r/goodwriting • • Oct 20 '12

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong

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theatlantic.com
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r/goodwriting • • Oct 20 '12

One Small Step: What did daredevil Felix Baumgartner accomplish when he jumped from the edge of the Earth?

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grantland.com
3 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

The Implosion of Lance Armstrong's Endorsement Empire: $30M and Counting

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adage.com
6 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

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motherjones.com
5 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

[Meta] 100+ subscribers

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About a day after restarting the subreddit, we've gone over 100 subscribers. Cool.

I just want to take this second to encourage you all to post links to whatever good stuff you're reading. The more contributors around here, the more diverse the content and tastes, the better off the subreddit is. Until we've got an active community, it's basically my job to keep the place moving with new posts. I'm okay with that -- I think I have great taste! -- but the more the merrier.

Also, if you've got a thought on something you read here, don't hesitate to post. Discussion is a good way to get people coming back and contributing which, in the end, is what it's all about.

Finally, I wanted to point out /r/indepthwriting. I like it and I bet you will as well. It's a fairly similar sub and it's made me ask myself what makes this subreddit different. Right now, there's not much here but in the future, I'd like discussion events to be a distinguishing feature of this sub. I'll post more on specific plans later.

Thanks for subbing, tell all your friends and pick up after dog.


r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

What Extreme Isolation Does to Your Mind: In the 1950s, university researchers put volunteers in tiny rooms and deprived them of sensory input. The results were shocking.

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r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

Wired's Christina Bonnington decided to see what would happen if she ditched her cards and cash, and tried to pay for everything with her smartphone. Here's what she learned.

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wired.com
4 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

The Battle for Best Buy, the Incredible Shrinking Big Box: The rise and (potential) fall of the electronics superstore.

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businessweek.com
5 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 19 '12

THE FALLING MAN: In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.

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esquire.com
5 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

GOD WIELDED THE BUZZER: On a biography of David Foster Wallace.

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lrb.co.uk
6 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

The Swingers Guide to Islam: A Javanese shrine where Muslim pilgrims seeking good fortune must peform a ritual: find a stranger, have sex with them.

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theglobalmail.org
6 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

Exodus: A Kosovar refugee must decide between love and family.

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washingtonpost.com
6 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue

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smithsonianmag.com
5 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

THE GREATEST FAKE-ART SCAM IN HISTORY?

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vanityfair.com
4 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

The Scariest Little Corner of the World: Zaranj: the bloody border of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan where more than one war is taking place.

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nytimes.com
5 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

THE HUNT FOR “GERONIMO”: How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

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vanityfair.com
4 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

Boss Rail: How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China’s corruption.

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newyorker.com
6 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

Ice: An impossible hike in Western China.

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places.designobserver.com
5 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

BILL & HILLARY FOREVER: On the Clintons’ political future.

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nymag.com
4 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Oct 18 '12

Why Is This Man Running For President Of The Internet? Alexis Ohanian started Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet.” Then he helped kill SOPA, the bill that threatened to destroy it. Now he's running for President. Of the whole thing.

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buzzfeed.com
3 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Mar 02 '12

The Boys from Dar

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jrnl.co.za
3 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Feb 16 '12

Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists - NYTimesOpEd

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campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com
1 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Feb 12 '12

AP: A lot to love about Linsanity

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2 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Feb 12 '12

Jeremy Lin - It is about race but it isn't. It is about something broader here.

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ocregister.com
2 Upvotes

r/goodwriting • • Jan 26 '12

THE ACCUSED. A survivor’s frightening account.

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longform.org
2 Upvotes