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Furious judge decries "blizzard" of copyright troll lawsuits
Courts around the country are being flooded with mass copyright lawsuits. In a typical case, the owner of a pornographic film sues dozens of anonymous defendants in a single lawsuit, obtains their contact information, and then tries to extort a four-figure settlement from each defendant before the case reaches the courtroom. The potential embarrassment of having one's name publicly associated with pornographic works gives even innocent defendants a strong incentive to settle.
journalism  legal  business  culture 
26 days ago by gordonbrander
Obama for America — For the first eight years of our marriage,...
But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.
politics  culture  journalism 
4 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The Newsroom | Coming Distractions | Trailer | The A.V. Club
Aaron Sorkin is writing for a new TV series called "The News Room".
journalism  film  writing  culture 
8 weeks ago by gordonbrander
NPR Ethics Handbook | How to apply our standards to our journalism.
Our goal is not to please those whom we report on or to produce stories that create the appearance of balance, but to seek the truth.
journalism  philosophy  culture 
12 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD
Helen Gurley Brown has given Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University’s School of Engineering $30 million to create a bi-coastal Institute of Media Innovation.
journalism  web  development  school 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
With Martin's system, each crewmember gets a cell phone that operates using a prepaid SIM card; they also get a two-week plastic pill organizer filled with 14 SIM cards where the pills should be. Each SIM card, loaded with $50 worth of airtime, is attached to a different phone number and stores all contacts, text messages and call histories associated with that number, like a removable hard drive. This makes a new SIM card effectively a new phone. Every morning, each crewmember swaps out his phone's card for the card in next day's compartment in the pill organizers. After all 14 cards are used, they start over at the first one.
journalism  culture  technology  development 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Keeping Them Honest - NYTimes.com
The NY Times going on again about how hard it is to get facts straight. Something something Kafka, existentialism, truth-capital-T something something.

A reader responds: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/fact-gathering-without-the-facts.html?_r=2&ref=thepubliceditor
journalism  philosophy  culture 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
How China Ate Android - Forbes
How is it possible the mid-tier Android vendors cannot eke out revenue growth with that kind of global Android unit explosion still going on?

The most likely explanation is the rapid expansion of the low-cost Android phone vendors, particularly ZTE and Huawei. In 2010, Vodafone and Orange decided to give these Chinese companies a shot at becoming mainstream vendors in Europe. The experiment was a wild success
mobile  culture  journalism  china 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Project Argo
Project Argo is a collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPress
This is great: not just the tools, but the lessons learned. It's basically a roadmap for creating a mid-sized publication.
development  wordpress  journalism  writing  learn 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante? | Blogs | Vanity Fair
Related to the aforelinked NY Times piece:
Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper is printing lies or the truth, we here at V.F. are looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
journalism  culture  philosophy 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Friedman (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a tongue-in-cheek neologism... A Friedman is a unit of time equal to six months in the future.

The term is in reference to a May 16, 2006 article by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) detailing columnist Thomas Friedman's repeated use of "the next six months" as the period in which, according to Friedman, "we're going to find out...whether a decent outcome is possible" in the Iraq War. As documented by FAIR, Friedman had been making such six-month predictions for a period of two and a half years, on at least fourteen different occasions, starting with a column in the November 30, 2003 edition of The New York Times.
journalism  writing  culture 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Popcorn.js | The HTML5 Media Framework
A Mozilla project. A JavaScript plugin that makes it easy to cue custom content corresponding with video timelines. For example: show a Google map of a location shown in a video. Pretty clever. Potentially useful for journalists.
web  development  javascript  opensource  plugin  journalism  film 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
College from scratch - Scratch Wiki
Clay Shirky asks, "what would college look like if you could design it from scratch?"
wiki  journalism  school 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Redesigning And Re-Thinking The News | Drawar
More thoughts on the Rutledge re-design of NYT.
design  journalism  web 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Design View / Andy Rutledge - News Redux
Andy Rutledge redesigns the NYT without permission. I think many of the choices here are in the right direction: featuring authors of opinion columns, going big and visual for main stories. I like especially the strict separation, visually, of news from opinion
design  journalism  web  inspiration 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Caterina.net: Create Islands of Meaning in the Sea of Information
Great quote: "Create Islands of Meaning in the Sea of Information". Pretty much the job of the contemporary artist, journalist.
