Posts under ‘Techniques’

I’m on my way to San Diego to participate in Strong Angel III: week-long demonstration will consist of a series of collaborative technical and non-technical experiments based on both lessons learned in past disasters and on emerging requirements for integrated operations. They are designed to test the interoperability, reliability, and flexibility of proposed social and […]

The California First Amendment Coalition has joined other supporters of journalism in filing a legal brief on behalf of Josh Wolf. He’s in jail for contempt of court, because he refused to hand over to the federal government out-takes of footage he shot at a street demonstration in San Francisco. While Wolf’s sympathies may well […]

Nick Carr has it down. Flog the blogosphere for being unegalitarian and the alleged “A List’s” alleged unwillingness to point to other people. Then wait for all the pointers.

A group of organizations from the political left and right, including a media company, has launched a highly worthwhile project to expose the origin of earmarks — little (and not so little) spending items in legislation designed as a special favor to a district, campaign contributor and/or politician. The idea is that the public will […]

The Toronto Globe and Mail has a good roundup of how social and citizen media sites are responding to the events in London today.

Over at PressThink, Paul Bass, editor of the New Haven Independent site, writes: If my experience is any guide, there are also pitfalls that point up the challenges that face the first wave of onliners as we develop the new journalism. I’ve found that some experiments that sound cool fall flat, while others take off. […]

Dave Sifry has posted his State of the Blogosphere, August 2006, with the fairly amazing note that Technorati has tracked its 50 millionth blog. Of course, a lot of them are link-groveling spammers, but still…

And we’re off: the Citizen Journalism unconference has begun. Doc Searls is keeping his docnograghy. Live audio is here. IRC: irc.freenode.net#citmedia

In a posting, Slashdot pulls the most relevant items — that is, the ones that add real value to the conversation — out of the mass of comments about a previous posting, surfacing signal from noise.

In Vanity Fair, Michael Bronner has produced a tour-de-force, “9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes,” a dramatic reconstruction, based on newly released audio tapes, of how military and civilian authorities responded during the 2001 attacks. (Among other findings, Bronner makes clear that the military and White House dissembled like crazy in the aftermath.) He’s combined terrific […]