Newsletter 311

[1]The Best Street Photographer You've Never Heard Of
Links:
1. http://b.rw/lvEsbR

Alex Kotlowitz | Mother Jones | 13 May 2011

Four years ago, a Chicago real estate agent chanced upon a box of negatives.
Its original owner was a recently deceased woman, who'd been a nanny.
Apparently unbeknown to anyone, she was also a highly accomplished
photographer [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/best-street-photographer-youve-never-heard

[3]Mind Reading: Technology Turns Thought Into Action
Links:
3. http://b.rw/msukVi

Jon Hamilton | NPR | 12 May 2011

Amazing story of old technology from 1950s that has come back into favour
with neuroscientists. Electrocorticography, coupled with modern computing
power, decodes electrical signals in the brain and can read your mind
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mind-reading-technology-turns-thought-action

[5]Antilunchism
Links:
5. http://b.rw/jHq5QE

Paul Ford | Ftrain | 11 May 2011

"Why must we cram our interactions into 75 minutes sometime between 12:30
and 2pm, which usually involves something drizzled over something else and
then a light garnish, followed by an ape-dominance demonstration of who can
pay?" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/antilunchism

[7]Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg
Links:
7. http://b.rw/lcGuTs

Brad Stone | Businessweek | 12 May 2011

Introducing Facebook's chief operating officer: "There's a new shorthand for
the kind of leader who's willing to serve as a second-in-command,
complementing without overshadowing the wunderkind entrepreneur: a Sheryl
Sandberg" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-facebook-needs-sheryl-sandberg

[9]Story Of Laurent Gbagbo
Links:
9. http://b.rw/m6xLoW

Stephen Smith | LRB | 11 May 2011

Expert history of Ivory Coast and its troubles. Ethnically and religiously
diverse. French-backed autocrat Felix Houphouët-Boigny held it together. But
when he died in 1993, identity politics took over. Country went mad
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/story-laurent-gbagbo

[11]Offside
Links:
11. http://b.rw/lQmmVE

Anonymous | Economist | 12 May 2011

Enough with opaque bidding processes, constant corruption allegations. It's
time to take a different approach to deciding who hosts the football World
Cup. A public, transparent auction would do the trick [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/offside

FiveBooks Interview

[13]Richard Tofel on the Changing Business of Journalism
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-tofel-on-changing-business-journalism

General manager of the non-profit newsroom ProPublica and former assistant
publisher of the Wall Street Journal tells us his predictions for the future
of news