I think the kids call it ‘wicked smart’

This post is stuffed full of interesting ideas and claims.  One I really liked:
Information scalability. The No. 1 issue in modern communication is the superhuman rate of expansion in global information production. Mainstream media in 2009 attempt to deal with this problem by artificially limiting the “meaningful” sources of information and then applying “news judgment” [...]

[GT] Whaaa?

I think this one is filed under ‘things that make me uneasy’:
We think that Sen. Benjamin Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, had his heart in the right place when he proposed March 24 that struggling newspapers be allowed to operate as nonprofits, the way that public broadcasting does.
….
But community newspapers are different. In smaller cities, [...]

[LCSD] Superintendent Interviews

The LCSD board will be interviewing candidates Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Executive Session starting at 6 PM.  They’ll be announcing the finalists at the end of the candidate interviews, presumably on Wednesday.
If anyone gets the names of the finalists, please leave a comment or email me.  It’d be nice to get the names [...]

Felix Salmon on class warfare

Good stuff:
In one corner are the technocrats not only in finance but also in government and the media: people who can understand the importance of distinguishing between a $250,000 base salary, a $2.5 million bonus, a $250 million bonus pool, a $2.5 billion bonus pool, a $250 billion bailout package, a $2.5 trillion monetary stimulus, [...]

[LCSD] A thought experiment about LT

Let us assume, for a minute, that LT is indeed the pseudonym of a Lebanon Community School District employee of some kind.
Let us further assume LT loses their job as a result of the current investigation.
Further, let us assume – perhaps – that LT has trouble finding a new job, whether it be because of [...]

[LCSD] The Superintendent Search

I don’t actually have much to say about this, since most of the process is confidential.  However, I do want to add that I think it’s a sketchy idea at best to hire anyone who has worked in the district before.  Better fresh faces who are not connected to any of the past history.
Oh, and [...]

[LCSD] The investigation

Rumors have been swirling for a few weeks now about an investigation in the LCSD into the identity of Lebanon Truth.  I don’t know the details – nor have I tried to find out – but I want to comment on the fact that it is ongoing, especially in light of the LT posts dealing [...]

[LCSD] The Election

I don’t have as much free time as I used to (how did that happen, by the way?), and I’ve been out of town for work recently, so updates on the LCSD have been few and far between, and for that, I apologize.  In this post I want to address the election.
The Lebanon Express has [...]

Two links on journalism

Journalism in the era of open:
Interestingly this is precisely what many blogs – alone or as part of an emergent network – already do. They take large complex stories, break them down and, by linking back and forth to one another, create a collective analysis that slowly allows the mystery to be decoded.
I can’t say [...]

Can you imagine…

…. this editorial ever running in the DH?  That is, one that encourages cooperation and goodwill, as opposed to one that just complains?
This is the future of journalism – participating in the community in a constructive way.
(Ironically, I probably won’t support a lot of the business-centered nature of the stimulus, but hey, who’s counting?)

Mashup Needed

Someone needs to intermix clips of Glenn Beck and the crazy guy from V for Vendetta. The two are almost indistinguishable.

OUS Press Release on latest Board of Higher Ed Meeting

I ran across this while at work last week.  I had a few thoughts about various parts.  First, this:
Cost Saving Measures
Chancellor George Pernsteiner summarized a number of actions that will begin to be implemented in the next few months through the next few years in order to find additional cost savings and efficiencies to meet [...]

[LCSD] One more note about Kelley

I’ll second LT: I never, ever got anything – public information or no – from Steve or Leigh Kelley.
I sure would have liked to, but I didn’t.

I can’t decide if this qualifies as raising the level of discourse or not

On Monday, there was a pretty terrible column in the Barometer from an alum.  Blamer Melissa and I decided to write a response, which they ran today.  Our response in full:
After reading Cameron Anderson’s March 9th piece, “Bartender’s observations render dating advice for women,” both of us felt compelled to respond.
Setting aside the inexplicable decision [...]

[Elites] Sanity Fail

Today is a fail day, apparently.  From the Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON – The federal agency that insures bank deposits, which is asking for emergency powers to borrow up to $500 billion to take over failed banks, is facing a potential major shortfall in part because it collected no insurance premiums from most banks from 1996 to [...]