Category Archives: Robert’s posts
Jay Rosen
NoContest Communications readers know all about Jay Rosen, the marvellous analyst of media and journalism who recently retired from his position as Professor at NYU. His new gig is working to promote News Creators Corps. He writes: For the last … Continue reading
Small changes here
I’ve replaced the feed for “Kwantlen Polytechnic University” with one for “University Canada West” to reflect my new academic home. Gone is the feed for “Education and AI” because it’s already impossible to avoid utter immersion in this topic. And … Continue reading
Devotion
Zach Helfand’s article describing the history and sensibility of The New Yorker‘s famous fact-checking department is hilarious – and, to me, enthralling – from top to bottom. “I find that often a fact checker forces you to tie a knot … Continue reading
Avoid unnecessary fates
Our website’s founding friend Chet Wisniewski has a new podcast: “Security. Take. Two. Real. Serious. Security.” Chet with his colleague Ben Verschaeren revisit notable IT security calamities with profound and lively stories – “once the truth is known, discovering lessons … Continue reading
Sure Why Not
God. The agency said that if a house of worship endorsed a candidate to its congregants, the I.R.S. would view that not as campaigning but as a private matter, like “a family discussion concerning candidates.” (The title is a fine … Continue reading
Almost time to go
Kwantlen Polytechnic University has been at or near the centre of my life for more than two decades. We’ll keep the newsfeed here up into my retirement years, though.
Bryan Garner’s “Tip of the Day”
You really must subscribe. Today’s was delightfully humbling: racket; racquet. For the implement used in net games, racket is standard in American English and British English alike. The variant racquet appears in some proper names (e.g., the Palm Springs Racquet Club) seemingly because the “fancy” … Continue reading
Welcome them in.
In a piece for The Conversation Canada, my Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Jeffrey Meyers writes about Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder, two eminent American scholars who fled Yale University and the United States, taking positions at the University of Toronto, … Continue reading
Pope Francis
“When people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it. For those seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection.” “A little bit of mercy makes the … Continue reading
Amtrak’s social-media marketing
My favourite way to travel is by train, so I follow all of Amtrak’s accounts. They are very witty: When Southwest Airlines announced they were charging for bags, Amtrak posted on X, “Guess we’re the only ones doing free baggage now.” … Continue reading