art  design  journalism  philosophy  quote 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
peoplemovin - A visualization of migration flows
Most people on the globe are moving -- more than at any time in history. This diagram shows the flow of people between countries. Where are people going, and from where to they harken?
canvas  visualization  data  culture  journalism  design 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Exit Interview: Newsvine's Mike Davidson - (37signals)
Newsvine aquired: "It’s tough to tell what things would be like if we hadn’t sold. It’s really, really hard to make a living in the general online news business without massive scale. Even at 4 or 5 million users, that’s not massive scale. Msnbc.com is highly profitable at 40 or 50 million uniques, but if you cut that in half, they probably wouldn’t be profitable at all. So for a startup in a low margin business, you have to decide eventually whether you want to go it alone or have a partner."
journalism  web  business 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Chris Hedges, Columnist - Truthdig
Chris is mostly a war journalist and writes articles here on social justice, war and morality.
journalism  news  writing  philosophy 
april 2011 by gordonbrander
Data Science Toolkit
Shockingly good tools for extracting useful things out of messy data.
data  django  python  journalism  geo 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
Safety Maps: A Do Project
Make and share maps of safe places to meet in case of emergency.
journalism  mobile  geo 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
Frenzy - The Dropbox powered social network
Private social networks via Dropbox (SSL). Think what this does for journalists/activists in sensitive areas.
journalism  socialnetwork  app  citizenjournalism 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
IfItWereMyHome.com
Originally created to give a new context to the gulf oil spill, now compares stats like lifespan, avg income from an area to where you live. Wow!
journalism  citizenjournalism  data  culture 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Information wants to be free
"The phrase is not a statement that information should be free. It's not a statement that sharing information is an intrinsic good. It's also not saying it's impossible to keep information not-free. Just difficult."
journalism  web  philosophy  business  blog 
december 2010 by gordonbrander
Attention and Information – The Aporetic
"Information overload" may actually be our response to free brain cycles: "...attention is a human constant. Where there is surplus attention we come up with things to occupy it."
philosophy  culture  design  journalism  history 
october 2010 by gordonbrander
To Enable (Comments) or Not to Enable
"Conversational journalism is highly proactive — engaging ordinary citizens on stories before or during the reporting process, for instance, not after a story has run."
journalism  citizenjournalism  communication  community 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Conversational Journalism
We don't broadcast in a vacuum, and the last pockets of low pressure have equalized.
journalism  citizenjournalism  communication  philosophy 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Transom.org
Resources for learning to create your own public radio stories.
storytelling  audio  learn  citizenjournalism  journalism 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Derek Powazek: How To Save A Newsweekly in 5 Easy* Steps
A good blueprint for creating a publication in the new media landscape.
journalism  publishing  business 
may 2010 by gordonbrander
InvisiblePeople.tv
Previously-homeless producer publishes movie interviews on this video
blog.
blog  journalism  citizenjournalism  film  from iphone
march 2010 by gordonbrander
living-stories on Google Code
Google has open-sourced the code behind it's Living Stories project. The format organizes chronological news updates by story/topic, creating an organic permanent record and a better way to make sense of an issue.
news  code  opensource  journalism  storytelling 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
FrontlineSMS: A free, large scale text messaging solution for NGOs and non-profit organizations
Open-source one-to-many, two-way SMS platform that connects a laptop and phone, turning the pair into a mobile communication center. "FrontlinesSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal." No internet connection required.
mobile  opensource  reliefanddevelopment  communication  journalism  citizenjournalism  appropriatetechnology 
february 2010 by gordonbrander
Fraidy Cats
Who is afraid of the terrorists?
journalism  socialjustice  blog 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Just Asking - The Atlantic (November 2007)
Foster Wallace on the Patriot act, etc and the loss of freedom in exchange for safety.
journalism  socialjustice 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Global Post
American web-only international news with on-the-ground reporting.
journalism  newmedia  publishing  from iphone
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Video WTF
A Stack Overflow white-labeler for video questions, etc.
