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Nice work by @PostGraphics team: Sarah Palin has thrown her support behind more than two dozen candidates, a mixture of Tea Party favorites and more established Republican types. Use this graphic to explore Mama Grizzly’s endorsements, and see how they fare. (via Palin Endorsements Tracker - The Washington Post)
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Loving these archive photos from the Farm Security Administration — an interesting series on life in Washington, D.C., during the early 1940s. (via Life during wartime: Washington D.C. and World War II)
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Can Don “Dapper” save Newsweek? Not without smoking and drinking nonstop. Ha.
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Almost nine years after the terrorist attacks, which ratcheted up security at government properties and transportation hubs, anyone photographing federal buildings, bridges, trains or airports runs the risk of being seen as a potential terrorist. (via Freedom of photography: Police, security often clamp down despite public right) // Makes me think of my pal Lagan… and every other photog I know.
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Ford web campaign incorporates the increasingly ubiquitous Like: “Ford has used Facebook’s Open Graph to implement “Like” buttons into the ads themselves. This means that should Ford succeed in garnering “likes” from ad viewers, they’ll essentially be gaining a Facebook fan for life.” (via 2011 Ford Explorer: Inside the Facebook Reveal)
Update! So the Ford ads are on washingtonpost.com, and the “like” conversions aren’t as simple as Mashable makes it sound. The Open Graph API allows users to Like items on third-party sites, but the Ford campaign doesn’t permit the action within the ad itself. It actually takes three clicks to get to Ford’s FB page, and then a user can like it.
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The War Logs
It’s been interesting to see the Afghanistan war logs story play out across The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel (and to think all three organizations essentially co-published a series of reports based on the Wikileaks embargo).
The NYT report does the best job showcasing the actual documents, explaining their methodology for redactions, providing hover definitions of military acronyms and organizing key findings as annotations within the document viewer. A really impressive presentation — much preferred to the Guardian’s take on an interactive map (although they offer all the data behind it for download) and Der Spiegel’s photo gallery.
The Times is rounding up reaction on its At War blog, including this response from the White House:
The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security. Wikileaks made no effort to contact us about these documents – the United States government learned from news organizations that these documents would be posted. These irresponsible leaks will not impact our ongoing commitment to deepen our partnerships with Afghanistan and Pakistan; to defeat our common enemies; and to support the aspirations of the Afghan and Pakistani people.
What a story.
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The trove of war reports posted Sunday dwarfs the scope and volume of documents that [Wikileaks] has made public in the past
– In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’ - NYTimes.com // continue to be amazed at what a game changer Wikileaks has become. -
A fresh perspective on Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art // and fresh on my to-do list!
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As the sorry saga of fired Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod continues to unfold, it is hard to remember another episode that so vividly reveals how Washington’s political culture is driven these days by impulse and self interest, rather than judgment.
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Who’s getting stopped in NYC? Mostly young, mostly minorities. #greatgraphics // Map of New York City Police Stops - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
