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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Last week I was on a panel at the Council on Foreign Relations. It was probably the most fun I’ve had on a panel to date. The other panelists were terrific, Vivian Schiller (CEO of NPR.org) and Bill Nichols (Managing Editor of Politico), and the crowd asked great questions.
The highlight of the night however was at the pre-panel reception where someone asked if I had just graduated from college. Given my post-Manoj gray hairs, I’ll take any youthful compliment I can get.
Highlights from the panel can be found on the panel’s CFR webpage here:
Manoj turns 6 months! He’s almost 16lbs now, and strategically ran a temperature and delayed shots for a week. We have a new gallery up on Kodak too.
Falling asleep in my swing rocks.
Newsweek’s 100 Places to Visit
Newsweek is running something launched as part of Earth Day that everyone should check out. It is called 100 Places to Visit Before They Disappear and the pictures are stunning both in the visual response they elicit, as well as the emotional response to the fact that they are all under seige. You can see the special online here:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/236064
The Labs team used the Peeps infrastructure and have an iPhone app as well that you can download for these pics. They are quite cool to show off to friends, the perfect dinner party app! It can be found here: http://bit.ly/9G43bT
Washington Post Peeps
A lot of what the Labs team I’ve hired up since joining the Post Co has worked on has been behind the scenes. There are a few exceptions like Reach for the Wall and All Met Sports’s HS Basketball wiki, but by and large our contributions have not been scene stealing, which is fine. But every now and then you have to do something fun, and producing the Peeps iPhone app definitely qualifies!
We even got a little press from the WSJ’s Speakeasy blog!
Now back to our scheduled programming…
Equality Myth: NPR Asks Self: "Where Are All the Women?"
Big-ups to NPR for this piece today, in which the org’s ombudsman (who is actually an ombudswoman) asks, Where Are All the Women Sources? NPR compiled a list of regular commentators over the past 15 months, who are not NPR employees but paid to appear on air, and found that only 26…
Interesting. Though Starlee Kine is so good her voice should count twice…
Peeps vs Chick-fil-a cows: http://bit.ly/dp7fcF
Talk about buried lede. Story contains nugget that Yelp accused of offering to reorder reviews if restaurant buys ads: http://bit.ly/bnssKP
RT @SoonerSportscom: Sam Bradford’s workout leaves observers “speechless”: http://blogs.nfl.com/category/pro-days/
