MediaBerkman : Fernando Rodrigues “Journalism and Public Information in Brazil” - Video
Excellent overview — good open government work from a surprising place. Speaking of surprises, I was tickled to learn how Brazil’s existing public disclosure laws were passed during the junta dictatorship era!
(tags: Brazil world video audio info+access government databases journalism tidbits+fodder)
Second Goose » Knight [...]
Feld Thoughts : The Treadputer
Looks good for exercising while on the phone, but I’m skeptical about whether you could write with it….
(tags: health technology processes writing tools)
Spokesmanreview.com: Storm Stories
Very cool example of a Google Map being used as part of a breaking news story. Well done!
(tags: maps tools journalism breaking+news news visual+communication interactive tidbits+fodder local)
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Google Maps gone bad
Oh, this is hilarious! Talk about privacy issues!
(tags: video humor maps search)
Impressions on obsession with recession (The Joy of Tech comic)
I gotta admit, I think there’s a lot of truth to this one — especially re: media’s role.
(tags: psychology fear emotions media news+biz human+nature tidbits+fodder)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
Interesting resource on the nutritional content of food. I’d love to see some good mashups with this!
(tags: health government science databases mashup)
Simplicity [...]
A great photo by Wolfpix seems to have attracted a lot of obvious Flickr comment spam.
(UPDATE: Turns out the comments I’m complaining here are not comment spam — but man, they sure look like it. See Karoli’s comment below for an explanation.)
I love Flickr and other photo-sharing services. Not that I’m much of a photographer [...]
Get started using OPERA
I just installed the latest version of the Opera browser for Mac. Haven’t used Opera in a long time, looking forward to taking this tour and playing with the new features.
(tags: software)
MediaStorm: A Multimedia Production Studio Founded by Brian Storm - Photojournalism, Photography, Video, Audio, Storytelling
Fabulous site offering multimedia for journalists in [...]
I’ve been thinking about the impermanence of life lately (not in a morbid or suicidal way, just in a that’s-how-it-is kind of way). And it strikes me that eulogies can be pretty important. I think this is the best one ever: John Cleese’s eulogy of his Monty Python cohort Graham Chapman, in 1989:
For the record, [...]
It was like being rocked to sleep last night… ALL night… and still today. Good thing I’m not prone to motion sickness.
Courtesy National Center for Atmospheric Research
Notice the difference in scale (vertical axis) from the chart I published last night. Oh yes, the wind is kicking up today! Hang on!
Warner: When in doubt, sue someone - - mathewingram.com/work
“This suit is the latest attempt by the music and content industries to go after anything that acts as a search engine. Argument: if they allow people to search for copyright-infringing files then they are contributing to that copyright infringement.”
(tags: law copyright conflict search music business strategy [...]
In Boulder today:
Courtesy National Center for Atmospheric Research
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