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Kevin: Joe H. Bullard guest blogs on Newsosaur. The former Denver Post Managing Editor calls for more local coverage and tells how the Denver papers are missing an opportunity by failing in their coverage of Denver's sprawling suburbs.
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I am Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This site showcases some of my computer science, information visualization, engineering, history and HCI projects.
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Sweden and other Nordic countries top list of “technological readiness” from World Economic Forum. The US drops to 9th on regulatory issues. The UK dropped out of the top 10.
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A great fast intro to the web framework Django.
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Alf Hermida highlights an interesting study showing that Canadian news preference. “But only 8% said they choose newspapers because they were a source of local news. And even less said it was because they like holding a physical paper.”
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Learn how to control which type of sleep your fall 2005 (or newer) laptop uses.
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At the bottom of the biggest underwater cave in the world, … Dave Shaw found the body of a young man who had disappeared ten years earlier. What happened after Shaw promised to go back is nearly unbelievable—unless you believe in ghosts.
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We love free icons. to smash things. And we respect hard-working designers. Therefore are regularly looking for talented artists and creative designers glad support them by showcasing their work in our magazine. If you going
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Newsknitter combines computerized knitting technology with live internet feeds to produce the ultimate in customized sweaters. Using the daily news as a data source, a software generates different visualizations which are then finalized as patterns ready
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Kiyoshi Martinez looks at the local/hyperlocal market in Chicago and the precarious financial position of some newspaper companies.
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Kevin: So it begings in the British media market. Advertising down 12-14% in May and June. Sly Bailey of Trini-Mirror: “We can’t defy the gravity of the advertising market, or the economy.”
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Kevin: Technology and politcs gone awry. What happens when you replace every instance of ‘gay’ with ‘homosexual’? FAIL. I bet the AP loves their content being used like this.
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The NSA has made headlines in the past few years for wiretapping and data-mining of questionable legality, but one of its primary functions is protecting the military’s computer networks, and that’s where the red team comes in.
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Kevin: “Features, I’ve recently come to realize, can be obstacles. Problems. … Determine a basic need -> Create a service that satisfies it in the simplest way possible -> Open it up.”
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The Wall Street Journal says that the Associated Press is beginning to fracture as the US newspaper business reels. Papers are beginning to push back on the fees the 162-year-old cooperative charges.
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Scholar Looks for First Link in E-Mail Chain About Obama. Source: Washington Post
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In the manner of Facebook and Digg, the social-news application lets people see which stories their friends are commenting on and recommending. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
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Kevin: Thoughtful post about the New Yorks Times’ Times People social media tool. He likes the focused nature of the tool as opposed to baking in social networking features into the site.
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Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced such a plan.
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Kevin: Adam Tinworth writes a must bookmark post on why media gets community wrong. To quote one of the comments, ‘brilliant clarity’. Goes to the heart of why mass media doesn’t take advantage of social media.
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Kevin: My colleague Roy Greenslade has a great post on the benefits that journalists can realise by learning the values of the blogging revolution.
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Great examples of recycled urban architecture. I especially like the recyled jet. I think more needs to be done to encourage the re-use and redevelopment of buildings instead of building on greenspace.
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Kevin: Jeff Jarvis from an internal conference at the Guardian about the Future of Journalism. Lots to think about. I like in helping find quality or interesting content, “it becomes an editorial job and knowing who people are and creating “circles of tru
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I might have to try to create a DIY Dalek cam. Suw and I have too much stuff to leave it to locks. Or is this just an extension of the surveillance society?
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Kevin: Is Fred Wilson getting bored with Web 2.0? Yes and no. He is just curious about having a more positive social and political impact, which is why he’s travelling to Europe.
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Kevin: Ari Melber says: “Web entrepreneur Arianna Huffington slammed old media at a political conference in New York today, assailing reporters for abandoning the pursuit of truth in favor of a “fake neutrality” and quailing in the face of government inti
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