By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
Trevor Timm, Columbia Journalism Review, 2016/07/01
I've made this case before but this article substantiates with data and examples the three major benefits of Ad Blockers. More...
Podcast de l`émission "Un jour en France" sur France Inter, consacré aux réussites et aux échecs des misions locales.
A l’heure du chômage massif des jeunes (environ 25% des moins de 25 ans en France) et des manifestations contre la Loi travail, les missions locales, créées en 1982, sont chargées de répartir dans chaque territoire les dispositifs du gouvernement d’aide à l’insertion des jeunes dans le monde du travail, tels que les emplois d’avenir et la garantie jeunes. Voir l'article...
Join, a Unified Communications and Collaboration solution, streams and manages video calls, meetings and online classes. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Linked data and structured journalism at the BBC
Basile Simon, Online Journaliusm Blog, 2016/06/08
This item is obviously about the structuring of news articles, but the logic behind it applies equally well to learning. Here's the essence in a nutshell: news stories often repeat the same content when follow-up articles are written about the same series of events. More...
By Laura Tropp. Last week, in advance of Mother’s Day, I gave the keynote address at the Museum of Motherhood’s Annual Conference. In the talk, I looked at the representation of motherhood and feminism in popular culture over the past year. I thought I would use this column to share some of what I have found. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The average American spends more than 490 minutes per day consuming some sort of media. That is more than 8 hours. Read more... 
Von Marlis Prinzing. Der Markt, der Staat oder die Medien selbst? Und was war Kants Studentenjob? Eine Professorin, acht Fragen zur Medienethik. Beat the Prof. Mehr...
By Andy Thomason. John Oliver, the comedian and host of the HBO show Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, has perfected the art of the searing, outrage-induced explanatory monologue. The topic for Sunday’s show? Scientific studies. More...
The Education Writers Association on Sunday released "State of the Education Beat 2016," an examination of trends in journalistic coverage of all levels of education. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved
Joshua Topolsky, Medium, 2016/05/02
Good article making a point with which I am in full agreement: new technology won't save traditional media because traditional media isn't offering content people want. Note: language warning, especially at the point where they describe the quality of existing media content. More...
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