Distill and simplify, or competitors like Twitter will

Evening Edition isn’t alone in trying to simplify and distill the oceans of information that flow past us every day.  That was also the point behind services like Summify and News.me — both of whom have said they found a surprisingly intense interest in their daily email newsletters with a selection of the day’s top stories.  Twitter bought Summify in January, and is now sending out similar weekly emails, as part of its growing attempts to filter and “curate” content for readers.   This need also explains much of the success of outlets like the Huffington Post, which routinely gets accused of “over-aggregation” for summarizing or excerpting news stories from mainstream outlets like the New York Times.  The painful reality many traditional media players don’t want to consider is that their readers don’t want all of their carefully researched and painstakingly edited stories — they may only want a brief summary or excerpt, which the Huffington Post and Google News and other aggregators are more than happy to provide. 

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Evening Edition is "the perfect commute-sized way to catch up on the day’s news after a long day at work."   The July 24 edition had 4 brief stories with links to 4 others.  http://evening-edition.com/

In comparison, Google News has 12 categories, each with about 20 stories.  Librarian's Muse is a news aggregation, concentrating on law, language, libraries, history and the arts.  A number of its stories come from Google News.  It comes out about 3 times weekly with 6-7 stories each time.

Quotes

. . . she doesn't think like anybody else - - - she thinks backward.

It's a sign of maturity to be able to change your mind when you realise that you're wrong.

Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them.  Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other--and land, of course.  

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, eighth in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith   

See Alexander McCall Smith's four series of novels at:  http://www.mccallsmith.com/novels.htm

First Book has distributed more than 90 million books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income families throughout the United States and Canada.  First Book is transforming the lives of children in need and elevating the quality of education by making new, high-quality books available on an ongoing basis.  http://www.firstbook.org/first-book-story

 On July 19, Dolores Samson, who is affiliated with the Toledo Federation of Teachers, traveled with fellow teachers and students to a warehouse just outside Detroit to pick up more than 10,000 new books provided by a program called First Book.  "At first I was pretty much tongue-tied," Ms. Samson said.  "There were thousands and thousands of boxes of books.  We filled almost a whole U-Haul with books just for Toledo."  First Book, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1992, was created to provide new books to schools and programs that serve low-income families, said Brian Minter, the communications director for First Book.  Although the group is based in Washington, it works with 27,000 schools and programs across the country.  To qualify to receive books from First Book, those who register must be part of groups or schools in which 70 percent of the children come from low-income families. 

http://www.toledoblade.com/Education/2012/07/23/Charity-benefits-Toledo-students.html

The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.  The colloquial name is in honour of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.  Fields was instrumental in establishing the award, designing the medal itself, and funding the monetary component.  The Fields Medal is often viewed as the greatest honour a mathematician can receive.  It comes with a monetary award, which since 2006 is C$15,000.  The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors and American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and it has been awarded every four years since 1950.  Its purpose is to give recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers who have made major contributions.  See picture at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal   

Jonah Lehrer, 31, acknowledged in a statement from his book publisher that some quotes he used did "not exist", and others were misquoted.  The resignation came after the online magazine Tablet wrote an in-depth piece on the quotations used in Imagine: How Creativity Works.  Shipments of the book, which was published in March, have been halted.  The e-book version has been unlisted. Houghton Mifflin, the publisher, said Lehrer had committed a "serious misuse".  Lehrer was already out of favour at the New Yorker, which is known for its thorough fact checking, after he admitted last month having recycled passages for the magazine that he had written for previous publications.  His admission came after Michael Moynihan of the Tablet contacted him about the quotes.  "I told Mr Moynihan that [the quotes] were from archival interview footage provided to me by Dylan's representatives," he said.  "This was a lie spoken in a moment of panic.  "The lies are over now.  I understand the gravity of my position.  I want to apologize to everyone I have let down, especially my editors and readers."  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19056671

See also:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-media-jonahlehrer-resignsbre86u01x-20120730,0,6807408.story 

The. Obama. Campaign. Slogan. Is. Causing. Grammarians. Whiplash.  In 1992, George H.W. Bush's line, "Who do you trust?" generated chatter about the use of "who" versus "whom."  Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 slogan "I like Ike" is clearly a sentence, but didn't include a period.  George W. Bush's "Yes, America Can" slogan included a comma; Mr. Obama's "Yes We Can" chant four years later did not.  Meanwhile, the title of the super PAC supporting Mr. Romney, "Restore Our Future," seems to bend the rules of space and time, if not grammar.  Those who brandish red pens for a living are divided on whether Mr. Obama's campaign slogan passes muster.  On its page-one nameplate and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal maintains its period, a holdover from the 1800s.  No one at the paper knows why the Journal kept it when other papers gradually dropped their traditional periods, a spokeswoman.  Mr. Romney has called the "Forward." slogan "absurd," and has seized on it to argue Mr. Obama's policies would take the country "forward over a cliff."  Mr. Romney's slogan, "Believe in America" (no period), has its share of critics as well.  "I think that's about as close to a standard slogan as you can possibly get," said Fred Davis, a Republican media consultant.  Carol E. Lee  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444840104577553020326811222.html 

South Korean netizens have expressed sympathy for Swiss footballer Michel Morganella, after he was sent home from the Olympics for racially abusing South Korea's players on Twitter. 
Morganella had directed an offensive jibe at the players after Switzerland's 2-1 defeat to the Asian side on Sunday.  "While the committee felt that Michel had been provoked on his Twitter account and that he has publicly apologised, the Swiss Olympic Committee and Swiss Football Association condemn Morganella's actions to the fullest."  In a post on Twitter that was later deleted, Morganella wrote:  "I am going to batter the Koreans, burn them all... bunch of 'trisos'." 
'Trisos' is a French slang word for people born with Down's Syndrome.  However, many South Korean Internet users said the player had been sorely provoked by Korean comments on social media.  South Korean fans had found Morganella's Facebook page and posted thousands of strong criticisms, both in English and Korean, about the way he played during Sunday's match.  The comments were later deleted.  Another user, Bae Sung-Hwan, said:  "We already won (the game) so we just had to ignore him.  But we just had to visit his Facebook page, talk about his parents.  Even I would be mad.  A user identified as Cho A-Ra said:  "We were rude to him on the Internet first and he reacted to it.  But saying that he is a racist, I think it's gone too far." 
However, others' comments respected the decision made by the Swiss committee and said Morganella deserved to be sent home.  http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/1216847/1/.html