May 5, 2016 links

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

https://pando.com/2013/03/22/all-hail-the-archive-a-secret-weapon-that-publishers-dont-even-realize-they-have/

https://aeon.co/essays/when-words-are-not-enough-gestures-or-images-can-say-more

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?referer=

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/why-did-nbc-sit-on-explosive-story-about-clintons-alleged-hacked-email-server-for-weeks/

http://www.romneyridgefarm.com/blog/2016/5/4/our-kickstarter-campaign-is-live-whoo-hoooo

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/romneyridge/romney-ridge-on-the-road

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/die-welts-analytics-system-de-emphasizes-clicks-and-demystifies-what-it-considers-a-quality-story/

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/its-been-a-good-week-for-making-fun-of-people-who-are-hopeful-about-print-newspapers/

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/good-news-publishers-people-will-read-your-long-stories-on-their-phones-for-two-minutes-anyway/

http://mediagazer.com/160505/p7#a160505p7

http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/05/long-form-reading-shows-signs-of-life-in-our-mobile-news-world/

"Study: readers spend an average of two minutes on 1K words and longer articles on mobile, traffic from Twitter leads to longer engagement than from Facebook "

http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/pew-research-center-long-form-articles-smartphones-study/638881

http://qz.com/676677/facebook-drives-more-traffic-to-articles-but-twitter-users-spend-more-time-reading-them/

http://www.poynter.org/2016/in-the-mobile-news-era-readers-arent-afraid-of-going-long/410260/

http://withoutbullshit.com/blog/nate-cohn-nate-silver-describe-misread-donald-trump/

http://www.kevinmarks.com/hwc2016-05-04.html

https://medium.com/@mitchellharper/my-8-rules-of-great-products-1aaa30487058#.cmo2z68vy

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/media/cartoonist-fired-from-farm-news.html?_r=0

http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/rip-bookslut-2002-2016.html

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/3/11579542/bookslut-jessa-crispin-interview

http://mediagazer.com/160505/p5#a160505p5

http://mediagazer.com/160505/p3#a160505p3

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/04/trinity-mirror-shares-agm-new-day-phone-hacking

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/media/britain-new-day-newspaper-close.html

"The EU wants you to log into YouTube using your state-issued ID card"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/eu_login_youtube_national_id_card/

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Security-culture/2016/0427/Dutch-art-project-exposes-extent-of-surveillance-tests-limits-of-law

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blasts from the past:

https://pando.com/2012/11/07/marco-arment-makes-zines-cool-again-and-potentially-profitable/

https://pando.com/2013/09/16/the-best-magazine-on-the-internet/

https://pando.com/2013/06/14/the-opportunity-for-slow-media/

https://aeon.co/

http://www.wired.com/2010/06/the-slow-media-manifesto/

http://en.slow-media.net/manifesto