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The Censored Story of Wikileaks

Wikileaks is often in the news, but for the wrong reasons. The web site provides a highly public outlet for “classified, censored, or otherwise restricted material of political, diplomatic, or ethical...

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We Can’t Learn About Economics

Despite spending the last several days reading up on Treasury Secretary Geithner’s plan to buy bad bank assests, I now feel only marginally better prepared to judge whether this is a good idea or not....

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We Have No Maps of The Web

  We dream the internet to be a great public meeting place where all the world’s cultures interact and learn from one another, but it is far less than that. We are separated from ourselves by...

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We Were Wrong About Giraffes

I was told in grade school that the giraffe’s neck evolved to be long because taller giraffes could reach more tasty tree leaves in times of drought. It’s a lovely example of natural selection, and...

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Brain-Sharing, Illustrated

I found this awesome little video exploring the idea of plugging in someone else’s brain for a while to see how they see the world. I sort of feel like this is what I’m doing when I hang out with...

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The world cannot be represented in machine-readable form

UPDATE: Debrouwere continues the conversation with a response to the key points here, in the comments to his original post. Dutch journalist/coder Stijn Debrouwere has written a very thorough post...

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By the numbers, American journalism failed to inform voters

A recent study by World Public Opinion.org shows that the majority of the American population believed false things about basic national issues, right before the 2010 mid-term elections. I don’t know...

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A computational journalism reading list

[Last updated: 18 April 2011 -- added statistical NLP book link] There is something extraordinarily rich in the intersection of computer science and journalism. It feels like there’s a nascent field in...

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Visualizing communities

There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses. –Raymond Williams Who are the masses that the “mass media” speaks to? What can it mean to ask what “teachers” or “blacks” or...

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What should the digital public sphere do?

Earlier this year, I discovered there wasn’t really a name for the thing I wanted to talk about. I wanted a word or phrase that includes journalism, social media, search engines, libraries, Wikipedia,...

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