Elephant Diaries: The Conversation
Ned Resnikoff with a message many of us in old media are good about hearing: The journalist can no longer afford to keep his audience at a comfortable distance, or ignore the work of others covering the same topic.
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Social Media Signposts
A couple of notable signposts I recently passed on the social media highway. The first, a twitter post from a new tweetFriend yesterday: Question for everyone: How do you go about “catching up” on Twitter when you’ve been away for a couple of hours? The second, a link from another tweetFriend to twitTangle: We allow …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Solar Power Edition
New Mexico State regulators approve expansion of rooftop solar incentives: New Mexico regulators Tuesday approved a major expansion of the state’s solar energy program, including provisions for solar installations on Albuquerque businesses. “We’re going to see a flowering of solar in this state,” said Jason Marks, a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. …
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Elephant Diaries: On Endorsements and Bias
An intriguing analysis by RIccardo Puglisi and James Snyder, published this month in NBER (gated), finds statistical evidence for a correlation between newspapers’ endorsement patterns (R vs. D) and the papers’ news coverage of scandals involving Republican and Democratic politicians: [T]hose with a higher propensity to endorse Democratic candidates in elec tions give significantly more …
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Green Video
Troy Simpson, the Journal video guy, has been doing a series with our energy conservation guru, Al Zelicoff. He just put together a nice “channel” collecting them all:
Triptychs
Many people have made triptychs. Dave is one of them: A long time ago I took photos of my Spinal Tap Action Figures. I feel no explanation is needed as to why I would take photos of my Spinal Tap Action Figures… they are Spinal Tap Action Figures. Nonetheless, I uploaded a triptych of the …
Infrastructure Speed Bumps
Dan McKay has an excellent story in this morning’s ABQJournal on some of the practical aspects of trying to spend all that federal cash in a hurry (ad gated): [C]ritics are starting to wonder whether the massive projects are remotely realistic — even if Congress doles out the money. For one thing, under federal law, …
Energy Cost Comparisons
In my quest for intuitive ways of understanding the relative costs of various forms of energy, kudos to the Financial Times for this graphic (and also a good article to go with it): Hat tip Gernot at Env-Econ.
Elephant Diaries: An Alternate Business Model
It is frequently suggested that there are important parallels between the changing business models of the news and music industries, and that there is much we can learn from one another. I am currently brainstorming ways to get someone to pay me to perform journalism in bars.
Inkstain CSFC Index
The new bike path makes getting in and out of my neighborhood much safer, but I no longer find myself behind the neighborhood Wal-Mart MegaStore, which means I’ve lost touch with the Inkstain Cheap Shit From China (CSFC) Index. It’s based on the number of shipping containers out back to hold the overflow inventory they …