in a couple of online skirmishes with people because of their insistence that use of #jesuischarlie was tantamount to identifying positively with racists. I
charlie hebdo
Satire is a powerful weapon of democracy
Satire is a wonderful part of our political debate. Satire is an under-appreciated part of journalism. Satirical websites and magazines are a celebration of what it means to be human, and a powerful tool to undermine those who would control us. No wonder people want to destroy it [http://www.
future of news
Inside the mind of the fake Jeff Jarvis
I really enjoyed this profile of Rurik Bradbury [http://digiday.com/platforms/profjeffjarvis-thinkfluencing/], the man behind the amusing Jeff Jarvis parody account @ProfJeffJarvis [https://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarvis]: > A main target of Bradbury’s satire is the Orwellian lengths to which major tech players go to distort language. […] Bradbury’s
critical thinking
Facebook helps out the satire-challenged
This has been lurking in my tabs for a while. Facebook is starting to experimentally mark satirical articles [http://mashable.com/2014/08/17/facebook-satire-tag/] – from The Onion in particular – as such: > “We are running a small test which shows the text “[Satire]” in front of links to satirical
advertorials
When advertising goes native
So, this happened while I was away: Yes, we need new sources of income in digital. But I’m deeply unconvinced that “native” advertising is the future. We’re essentially running a huge experiment to see if the old view – that compromising editorial values with paid content would erode the
corporate culture
Every corporate meeting ever
Weird Al, again, from his new album, Mandatory Fun [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&field-keywords=mandatory%20fun&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=manda%2Caps%2C182&tag=omhb-21&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music]
grammar
The Subs' Desk song
This one goes out to subs desks everywhere… Weird Al [http://www.weirdal.com], of course.
marketing
On social media in movie trailers
Nailed it.
Buzzfeed
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Buzzfeed writer resigns in plagarism shocker [http://www.theonion.com/articles/buzzfeed-writer-resigns-in-disgrace-after-plagiari,32616/] : > The 26-year-old Mills, a once promising young writer in BuzzFeed’s Animals division best known for authoring the popular posts “First-World Bear Problems” and “Seal And Owl Are BFFs,” admitted this week that he copied captions