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I'm a media whore.
All across the country, city councils are making decisions about privatizing their public libraries, which means libraries will be de-professionalized and residents will pay more and receive less, while private companies make a profit for investors and shareholders. Friends at the SEIU have decided to stand up and try to save public libraries that are in danger, even teaming up with Sarah Haskins to produce a video bringing the “Privatization Beast” to life. Sign the online petition and join the fight to help keep public libraries public.
We heart libraries!
I do not like the idea of happiness – it is too momentary – I would say that I was always busy and interested in something – interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.
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Why save PBS? This is why.
Seriously. Save PBS.
okay. one more. just because this is the last time we can do this until next year…or april fool’s day. speaking of which…have any ideas for april fools day?
Roolz!
Located on a high plateau surrounded by the Andes Mountains, Bogota is a sprawling urban center, made up of numerous barrios (neighborhoods). It grows and changes like any other major Latin American city. Due to population growth from rural migration, the periphery of the city is composed of a continuously changing informal spatial fabric. Whereas the center of the city is located on the flatter portion of the plateau and its construction mandated by formally ordained city codes, the makeshift periphery is pushed to the mountainous regions surrounding the center. Its construction is based solely on need. The locals build what they want, when they want. The result is an extremely organic, interconnected conglomeration of houses, passages, and necessary utilities.
This type of spontaneous architectural organization requires an equally spontaneous and winding system of movement and access. Due to the fact that these are located on mountainous landscapes, roads can only go so far in providing this access. Major portions of the barrios are accessible only by means of a network of interconnected staircases. These stairs act like arteries or a web, which spread though the entire barrio. While these stairs may appear to be knot-like in their winding, interconnecting nature, the stair system functions as a whole spatial order.
(Source: oversets)
Rock Chalk, bro.
Look, we think that this is really important. While they have used Tumblr as a temporary solution in the past few days, their voice is one that Tumblr really needs. It’s something that would make the Tumblr community at large stronger. It’s something that could encourage people who haven’t been following the Egypt conflict to follow it. And it’s a way to encourage the free flow of information that they’ve been so good at with the recent crises in the Middle East. So, please reblog if you agree. This may be the 100th thing on their list considering everything going on, but it would be something that would prove greatly valuable to them in the coming days and weeks. Thanks Newsflick for providing the seed of inspiration for this.
(via newsweek)
This song always cheers me up!
Not!
Like, sup?
Best version I could find. I still love this song, though.
OUT: Unpaid Internships IN: Paying for internships
Not satisfied to merely go broke pursuing grunt work for college credit, interns are now insisting that they also go into debt, writes Jenna Johnson. For the privilege of guaranteed placement, interns are paying up to $7,800 for one summer’s worth of work experience.
Interns. Please. Keep a cool head about you and remember that you may be paying for the privilege of making coffee.
This little Tumblr had six college internships before landing the gig formerly known as Newsweek writer/currently known as… it’s really hard to get any work done around here when we’re all clinically depressed. But hey: I’m pretty sure we could use the money interns would pay us for… whiskey!
Tumblr, I am back, and I am pissed.
I was very discouraged by the lack of “Where the fuck is Kayla” and “I miss Kayla” and “I love Kayla” posts since my last Kayla tumblr post. So, as punishment, here’s my last blog post. READ IT and then read the others, and then comment.
I have a questions that maybe someone has answers to.
When should someone settle for a job? And if or when they do, is it really settling?
Did my schooling prepare me to go after my dream job, or just to make funny faces at a camera?
I bring this up because I have a really big interview tomorrow afternoon with a publication I’ve read obsessively since high school and another interview the next day with an organization I’m not so enthused about. Tomorrow’s interview is for an internship in New York City and I’d get some awesome editorial experience. It’s also unpaid, starts in just a few weeks and may not allow for much creative freedom. The next day’s interview is for a salaried job that would give me considerable authority over their website and communications. It’s also in my hometown, so no moving out, and really isn’t the type of thing I’d ideally like to do.
I realize I haven’t been offered either, but for the sake of argument, let’s say that I’m offered both. Should I put all my eggs in one basket for the high-profile, dream internship or make some real money in a steady, but less than ideal job?
This is a dilemma I’ve faced while deciding which job listings to even bookmark on my computer. My applications have so far fallen into two categories: Places I’d settle to work for and places I really want to work.
In regards to the first category, I don’t consider myself “above” any position or organization. A job is a job is a job, and if I’m fortunate enough to get a job in the field of journalism, that should be enough. But let’s be honest— I would much rather work for certain organization than others, many times even if it means sacrificing a higher salary or relocating across the country. Hell, relocating would probably be a plus.
Every industry right now is hurting, not just journalism. So, when even less-than-ideal jobs aren’t likely to hire me, why not go for that ideal job?
That answer, I guess, would tentatively be money.
I’m fresh out of college, with the world ahead of me. Yet the size of that world and what I can do in it is still unknown. I know I’m not supposed to know those things yet, but a little clue on what my first steps should be would be greatly appreciated.
So, I ask you, dear potential readers, is any job better than no job, or should you really push for those positions which you’d die to have?
They tried to update my tumblr
It did not work
(gawker)
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