Paul Krugman of the New York Times nails it today in a column (unfortunately behind the Times’ pay-wall) lambasting the Washington political press corps for its utter blindness at the Republican presidential “debate” a few days ago. (I put debate in quotes because those events, with so many candidates, so little time and an electorate […]
Posts from ‘June, 2007’
Bringing Public Works to the Public
Carl Malamud and Marshall Rose have created public.resource.org, a new nonprofit dedicated to the creation of public works projects on the Internet. Our initial area of focus is increasing the flow of information in both directions between the U.S. government and people. The site asks people to buy information from government archives — information that […]
Where Journalism Can Be Heading
I did an op-ed in the Chronicle today. It’s called “Journalism isn’t dying, it’s reviving.”
Journalists Don't Need to Know Computer Programming
DigiDave asks, “Where’s the Money to Teach Journalists How to Code?” Why? Makes more sense to me that journalists should work with programmers.
Blog User Survey
Some academic folks I can vouch for are doing a survey of blogs and blog readers about policy topics, specifically politics. To participate, click here.
Amateurish "Cult of the Amateur"
Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture, was officially published this week. It is a shabby and dishonest treatment of an important topic. We do face many problems in a digital age, including several of the general issues Keen raises. (I wrote about many of them in […]
First Amendment For Broadcasters, Too
NY Times: FCC rebuffed by court on indecency fines. The decision, by a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, was a sharp rebuke for the Federal Communications Commission and for the Bush administration. It was a major victory in a legal battle being waged by […]
Some Good Advice for Newspaper People
Invisible Inkling: 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head. My favorite line: “Stop whining.”
Media Literacy Lesson: TripAdvisor
The Wall Street Journal does a service this weekend with “Deconstructing TripAdvisor,” a long article (unfortunately behind the newspaper’s pay-wall) that helps explain the popularity — and the flaws — of TripAdvisor, which for many people (including me) has become a first stop for travel planning. Thanks in part to its prominence in Google searches, […]
Benkler to Berkman, and the Role of a University
Yochai Benkler, the brilliant thinker about how modern collaborative tools are changing the economy and our lives in general, is coming to Harvard Law School and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, with which this center is affiliated (along with UC-Berkeley) and where I’m a research fellow. Benkler’s 2006 book, The Wealth of Networks, […]