Posts under ‘Techniques’

Shooting War is a brilliant example of what could become a Web staple: graphic novels translated to a medium that is almost perfect for the genre. There’s a daily installment, and it’s addictive. This one posits an all-too-possible scenario of the future, which I won’t describe here. It’s heavy-handed at times, which is the point, […]

At the Sunlight Foundation, Bill Allison has been uncovering remarkable facts about House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his land dealings back home. Great reporting, and unpersuasive responses from Hastert’s defenders. Now the foundation is looking for citizen reporters to investigate the other members. Recommended if you have the inclination.

A terrific project called News21 — sponsored by two major foundations to help figure out the future of journalism education (and maybe journalism itself) — is under way. This is an important initiative, bringing in students and faculty from five major universities in a multi-year effort that involves some serious journalism about the intersection of […]

The phone companies are behind a slew of anti-network neutrality TV ads I saw in Washington the other evening. It was unfortunate that their commercials, aimed at Congress and staffs on Capitol Hill, are designed not to enlighten but rather to obfuscate. An honest debate is not what we’re getting, sorry to say. And with […]

In a place with no access other than a much in-demand dialup from a central room (no phones in individual rooms!). More when I can get back online for more than few minutes.

Slate Magazine is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and I say congratulations. The online publication is cleverly headlining some essays by folks who explain, “What I Hate About Slate,” including in one case its “insufferable smugness,” by a writer who is occasionally insufferable himself in print. Slate, which I read frequently, is many things. Innovative is […]

Over at his blog, Jay Rosen writes about — in preparation for a session he’s leading next Friday at BloggerCon — “Users-Know-More-than-We-Do Journalism,” saying: It’s a “put up or shut up” moment for open source methods in public interest reporting. Can we take good ideas like… distributed knowledge, social networks, collaborative editing, the wisdom of […]

Heading back home from Helsinki and the great Aula event. Ross Mayfield and Bruno Giussani did some solid blogging.

AOL’s blogging boss, Jason Calacanis, has convinced the company to use the Netscape.com brand — still enormously valuable — as a Digg-like site where people vote on which news stories are the most important, interesting, etc. I’d expected something like this from Yahoo, not AOL. Jason seems to have made the difference, and I hope […]

unwiki: The Deletion Log is a list of all the pages that have abused Wiki’s democratic remit; it is the last stop on the way to destruction. Caution: not entirely work-friendly…