natalie jennings
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Adaptive Journalism
It’s something forward-thinking digital journos have been doing for years — even before the social and mobile fast trains left...
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Oh, D.P.
The text: “If you have young friends who aspire to be writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of...
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Art at a Snail’s PaceYou’ve finally made it, after a breathless climb up the winding marble staircase, to the upper terrace of the Duomo di Milano...
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“‘Girl Meets World’ will focus on a middle school girl. How old are you now? Thirty? Let it go. ‘Homeland’ is on.”— Jessica Goldstein, on...
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Romeo And Juliet, Williams Shakespeare
What if your favorite literary characters had away messages?
I happily gave up my blackberry when I left my Senate job, but I know it’s not that simple for Hill staffers and Feds. From Jason D. Horowitz in today’s Washington Post on yesterday’s RIM outage:
Without e-mail service, staffers on the Hill said they talked to one another without looking down at their palms every 30 seconds. Several said they noticed a reduction in the usual deluge of incremental information and party committee spam flooding their inboxes. The e-mails that did reach them at their terminals tended to be better crafted, more pointed, thoughtful and grammatical, because they were composed from behind desks, not from atop escalators. In expense-account restaurants around the White House, reporters and their sources subtracted the now-useless oblong gadget from the modern lunch setting (butter knife, salad fork, dinner fork, dinner knife, soupspoon, teaspoon, BlackBerry.)
Still, I still don’t see Washington getting off the crackberry anytime soon.
