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Nossa, que história. thepoliticalnotebook: A young...

lapetitenana — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:09:21 -0500

Nossa, que história.

A young photographer, Rémi Ochlik, a Sunday Times journalist, Marie Colvin, and a Syrian citizen journalist, Rami al-Sayed, have been killed in shelling in the city of Homs, Syria, today. A witness told Reuters that a shell hit the house in which Ochlik and Colvin were staying in the city’s Bab Amro district. Al-Sayed was killed in the same shelling.

Ochlik was a young photojournalist, but had covered an incredible amount of the revolutions of the past year, photographing Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and finally Syria. Colvin, an American, was a respected veteran journalist, who has been in the business for decades. She was noted for her reporting for Sri Lanka, where she was injured and since had worn an eyepatch. Just yesterday she reported in a video for the BBC, in which she discussed the horrors of what she was seeing. Al-Sayed was a noted citizen journalist who ran a live stream of the Homs bombardment relied upon by mainstream media outlets. Read activist Shakeeb al-Jabri’s tribute to him.

Photo of Marie Colvin via Getty Images. Photo of Rémi Ochlik via IP3 Press. Photo of Al-Sayed and his daughter Maryam from @NMSyria.

[Huffington Post; Le Monde; Reuters; NPR; Lede Blog]

bijan: Earlier today I saw this interesting tweet from Chris...

lapetitenana — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:05:21 -0500

bijan:

Earlier today I saw this interesting tweet from Chris Dixon.

Google is trying their hardest to make a dent in the social universe by creating, or buying or cloning these days.

So this tweet can make you think how different things at google might have been if they were able to keep these folks at the company like they did with Android for example.

But this isn’t how Silicon Valley works and the world is better for it. Those founders learned some valuable skills at google and built some life long relationships (ev worked with @goldman and @biz at google and it’s no secret that there are a fair number of former google engineers at foursquare).

And because california (unlike MA, NY and others) doesnt allow the use of employee non competes the world gets Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram.

That is a very good thing and we should celebrate it.

Having people leave your company isn’t always a bad thing. Even for the company being left behind. More innovation makes everyone better.

(please excuse typos and lack of links. wrote this on my phone)

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lapetitenana — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:04:39 -0500

lapetitenana:

Amo/sou Simon Pegg

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50 Greatest Movie In-Jokes

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lapetitenana — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:00:40 -0500

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lapetitenana — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:57:47 -0500

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lapetitenana — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:57:40 -0500

freeunion: Truth. Photo courtesy @shanenickerson! #instagram...

lapetitenana — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:57:32 -0500

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Social Media Tips on What to Tweet on Twitter

lapetitenana — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:53:50 -0500

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