Friday, November 18, 2011

Town Gov't 101 - be there !

Town Government 101

Sunday, November 20th 2-4pm Town Hall Auditorium (Winchester, MA).  How does our town government work? What do all of the committees do?  What decisions do they make? How do all of the pieces fit together?

Representatives from Town Meeting, Board of Selectman, Town Manager’s Office, Finance Committee, School Committee, Capital Planning Committee,  and Planning Board will be on hand to explain what they do and the vital role voters play in the civic life of Winchester.

IT ALL STARTS WITH VOTERS!

Light refreshments will be served. More info about the League at http://www.lwvwinchester.org/

Monday, November 14, 2011

La novlangue des journalistes en ligne

http://blog.slate.fr/labo-jhttp://blog.slate.fr/labo-journalisme-sciences-po/2011/01/24/la-novlangue-des-journalistes-en-ligne/

"wod"s - more than one?

sample:  - but obviously they have not caught up with http://failblog.org/ and also discover http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/

Fail (nom, masculin):
Un raté. Par exemple une vidéo qui ne «clique» pas (voir plus haut) ou un article qui reste en bas des «stats» (voir plus bas), en somme un soufflé qui se dégonfle.


Fake (nom ou adjectif):
Faux. Cela peut concerner une fausse information, un faux compte Twitter, un photo montage… tout, sur le Web, peut être fabriqué. Et doit donc être pesé et vérifié avant de faire l’objet d’une information publiable. Exemple: «ça sent le fake, cette histoire».

Sunday, November 13, 2011

there are liars, and then there are liars

Pamela Meyer on liespotting:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/13/opinion/meyer-lie-spotting/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Maybe we should use more technologies such as NoLieMRI:
http://noliemri.com/ like a paternity test...