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Life and Code: a blog to follow

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Karl

I’ve really been enjoying Lisa William’s blog titled “Life and Code” and think it’s a great one for your RSS reader every day. She started to blog to document her passage to a programmer who can toss together an app … Continue reading →

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The News needs an Anti-Virus (and it’s us)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Passing this one along from Dave Winer because the sooner we think of passing along things we dislike on the Web, that only can exist with our attention, as viruses, the sooner we remove their influence. So you *hate* the … Continue reading →

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Andrew Tait’s latest video – comparing every version of IE

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Karl

YouTube: We are IE – Comparing every version of Internet Explorer: From Andrew Tait.

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Only 40% will vote today, if you keep your plan not to

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Karl

I agree with Seth Godin’s latest, explaining that political advertising is designed to suppress the vote. If you’re planning to not vote, in protest, you are giving these campaigns exactly what they want. We do have a choice. And that … Continue reading →

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Journalism Warning Labels

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Karl

I like this – a lot. Makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than PMRC warning labels, that’s for sure. I wonder if a Firefox plugin, enabling some social review mechanism to apply these labels would work. Probably … Continue reading →

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Is this a ‘Have you no sense of decency momment?’

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Karl

The Atlantic: James Fallows: “On Today’s Hot Media Stories: Sherrod, “Journolist”. The only way it would be so is if we collectively stop watching, stop clicking, and stop linking to such witch hunts, such hatred, served in pursuit of traffic … Continue reading →

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Ethan Zuckerman at TEDGlobal on the challenge and opportunity

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Karl

Interested in how information reaches those it needs to reach? Intersted in acts of journalism crossing cultural gulfs and divides? Interested in web services and connectivity? You will want to watch Ethan Zuckerman’s talk at TEDGlobal 2010 and I hope … Continue reading →

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Want to know what people want?

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Karl

Well this doesn’t get you exactly there, but László Kozma has a Perl script and some analysis that points you to the top sentences on the Web that start with “How can I” using Google. Fascinating stuff.

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Yesterday was a big one for newspaper companies

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Karl

The Journal Register Company, which is running a forward thinking project focusing on newspaper production, reached an important landmark yesterday, and published their newspapers using open source tools. Read about it from Jeff Jarvis and on the Journal Register’s blog … Continue reading →

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ProPublica relaunch includes ‘future of context’ ideas

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Karl

You can read about it at Nieman Journalism Lab. Check out some sample reports: ProPublica: Gulf Oil Spill ProPublica: Tainted Drywall ProPublica: Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat Related: The Future of Context

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