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humanrightswatch: Global inaction on human rights is making the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:11:14 -0400

Global inaction on human rights is making the world an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants.

© Pete Mulle

via Amnesty International

Remember that time that the sun exploded and lit my lake on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:58:01 -0400

Remember that time that the sun exploded and lit my lake on fire? (at Lake Singletary)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 00:12:13 -0400

Don’t forget to wish her a Happy Mothers’ Day…...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:00:00 -0400

Don’t forget to wish her a Happy Mothers’ Day… seriously, you’ll regret it if you don’t.

I know it’s been open for awhile but I still can’t...

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:35:28 -0400

I know it’s been open for awhile but I still can’t believe they actually called it this. (at Wahlburgers)

Ridiculously uncomfortable #3D glasses from #IronMan3 last...

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:15:44 -0400

Ridiculously uncomfortable #3D glasses from #IronMan3 last night, seriously what were they thinking? Major nose pain.

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Thu, 02 May 2013 14:31:15 -0400

"Every language has its own version of um. French has euh, Korean eum, Finnish öö, Russian eh; even..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:04:42 -0400

“Every language has its own version of um. French has euh, Korean eum, Finnish öö, Russian eh;...

If today has proven anything, it's the essential wisdom of my habit of avoiding broadcast "news."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:00:46 -0400

world-shaker: postsfromthemrs: world-shaker: Yup. My personal favorite- CNN may have them...

"But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New York,..."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:34:25 -0400

“But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New...

"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:32:08 -0400

“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” - David Foster...

futurejournalismproject: Hello, Digital Public Library of...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:29:36 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Hello, Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America launched today with “photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.”

Its goal is to create “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future generations.”

Exhibitions are here. And your inner hacker can access the DPLA’s API here. Yes, the library has an API, which is awesome. One app currently using it is the Library Observatory:

Library Observatory is an interactive tool for searching and visualizing the DPLA collections, accompanied by an interactive documentary that weaves together history, visualizations, and audio about the making, use, and enduring significance of library data and the collections they describe.

Another app searches both the DPLA and Europeana, a European project similar to it, simultaneously giving results from each.

Start exploring.

nprfreshair: Sebastian Junger on the trauma of losing his...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:22:02 -0400

nprfreshair:

Sebastian Junger on the trauma of losing his friend and collaborator, Tim Hetherington:

Within an hour I decided not to cover combat again. I didn’t want to risk traumatizing everyone I loved by getting killed myself. I mean, you go to war, you think you’re gambling with your own life and then I realized that what you’re really doing is gambling with everyone else’s lives, everyone who cares about you. You’re dead. You don’t matter. It’s over. It’s everyone else who has to deal with it. I hadn’t really gotten that either and, when Tim died, I did and I also just ran headlong into the central tragedy of war which is that good people get killed and I sort of didn’t want anything to do with it anymore.

Image of Tim Hetherington in Afghanistan courtesy of Norget

timelightbox: Photograph by Tim Hetherington—Magnum Nearly two...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:20:21 -0400

timelightbox:

Photograph by Tim Hetherington—Magnum

Nearly two years ago, photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed in Misrata, Libya. A new documentary on Hetherington premieres on HBO Apr. 18. Photographer Peter van Agtmael reflects on the memory and legacy of his colleagues — read more on LightBox here.

Pictured: Tim Hetherington’s last photograph. Taken April 20, 2011, in Misrata, Libya.

futurejournalismproject: Jailed But Not Forgotten Reeyot Alemu,...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:46 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Jailed But Not Forgotten

Reeyot Alemu, an Ethiopian journalist currently serving a five-year prison term for her work reporting on banned opposition groups, just won the 2013 UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

Alemu was originally arrested with others for “lending support to an underground network of banned opposition groups, which has been criminalized under the country’s 2009 antiterrorism law.” Among the evidence used against her and her colleagues were some 25 articles they’d published in the Ethiopian Review.

In January 2012, Elias Kifle, the publication’s Washington, DC-based editor, was given a life sentence in absentia.

In a letter to Ethiopia’s Minister of Justice earlier this month, the Committee to Protect Jouranlists’ Joel Simon wrote:

Prison authorities have threatened Reeyot with solitary confinement for two months as punishment for alleged bad behavior toward them and threatening to publicize human rights violations by prison guards, according to sources close to the journalist who spoke to the International Women’s Media Foundation on condition of anonymity. CPJ has independently verified the information. Reeyot has also been denied access to adequate medical treatment after she was diagnosed with a tumor in her breast, the sources said…

…All of the charges against Reeyot were based on her journalistic activities—emails she had received from pro-opposition discussion groups and reports and photographs she had sent to opposition news sites. Reeyot, who received the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award in 2012, has covered key developmental issues in Ethiopia such as poverty, democratic opposition, and gender equality.

In 2011, The CJP reported that 79 Ethiopian journalists were in exile. The ruling party, which controls 546 of the 547 seats in parliament has passed laws over the last five years restricting independent media, political opposition groups and civil society organizations.

Image: Reeyot Alemu, via the IWMF.

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:08:31 -0400

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Fascinating finding on people’s reactions to requests for...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:47:30 -0400

Fascinating finding on people’s reactions to requests for help depending on the light in which the situation is presented from The Boston Globe 3/31/13. The blurb on the academic study frames it around charitable fundraising and asserts that asking people to “prevent a decrease” is more likely to attain a result than asking to “cause an increase”.

Tim Hetherington was a real inspiration to me, & Sebastian...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:14:14 -0400

Tim Hetherington was a real inspiration to me, & Sebastian Junger (author of The Perfect Storm and War, who co-directed the incredible documentary Restrepo with him) made a portrait of the heartbreakingly short life of the fearless photojournalist, coming to HBO on the 18th.

Hetherington died in a mortar strike covering the civil war in Libya in April 2011 at the age of 40. Ajdabiya, a city near where he died renamed its largest public square after him, calling him one of their martyrs.

The sun is shining, & it’s over 50 degrees, time for...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:55:29 -0400

The sun is shining, & it’s over 50 degrees, time for the hike of the season. (at Douglas State Forest)

nprfreshair: Chris Hayes tells Terry Gross about how the last...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:59:28 -0400

nprfreshair:

Chris Hayes tells Terry Gross about how the last decade affected his politics:

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. I tend to think people in charge broadly know what they’re doing, don’t lie to you, aren’t going start wars for no reason and, you know watching Iraq happen and then watching the financial crisis happen and then Katrina in the middle of that, you know, you turn around and, you think, ‘Wait a second: No one is on top of anything. Who the heck is in charge here? These people who say that they know what they’re doing don’t know what they’re doing. I’m not going to trust them the next time they tell me they know what they’re doing.’ It’s a radically unmooring feeling to recognize that people that you just figured kind of had it under control don’t have it under control and might be totally incompetent or completely corrupt or totally self-dealing.

Image of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina by greenmanowar