Too long, didn’t read: You can use this Ruby script to query Archive.org’s recently-launched TVNews archive and download JSON files with the results. It’s great for tracking how frequently a person or topic shows up in U.S. televised news broadcasts. (cross-posted at Nieman Journalism Lab) One of the goals of […]
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When we really care about a community in crisis, there’s a lot more we can do than give money to a formal aid organization. In fact, the range of activities we CAN do to help, even remotely, is much greater and richer than it has ever been before. For my […]
Since launching LazyTruth, I’ve been enmeshed in fact-checking, rumor correction, and studying how misinformation moves online and across society. And, as part of my thesis, I’ve been collecting examples of how average people are helping out with causes and crises using the internet. One of the promising examples of Things […]
(a Civic lunch liveblogged with Nathan Matias and Rahul Bhargava) Today, we’re hearing from the National Archives and Records Adminisration about the archives they maintain, how they’re making those archives available online at Archives.gov, and approaches to sharing the archives to broader audiences. Pamela Wright is the Chief Innovation Officer […]
Liveblog of the “Coping with hyperconnectivity” panel at NetExplo at UNESCO in Paris. The speaker is Delphine Ernotte Cunci, Deputy Chief Executive Office of France Telecom Group. One argument about information in our times is that we are submerged by the sheer amount of digital information we receive — we […]