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The New Yorker
In "Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World," Melissa Schilling gathers eight titans of STEM — among them Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Nikola Tesla, and Benjamin Franklin — and finds that they share a handful of key traits. They were intelligent. Nonconformist. Open to experience. They nourished an almost religious faith in their own abilities, and bounced back readily from criticism.
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MediaShift
Earlier this month, MediaShift hosted an online panel on how to get better newsletter metrics. The topic was one of our most popular — for good reason. Newsletters are proving to be a reliable and measurable way for publishers to connect directly with readers. We can't forget that email is still a platform, but at least it's one with open standards and a higher degree of control for both sender and recipient.
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The Register
A team within Google Brain — the web giant's crack machine-learning research lab — has taught software to generate Wikipedia-style articles by summarizing information on web pages ... to varying degrees of success.
As we all know, the internet is a never ending pile of articles, social media posts, memes, joy, hate and blogs. It's impossible to read and keep up with everything.
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Digiday
After months of asking to get their content into Amazon, publishers finally got their wish. For the past several months, Amazon has been running a test with a small group of publishers where versions of publishers' commerce-focused articles are accessible directly inside Amazon's website.
The articles can be found through Google search or through searches for specific keywords inside Amazon and are shoppable just like they'd be on a publisher's own site.
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Adweek
Google is leveraging its market position and the popularity of its Chrome browser to take aim squarely at poor-quality ad experiences. Google has stopped showing ads on Chrome that do not meet the quality standards adopted by the Coalition for Better Ads. The ad standards, which were compiled after interviewing thousands of consumers about which ads negatively impact engagement, are touted as an important step to usher in a new era of higher performing and more relevant engagement opportunities.
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Poynter
The non-profit news sector has been a favorite of foundation journalism philanthropy for more than a decade. But a new idea for how to help is now giving sites a big boost in building their own base of donors.
Back in 2016, the Knight Foundation hit on the idea of applying the venerable formula of a matching grant challenge to more than 100 sites that are members of the Institute for Nonprofit News.
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NewsWhip
Recently, Facebook announced an update to the News Feed which would "prioritize local news so that you can see topics that have a direct impact on you and your community and discover what's happening in your local area."
The general idea is that users may be more interested in stories relevant to their community, helping foster the type of "meaningful interactions" that Facebook has stated it is looking to encourage in the News Feed.
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Plagiarism Today
Last week, judge Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York handed down a judgment that sent shockwaves through the internet.
Ruling in a case that pitted photographer Justin Goldman against several news sites, including Yahoo, Breitbart, the Boston Globe and Heavy.com, the judge ruled that the news sites may be held liable for embedding tweets that contained his photo.
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Gizmodo
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram might not be destroying the minds of The Youth as much as we thought, according to a recent review published in Educational Psychology. In some cases, social media could even be helping them do better at school.
German researchers analyzed 59 published and unpublished studies that examined the relationship between academic performance and the use of social media.
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The New York Times
Although many tourists flock to Florida for its glorious palette of white beaches, blue-gray waters and yellow sun, the state is also home to lush and exotic gardens in every shade of green. Some were the dream of horticulturists obsessed with collecting plants from around the world that would flourish in their new home. Others were established by immigrants grateful for the opportunities the United States had afforded them and eager to leave a legacy in their adopted country.
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East End Beacon
Unless you live in the Arctic, you probably find this winter to be brutal so far, certainly from a comfort point of view. Or perhaps you consider it depressing from an aesthetic perspective. I know I do — peering out of every window of my house, I desperately long for more color in the garden.
There's no denying that color, or lack of it, can affect our moods, and that our favorite hues reveal a lot about our personalities and preferences.
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Greenhouse Grower
Greenhouse Grower recently focused on poinsettias and succulents in the Feb. 2018 print issue. Succulents continue to be hot items with consumers. It's no surprise they're still popular products. A quick Google search gives you a hint of the many creative ways people can use them to decorate their homes, landscapes and offices. Altman Plants is one of the largest breeders and growers of succulent plants in the world.
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