users can submit edits for review through a "pending changes" system

Asked by Gordon Brown what the UK could do to use the internet properly, Tim Berners-Lee replied that the government should put all its data online. He later reported Brown saying, "OK, let's do it."

wow. just...wow.

How "surge," ironic mustaches and Abu Ghraib fit into the past decade.

"For all the sound and fury, citizen journalism once again did nothing but spread misinformation at a time when thousands people with family at the base would have been freaking out already, and breach the privacy of those who had been killed or wounded. We learned not a single new fact, nor was a single life saved."

the science behind emoticons

Reuters tells AP to suck it up, be a news agency.

the AP's new scheme to protect their news "has no bearing on someone's rights under US copyright law"

"One thing is for sure, to assume that 'no news is good news' in Zimbabwe is catastrophically short-sighted."

why I love the Berkman Center

when saving lives trumps open "democracy" online

"What’s really interesting to me is the extent to which news reporters seem to have chosen Twitter as the go-to source for reactions to news events. It makes sense - there’s a premium in the news business on speed, on having a story faster than anyone else does, so the need for the quick quote makes Google hours to slow to help you. And the 140 character limit guarantees that whoever you quote will be pithy and limited to a single soundbite.

This, in turn, also increases the chance that you’ll be wrong."

""I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he said. "I had to bite it."

"A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists."

"Most famously, Mrs Klarsfeld, a German from a Christian background, publicly slapped the West German Chancellor Kurt-George Kiesinger in 1968, because of his former role as director of Nazi propaganda broadcasting, a blow that resonated around Europe and that helped bring about Kiesinger's fall from power. That slap is still discussed in German schools today, such was its significance."

wondering why I haven't seen this until now

whoah.

WTF? "Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew.... Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun."

Good examination of digital vs. traditional literacy. Made me want to go pick up a couple of 1000+ page novels.

Includes a map of ethnic migrations in Kenya since the elections

"It was unclear whether his order included the return of ballet."

dirt from Ron Paul's old newsletters, researched at the KU libraries

so this -- http://www.theonion.com/content/video/report_many_u_s_parents -- is just barely a joke, then