Poll: Wikileaks: Deserving of praise or scorn?
What is it about Wikileaks that gets people so riled up? Is it jealousy for being able to flood the public debate with so many rich primary documents? Is it derision for putting information out without proper vetting and context? Whatever it is, it’s clear that Wikileaks is a lot more popular in other parts...
The media and the Occupy Wall Street protesters
Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one-month anniversary last week, and it doesn’t look like the protesters and occupiers in New York are leaving any time soon. Since the movement began, similar Occupy rallies have popped up in cities around the world. A lot of media coverage of the protesters, at least initially, seemed to focus...
My latest Storify: Mexican Cartel Violence Reaches Ugly New Level
Storify, a social media curation tool, is pretty neat. It lets you to create a compendium of a particular story by bringing in tweets, news stories, Flickr photos and video and adding a bit of your own context. It has its pros and cons – concisely laid out by 10,000 Words back in May –...
Traded in any illegal tobacco lately?
Remember all the stuff you had to go through as a kid when you wanted to smoke a cigarette? You had to steal one from your mom’s purse, sneak outside, hide under the back deck, and then light up and try to muffle your coughs so your parents wouldn’t hear you (maybe that was just...