Can Robots Tell The Truth?
As the Washington Post tries to create a near real-time fact checking system for political speeches, how might it work? And do we want it to?
Politico: Obama’s a Puppet Master
Politico complains that Obama plays the press. Same as it ever was: Every president’s played the press.
Dazzling. Deceitful. Distracting.
How news organizations are covering fact and fiction in the 2012 presidential campaign.
Best and Worst in Olympic Media Gold
The good. The bad. The brutal. Welcome to the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Pussy Riot and Massacres
Pussy Riot gets the headlines. Meantime, killings and massacres continue. Why the media covers what it covers.
Letter to a Young Journalist
“Are citizen journalists and bloggers ‘real journalists’?”
Citizen Journalism as Early Warning System
Ground Report Founder and CEO Rachel Sterne talks citizen journalism and an interesting question arises: in our evolving journalism landscape, can sites such as hers serve as early warning systems to mainstream media organizations?
Aardvark and the Semantic Web
A meta-web is forming that connects the bits and bytes of our online social actions in new and startling ways.
How Green Is Your Code
When we choose the code that runs our computers, web sites, gadgets and phones, one of the last things we think about is the environmental impact of that decision. But in a world where changes in Facebook’s underlying code base could reduce their carbon emissions by 49,000 tons, it’s about time we do so.
Jazz of Code
Software is provocative art and our code slingers are poets to the highest degree. Join them as a team and you get jazz.