Or should they?
Our Smartphones Should be Enhancing Our Lives, Not Taking Them Over.
What we want to do with our lives is not currently aligned with the metrics of success of many companies.
An elegy for one of evolution’s marvels.
Giraffes Edge Closer to Extinction.
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You).
What’s truly revolutionary about the advent of digital images is the fact that they are fundamentally machine-readable: they can only be seen by humans in special circumstances and for short periods of time. A photograph shot on a phone creates a machine-readable file that does not reflect light in such a way as to be perceptible to a human eye. A secondary application, like a software-based photo viewer paired with a liquid crystal display and backlight may create something that a human can look at, but the image only appears to human eyes temporarily before reverting back to its immaterial machine form when the phone is put away or the display is turned off. However, the image doesn’t need to be turned into human-readable form in order for a machine to do something with it. This is fundamentally different than a roll of undeveloped film. Although film, too, must be coaxed by a chemical process into a form visible by human eyes, the undeveloped film negative isn’t readable by a human or machine.
The Tina Fey Interview, by David Letterman.
“The rain-soaked alley in the Pasay district of Manila was my 17th crime scene, on my 11th day in the Philippines capital. I had come to document the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30: since then, about 2,000 people had been slain at the hands of the police alone.”
Comic von Anna Haifisch.
Ein Politiker wird vor das UN-Hauptquartier gefahren. Er soll eine wichtige Rede halten und macht sich fürchterlich lächerlich…
86 pieces of journalism wisdom published in the month since the US election.
When infographic dinosaurs roamed the Earth (via visualisingdata.com).
“How I Feel When I Learn To Code” (via visualisingdata.com).
Almost a bullshit bingo sheet.
Journalism jobs of the near future, according to Amy Webb.
Attention journalists! Here are the journalism jobs of the near future, according to @amywebb #ONA16 #ONA16trends pic.twitter.com/KLnUegNDcb
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