06.19.14
Disruptive innovation (continued)
What if Pablo Picasso had been advised by Upworthy?
Comment rescue from yesterday:
Today’s example, from Vox, cited at the New Yorker as being (admiringly) mentioned in an (internal) NYT report on disrupters “10 times.???
Headline: “The world is on the brink of a mass extinction. Here’s how to avoid that.???
One of the answers: Use smartphones to take pictures of animals in your travels and upload them to iNaturalist where people will identify them and it will help us understand the scope of biodiversity.
It’s a mediocre interview for clicktainment by Vox and writer Brad Plumer who has twisted out of shape, for eyeballs, a science paper because he is “[on] the apocalypse beat, more or less.???
It was done on the 11th, a short expose on a paper published in Science magazine, one with the much less baiting title: “The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection???
It is here.
Read the abstract. It doesn’t come to at all what the Vox writer and “editors??? make it out to be. It is a careful multi-scientist global paper on species extinction and as much as they can conclude about change in biodiversity.
And today, on the menu at Upworthy:
If The Skeptics Won’t Listen To Thousands Of Scientists, Maybe They Should Try A Stand-Up Economist
Lead: “Sometimes it’s all about delivery. You know, like when Comedy Central is your go to source for national politics. So if you’ve sort of had it with graphs and numbers about climate change, you’ll enjoy this irreverent new take on the future of our planet.”
The “curator:” “A writer and an independent scholar, I’m dedicated to an empowered environmental citizenry! I celebrate art, science, and stories about animals, plants, soil, and even microbes.”
It’s true. Scientists generally don’t have the delivery of clickbait and Upworthy’s sincerity trolls.
And “trending” at Medium, the place to share your stories by the guy who invented Twitter:
It’s No Longer A Smartphone, It’s A Smartcamera
The truly disruptive feature of Amazon’s Fire PhoneThe author: Partner @GoogleVentures. Columnist @TechCrunch. A man of few words. Except when writing. (With a picture of Hemingway.)
