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...
View ArticleWe 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....
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleBrain-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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBy 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleVisualizing 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...
View ArticleWhat 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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