Month: March 2010

  • The next logical step to FOIA: POIA

    There’s new open data, government transparency effort. Find out more about POIA in this Sunlight Foundation video. Related articles by Zemanta Social Bar – Open Data (slideshare.net) Visualize This: LinkTV and Sunlight Labs Move to Put Data Into Action (scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org) Sunlight Foundation: gov’t accountability and grassroots democracy (cnewmark.com) Bill Would Require Public Info To be…

  • While other media shrink, video grows, particularly on the small screen

    Jeff Cole, director of USC’s Center for the Digital Future: In 1975, the average American spent 16 hours a week in front of a screen. Last year, that figure hit 34 hours and should grow to 50 hours in a few years. Much of that growth will come from mobile video, as consumers watch more…

  • AOL’s Seed and “bionic journalism” explained

    AOL has built a three legged stool to create content: part professional, part freelance, and part aggregated . . . but its model is far more hand-crafted than the other new players in the mass content creation space. “The essence of journalism has always been separating signal from noise,” says (Saul) Hansell. “It’s all judgment.…