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Jeff Jarvis: How (and why) to replace the AP

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet….

Jeff Biggers: Jimmy Carter’s Next Urgent Mission: Polarized Appalachian Coalfields

Amid a volatile energy market and a lack of green job investments in the future, the divided Appalachian coalfields have reached a state of emergency…

Jeff Jarvis: Charity or Collaboration for the Times?

The Times and other papers opening up to the work of others is not an act of begging and charity but a bit of evidence of opening up to collaboration.

Frank Dwyer: Political Haiku: Clown Sessions

No Supreme Court for Sonia? Then who does Jeff think is okay-kay-kay?…

B. Jeffrey Madoff: That’s the Way It Was

I wanted my kids to watch a few examples of what the news was like when I was their age so I put on the clip of Cronkite’s coverage of the Kennedy assassination. “Wow”, my son said. “That was so quiet and so powerful.”

Jeff Gralnick: Remembering Walter

I worked directly with Walter in the early days of broadcast news. No matter how big he became, there was an essential decency and humanity along with his drive to know and understand each story.

Ashes live – England v Australia

Second Test, Lord’s, day three:

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By Tom Fordyce

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AUSTRALIA INNINGS

Russell Crowe was in the Test Match Special boxon Friday talking to Jonathan Agnew during the dramatic evening session. He’s the first cousin of New Zealand’s Jeff and Martin but is very much an Australian, and he wasn’t very impressed by his side’s display. From Andy Tyacke, TMS inbox: "Yesterday I bought a pair of Australian-made swimming trunks. The size is given as: UK 100 centimetres; Australian 95 centimetres. Does Oz work to a different metric system or do Australian males lie about their girth"1035: Dry at Lord’s, covers being removed. Before we get underway, a minute’s silence to mark the passing of Henry Allingham, Britain’s oldest man. Asked about the secret to his longevity, he answered, "Cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women."
We shall not see his like again.BBC Sport’s Oliver Brett on Twitter:"Just spotted an Australian selling his ticket to an England fan. Oh dear."1025: Yawn, stretch, rubbing of eyes – all well this watery Saturday morning Who’s getting the teas in I’ve brought the shortbread fingers.<br/


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Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Deride the Wild Surfer

Good grief. It’s only my second Big Brother posting, and already I have had to break my vow to base this column only on what…

Irene Rubaum-Keller: When Your Sibling Dies

I lost my Mom when I was seven so I have known since then, just how disorderly life can be. She was there one day and gone the next.

Jeff Schweitzer: Republicans Have the Principled Backbone of an Invertebrate

Conservatives feign to stand on principle when in fact political expediency is the only driving force. This becomes evident by the inversion of their principled positions when a Democrat takes office.

Jeff Goldstein: Understanding Why Climate Change is Human-Induced: A Day in the Life of the Earth

Every Geologic Day is absolutely inconsequential relative to Earth’s lifetime. After all, Earth has 27,394 of them.

Jeff Schweitzer: A Comical Failure of Moral Values: Twisted Ideas of Theory and Practice in the Republican Party

The appeal to God to promote a political agenda does not work. Republicans are all the proof we need. We need a new way.

Jeff Madrick: Full Investigation of Crisis is Vital to Democracy

How do we get the facts on how the financial system imploded? Roosevelt Institute Braintruster Jeff Madrick would prefer a special prosecutor — or at…

Evolution of the Newswire on the Web

Jeff Jarvis has post today worth reading, about the emergence of the web as the new newswire and the trend away from traditional newswires like AP:
The old syndication model in the old content economy just won’t work today when all the world needs is one copy of a story up in the cloud with links [...]