The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Richard Gingras at the International Symposium on Online Journalism The leader of Google News gave an insightful talk about the current state of online journalism. Here are my tweets during his keynote. Appreciated his visionary thinking about the state and future of news, especially the extent to which the concept of a “news story” is …
International Symposium on Online Journalism: New approaches in engaging with the news community ISOJ Program Angela Lee: Audience preference and editorial judgment: a study of time-lagged influence in online news To what extent are audiences influencing editors and journalists, and vice versa? Editorial judgement measured based on placement on paper; audience preference measured by clicks, …
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Spectrum is infinite – do not trust anyone who hypes scarcity David Isenberg explains that spectrum for various forms of wireless transmission and communication is treated as scarce, similar to real estate, because a scarcity model works for “cellcos” (cellular communication companies, former telcos) In fact, spectrum is infinite. [Link] The core of the story …
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Bruce Sterling talk at ATX Hackerspace I shot this video of Bruce at an EFF-Austin-sponsored event February 25 at ATX Hackespace. We were rallying the troops. “You will not have the Internet that you had 20 years ago, that’s not possible. But you don’t have to roll over at the site of bluster from the …
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Code Across America ATX: A Civic Innovation Hackathon Google-funded Code for America was in Austin Saturday for a codeathon using data accessible via the city’s data portal. I dropped by the geek chic coworking facility Conjunctured, where the codeathon was happening, and hung out long enough to get a sense of the projects the ~40 …
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (AC Clarke) My pal David Pescovitz at the Institute for the Future blogged recently about the IFTF “Multiverse of Exploration Map,” an overview of the six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea …
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