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The blue revolution at BBC Science | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
Journalists who provide links to sources show themselves to be open and trustworthy, and allow the reader to judge their interpretation of the source material It's funny how things can be connected. I was looking up the recipe for Worcestershire sauce last night and ended up idly clicking through Wikipedia.
For 15 years, I’ve been doing most of my writing — aside from my two books — on the Web.
In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification — Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard
When it comes to Gordon’s vs. Beefeater, the results are in. You, the readers, have chosen Beefeater over Gordon’s at nearly a 2-1 margin.
Accidental Hedonist - The Unfortunate Truths of Food Blogging
Jay Rosen in Paris, J-Schools in America, and a Global Struggle for the Next Press « News Launch Diary
“ Yes, these are the best of times… ” With a dash of sheepishness and a tablespoon or two of self-satisfaction, NYU J-school prof Jay Rosen confirmed the recent skyrocketing status of American journalism education that I had just described to Irene Toporkoff , the French co-founder of our soon-to-be world news startup .
Wiki life « BuzzMachine
“Everyone brings their crumbs of knowledge to the task and if they don’t, we’re the lesser for it.” I love that line about encouraging more people to bring more knowledge to Wikipedia, from a conversation yesterday with Sue Gardner , executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Gardner had just presented the results of a gargantuan, one-year-long strategy project made with about 1k Wikipedians in a few dozen languages producing 26k pages and a lot of good ideas, including expert review of articles; offline, distributed use of Wikipedia; and the wiki-based university, where research and knowledge aren’t lost. Gardner says they started the project with the knowledge that there would be “a high likelihood of failure.”
Matthew Yglesias » If a Working Paper Falls in the Wilderness and a Journalist Hears About It, Is that Worse?
I appeared on a panel at the American Political Science Association annual meeting yesterday about journalism and political science and one thing that struck me (apart from the relative rarity of this kind of sneering condescension ) was that political scientists’ description of the incentive structure of their own profession was kind of bizarre.