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A shocking source of TV news coverage of the oil leak?

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Karl

G4 and Kevin Pereira: “BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife”. G4, the games channel. Yes, the games channel! This makes sense in a world where the most informative pieces of national news journalism are coming from a music magazine and … Continue reading →

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Recent Journalist-Programmer reads

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

O’Reilly Radar: Mike Loukides: “What is Data Science?” Media Shift: Marc Glaser: “Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming” Rafe Colburn: “Why journalists should learn to program” – with a suggestion on what really to be digging into – and I … Continue reading →

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Google News adding human editors to promote serendipity

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

Good move on Google’s part. Nieman Journalism Lab: “Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors’ Picks” Mashable: “Google News and Why Human Editors Still Matter” Previously: Techmeme: “Guess what? Automated news doesn’t quite work.”

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Parenting while plugged in – don’t do it

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

I am guilty as charged and with Richelle’s help, changing my ways: NYTimes: “The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In”: …children in higher socioeconomic homes hear an average of 2,153 words an hour, whereas those in working-class households hear only … Continue reading →

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Maureen Johnson – “I am not a brand.”

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Karl

Maureen Johnson: “Manifesto”: The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people–talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for … Continue reading →

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Comcast releases open source software

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Comcast Voices: “Comcast Labs and ISC donate IPv6 Open Source software to open Source Community”. Conversation at Hacker News. And check out Arpit’s post about his work on Comcast’s Xfinity Remote Prototype, “Have you seen the XFinity Social Remote app?”.

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Afraid you’ll miss Firebug if you move to Chrome?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Karl

Probably not. Check out the screencasts at Chromium Projects: “Google Chrome Developer Tools”. I haven’t abandoned Firefox yet. But it is important to experiment and keep your toolbox open. Since Chrome has recently gone stable on the OS X, I’m … Continue reading →

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There can never be enough journalists like Bill Moyers

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Karl

Recently my friend and coworker Arpit Mathur passed along a critique of journalism’s sorry state using the leaked iPhone story as evidence. The sad thing is that we might be amidst some kind of golden age for journalism and are … Continue reading →

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Roger Ebert, “Find out all you can, and see what you can do with it.”

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Karl

Read Roger Ebert’s latest post: “The golden age of movie critics”.

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Online hero – Salman Khan

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

Starbulletin: “Khan’s tutorials display promise of broadband”. PBS NewsHour: Math Wiz Takes Education to New Limits on YouTube Related: Khan Academy

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