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NYU journalism prof Jay Rosen has a thoughtful response to the Wikileaks story. 2. The initial response from the White House was extremely unimpressive: * This leak will harm national security. (As if those words still had some kind of magical power, after all the abuse they have been party to.) [...] Deadline for voting in the Florida Netroots Awards is July 10. Below are the categories and links to the nominated blogs. Someone nominated R/CT for “Best Local Blog: Blogs about city/county/regional politics in the state of Florida,” and for that I want to give the nominator a hearty Thank You! To vote, however, you can’t [...] The Florida Independent is the latest branch of the American Independent News Network, an effort to create a non-partisan news service rooted in the digital world rather than newspapers or television. The sites meld together blog-style linking-to-stories with original reporting. From the welcoming statement by editor Cooper Levey-Baker: “As the newest arm of The American Independent [...] Wow, this is very cool. Wikipedia offers Book Creator, a service for printing out books composed of Wikipedia articles. For example, I went to the Tampa, Florida page, and added that entry and all the sub-entries (History of Tampa, History of Ybor, Climate of Tampa Bay Region, etc.) to the Wikipedia Book Creator and created a [...] I guess CNN is having ratings problems? As far as I’m concerned all cable news channels need to be obliterated, but I just had a great idea for a news channel program and CNN can have it if they want it. My new show will be called “Defend Yourself!” It’s an issues-oriented debate that takes place in [...] TED is a “big ideas” conference held every year in Long Beach, California. Started just over a quarter-century ago TED now hosts conferences across the globe and works to encourage similar independent events to bring “ideas worth spreading” to local communities through the TEDx program. The Tampa Bay area will see its own TEDxTampaBay event [...] In the education post both Carol and I start with this Gallup poll that shows a very high satisfaction rate (77%) with how schools are educating children. Parents generally think their child is getting a good education. But those other kids? The poll shows that only 46% are satisfied with education in the country. What accounts [...] MySpace and Facebook are meeting to talk “about how they might further share data.” “That’s according to The Telegraph. “Hypothetically speaking, as nothing has been formally arranged yet, MySpace could become a Facebook Connect partner – which would allow people to share content they liked from MySpace with their Facebook network,” Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl [...] Here’s R/CT’s new business plan. We’re going to deploy cross-media relationships to generate web-enabled portals in order to redefine bricks-and-clicks paradigms. I think this will facilitate back-end mindshare and help synthesize e-business content. It’s a trillion-dollar business plan! Click on over to the web economy bullshit generator to create your own 21st century new media business [...] Dan Gillmor has some tips for improving news orgs. “A core mission of our work would be to help people in the community become informed users of media, not passive consumers — to understand why and how they can do this. We would work with schools and other institutions that recognize the necessity of critical thinking.” I really like the Fast Flip design, but it’s not as malleable as I’d like to see. I want to add feeds, and create tabs and rows. I don’t like that it embeds full articles. I thought placing your frame around a whole page went out of style 15 years ago. Maybe that’s to control for [...]
ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends in 2009 “Last week we ran a series of posts outlining the 5 biggest Internet trends of this year: Structured Data, Real-Time Web, Personalization, Mobile Web / Augmented Reality, Internet of Things. Effectively this was ReadWriteWeb’s State of the Web 2009.” Vote for your favorite lefty, liberal, and progressive blogs, websites, pundits and political writers at the 2009 Florida Netroots Awards. Muck Rack is a well-designed page with a stream of tweets from working journalists. About Muck Rack What if you could get tomorrow’s newspaper today? Now you sorta can, by tracking the short messages on Twitter written by the journalists who do the muckraking for major media outlets. Muck Rack makes it easy to follow one line, real time [...] I don’t know anything about the politics or inner workings of Creative Loafing. All I know is the public knowledge that they are going through a bankruptcy and working to re-engineer themselves as a 21st century media company. To do so they have embraced the web and the tools of social technology. One of the modifications [...] Which search engine do you like best when you can’t see the brands? This Washington Post article points the way to Blind Search. “Welcome to BlindSearch, the search engine taste test. “Type in a search query above, hit search then vote for the column which you believe best matches your query. The columns are randomised with every query. “The [...] A tweet, of course, is a 140-character (or less) comment made on the online software/service Twitter. Brock Shinen has a thoughtful essay about tweets as intellectual property. In today’s Capitol Offense column, Kenneth Quinnell offers a great overview and introduction to the Florida Progressive Coalition. Here’s the list. Be sure to visit to get the links. *FPC Blog Al Shaw explains his redesign of the TPM homepage. “With that in mind, my foremost goal with the redesign was assymetry. The eye likes being stimulated to bounce around an uneven page moving from wide horizontal elements to long vertical elements to text to image all at different sizes. I recalled the ‘dollar bill’ rule from [...] Josh Marshall, the creator of Talking Points Memo, spoke at Columbia’s Journalism Day. “We “need to pay critical attention to everything,” he said—to question assumptions about journalism, and to consider, in particular, what is a core necessity of journalism, and what about journalistic practice is contingent. ‘So many things that we do,’ he said, ‘we do [...] Stephen Wofram and Tim Berners-Lee are working toward similar ends. There have been some signs of disappointment with the new Wolfram|Alpha. But the common comparison with Google demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding what the W|A does. The Wolfram|Alpha search engine needs data the way Google needs documents. In this talk to Ted Tim Berners-Lee discusses his Linked [...] Jens Roland has written a clear explanation of why you should care about file-sharing. A lot of money has been poured into creating a campaign of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about file-sharing. When discussed in the mainstream media it’s almost always associated with piracy and theft of intellectual property. The recent ruling in Sweden against the [...] Here’s a handy page listing Blogs from the U.S. Government. The list includes DipNote from the Department of State, Fast Lane from the Department of Transportation, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) Blog, and Gov Gab, tip and hints on how to use your government. Overall there are about 41 blogs listed. Man, this is the [...] Dan at Xark posted 15 Axioms for 21st Century Media. Here are my 4 favorite Don’t build your future on a rock. Build your future on a surfboard. We’re not on dry land anymore. Proprietary systems are rocks. Open Source systems are surfboards. Think databases, not documents. Semi-structured data looks like the Goldilocks Zone for news media. The four Pirate Bay guys were found guilty by a Swedish court, sentenced to a year in jail, and fined $3.6 million (dollars, I think). The Pirate Bay indexes, stores and tracks BitTorrent files, some of which are public domain, and some of which are proprietary. But note the language of their supposed crime. They were [...] Video from journalism grad student on how (and how not) to file a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. Pranksters pull prank and post it to YouTube. News organization doesn’t realize it’s a prank and airs it. Pranksters post the news interpretation because it’s hilarious. Pranksters get DMCA takedown notice for posting copyrighted material. “So it’s OK for them to air content that we shot and own, but it’s not OK for me to upload [...] I just noticed that the Taco Bus now has a website and they’ve officially become the Taco Bus, no more Taconazo. Scroll down to see their menu and images of the bus and restaurant. “The Taco Bus™ has changed it’s name. We decided to call it what everyone else already calls it… The Taco Bus™. We [...] Pushing Rope is now pushing videos at Vodpod. |
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Comment/Link Problem – UPDATED
If you come to a story from an RSS feed, or if you click on a post title to comment, the cursor will no longer recognize links in the post or allow copying of text within the post.
The nice folks at IntenseDebate (the commenting plugin I use) are looking into this glitch.
Links work fine from [...]