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Thursday, February 10, 2005
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New editor for Salon: "
From New York Times: 'David Talbot, a pioneer of online journalism who founded Salon magazine in 1995, will announce today that he is stepping down as the magazine's editor in chief, chief executive and relentless cheerleader. He will be replaced as editor, he said, by Joan Walsh, his longtime deputy. Salon will also announce its first profitable quarter in its history, Mr. Talbot added, a profit of $400,000 on revenues of $2.2 million. The company also said that Elizabeth Hambrecht, Salon's president, would become its chief executive.'
And as usual, the issue of the business model is questioned: either on a subscription basis (88,000 people who pay an average of $30 a year, the company says) + some advertising revenues or either on a pure advertising model with free access to the website, as for Slate.
Source: New York Times
(Via editorsweblog.org.)
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The Ayatollah's Book Of Etiquette: "From ‘A Clarification of Questions,’ by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, published in 1985 by the Westview Press. Khomeini's treatise sets out his position on 3,000 questions of everyday life. Translated by J. Borujerdi."
(Via Harpers.org.)
11:38:49 AM
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Science Plumbs Memory's Faults: "This week defrocked priest Paul Shanley was convicted of child rape, after the victim testified about memories of the abuse that he recalled only after seeing news reports about Shanley. The trial focused on those memories' reliability, but evidence is growing that nearly all memories distort the truth."
(Via NPR's All Things Considered.)
A fascinating piece. This whole recovered memory thing seems very sketchy, at best to me, from everything I've read, and this show confirms that. There's a good piece on memory in the latest Scientific American (online version here). Memory is a slippery, malleable thing, and memories can be manufactured as easily, apparently as they can be recalled, and some innocent people have paid a high price.
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