Visual Tributes to Ray Bradbury
His name became a household word across the globe.
Space
SpaceX: a new era, a few years late?
The launch of the SpaceX Dragon is a major step toward the privatization of space travel, which according to Messrs.
Culture, Futures, Politics
Mark Dery dances the apocalypso
I’m leading a two-week asynchronous discussion with erudite author and culture critic Mark Dery, whose provocative essay collection I Must
Aesthetic Bliss
Yosemite Range of Light
Spectacular time-lapse of Yosemite by Shawn Reeder, via Laughing Squid…
Journalism, Media
How many NeoNazi Black Panthers does it take to screw in an image orthicon tube?
This video by Alexandra Pelosi illustrates the problematic state of news today: media depictions of Sanford, Florida following the Trayvon
Uncategorized
Data-driven journalism: approaches to interactive storytelling (at #ISOJ)
The session that impressed me most at last week’s International Symposium on Online Journalism was this one, led by Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times. Major innovations are possible in data journalism;the key is getting or creating the requisite databases. The journalism is in extracting meaning.
Journalism
Richard Gingras at the International Symposium on Online Journalism
The leader of Google News gave an insightful talk about the current state of online journalism. (Pardon my typos.)
Journalism
International Symposium on Online Journalism: New approaches in engaging with the news community
ISOJ Program Angela Lee: Audience preference and editorial judgment: a study of time-lagged influence in online news To what extent
Journalism
Live blogging #ISOJ
I was actively live tweeting the International Sympsium on Online Journalism when I hit Twitter’s limit of 1000 posts within
Freedom to Connect, Future of the Internet, Networks
Infinite spectrum vs scarcity hype
David Isenberg explains that spectrum for various forms of wireless transmission and communication is treated as scarce, similar to real
Uncategorized
TechSoup’s Live Greentech Discussion
Yesterday (4/17/2012) I was part of a nonprofit Green Tech seminar hosted by TechSoup, with Evonne Heyning moderating. Also presenting: Jamie Henn from 350.org, Kevin Danaher and Zoey Krol from the San Francisco Department of Environment. See http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive
Future of the Internet, Networks
Technology Use Among Youth (Pew Internet)
The Pew Internet and American Life project’s Amanda Lenhart presented at the Annenberg Public Policty Center on Internet use among