Shooting Brine
I went to the White Moustache factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn to shoot images of their Whey Turkey Brine.
Burgerbot: Do You Ever Feel Like a Giant?
Feeling large and feeling small with Burgerbot.
Biking While Hot
Biking through New York City in the summer heat. Queens to Brighton Beach and back again.
BurgerBot: Man. Dog. Feels.
Starting off the ever sporadic Adventures in Nothing with a man, dog and some sadness.
The Shave
Goodbye beard. Shaving for Mother’s Day.
Publishing the News When it’s Already Everywhere
What do publishers and news consumers do in a world of infinite choice?
Let’s Praise Books… Unless We Don’t Need to Read Them
We love books but there’ve been too many for about 500 years now.
Teen Solves Rubik’s Cube in 5.25 Seconds, Beats World Record
Video: Yeah, he’s fast.
If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
A new book exploring the intersection of literature and code is a delightful romp through some of the Western world’s most celebrated writers and the imagined JavasScript they would have — could have — slung had they been so inclined.
Welcome to the Filter Bubble
Republicans hear what they want to hear. Think everyone supports them.
Thank You, New York
Heartfelt thanks to those who helped when I went head over handlebars while riding my bike in New York.
Nonlinear Storytelling and Atomic Units of Content
No matter the content you produce, it will be broken down and remixed by your audience into its smallest – and most durable – units of sharability.
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?
The Ethos of Open Source
In less than 20 years the peer production and transparency found in Open Source is firmly entrenched in the mainstream and is affecting much more than just software.
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.