Caitlin Dewey

caitlindewey — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:33:59 +0000

“Webcam Hacker Luis Mijangos: Newsmakers: GQ“From Instapaper: Starred

caitlindewey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:28:51 +0000

“I wish I had the confidence of commenters who are proud to tell you they didn’t read the entire article they’re commenting on.” — @fmanjoo

caitlindewey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:57:12 +0000

“The Hairpin Tumblr Dot Tumblr Point Tumblr – Starting off with a bang. http://t.co/7xxlFXTs” — @edithzimmerman

caitlindewey — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:42:12 +0000

“So does good writing. RT @moorehn: This is true. RT @Convertbond “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” via @CourtCav” — @LaurenYoung

Cities from spreadsheets

caitlindewey — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:26:30 +0000

My first Kiplinger project of the new year: “The 12 Best Cities for High-Paying Jobs,” with guest appearances by Trenton, Cedar Rapids and a few other places you might not expect. It’s probably not evident from the final product, but a huge amount of data goes into these city slideshows — many-thousand-row spreadsheets from the …

caitlindewey — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:28:31 +0000

“… So, while I always talk about the importance of a great editor—to you great photographers out there: You are loved.” — @MySecondEmpire

Of eyeballs and ideas

caitlindewey — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:15:04 +0000

“How Google Dominates Us” (from Instapaper: Starred) How thoroughly and how radically Google has already transformed the information economy has not been well understood. The merchandise of the information economy is not information; it is attention. These commodities have an inverse relationship. When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. Attention is what we, the users, …

caitlindewey — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:57:54 +0000

“RT @chrislhayes: .@ezraklein Learning to code was one of the single most important pieces of intellectual training I’ve ever received.” — @NiemanLab Inspired largely by tweets like this one — and my jealousy of people who can, you know, actually make things — I signed up to do Code Year yesterday. The idea is pretty …

Resolved: Have more ideas and neater hair

caitlindewey — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:20:07 +0000

I love everything about Teresa Wozniak’s New Year’s resolutions, which overlap pretty weirdly with my own. (Surprise! I’m not the only one resolving on the oh-so-serious subjects of hair and reading lists.) But I especially like these: “Have more ideas.” “Make more things for fun.” To that end, I’m trying to read more books, write …

caitlindewey — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:13:31 +0000

“I don’t want to change the world. I just want to document it.” — @ftrain Words to live by, by Paul Ford. Although some would argue that the two things aren’t mutually exclusive.