February 2012
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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 background: Conversations around the original Partnership began in 2010, with the...
January 2012
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December 2011
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Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of "show your work"...
It has been exciting to be both a witness to and a participant in the growing movement towards open web development in journalism. 2011 is one of those years that it’s amazing to sit back, here on one of its last days, and look back at just how much has been accomplished.
There was incredible work happening among news apps teams and individual developers around the internet that...
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I'm starting to think Lego is evil
Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much exclusively towards boys.
We’ve gotten my son a Lego advent calendar for...
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November 2011
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Journalism at the Mozilla Festival: Sunday
The Mozilla Festival on Media, Freedom, and the Web wraps up today with another super-full day. Once again, I wanted to highlight the journalism-related activities happening throughout the day.
Sunday Morning
Design Challenges
Building the Multilingual Newsroom asks a simple question: Could nthe news audience play a key role in creating a translation workflow for both readers and reporters.
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Journalism at the Mozilla Festival: Saturday
Hello from London, and the Mozilla Festival on Media, Freedom, and the Web! After yesterday’s kickoff, and the announcement of the 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla Fellows, we’re settling in for the first full day of the Mozilla Festival. It’s a packed schedule, and so I thought I’d take a moment and highlight some of the journalism-related design challenges, learning labs, and...
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Journalism in the Open: the 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla...
This is the last in a series of five blog posts this week dedicated to thinking out loud about the opportunities for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in 2012.
This week I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the opportunities that lie at the intersection of open-source philosophies and journalism. Today the “thinking out loud” stops and the “making it...
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Journalism in the Open: Making a New Reality
This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts this week dedicated to thinking out loud about the opportunities for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in 2012. It will culminate in Friday’s post announcing the 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla Fellows. Yesterday’s post dealt with the the possibility of peer-to-peer learning to advance journalistics skillsets.
A few weeks ago,...
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Journalism in the Open: Are our systems for...
This is the third in a series of five blog posts this week dedicated to thinking out loud about the opportunities for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in 2012. It will culminate in Friday’s post announcing the 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla Fellows. Yesterday’s post dealt with the the need to build community around the open-source code being written in journalism.
I had a...
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Journalism in the Open: Hard-Coding Community
[This is the second in a series of five blog posts this week dedicated to thinking out loud about the opportunities for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in 2012. It will culminate in Friday’s post announcing the 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla Fellows. Yesterday’s post dealt with the growing momentum around open-source in journalism.]
Journalism is big on community: There are...
October 2011
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Thinking about Journalism in the Open: An intro
It’s a handy bit of timing that next week’s Mozilla Festival will nicely mark the end of my third month heading up the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. The Festival marks the culmination of both Mozilla’s year and the Partnership’s as well, with the announcement of the five Knight-Mozilla Fellows for 2011/12.
It also marks the start of a sprint toward the 2012...
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Ghost in the machine
Walking tonight, in the rain, trying to write an email, the raindrops and autocomplete worked together to write a message from beyond:
WAY to the right to your website. The creator of the most important thing is that the information you need to build a new one. I have a sinking suspicion they don’t have to be at least one of the most popular and I have a sinking suspicion they don’t...
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TedxMidwest seems to define "Midwest" quite a bit...
I’m speechless at this.
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Reflections from Hacktoberfest
Last week, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership invited 20 developers, designers, and journalists to take part in a week of hacking and making in Berlin. I forget at what point in the planning one of the participants jokingly called it “Hacktoberfest,” but the name stuck. And so now that the jet lag has worn off for the most part, I thought I’d reflect on three of my...
September 2011
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Open Source in the Newsroom at ONA11
A funny thing happened on the way to the Online News Association conference. There had been a long-planned lunch-hour presentation by the Knight Foundation’s Jose Zamora and the Mozilla Foundation’s Mark Surman to talk about the project that I now head up, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. But as it turns out, both Mark and Jose had last-minute scheduling conflicts, and I...
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