Catch it all as it happens: twitter.com/c4fcm
From the Center
- Department of Play Summer Institute 2010, next Tuesday and Wednesday: http://civic.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/event/department-of-play-summer-institute-2010
- @csik: Check out new blog, http://dataintoaction.org/, a collab between #c4fcm #openplans and #citizenlogistics.
- Our Jeff Warren talks about creating a participatory, open source map of an entire country http://cot.ag/bAtw6n
From our Friends
- “The People Behind Coal in Kentucky and Colombia” via @MITCoLab http://colabradio.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/?p=4363
- Alissa Weiss on CoLab Radio, “Clark Park: A Food and Community Nucleus” http://colabradio.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/?p=4334
- @jenny8lee: SXSW will have news-related startup competition! Includes dissemination and business models. http://bit.ly/95roBW
- @MassDOTdev: MassDOT Developers meeting next Monday, August 9th – Details here: http://bit.ly/9mKhI0
- @placeblogger is hiring: looking to hire someone as a part-time sysadmin. Experience in Drupal, MySQL, and Unix required.
Preparing for Data Dumps
- Some great advice from Martin Moore (@martinjemoore): “How News Organizations Should Prepare for Data Dumps” http://cot.ag/9DmuKI
Future of News
- @jczamora: How the New York Times creates its graphics http://bit.ly/cw4x3Q (via @gabosama)
- Boston.com + need for pageviews is getting embarrassing. A 52-page slideshow? Really? http://cot.ag/bHIJ25
- Publicly annotated version of AZ immigration law got more web traffic than same paper’s entertainment guide http://cot.ag/bn7Q7z
- First easy to use database of journalism programs worldwide: http://www.knightblog.org/journalismcensus
- @jczamora: Sidney Harman Buys Newsweek For $1 and agrees to assume the magazine’s liabilities: http://huff.to/c8V6RK
- @AshokaNews: Smart: @nytimes engages in a platform strategy, licenses its iPhone, iPad code to other media orgs: http://bit.ly/agmUxC
Net Neutrality
- Google in talks to abandon net neutrality in exchange for privileged access to Verizon’s wireless network http://cot.ag/d8y3BH
Privacy
- Hint: it’s not the touchscreen RT @LailaLalami: Why cops love iPhones: http://bit.ly/aMMV3j
Sunlight Foundation has a big week
- @EllnMiller: Up early to see what’s in the news this morning that I can run through Sunlight’s new Poligraft tool. htp://poligraft.com
- Declassification of Historical Congressional Records http://cot.ag/9kcmC5 via @sunfoundation
- New financial regulations may help SEC ignore even more Freedom of Information Act requests http://cot.ag/aVPEHg via @sunfoundation
Elsewhere
- Political group conspiring to “bury” articles on Digg it doesn’t agree with http://gawker.com/5605982/ about
- CA representatives allowed domestic abuse shelter and fire dept funding die in order to help TurboTax http://cot.ag/d6YOVo