Kate Winslet’s boobs in China. Concern trolling masking as legitimate discussion on Rochester’s biggest print media outlet. Red light cameras. Fleas and ticks (shiver). Yes, it was a full week this week on the blog. Best of all (for me, anyway), some of the most popular content all week came from my latest cadre of RIT journalism students. I am so proud to be a part of the future of news, though I suspect many in the media are probably in full anus-clench over it.
See you next week!
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Louise Slaughter: Time to Retire? (Link to “Down the Memory Hole”, Roc25.com)
I would have preferred to have pointed you to the actual much-read article. However, the D&C, after not bothering to do any editorial work on the original post, opted to just pull the whole thing once the heat got too much. Blogger for the D&C opines that Louise Slaughter’s recent injury is grounds to consider her too old to serve in Congress. “Concern Trolling” is what they call that, and the blogger in question is actually a Republican who has run for office in the past…
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- Welcome to Rochester sign destroyed on 490
- “Neighborhood Watch” movie was set to release soon… oops..
- Ganett predicts its paywall will be worth $100m
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Bad news Rochester: red light cameras actually do work » DragonFlyEye.Net
I’d hoped to find evidence that red light cameras were shit. I was disappointed. Instead as it turns out, most of us analyzing the situation have focused on the wrong metric: its not about tickets, its about accidents, and accidents in cities that use red light cameras do reliably decrease. Sorry, man.
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- RIT proff appears on Jeopardy! RIT News
- Woman breaks into another woman’s house to nurse that other woman’s baby. » Raw Story
- How well does scotch age in zero gravity? Popular Science
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Matt Groening reveals that the real Springfield is in Oregon » WHEC.com
The longest-running gag on The Simpsons is the fact that “Springfield” is in fact the most commonly-used name of a city in the United States. But the Simpson’s creator has decided now is the time to reveal the truth behind the joke. Kinda makes it not funny, anymore…
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- What does your lingerie say about you? » Daily Infographic
- Doctors from Cornell once used women in labour to create a model of pain threshold » io9.com
- How recruiters look at your resume (awesome heat map!) » FlowingData.com
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The dog days of.. spring? Rochester’s pets bombarded with fleas and ticks » DragonFlyEye.Net
RIT journalism student Leah Shae reports on the influx of fleas and ticks that come with an early spring. Lime disease and other ailments also on the rise.
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- Finally! Something to do with all that white space on Google+ » Uwe Maurer on Google+
- Texas teacher fired for getting pregnant out of wedlock » Huffington Post
- Why didn’t the passengers on the Titanic panic? NPR
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It’s Friday the 13th! Kiss that $900m goodbye! » DragonFlyEye.Net
Just in case you thought there were no consequences to phobias, Jillian Seaton gives you the what-for on just how much it costs American business three times a year when Friday the 13th scares people into not even leaving the house.
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- How alcohol slows your reflexes down » DragonFlyEye.Net
- Stupidest idea yet: bumper caps for your baby » MSNBC.com
- China censors Kate Winslet’s boobs » MSNBC.com
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