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Friday April 14, 2019 "And to make the terminology clear: When she says 'TV' or 'radio' or 'print,' she is talking about the form of media distribution, not the company that’s producing the content. So if you listen to NPR on your car radio, that’s 'radio.' If you listen to an NPR podcast on your iPhone, that’s 'mobile.' Spread out the morning paper on your breakfast table? That’s 'print.' Read NYTimes.com on your laptop? That’s 'desktop.'"    neimanlab.com Tuesday April 11, 2019 A design team redesigning AR headseats to make its wearers look less like "digital zombies".    siliconrepublic.com LOL "Videos known as 'deepfakes' are altered using artificial intelligence to create fictional or misleading content."    washingtonpost.com Sunday April 9, 2019 Paper planners a hit with late GenX, early GenZ lifestyle bloggers, will this last?    wsj.com This work by AJ Fish is...

Thursday April 6, 2019 When Work Is Disrupted by Digital Progress | As technology-driven job displacement accelerates, governments have a big role to play in managing its impact.     governing.com Wednesday April 5, 2019 Large Facebook investors call for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give up chairman role:     marketwatch.com How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Tech Regulation:     bloomberg.com 1973: "Then the Court declared that freeing slaves would unconstitutionally violate the owners' right of property. Now it claims that forbidding abortions violates the mother's 'right of privacy.'"    nytimes.com 1973: "The Governor signed with out comment the bill banning commercial abortion‐referral services. It was introduced aft er hearings held by Attorney General Lefkowitz and the Senate's Health Committee that disclosed many such serv ices were charging women fees for referrals to doctors and hospitals for abortion...

Franklin Foer made a new year's resolution to read a Mary Oliver poem every day of 2019 . He kept the resolution for nearly a month. He laments how phones have destroyed our ability to take in a poem. Spec: upon text alert, a phone will display one stanza of a Mary Oliver poem. The same stanza will display all day every time one gets a text. The next day the phone will display the next stanza until the poem is complete. Or the first stanza will only display for half a day. Divide a week's hours by the poem's stanza total. Display each stanza for as long as the dividend. If no texts arrive, display catchup stanzas. The idea is to get all app subscribers reading the same poem at the same time. Or you could try Poetry magazine's poetry app . This work by AJ Fish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .