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 →
A bit about school from an excellent short essay by Jonathan Harris: The class was a crash course in things that are usually picked up slowly and by accident, like lost coins, over the course of your life. This class was so memorable because it… Continue reading →
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 →
A few weeks ago Religion Dispatches published an article about medieval manuscripts and multitasking. The point is that for centuries our minds have referenced texts on multiple levels; the internet did not inherently create this distraction. There is also this gem from a David Brooks column: The… Continue reading →
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 →
An interesting project is underway that seeks to create a model for book publishing that can thrive on the web and across devices. More intriguing, though, is that the founders are taking WordPress as their starting point and developing the software through plugins. There’s even… Continue reading →
Looking back over four years at Whitman, I am disappointed and frustrated with a system that could be doing so much. I think that there is a severe lack of encouragement and valuation of open knowledge systems at Whitman. While disappointing for my four years… Continue reading →
In an effort to start tracking some of the ideas I have while reading I want to start making note of ideas and questions that come up here. This is the first of such posts and we’ll see what form they take in the future.… Continue reading →
Next week is the second iteration of BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia. One of the ideas for a session is discussing the current state of knowledge management systems. Daniel Bachhuber describes this as: how news organizations manage all of the data they’re privy to that is either stored… Continue reading →
Yesterday I had a spare couple hours and decided to follow Doug Bowman’s example and set up a self-hosted archive of my Twitter stream with WordPress. You can see the finished product of that here. There was some interest expressed on Twitter of others wanting… Continue reading →