New Media Start Up built around single strong-voice person, but expanding to other front people to be more scalable. (more)

A system where a set list of subscribers receive every EMail message sent to a list address. (more)

The "skills gap" was a lie. ...new paper from Alicia Sasser Modestino, Daniel Shoag, and Joshua Ballance presented this week at the American Economics Association’s annual conference that shows the skeptics were right all along — employers responded to high unemployment by making their job descriptions more stringent. When unemployment went down thanks to the demand-side recovery, suddenly employers got more relaxed again.

Zed Shaw SMTP EMail server FrameWork. For Email List management and other stuff. Written in Python. https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson (more)

Jay Rosen: Yesterday the buzz in newsland was all about Nate Silver’s decision to move his Five Thirty Eight.com franchise from the New York Times to ESPN... Let’s step back from the sniping to look at the rise of the Personal Media Franchise site, which Silver said was a big factor in his decision. (more)

Craig Silverman is a Canadian journalist and the media editor of BuzzFeed, and the former head of BuzzFeed's Canadian division. Known as an expert in "fake news",[1][2] he founded the "Regret the Error" blog in 2004, covering fact-checking and media inaccuracy, and authored a 2009 book of the same name, which won the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism from the National Press Club. In 2011 he joined the Poynter Institute for Media Studies as an adjunct faculty member.[3][4] He also founded the hoax and rumor tracking website Emergent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Silverman

A "News" story that is new/reactive enough to be constantly changing with new information. (more)

It's the 50th anniversary of Douglas Engelbart's Mother of all Demos. (more)

Group of people assembling around 2018-12-09-50thAnniversaryOfEngelbartMotherOfAllDemos. Includes Mark Bernstein and Jack Park. (more)

Hugh MacLeod on the dangers of Cool Hunting. instead of a reasonable, normal reaction (i.e. "Who the hell cares"), you find yourself going, "Gosh! That's so interesting!"

PKM/Self Improvement/productivity person. http://www.fortelabs.co/ (more)

Michael Fogleman: Building a Second Brain in Emacs and Org-Mode. I haven’t always had a good system for personal knowledge management (PKM). (more)

vs Just-in-Case - comes from Lean Manufacturing

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The year social networks were no longer social. The concept of wide networks of social ties with an element of broadcasting is dead. (more)

Helen DeWitt Has Your Number. Though she’s famous for her big first novel, “The Last Samurai” (2000), her comedy, committed to serial absurdities, doesn’t always flourish best in long forms. It blooms into riffs and fugitive ideas, rebellious asides and quick conceptual tryouts. She is a master of the paragraph-length flareup. (more)

Foundation created by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.

Audrey Watters: Funding Edsurge and 'the Future of Learning'. Edsurge announced in July that it had received grants from the Gates Foundation and from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative totaling $1.45 million. And in December, the media company announced it had raised $2.5 million in venture capital. The latter brings the total of its venture funding to $8.2 million (according to Crunchbase); it’s taken in almost $7 million in grants from the Gates Foundation alone. (more)

Computer algorithm that speaks written words. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech computer or speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis (more)

Audio Book: recording of book read by a human, not text-to-speech.