Don Marti

Sun 12 Aug 2012 07:44:49 AM PDT

Sunday morning articles

Recent thought-provoking articles from the RSS-o-sphere. Enjoy.

Ken Murray follows up on How Doctors Die with Doctors Really Do Die Differently. "When asked whether they would want cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, if they were in a chronic coma, about 90 percent of the Johns Hopkins doctors said no. Only about 25 percent of the public gives the same answer."

Media is not converging, it is diverging (convergence only leads to conflict). Good point of view on the differences between marketing and social. (Maybe we should just stop calling it "social media" because that sounds like something you can throw advertising at.)

John Scalzi: A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It.

Doug Saunders: The Three Lies Michele Bachmann Tells about American Muslims. "All data point to Muslim immigrants and their children integrating into their surrounding societies as fast as, and sometimes faster than, the poor Catholics and Jews of the last century."

Barry Eisler: You Will Be Assimilated. "What are the warning signs, the real metrics a well-intentioned and clear-eyed journalist should consider before her subornment begins, and by which she can judge whether her integrity is slowly being compromised, corroded, and lost?"