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Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

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Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

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Roger Angell reflects on the events of Tuesday night and thinks of an old college classmate...

He died in 1975, at the age of fifty-three. He and I belong to what has sometimes been called “the Greatest Generation.” If most of us have felt uncomfortable about the honor, it may be because we’ve known that in some ways we haven’t been all that great. The election of Barack Obama as President could mean that all of us in the United States belong to the Greatest Generation now, and though this astounding event seems to have happened all of a sudden, for some people my age it wasn’t soon enough.

Reading...Better Teachers Needed

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Better Teachers Needed

Ed Glaeser does excellent economics work that often translates into puzzlingly disappointing op-eds, but this column on the vital importance teacher quality and offering a few ideas about how to get it is spot-on. President-Elect Obama has often spoken along the same lines as Glaeser in terms of paying teachers more, and then screening out ineffective ones more rigorously. Obviously, the devil is in the details, but it’s very important for the long-run fate of the economy to see some movement on this.

How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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New York Times article by Claire Cain Miller on how the Obama campaign used the Internet and changed politics...

One of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet...

“The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.”

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

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For me the best thing about the media coverage of the 2008 election is the work that Nate Silver did. Also anyone who comes up with PECOTA is simply a genius...

Nate Silver owned this election on the polling front: one young guy with a background in baseball stats beat out the mainstream media in a couple of months. And he beat out the old web: I mean if you consider the total joke of Drudge's recent coverage and compare it with Silver's, you realize that the web is a brutal competitive medium where only the best survive - and they are only as good as their last few posts.