Posts under ‘Tools’

I’m on the board of the California First Amendment Coalition, which is holding its annual “Free Speech and Open Government Assembly” this week in LA. This afternoon I”m moderating a panel with some prominent bloggers.

The Open Net Initiative, in “Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma,”
examines the role of information technology, citizen journalists, and bloggers in Burma and presents a technical analysis of the abrupt shutdown of Internet connectivity by the Burmese government on September 29, 2007, following its violent [...]

NY Times: To Be a Journalist in Iraq.
Do not fail to read this.

Dave Winer has been exploring a superb news resource, exploring the depth and breadth of the New York Times‘ data-stream. The most traditional of news organizations is opening up, including its archives,in ways that could be truly revolutionary in the news business — and Dave is leading the way toward a new way of seeing [...]

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Arizona Republic: Sheriff’s deputies arrest ‘New Times’ owners. The charges stem from a story published under their byline in the Thursday edition of New Times, in which they describe a subpoena the paper reportedly received from a grand jury convened by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Lacey has been released from jail after posting bail; [...]

Buried in this New York Times story is the following incredible finding from a new poll:
Six in 10 Americans said in the poll that administration officials deliberately misled the public in making a case for the war; 33 percent of all Americans, including 40 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Democrats, say Saddam Hussein [...]

Infoworld’s “Cringely” observes, regarding the nototious Quechup:
When you sign up for the site it prompts you to share your address book so you can find out which of your 10,000 close personal friends is also trolling for dates on Quechup. But instead of presenting you with a list of friends, Quechup sends an invite from [...]

I wouldn’t go near an iPhone, but I might well buy an iPod touch. Apple isn’t getting nearly enough credit from journalists for this product.
News-folk: You should be aiming at least some of what you produce at the screen on this WiFi enabled audio/video/Web machine. This is breakthrough territory, way beyond what the iPhone even [...]

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I was among the skeptics about the iPhone, and advised people to wait for version 2.0 — for a phone that was much better than this one and not tied to AT&T as the sole network.
So I’m wondering why Apple’s huge price cut yesterday is such a surprise. There were reports that sales had plummeted [...]

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I’ve been testing the Nokia E90 Communicator, an powerful blend of hardware and software. It combines a number of functions into a portable computer/phone that, despite the inevitable compromises, strikes me as the best device for journalists — and lots of other business folks — to carry around with them.

It’s almost precisely what the [...]