Cognition trick: the Google Effect
We’ve developed a habit of forgetting, or declining to remember, the information that is readily available…
Style guides, notes on “jihad”
https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-islamophobia-edition/ Guardian Reuters
Notebook is almost full
Time for a trip to Ucluelet soon to re-up my notebook situation. Cedar House Gallery
How to stop increasing the reach and impact of hate (and misinformation) on Twitter
Some thoughts on how not to amplify hate accounts on Twitter.
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory…
The state of hyperlinking in journalism, a case study
From time to time I like to check in on how news orgs are doing with…