Alternative content for video and audio may include: described video,text video description, extended video descriptions, clean audio, content navigation by content structure, captioning, enhanced captions/subtitles, sign translation and transcripts. Also covers system-level requirements for users with a disability.

Organization-wide overview of policy concerns by Christine Pierpoint.

Robert Foster, The Juice, Julian Assange.

Jolie O’Dell on the effect of adding the Facebook Like button to your site.

Ros Hodgekiss.

Diaspora is now available as a developer release.

Good advice on how universities should approach social media.

A data typology for social media internetting.

Mark Neustadt on the need for colleges and universities to engage in social media.

Dan Benjamin is now podcasting full-time.

“Do you believe the ‘pages’ of a ‘digital magazine’ should ‘flip’?” — awesome.

Supposedly this is the article whence came the term “culture jamming.”

Web app from the MIT Media Lab that attempts to assemble your online identity.

Murdoch paid content roundup, via Lydia.

Baekdal has some interesting data visualisations about mass media and attention over time.

Steven Berlin Johnson on the changing nature of content and implications for the news business.

Tom Teodorczuk, back in January, gets Clay Shirky’s take on the media landscape and the future of news.

This is one of the great pieces of writing on and about the Internet, focusing on the web’s impact on the newspaper business, which seems not long for this world.

Eric Etheridge with a round-up of opinion on the future of newspapers.

Daily front pages from major newspapers.

John Emerson researches coverage of wars in Democratic Republic of Congo and Darfur using the New York Times Article Search API and concludes there has been a massive discrepancy between coverage of the former (very little) and the latter (a lot), despite the fact that many more lives have been lost in conflict in the DRC.

Dan Wallach on the future of cable and Internet TV.

The couple that sued Google for taking Street View photos of their house lost the case. Apparently a complaint like this rests on proving that the privacy violation caused real harm. It sounds like the plaintiffs didn't have a strong enough case. Still, Google's opt-out response and claim that privacy is dead anyway seems like a cop out.

Jim talks to a reporter for Time about the future of Detroit.

Metafilter makes Time's Best Blogs 2009 list.

David Robinson argues against newspapers charging ISPs for content access.

All those facts and figures, you can search them.

David Folkenflik on the future of newspapers. Via Jeff Cohen.

Indexes 2.8 million articles since 1981, and articles contain around 35 searchable fields.