Social media for news is dead

Some great stuff here from Oriol Salvador, the first in his series collecting his “thoughts after attending the 3-day Transformation Boost course at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, in New York City” earlier this month. This is well worth a read, and this is what’s jumping out at me at least initially: … Read more

A lot of assumptions built in to this job application question

Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship for full time employment?* I’ve been answering “No” for the U.S.-based jobs I’m applying for, assuming each company is asking this question just about this specific job. Though it’s certainly unlikely, visa sponsorship being a future requirement for U.S. citizens to work in the U.S. … Read more

Weird Medieval Guys: “An 800 year old prayer book that’s decorated with puns”

Of course, there is still some ambiguity as to the purpose these puns served in relation to the text. Michael Camille seemed to favour a rather antagonistic interpretation, suggesting that the crudeness and irreverence of these illustrations were the artist’s way of hitting back at the scribe and even at the scripture itself and undermining … Read more