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I was just going to note this for my links feed over in the sidebar there, but it’s an interesting enough article to respond to a bit here. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz
An elite education gives you the chance to be rich—which is, after all, what we’re talking about—but it [...]
I’ve hit a bump in my reading. I’m trying to start the second Canopus book by Doris Lessing, but am completely not being sucked in yet. I have a bunch of books I’d kind of like to reread but can’t decide which one to follow. I’ve got a Rudy Rucker book on my phone I’m [...]
Remember back in the summer when I was applying to The Canadian Mennonite for the National Correspondent position? Today I’m glad I don’t have that job. I mean, it would be nice to be writing professionally, but I really wouldn’t have fit in over there.
Case in Point: Aiden Enns writes a column for the magazine. [...]
Want a book telling you how to be a journalist? Here’s Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive. A “digital literacy guide for the information age” by Mark Briggs, in a 2MB PDF. I got this link from warrenellis.com. Just flipping through it now, clicking I guess, and it looks good, like the Benedetti class [...]
Got the email this evening saying I didn’t get the Canadian Mennonite job. In the last week or so I thought I’d become fairly resigned to this happening. I’d started making my comments about how if it took this long to make a goddamned decision maybe I didn’t even want the job. [...]
Remember a few weeks ago when I did that interview about Crowdsourcing with Karim Lakhani? Maybe you don’t. It was up on Assignment Zero as part of this crowdsourced experiment in writing in-depth journalism. Well, Wired.com is running the story on the Assignment and what Crowdsourcing means and all that. This [...]
While I’m waiting to find out if I’m getting a job with the Canadian Mennonite, here’s the thing I wrote for them as part of their Young Prophets series: A Train to Nowhere? One of the things about long turnaround times is that I can’t remember if I actually gave it that title. [...]
Wouldn’t this be awesome? Too bad they don’t want journalists. Also this morning I saw a story on cbc.ca about typos in a NB highschool yearbook. Why on earth should we care that they spelled it “liturature”? One of our yearbooks was missing an N on the cover; where was the [...]
Monday I was a journalizer early in the morning. I called up my source and interviewed the heck out of him for half an hour. Actually I didn’t do much. Got through a few questions and let him talk. It went well, and he did compliment one of my questions so [...]
Yesterday I got to be somewhat of a journalist. I called an interviewee. I talked to his assistant. I waited around for him to call me back after a meeting went long. I rescheduled an interview. On Monday I’ll be even more of a journalist. It’s good to remember I’m actually capable of doing all [...]
