From the Center
- Q&A with the MIT Global Challenge http://cot.ag/dNrogr “Celebrate the work that comes into the competition, not just the winners”
- @medialab’s “Konbit”: Connecting orgs in Haiti to Haitian labor, whether online, offline, literate, illiterate… http://cot.ag/he39Kg
- @Katrinskaya: MIT lab unrolls messaging program to help #Haiti rebuilding with sourcing local labor http://cot.ag/hvTYxI by @konbitmit
“The Columbus Dispatch is an idiot”
- @jayrosen_nyu: Columbus Dispatch pulls “homeless man with golden voice” from YouTube http://jr.ly/6iif The Columbus Dispatch is an idiot
Diversity at media conferences
- Growing spreadsheet (70+ entries) of web journalists of color http://cot.ag/dT6anz
Meet the new Congress, same as the old Congress
- Boehner walks back transparency pledge: “I didn’t promise that every single bill was going to be an open bill.”
Wikileaks plugs leak
- Wikileaks’ Assange threatened to sue the Guardian over…a leak http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/05/vanity-fair-profiles.html
Journodata gig
- @NiemanLab: Public Service Announcement: The Bay Citizen is looking for a data researcher for interactive news http://nie.mn/icAepy
Transparent censorship
- News Challenge/Marines collaboration overlays reasons for censorship atop blacked-out photos http://cot.ag/ij6dcp
Make new friends, and keep the old
- @Chrysaora: Help us spread the word wide and far: @awesomebos is looking for a new trustee! Make Boston more awesome http://is.gd/jRefO