Posts from ‘October, 2006’

Over at the MozillaWiki, they’re asking users for ideas about what features to put in upcoming versions: We are currently in the early development stage for Firefox 3, and would like to collect all the ideas for feature enhancements in a single place. Our goal is to create a single index that lists what sorts […]

MAPLight.org “brings together information on campaign contributions and votes in the California legislature.”

We’ve heard from a couple of people in the past month or so about comments they wrote that didn’t make it onto the site. Apologies for this. Here’s how the comments work here, and what probably happened. First, while we don’t require registration by comment posters, we do ask that you include an email address […]

I’m speaking tomorrow and Wednesday at the Internet Hungary conference. Then I’ll be in Spain to do the keynote at I Congreso Internacional de Nuevo Periodismo, a conference on new media. Postings may be somewhat sporadic.

Milverton Wallace, in an essay entitled “The new Corinthians: How the Web is socialising journalism,” says: So now we’ve come full circle: from 17th /18th century amateurism, to 19th/20th century professionalism and back to amateurism in the 21st century. Here we use “amateur” in the noble, Corinthian sense – someone or an activity motivated by […]

Frank Shaw: What Replaces Media? So in this world of citizen journalists, who covers the city council meetings? Who applies the resources to uncover what is really happening in Iraq and how the US government is (or is not) doing the right things? Today, it’s the New York Times and their ilk. Tomorrow, who will […]

Ethan Zuckerman, my Berkman Center colleague, writes: Increasingly, it strikes me that there are three types of netizens I want to hear from: – folks who are in the right (wrong) place at the right (wrong) time: the commuter in the London underground when the bombs go off; Gnarlkitty, as she visits demonstrations surrounding the […]

Washington Post: Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff. Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, “appear to have perpetrated a fraud” on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued yesterday. The report includes previously unreleased e-mails between the now-disgraced lobbyist […]

Dave Winer: What comes after Who Knew What When: It was a question of Who Knew What When. Iraq, Katrina and Delay do not fit that template. So I have to wonder whether we should be concerned if CNN or MSNBC or the LA or NY Times are in trouble, if the only story they […]

Paul Henry’s “The War of the Words” is unfair in some respects and utterly one-sided. It’s also a brilliant example of how to use democratized media tools to make a point. Take a look.