North Korea’s Digital Underground. What journalism looks like in North Korea. Fascinating read about how information slips and moves through the margins.
Tag Archives: information flow
Internet kill switch bill gets a makeover
Internet kill switch bill gets a makeover. Just one more shining example of how our representatives don’t know jack about how the web works or why it’s important. (via @matro)
Does journalism work?
Journalism without effect does not deserve the special place in democracy that it tries to claim. But rather than the headlines reflecting the most important events, perhaps they should reflect the most pernicious misconceptions. Good journalists already have some sense of this, and every so often… Continue reading →
Alex Payne & The Very Last Thing He Will Write About Twitter
Alex Payne on Twitter’s need to decentralize: Some time ago, I circulated a document internally with a straightforward thesis: Twitter needs to decentralize or it will die. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not even in a decade, but it was (and, I think, remains) my belief… Continue reading →
Function Vs. Form
Finding happiness in a world teeming with information and products: Happiness is easier to find when you don’t fill your life with all that clutter and that is the reason I have been thinking about all of this lately. It feels all too daunting to… Continue reading →
Talking Tools: Shawn Blanc
Excerpted from an interview with Shawn Blanc on Bridging the Nerd Gap. Pretty cool anecdotes throughout. I hate to just waste away an hour especially as a daily habit just vegging out for no reason. Writing is entertainment for me, although sometimes it takes on… Continue reading →
Paperworks / Padworks
Difficult to pull just one quote from the recent Mark Pesce article but this is my favorite: we need to think of every educator in Australia as a contributor of value. More than that, we need to think of every student in Australia as a… Continue reading →
Slow reading and poor content design
The Guardian published an article a few days ago discussing the concerns of some academics over modern reading habits. It centers around the idea that, for some, reading online is an inherently shallower process that leaves a person less educated than reading traditional print texts. This… Continue reading →
Mark Pesce at Webstock
http://www.r2.co.nz/clientbin/player-licensed-viral.swf Mark Pesce’s blog the human network is a must read and he just published the full video of his talk at Webstock. The transcript was posted back in February but the video is well worth watching. Here are some scattered annotations on what Pesce… Continue reading →
Why “The Content Graph” Is Not The Next Generation of News
A couple weeks ago Scott Karp, founder of Publish2, began a blog post titled “The Content Graph and the Future of Brands” with: Yesterday, two stories from Aol’s DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan…Now I’m… Continue reading →