journalism  resource  crowdsourcing  film 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
NYU Local
Creative Commons, indi media related to NYU life. Project by Cody Brown.
hyperlocal  publishing  creativecommons  journalism  citizenjournalism  blog  news  organization 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Batch vs. Real Time Processing, Print vs. Online Journalism: Why the Best Web News Brands Will Never Look Like The New York Times
Good analysis. But I think he's off in thinking batching stories is "last decade". There will always be a place for polished stories. Batch-y publications will become more batched, switching formats to glossy magazines, books and more permanent, less disposable mediums.
journalism  publishing  business  blog 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
CoPress
Managed hosting for student newspapers through WordPress.
journalism  wordpress  hosting 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Mountain Workshops 2009 - Stories from Murray, Kentucky
"The Mountain Workshops are three concurrent programs, the Photojournalism Workshop, Picture Editing Workshop and the Multimedia Workshop. The workshops offers a hands-on learning experience in documentary-style photojournalism." Really nice site.
journalism  school 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Phones But No Food
Phones are being used as a bootstrapped food-stamp system in Relief and Development situations
journalism  mobile  communication  community 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Rescuing The Reporters
Clay Shirky dissects a small town newspaper. 6 reporters out of a
staff of 59. A nonprofit model for reportage suddenly seems feasible.
journalism  newmedia  nonprofit  publishing  business  organization  from iphone
october 2009 by gordonbrander
Kubrick Interview, 1966
He is so *precise*. "People do not react to abstractions."
journalism  interview  inspiration  film 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
New York Times: Custom Feeds
Wonderful interface for rolling your own custom RSS feeds to contain the topics you're interested in. This is what RSS is for!
feed  journalism  rss  atom  xml  news  organization 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Clay Shirky at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Gold, every bit of it. Full transcript. Covers ethics, business models and emerging patterns that are working.
journalism  business  audio  citizenjournalism  newmedia  news  organization 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Sebastião Salgado's Notes on Facebook
Thank goodness Salgado is on Facebook. His work is underrepresented on the internet.
photo  person  blog  journalism 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Oromo Liberation Front In Southern Ethiopia: Inside rebel territory
Reuters Alertnet: "A Kenyan TV company has gathered rare footage of the Oromo Liberation Front and the insurgency they are fighting in Ethiopia's south. The Ethiopian government bars all access to this region and has tried to force the 4-part documentary series off the air, but you can watch it on YouTube ."
journalism  africa  film 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
TED talk. "Technology starts changing things when it reaches the point that it's taken for granted"
journalism  citizenjournalism  film 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
The Feed: The Vanderbilt Republic Foundation Blog
From the artistic long-form journalism non-profit. The blog focuses on the topics the Foundation is currently covering in its projects. It makes obvious sense, but the blog provides a wonderful back-channel for the story they are telling, clearing the mist from the surroundings of an isolated story and revealing a larger landscape.
journalism  nonprofit  blog  newmedia  photo  art  organization 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
News Innovation: Hyperlocals & the Framework
A generic business model for Hyperlocal news put together by the CUNY Grad school of journalism.
news  journalism  business  organization 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Five concrete steps to improving the news
I like this one best: "Don't try to win the morning, win the story. Produce journalism so excellent it will get passed around for weeks."
journalism  news  philosophy 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
EveryBlock code (ebcode)
The source code (Django modules, etc) for the initial release of EveryBlock.
hyperlocal  journalism  django  python  opensource  development  map 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Video Volunteers
"What if the poorest one billion people in the world had their own media industry?" Putting media tools in the hands of marginalized people groups. @BaghdadBrian will be working with them at some point.
socialjustice  journalism  citizenjournalism  poverty 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
The Golden Link | News Innovation
President of Reuters says he is in favor of the link economy, proposes a collaborative wiki-based process whereby we establish fair use for linking/excerpting with news agencies. CUNY will be holding a symposium and wiki on the topic.
news  journalism  business  ethics  copyright  creativecommons  wiki  organization 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Clive Limpkin
Photojournalist. Masterful work.
photo  person  portfolio  journalism 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
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