General shout-out to the Sunlight Foundation
The Sunlight Foundation is committed to exactly the kind of transparency principles that journalism traditionally serves. Their projects include: compiling a list of people seeking tax breaks on imports from Congress; building a completely indexed and cross-referenced depository of federal documents; running the numbers on sources of Congressional wealth; opening bills to online, public review.
“The [...]
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, on newsgathering
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, yesterday. I took the opportunity to ask him about Wikipedia’s relationship to legacy journalism, and his thoughts about the decrease in newsgathering, and what systems might take its place.
Because of its system of cross-references to “reliable” outside sources, Wikipedia depends on [...]
Is Tweeting a Crime?
Huffington Post is reporting that a WTO protester was arrested and charged with “hindering prosecution” for using Twitter to direct protester movements at a demonstration against the G20 economic summit in Pittsburgh.
FBI agents subsequently executed a search warrant at the man’s home, where they seized computers, political writings and anarchist literature.
In other news, you [...]
