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NPR
In an old metal-stamping factory that was once part of Wheeling, W.Va.'s industrial past, a law firm has set up a futuristic model for how to get legal work done. Unlike the old factory, it relies heavily on new kinds of work arrangements.
"Contractors are hired by the hour," says Daryl Shetterly, director of the Orrick firm's analytics division. "So we might have 30 people working today, and tomorrow we might have 80."
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MediaShift
Twenty-one years ago, the New York Times embraced the "World Wide Web" and launched an online version of its daily newspaper, part of its "strategy to extend the readership of The Times and to create opportunities for the company in the electronic media industry."
Nearly two decades later, news organizations are still figuring out how to adapt to the digital age, and it's going to get more complicated for them in the years ahead.
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Poynter
Google is suspending a search feature that displayed fact checks associated to publishers after receiving criticism from conservative news outlets.
"We launched the reviewed claims feature in our Knowledge Panel at the end of last year as an experiment with the aim of helping people quickly learn more about news publications," a Google spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Poynter.
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Medium
Creativity has been on a downward spiral in many segments of society as a result of profound information overload. We can call up information on almost any topic with a few clicks of the keyboard. As a result, we've gained massive amounts of awareness into the way our world works and into things and people and places of which we would previously have never been exposed.
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Slate
The question of how to make a living as a writer is at its surface very simple. The answer is, you write whenever you're not doing your real, proper job. The proper job, where you earn your proper living. The answer is, you feel grateful to have a job at all. The answer is, you tuck your writing away, like a cyclist rolling up one trouser leg so the cuff doesn't get caught up in the chain.
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Purdue Online Writing Lab
Linguistically, pronouns are words used to refer to people by replacing proper nouns, like names. A pronoun can refer to either a person talking or a person who is being talked about. Common pronouns include they/them/theirs, she/her/hers, and he/him/his. Pronouns indicate the gender of a person; traditionally, he refers to males while she refers to females. The English language does not have a gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun, but in recent years they has gained considerable traction in this role.
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Ed Surge
Using social media successfully in 2018 means more than checking your Facebook page or scrolling through Twitter occasionally.
It is possible, with intention, to create a social media presence that is effective — for both you and your audience — whether that's friends, colleagues or peers around the globe. You can develop a social media presence that informs your educational practices, provides you with a supportive network of fellow educators and moves education forward.
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The New York Times
Facebook said it plans to prioritize high-quality news on the social network by allowing users to rank news sources that they see as the most credible and trustworthy.
The initiative, which follows an overhaul that Facebook announced to emphasize posts, videos and photos shared by friends and family, will not increase the amount of news on the social network. But the move has implications for what news will be consumed on Facebook.
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The Guardian
A global survey has revealed twice as many people distrust the media as trust it, a third of people say they're watching less news than they used to and only 6% of U.K. adults describe themselves as "informed." Nonetheless, many in the media see this as good news.
The reason is that the survey shows people trust journalists more than they trust "platforms," such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Arizona State University
From a vacant plot in a blighted neighborhood spring neatly combed rows of plants put in by the neighbors. They meticulously care for this small piece of land, and among the drab-looking buildings sprouts a patch of green. Cultivating the land may have started as a way to unite a neighborhood, to give pride to place, or it might be the project of a local high school to teach land stewardship.
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Bloomberg
Tertill is a $300 pie-size, waterproof, solar-powered robot designed to roam your garden throughout the growing season, shredding weeds with a miniature weed whacker.
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Hyperallergic
Back in 2014, Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution announced a major renovation just off the National Mall, which would "revitalize" the Smithsonian Castle, expand the Hirshhorn Museum, and create an underground visitor center and event space. The plan completely re-envisioned a large portion of the area between the entrances of two sparsely visited, underground museums there, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
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Greenhouse Grower
A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers recently received a $2.45 million grant from the USDA to develop a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light and repurposes inefficient infrared light to aid in water purification.
The four-year research program could yield new technology capable of solving food, energy and water security challenges posed by global population growth and climate change.
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