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MediaShift
Whenever I leave a room, I flicker the lights on and off twice. If any object isn't exactly where it belongs — a dish, the remote, the clock by my bed — then I need to fix it before I can move on to the next thing, let alone leave the house.
I know I have some level of OCD. But at this point, I’m not looking to treat it. That's because I've learned to harness it professionally. Without it, I wouldn't have written a book during a week-long vacation.
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Recode
Google is demoting misleading and offensive content in its search by updating algorithms and offering users new ways to report bad results.
The change follows increased attention to flaws in top search results, including the promotion of fake news — and deliberately misleading or false information formatted to look like news — during the 2016 presidential election.
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The Atlantic
Dos Equis' most Interesting Man in the World ran a marathon just because it was on his way, is both left- and right-handed, and is fluent in all the world's languages, including three that he alone speaks. The character was, until recently, played by a 70-something, little-known actor named Jonathan Goldsmith, whose earlier claim to fame was selling waterless car-wash products. And yet he — or at least his persona — was undeniably enticing.
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Columbia Journalism Review
If you were breathing and near a computer or TV earlier this month, you couldn't escape the story about a passenger violently dragged from an overbooked United Airlines plane. Rather than focusing on the salacious video or the minutiae of airline contracts of carriage, let's look at a great second-day story: what the PR nightmare meant for United's business.
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Digiday
Publishers are making it clear that they're fed up with Facebook's Instant Articles and its inability to make them money.
"If IA monetization doesn't dramatically improve, high quality publishers will continue to pull out," said Dan Check, vice chairman of Slate, which publishes most of its Facebook articles to Instant. "There's just no reason for publishers to continue to lose money on IA this far after launch."
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Tech Crunch
Instagram has doubled its user base to 700 million monthly actives in two years, fueled by Stories, web signup, and better onboarding on low-end Android phones. Instagram's growth rate is actually speeding up. It took just four months to add the last 100 million users since hitting 600 million in December, while it took six months to go from 500 million to 600 million.
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NPR
From the front door of the glass-walled gift shop at the Alnwick Garden in the far northeast of England, the scene looks innocent enough. A sapphire green English lawn slopes gently downward, toward traditional, ornamental gardens of rose and bamboo. Across the small valley, water cascades down a terraced fountain.
But a hundred or so plantings kept behind bars in this castle's garden are more menacing — and have much to tell visitors about poison and the evolutionary roots of medicine.
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American Nurseryman
"It's going to get worse before it gets better."
With respect to the horticulture industry and our tenuous labor situation, this simple and time-worn phrase captures the essence of the challenges that lie ahead.
The available statistics, commissioned by the federal government and derived from ongoing surveys, confirm the facts suggested by the more informal narrative of our industry's growers, landscape professionals and others. The production labor force is aging.
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The Washington Post
This summer, a construction team is expected to begin transforming a 12-acre field at the U.S. National Arboretum into one of the most ambitious Chinese gardens ever built in the West.
By the time Chinese artisans finish their work some 30 months later, visitors will encounter a garden containing all the elements of a classical Chinese landscape: enticing moongate entrances, swooping and soaring roof lines, grand pavilions with carved wooden screens and groves of golden bamboo.
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Did you know money really can grow on trees? Learn how trees cut costs and save energy from arborists at Davey Tree. MORE
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American Nurseryman
No better source than the Horticultural Research Institute's Journal of Environmental Horticulture. Just released from the JEH:
Weeds are arguably the most common pest problem in landscape management. Almost everyone can spot a weed, especially when it's chickweed sticking out like a sore thumb in a stand of dormant bermudagrass in March. Landscape managers face the challenge of scheduling a variety of activities and, as a consequence, can struggle to stay ahead of spring weed control.
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Huffington Post UK
In 1761, a businessman opened shop in a modest address in London. Nobody noticed; after all, modest businesses open all the time. There's no blue plaque on the site, and most of us have never heard of him.
But we should. Because when Joseph Johnson — a publisher originally from Liverpool — opened his press for the first time, he was precipitating a publishing revolution whose echoes would sound down through the ages.
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GWA
Members can recognize the achievements of their peers with a 2017 Honors Nomination. To honor individuals who have made a significant contribution to the GWA objectives, please complete the nomination form.
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GWA
In the April-May 2017 issue ...
- Sally Cunningham previews the #GWA2017 Post-Conference Tours
- Update GWA President Kirk Brown
- New and returning columns covering: Food with Patrick Ryan, Business with Angela Treadwell-Palmer, Photography with Rob Cardillo, Sustainability with Marcia Tate
- Preview of #GWA2017 Education Sessions
- GWA member profile on Melinda Myers & Debra Prinzing
- GWA Regional, Publishing and Industry News
- Plus much more!
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GWA
Some people view public speaking as a cushy job — lots of perks for not much work. All you have to do is smile, talk for an hour and bask in the applause. But a good speaker does more than show up and talk. If you are just starting out or are considering becoming a speaker, here are six things you should know.
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GWA
Join garden writers, bloggers, photographers, speakers and communicators from across the world for special events designed to make new connections and reconnect with old friends, including networking events and receptions, all culminating with the 2017 Annual Awards & Honors Dinner. And don't forget to head to the Expo for a colorful showcase of new varieties, products and services.
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GWA
Join Region IV GWA members for weekend adventure in the Carolina "triangle." Experience the spring magic of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens including guided tours and an educational seminar over lunch. A visit to the North Carolina Botanical Garden Chapel Hill in the height of the season will educate visitors on the native floral displays of the central piedmont region.
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