Jeff Howe

Northeastern Journalism Prof. Formerly Wired magazine, Nieman, Media Lab. Married to the Talented @AlysiaAbbott. Books: Crowdsourcing, Whiplash.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@jaycaspiankang Amen. Wherever he lands, in whatever game he plays in, Smart is going to outhustle everyone else on the court.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@tedlieu @DanFriedman81 Not Trump. As a longtime journo/writing prof I've pretty attuned to verbal signatures, and neither syntax nor vocabulary nor style sound like him. Just the ideas? It's more troubling that he would copy-and-paste this hysterical screed. Better Q: Did *he* read it before posting?

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@aawayne @APStylebook No longer consequential. The question is how does the Spelling Bee spell it?

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

I wrote about this in my newsletter. The Weather Service didn't launch balloons recently and got surprised by tornadoes in Kansas. DOGE cuts at NWS cut out weather balloon launches which gather data for storm prediction. You are less safe because of that choice.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@CharlesCMann @caityweaver My fave was a New Yorker piece shortly after Remnick took the reigns. At least 10,000 words on the history and evolution and aesthetics of ice as a commodity. I remember thinking: This guy's going to have a good run.

[ErikWemple @ErikWemple]

A media thread: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters withdrew a letter to the editor at the Washington Post after the newspaper declined to publish its criticism of Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos, who’s also the owner of The Post.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Breaking: Ron Johnson breaks with Trump on bombing civilian infrastructure: 'Not at war with Iranian people' https://t.co/mvA4wXwyt6

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

As a Gen X professor to both Millennial and Gen Z I endorse this sophisticated analysis.

[Cheese For Everyone! @CheeseForEvery1]

Gen X: “WE HATE THE STAR WARS PREQUELS AND WE USED TO PLAY OUTSIDE AND DRINK FROM HOSES AS KIDS.”

Millennials: “WE LIKE THE STAR WARS PREQUELS AND ARE ON SEVERAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS.”

Gen Z: “Skibidi rizz bibbidy bop”

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@nxthompson "Hallucination" nomenclature never more apt.

[Paul Handley @PaulHandley2]

Big DOJ favor for Erdogan: Trump killing a longstanding case against Turkey's Halkbank for laundering $billions for Iran. h/t Adam Klasfeld https://t.co/TleiouuHM2

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

A few months before he passed away in 2003, a 74 year old children’s television host sat down in the same studio where he had filmed 895 episodes over 33 years and recorded one last message. It wasn’t for children. It was for the adults who had grown up watching him.

Fred Rogers hosted Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on American public television from 1968 to 2001. For over three decades he walked into the same set, changed into a cardigan and sneakers, looked directly into the camera, and spoke to children as if each one of them was the only person in the room. He never raised his voice, never talked down to his audience, and never rushed a single moment.

In that final recording, he looked into the camera one last time and said “I’m just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are.”
He passed away from stomach cancer on February 27, 2003. He was 74.

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@AdrienneLaF How is Dave Epstein, aka @growingwisdom, not already on this list? He's the snow obsessive's obsessive.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

I don't know this for a fact, but I think this is the first time in history that the current FIFA Peace Prize winner became the Undisputed Champion of Coal.

[meghan @deloisivete]

Exaggerating what you know about football today is called superbole.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@rkylesmith I don't know; I had this same pet peeve for years then read a column by a lexicographer who gave the whole decimation=10% a big shrug. Language evolves I guess.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@jbarro Unless your son, like mine, is severely intellectually impaired. In which case the colloquial use of retard is a frequent reminder that your child's disability is an epithet, a slur, and sure, a "stinging way of calling someone stupid."

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@David_J_Bier Ah. Mea culpa.

[Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing]

@Noahpinion Thought it was just me, and was wondering if I was the outlier. Flew a lot this year. Security lines seemed shorter, had virtually no delays, and love that United lets you change your flight for free after checking in.