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Kickstarter - Air Quality Egg
I just backed the Air Quality Egg. This project touches open hardware, open data, open gov, citizen journalism, and citizen science.
Knight News Challenge: Audiofiles: The First Social Network for Audio Storytelling
Audiofil.es is a great effort in getting to a unified sharing and discovery platform for great audio storytelling. If you haven’t given it a whirl, do so at http://audiofil.es
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Develop the first social network for audio storytelling. Audiofiles is a gathering place to stream, share, and discover great audio.2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Audiofiles combines…
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Knight News Challenge: A toolkit for real-time investigative reporting from site analytics
I’m really intrigued by this as well.
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Build an open platform connecting search analytics and social networks to create a new breed of real-time, investigative reporting.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
This is, to our knowledge,…
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Knight News Challenge: Sensor networks for news
This is a really good idea, and I think Matt can pull it off.
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Develop a network of sensors distributed around a city to report data into a real-time visualization.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Advances in sensors and microcomputers have made the idea of…
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We do think it’s a little weird that All Songs Considered’s Stephen Thompson and Bob Boilen are listening to an eight-track player, but still, aren’t they adorable?
daniel sinker: The Knight-Mozilla Partnership Evolves
Change is awesome—it’s a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it’s with real excitement that today I’m announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.
Before we get to the changes, some quick…
Colin Campbell x: 25 Tips for the Young Games Journalist
Last year I became the proud recipient of a Games Media Legend Award. It was also my 25th year since I began working in games journalism. So I felt the weird urge to write 25 tips for the young games journalist, based almost entirely on the mistakes I’ve made over the last two and and a…
BRYCE DOT VC: You Become Who You Hang Around
When I lived in Salt Lake City, I was invited to train with a group of athletes at a facility called Gym Jones. It can be a bit of a polarizing place. Not just anyone can walk in off the street and join.
But the reasoning behind it’s exclusivity is fairly straight forward. The gym and it’s…
ONA Issues: Stanford offers free online classes
Stanford University is offering seven computer science courses next semester that you can take for free. All are online courses and open to the public.
The available computer science courses are:
Computer Science 101 http://www.cs101-class.org/
Machine Learning (one of the offerings this…
Kickin' It: Susan's tumblr blog: What I learned at newsfoo #2011
What happens when you put 150 talented, passionate people in a set of rooms for 2.5 days and help them connect? If you’re the Google, O’Reilly, Knight Foundation team that planned the second newsfoo, you’re just part of the crowd, staying up late playing Werewolf and talking talking talking…
