A recent interview with the design director of NYTimes.com revealed something wonderful, they still write their HTML by hand.
It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. [...]
We Tell Stories is a project from Pengiun: six new stories inspired by six classics, all told using new media techniques like blogging, mapping, and infographics. - totally freakin’ neat.
Over six weeks writers… will be pushing the envelope and creating tales that take full advantage of the immediacy, connectivity and interactivity that is now possible. [...]
If you value the free dissemination of ideas - if you believe that democracy requires a free press - if you prefer truth to truthiness - you should care about network neutrality.
First, the ever helpful sports metaphor.
You’re watching a Cubs game. It’s a nail biter - in the bottom of the ninth, your favorite [...]
A new arms race is on, but its not being fought between the usual players. Media outlets, nationalist groups, coders, and governments are all fighting to control the flow of information.
Some news from the front:
Russia bearing down
Government efforts to block access to websites like The Great Firewall of China are at this point well-known. [...]
Tagged censorship, China, CNN, SlideShare, SportsNetworkLifehacker just posted a bit about a new Firefox extension that changes how Craigslist works. There are a mess of extensions for Firefox that do stuff like this. (My personal favorite blocks annoying flash and banner ads.)
Craigslist Image Preview adds a thumbnail of the image(s) within a listing on Craigslist without requiring you to [...]
You can download the raw footage for NOVA’s new documentary, released under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to share or remix the footage, as long as it’s attributed and not for commercial purposes.
This experiment marks the first time we have ever made raw video available to the public, and we’re eager to see [...]
Documents!
Remember documents? Way back, before broadband, before user-generated content, before video chat, we used computers to… well… play solitaire. But between games, we wrote documents. It was so, um… productive!
Well, documents are sexy again. Scribd is hot. It’s “YouTube for documents.” It’s got an API. Boing Boing likes [...]
A new book, Access Denied, The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering examines the mechanisms, politics, and contexts of Internet censorship.
Jonathan Aronson, from the Annenberg School for Communication, makes the case:
The Web provides everybody with access to information. That makes those in power nervous. Transparency is the best defense against further narrowing of information [...]
At 4:36 a.m., a magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the Midwest.
At 4:53 a.m., the Methods Reporter, an independent Chicago news site, had a story up saying there was a earthquake. At that point, Chicago Public Radio was reporting that the Chicago Police Department was receiving calls, but they had little other information. Google news [...]
I use free and open source software, almost exclusively, when I practice journalism.
Free and open source software is counter-intuitive to many, but the mantra of the free software movement uses terms that journalists should understand very well.
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free [...]
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