Bagram Airfield Crash on April 29, 2013
This is terrifying and awesome. What a horrible event IRL and a stupendous moment that was captured on video and shared around the world.
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It was good, Storyboard
Jessica in the middle of one of her interviews with a Tumblr creator.
I’ve always wanted to be a journalist - and after middle school daydreams and college writing courses and a brief stint as a wannabe travel writer in 2006, I realized what a tough business it was and quit.
But my love for the craft of long-form journalism stuck, and in the last year, the rise of editorial teams within large tech platforms heralded a possible new age where original content and user-generated content could have co-existed. Twitter Stories, Facebook Stories and Tumblr Storyboard all tried to mine what their communities were doing.
Except Tumblr was different. More than just a mouthpiece that relayed how these platforms made users lives better, Storyboard had bonafide journalistic credentials: they were reporting on what people were doing creatively and were not just marketing case studies.
And Storyboard exemplified — perhaps in a vaccum of 2012 — how Tumblr thought of itself: not just as a technology platform, not just a user-generated content community, but in interviews and logo design and pitches and blog posts, as a place for creators. Tumblr always aspired to be the intersection between tech and liberal arts, using a well-designed technological foundation to spur humanity’s creative output. It’s that ambitious. It’s one of the reasons I loved being part of the team. More than just a platform for self-expression, Tumblr wanted to be a platform for creativity.
Senator Claire McCaskill: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13
The question of marriage equality is a great American debate. Many people, some with strong religious faith, believe that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. Other people, many of whom also have strong religious faith, believe that our country should not limit the commitment of…
I always thought Corinthians 13 was a good passage to live by, regardless of your faith.
“People like to say that print media didn’t adapt to online demand, but that’s only part of it. The corporate folks who manage newspapers tried to comply with the whims of a thankless audience with a microscopic attention span. And newspaper staffers tried to comply with the demands of a thankless establishment that often didn’t even read their work. Everyone lost.”
Why I left news – Sticky Valentines (via chartier)
Raw and honest piece about why a reporter left her newspaper career.
(via chartier)
IJM Kolkata: Landmark Convictions Against Five Notorious Traffickers | International Justice Mission
Some of us became bankers, some CEOs, some artists or doctors or engineers or technologists, my college friend Biju became a missionary, and now he fights against sex traffickers in India.
Some of us followed our minds, some followed out hearts, and Biju followed his moral compass.
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How obsessed is the NY Times with hipsters, hipsterdoms, hipstermoms, hipsterneckbeards, hipsteryuppies, hipsterhippos.. and Brooklyn? I swear, there’s an article about Williamsburg, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Fort Greene, DUMBO, artisanal cheese, brick oven pizza, chicken and waffles, pork shoulder, brisket, mixology or craft beers every week.
Nothing against hipsters, but c’mon, there must be some other cultural scenes to discover? I only read the first three paragraphs of the above article and fell asleep. At least let’s start making this more global! I want to hear about hipsters not in Brooklyn - how about Sao Paulo, or Hanoi, or Capetown, or Philadelphia?
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Let’s take a break to pray. (via Photographers Giving Back Award PGB | Yusuke Harada)
Inaugural fashion.
“I was in the gym and I heard like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner and we huddled. We all heard these booming noises, and we started crying. So the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us. Then a police officer told us to run outside.”
Fox News Anchors (and Karl Rove) Challenge their Nerds
(Via The Atlantic Wire)
One of the most amazing things I’ve seen on television. Riotous.
BuzzFeed FWD: Shashank Tripathi, Last Night's Twitter Villain @ComfortablySmug
Awesome job from BF for blasting the anonymous cover away from this lowlife. Just because you’re sitting behind a screen doesn’t mean you can act irresponsibly.
By Jack Stuef
This post is now available on BuzzFeed FWD, which was down for a time due to Sandy.
During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that spread wildly on Twitter and…
For the United States, Arab Spring Raises Question of Values Versus Interests
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
When Barack Obama traveled to Cairo as a new president in 2009 to proclaim “a new beginning” in American relations with the Muslim world, he could not have guessed that an insistent demand for Arab democracy would instead become one of his presidency’s greatest foreign policy challenges. Read more…
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I’m in love with Zack’s gorgeous new project: New York Moon. It uncovers such a referenced (but very lacking in coverage) topic: I’ve always been fascinated by things that are lost as we advance and hoard knowledge (?), facts (?) and cruft. Wax and wane.
The Moon explores topics of time and space, structures trapped beneath the city, translation, neighborhoods, the desert, water and nostalgia. Foremost in all works is a fearless embrace of the changing world that is accompanied by a fascination with our rapidly aging past. For there is no way to step boldly forward without examining the minutiae of our history.
Very excited to see what the editors have in the queue.
France gets a new president!! People celebrating on the street for hours, drinking wine & champagne. Reminds me of when Obama won. I am loving this city!
Obama campaign responds to the latest attack ad from the Koch brothers.
Attack ads carry the three most odious things about politics: Dirty money, shady donors, and blatant dishonesty. Pretty much what’s at the root of our political paralysis today. Thanks for the ‘Whatever that is’ shoutout, guys!
