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******* NYTimes.com: Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too. rj

Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too.

Educated workers are increasingly migrating away from the country’s most expensive major metros — and have been since before the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html?smid=em-share

***** NYTimes.com: Web Content by and for the Masses rj

Web Content by and for the Masses

When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she has traveled safely.     And if every picture tells a story, that may be only the start. At Flickr, the popular Web photo-sharing service where Ms. Fake, a co-founder, posted the photo, it can be tagged with geographic coordinates for use in a photographic map, or become part of a communal database of images that can be searched for certain colors or characteristics. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/web-content-by-and-for-the-masses.html?smid=em-share

****** NYTimes.com: We’re Watching the End of a Digital Media Age. It All Started With Jezebel.

We’re Watching the End of a Digital Media Age. It All Started With Jezebel.

The feminist site Jezebel presaged major changes in the way America talks about race and gender and pioneered the fusion of audience, writers, politics and identity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/jezebel-gawker-buzzfeed-ben-smith.html?smid=em-share