Posts under ‘Tools’

WikiPatents – Community Patent Review says it contributes to the US patent system by commenting on issued patents and, soon, pending patent applications. OK, but what does the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office say? They’ll decide whether the overworked examiners — this is the charitable explanation for the garbage patents being issued all the time […]

Google’s latest foray into gathering information sounds promising. Its News Archive Search is described as an: easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get […]

From Strong Angel III: This image (click on it, or here, for larger view) is a very low-tech proof of a concept: turning SMS messages into news flow. With the help of people from several companies, including Mitre, 2SMS.com and Google, we’ve created a small demonstration of how citizen journalists could create location- and time-based […]

If any of this interests you, check out ICT for Peacebuilding. Great summaries of what’s going on.

Michael Helfrich spent the day at the beach yesterday, but it wasn’t for getting a tan. He’s part of the Strong Angel project and reports on his blog: The kinks are being worked out for how the Mission Beach data is assimilated in the EOC, but is especially gratifying to see the speed in which […]

Dave Winer is excited by the ability of mobile devices to show news, and has created a service to show the NY Times on a Blackberry. Great stuff. I’ve been reading news on my Treo for some time, using the RSS reader HandRSS (now QuickNews). What Dave has done looks easier for users, and therefore […]

I’ll tell you more later, but I’m using this posting to create a Technorati tag for a project I’m involved with next week. strongangel3

The time has come, plainly, for journalists to start getting savvy about the use of technology for secure communications.

Finally, finally, some newspapers are linking systematically outside their own empires.

CNet says CNN wants some of the clips being uploaded to popular video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, to find their way to the cable news channel.