Links June 3-5 2018
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
"When they saw the leopard, 'we were far away from the village,' Nanda says. 'But trash found its way there.'" atlasobscura.com
"Mortgage broker Eastern Union Funding credits a jump in business at a time commercial loan originations industry-wide are down, to an app that allows investors to peruse properties, find the most active brokers and view data on mortgages coming due and the banks that made those loans, among other features." reuters.com
Defining privacy in the late nineteenth century. laphamsquarterly.org
San Franciscans are nice and all have 9pm bedtimes. twitter.com
Median salary at biggest tech companies officially insane: dice.com
Hashtag #BeatPlasticPollution on twitter collects ideas and campaigns. twitter.com
Monday, June 4, 2018
Half of Silicon Valley wants to leave, blames housing. mercurynews.com
Facebook sent a doctor on secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data: cnbc.com
"'Journalists are drawn more to people making things happen than those struggling to pay bills; poverty is not considered a beat; neither advertisers nor readers are likely to demand more coverage, so neither will editors; and poverty stories are almost always enterprise work, requiring extra time and commitment,' Dan Froomkin wrote for the Nieman Center. cjr.org
"'I have heard so many times: Where’s the surprise?' Gary Rivlin, author of Broke, USA, says. In Rivlin’s telling, editors frequently want a sensationalistic angle if they’re interested in the story at all. 'I try to tell stories of payday lending. The only way to sell a story of payday lending was a contrarian take that said, well, it’s actually a good thing. The only problem is that it’s not a good thing. It’s a rip-off.'" cjr.org
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"When they saw the leopard, 'we were far away from the village,' Nanda says. 'But trash found its way there.'" atlasobscura.com
"Mortgage broker Eastern Union Funding credits a jump in business at a time commercial loan originations industry-wide are down, to an app that allows investors to peruse properties, find the most active brokers and view data on mortgages coming due and the banks that made those loans, among other features." reuters.com
Defining privacy in the late nineteenth century. laphamsquarterly.org
San Franciscans are nice and all have 9pm bedtimes. twitter.com
Median salary at biggest tech companies officially insane: dice.com
Hashtag #BeatPlasticPollution on twitter collects ideas and campaigns. twitter.com
Monday, June 4, 2018
Half of Silicon Valley wants to leave, blames housing. mercurynews.com
Facebook sent a doctor on secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data: cnbc.com
"'Journalists are drawn more to people making things happen than those struggling to pay bills; poverty is not considered a beat; neither advertisers nor readers are likely to demand more coverage, so neither will editors; and poverty stories are almost always enterprise work, requiring extra time and commitment,' Dan Froomkin wrote for the Nieman Center. cjr.org
"'I have heard so many times: Where’s the surprise?' Gary Rivlin, author of Broke, USA, says. In Rivlin’s telling, editors frequently want a sensationalistic angle if they’re interested in the story at all. 'I try to tell stories of payday lending. The only way to sell a story of payday lending was a contrarian take that said, well, it’s actually a good thing. The only problem is that it’s not a good thing. It’s a rip-off.'" cjr.org
