From the Center
- Prep for bean spillage: new website, News Challenge announcement, new everything http://cot.ag/kyeIAw
The Future of News May Be Too Fast
- Slow down and smell the facts: In rush, national media reports local media’s gory but 100% untrue story http://cot.ag/lBmeG6
Censorship and Transparency
- MT @jayrosen_nyu: Turns out the Palin emails are a kind of milestone in pro-am journalism, as an inflection point. http://jr.ly/9ugd
- “It’s long past time for government to get over its skittishness about digital redaction.” http://cot.ag/mbVhl7
Shadow Internet for dissidents
- What are the downsides of a State Dept.-sponsored shadow Internet? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html
More reason we need BetweenTheBars.org
- RT @mp3michael: “@dhh: Half of all US prison inmates are doing time for drug offenses. Cost: $3.4B/yr http://deck.ly/~eYXqo
A defiant, creative resurrection in Grand Rapids
- Newsweek listed Grand Rapids as one of “America’s Dying Cities,” the city responded http://fb.me/13jsuM3Cj
Secure SMS’s
- From 2009 and re-highlighted by @mobileactive this week: “Secure Protocol for Short Message Service” http://cot.ag/l4cbXS
Elsewhere
- @ReganStP: How do you go about building trust? #1 Share Your Data!!! http://ow.ly/5daCI
- Lesson for whistleblowers: no whistleblower protection if co. can prove it could have fired you for cause http://cot.ag/kCNKzx
- Scholastic Inc. pulls coal industry-sponsored curriculum — after reaching 66,000 4th-grade teachers http://cot.ag/l5XK5N
- Visualize wealth vs. AM commute times in San Francisco: http://content.stamen.com/mtv_travel_time_maps_are_live