Links April 28 - May 4, 2019
Saturday May 4, 2019
All told, "about 51 percent of the 350 single-family homes built after 2008 in the path of the Camp Fire were undamaged, according to McClatchy’s analysis of Cal Fire data and Butte County property records. By contrast, only 18 percent of the 12,100 homes built prior to 2008 escaped damage." sacbee.com
Neil Young's upcoming book "To Feel The Music" "takes you through how the sound was and is compromised by the tech and record companies, and instead of improving over time like other technologies, it has become worse." jambase.com
Friday May 3, 2019
Where in the Bay Area you can afford to rent on $100k per year. eastbaytimes.com
Thursday May 2, 2019
A commenter says the founder should not reap money from an IPO if the company pays less than a living wage. nytimes.com
"At Bell Labs, there were systems in place to try and figure out the unintended consequences and their solutions before a product was considered commercially viable." nytimes.com
Wednesday May 1, 2019
"Keep in mind that the definition of defamation is the assertion of a false statement of fact." minclaw.com
"The Defamation Act 2013 is now in force and creates big changes to the legal climate for all journalists working in England and Wales." pressgazette.co.uk
"Thankfully nearly all these changes are for the better. It is harder now for companies and individuals to sue for libel, privilege has been extended to include scientific papers and conferences and publications are largely immune from being sued over website comments (provided they are responsible in the way they operate their commenting system)." pressgazette.co.uk
"Libel actions against web-only publications are likely to fail if the page did not attract many clicks." pressgazette.co.uk
In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding: npr.org
‘Digital dangers’ and online obstacles: Legal tips for journalists: journalistsresource.org
Tuesday April 30, 2019
"Rather than funding companies before they have products or revenue in the hope of a massive exit, Roberts’s group puts a modest amount of funding into a company that is already making money, helping the recipients focus on building a sustainable business rather than raising the next millions of dollars." recode for vox.com
Monday April 29, 2019
"In his 2014 book, To Save Everything, Click Here, the author Evgeny Morozov argues that “technological solutionism”—leaving the answer up to Silicon Valley—causes us to neglect other ways of addressing problems." theatlantic.com
"Mary Sue = A fictional character, usually female, who is seen as too perfect and almost boring for lack of flaws..." dictionary.com
China's Spying Poses Rising Threat to U.S.: wsj.com
"If I were teaching journalism or nonfiction writing, especially the writing of history and biography, I would build a course around Caro, with 'Working' as my primary text and scenes from his Johnson books as case studies." city-journal.org
The ACLU says Social Media blackouts are an authoritarian power move. aclu.org
"For your results to be publishable in an academic journal, you’ll need to prove that they are 'statistically significant' by achieving a low enough p-value." projects.fivethirtyeight.com
"There’s a lot of data on that in terms of they didn’t have lobbyists before and now they have a ton of lobbyists, first of all." recode.net
"When I wrote a column this week about Sri Lanka, the first call was a Facebook person saying, 'Hey girl, want to chat?' I’m like, 'No! Call me Friday,' and then Friday, I’ll not pick up the phone. So it’s a much softer approach. I can’t explain it but it’s just as effective." recode.net
"You know, that’s a great question. I say 'scientific journalism' and what I mean by that is it’s better than the normal journalism, which is 'three anecdotes and you’re out,' right?" recode.net
Sunday April 28, 2019
Try this starter list of 18 URLs when drafting your next fact-checking guide: asbpe.org
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