What’s the purpose of journalism, media, art – or communication of any sort? Your goal may be to build a business, or to prevent one from crumbling. Both are tough and worthy goals. But are they a purpose? Here’s a purpose: help an anorexic woman tell her friends about her disease; or raise $500,000 for […]
Mark the date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at the National Press Club in Washington. The Knight-Batten Symposium and Awards for Innovations in Journalism provide a glimpse into projects that use new technologies to engage citizens in public life. Some may emerge as models for news and journalism into the future. The four finalists: Ushahid.com: Citizen […]
Reporter: If you could’ve found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would’ve explained everything. Other reporter: No, I don’t think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn’t get, or something he lost. With the curse of memory, a current […]
So I finally set up a Facebook account. Thirty-four friends so far! Not a bad start, eh? Only 830,125 to catch Michael Phelps. I have him at a disadvantage. His Facebook page broke today with 7,600 pending requests. I’ll be his friend, but I won’t beg.
Just when you or your favorite school teacher thought there was no way in hell the English language could survive the abomination of text message shorthand, aka textese, a British linguist has thrown a bucket of cold water on the world’s SMS malcontents. David Crystal writes in his new book, Txtng: the Gr8 Db8, that […]
Adrian Holovaty is the news industry’s favorite techie, even as he develops a kind of news that is changing the newspaper game. EveryBlock, his latest project funded with a $1.1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, enables citizens to create a profile of their own neighborhood by utilizing […]