Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas was spared jail time Friday for his D.C. Verizon Center locker room antics in which he pretended to shoot teammates while in possession of multiple handguns, a violation of the district’s strict gun regulations.
Technological advancements of the past few decades have fundamentally changed the social culture of learning. Mobile phones, personal computers, wireless Internet, satellite TV and radio, mp3 players, DVDs, smartphones — these innovations have changed the way people live and the way society interacts. With this change comes a responsibility for educators [...]
As part of PBS’ “App Days” we’re working to craft an application that can query and return data from OpenCalais, the Reuters semantic web service. It’s returns may not be perfect, but the natural language analysis is impressive and its ability to catalog proper nouns will provide a huge leg-up [...]
JIM LEHRER: People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are. And here they are:* Do nothing I cannot defend.
* Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
There may be no more common sticking point in working the incredibly talented, smart, and opinionated producers at PBS is notion of the “related link.” It has surpassed the realm of web UX and taken on an almost mythical quality – the peg on which the editorial gods shall hang their hats, shall we say.
The typically fantastic On The Media covered the phenomenon of “cyberchondria” this week. That is, the pernicious tendency to “escalate” one’s web-enabled self diagnosis of what, from a clinical perspective, are trivial health issues.
The U.S. Postal Service Museum has a beautifully designed and highly informative and entertaining exhibit of stamps. The exhibit is titled “A-Z,” and it uses a typographically-diverse alphabet as the basis for telling the history of stamp and envelope design.
For each letter’s display, the designers created a theme that begins with the letter [...]
When Chris Anderson delves into the “power of collective intelligence,” he asserts that the web-based amplification of word-of-mouth communication has serious implications for the trading of recommendations and popularizing of content. In his model, aggregators and filters place genres, categories and ideas into neat contextual buckets that give their relative recommendations meaning and [...]
