gordonbrander + journalism 141
Furious judge decries "blizzard" of copyright troll lawsuits
journalism
legal
business
culture
26 days ago by gordonbrander
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.
26 days ago by gordonbrander
Obama for America — For the first eight years of our marriage,...
politics
culture
journalism
4 weeks ago by gordonbrander
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.
4 weeks ago by gordonbrander
A peek inside the Data Journalism Handbook | News & Analysis | Data Driven Journalism
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
A free CC book. Brian Suda authored a chapter. The whole website looks interesting.
journalism
data
visualization
blog
book
creativecommons
from iphone
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution | The Economist
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The Economist thinks rapid prototyping will be a big deal.
business
essay
journalism
development
diy
maker
from iphone
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The Newsroom | Coming Distractions | Trailer | The A.V. Club
8 weeks ago by gordonbrander
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.
journalism
philosophy
culture
12 weeks ago by gordonbrander
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.
12 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Knight-Mozilla OpenNews: Building an ecosystem for open web development in journalism
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Building a news ecosystem on the open web
journalism
development
web
mozilla
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD
journalism
web
development
school
january 2012 by gordonbrander
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.
january 2012 by gordonbrander
The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
journalism
culture
technology
development
january 2012 by gordonbrander
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.
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Keeping Them Honest - NYTimes.com
january 2012 by gordonbrander
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
A reader responds: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/fact-gathering-without-the-facts.html?_r=2&ref=thepubliceditor
january 2012 by gordonbrander
How China Ate Android - Forbes
mobile
culture
journalism
china
january 2012 by gordonbrander
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
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Project Argo
development
wordpress
journalism
writing
learn
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Project Argo is a collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPressThis is great: not just the tools, but the lessons learned. It's basically a roadmap for creating a mid-sized publication.
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante? | Blogs | Vanity Fair
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Related to the aforelinked NY Times piece:
journalism
culture
philosophy
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.
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? | The Public Editor - NYTimes.com
january 2012 by gordonbrander
There is so much irony here, I don't even know where to start.
culture
journalism
philosophy
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Friedman (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
journalism
writing
culture
january 2012 by gordonbrander
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.
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Popcorn.js | The HTML5 Media Framework
october 2011 by gordonbrander
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
jStat : a JavaScript statistical library
august 2011 by gordonbrander
A Javascript library that does essentially what R does.
javascript
jquery
plugin
library
statistics
journalism
data
visualization
opensource
august 2011 by gordonbrander
College from scratch - Scratch Wiki
august 2011 by gordonbrander
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
july 2011 by gordonbrander
More thoughts on the Rutledge re-design of NYT.
design
journalism
web
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Designing a big news site is about more than beauty » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
july 2011 by gordonbrander
A response to Andy Rutledge's NYT redesign.
design
journalism
web
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Design View / Andy Rutledge - News Redux
july 2011 by gordonbrander
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
july 2011 by gordonbrander
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
july 2011 by gordonbrander
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
Raiding a Brothel in India - NYTimes.com
may 2011 by gordonbrander
NYT feature on International Justice Mission.
reliefanddevelopment
nonprofit
journalism
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Exit Interview: Newsvine's Mike Davidson - (37signals)
may 2011 by gordonbrander
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
april 2011 by gordonbrander
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
march 2011 by gordonbrander
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
march 2011 by gordonbrander
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
march 2011 by gordonbrander
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
january 2011 by gordonbrander
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
december 2010 by gordonbrander
"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
october 2010 by gordonbrander
"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
Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee
october 2010 by gordonbrander
Video seriese by Standford on Data vis.
data
journalism
learn
film
october 2010 by gordonbrander
To Enable (Comments) or Not to Enable
june 2010 by gordonbrander
"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
june 2010 by gordonbrander
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
june 2010 by gordonbrander
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
may 2010 by gordonbrander
A good blueprint for creating a publication in the new media landscape.
journalism
publishing
business
may 2010 by gordonbrander
InvisiblePeople.tv
march 2010 by gordonbrander
Previously-homeless producer publishes movie interviews on this video
blog.
blog
journalism
citizenjournalism
film
from iphone
blog.
march 2010 by gordonbrander
living-stories on Google Code
february 2010 by gordonbrander
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
february 2010 by gordonbrander
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
“Python for Informatics” Open Textbook Remixed in 11 Days
february 2010 by gordonbrander
Open textbook based on another Python open textbook. Nice.
opensource
python
development
book
creativecommons
learn
journalism
february 2010 by gordonbrander
Fraidy Cats
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Who is afraid of the terrorists?
journalism
socialjustice
blog
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Just Asking - The Atlantic (November 2007)
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Foster Wallace on the Patriot act, etc and the loss of freedom in exchange for safety.
journalism
socialjustice
january 2010 by gordonbrander
How dictators watch us on the web « Prospect Magazine
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Worth a read later.
journalism
web
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Rebooting the news system in the age of social media
december 2009 by gordonbrander
@jayrosen's hyperlinked topic notes for presentation.
journalism
newmedia
news
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Global Post
november 2009 by gordonbrander
American web-only international news with on-the-ground reporting.
journalism
newmedia
publishing
from iphone
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Video WTF
november 2009 by gordonbrander
A Stack Overflow white-labeler for video questions, etc.
journalism
resource
crowdsourcing
film
november 2009 by gordonbrander
NYU Local
november 2009 by gordonbrander
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
november 2009 by gordonbrander
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
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Managed hosting for student newspapers through WordPress.
journalism
wordpress
hosting
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Mountain Workshops 2009 - Stories from Murray, Kentucky
november 2009 by gordonbrander
"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
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Phones are being used as a bootstrapped food-stamp system in Relief and Development situations
journalism
mobile
communication
community
november 2009 by gordonbrander
The public can't discuss it if they don't know it exists
october 2009 by gordonbrander
In response to Cody Brown's recent essay.
journalism
reporting
citizenjournalism
from iphone
october 2009 by gordonbrander
Rescuing The Reporters
october 2009 by gordonbrander
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
staff of 59. A nonprofit model for reportage suddenly seems feasible.
october 2009 by gordonbrander
Kubrick Interview, 1966
september 2009 by gordonbrander
He is so *precise*. "People do not react to abstractions."
journalism
interview
inspiration
film
september 2009 by gordonbrander
New York Times: Custom Feeds
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
NewsInnovation Wiki
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Run by the CUNY journalism school.
journalism
wiki
business
school
learn
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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)
august 2009 by gordonbrander
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
august 2009 by gordonbrander
"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
august 2009 by gordonbrander
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
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Photojournalist. Masterful work.
photo
person
portfolio
journalism
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Clay Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
july 2009 by gordonbrander
"The semantic web is a machine for creating Syllogisms"
semantic
html
w3c
microformat
standard
web
information
logic
journalism
july 2009 by gordonbrander
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