What I’ve read: Aug. 11
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet on Aug. 11 from 4:09 pm to 7:01 pm:
- Journalism.co.uk » Who’s behind Wikipedia: Virgil Griffith’s WikiScanner investigates – This is really interesting, based on analysis of Wikipedia posts: "Overall – especially for non-controversial topics – Wikipedia seems to work. For controversial topics, Wikipedia can be made more reliable through techniques like this one." Also posits that anonymous posts/updates are not, by definition, a bad thing.
- Journalism.co.uk » Associated Press launches celebrity news service – For this, the AP is bringing in new staff: "New staff have been hired to work on the service and new video production technology has been bought for its Los Angeles, New York and London bureaux."
- Journalism.co.uk » Salon.com opens doors to readers, asks for tips – Alas, the things we can do with the right tools. Congrats on Open Salon. It will bear watching.
- The San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com Empower Users to Do Good – News release for "Good2gether" (social network connecting givers and nonprofits). Interesting piece of their "how it works" section talks about newspaper publishers faced with "declining readership, ad revenue loss, brutal competition." This, they say, will help us.
- Digital Domain – Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense. – NYTimes.com – My favorite quote from the story: When I asked Scott Kveton, chairman of the OpenID Foundation’s community board, about criticism of OpenID, he said candidly, "Passwords, we know, are totally broken." Uhhh, yeah. That's for sure.
- Olympics: Only 0.2% of Viewers Exclusively Watch Online – ReadWriteWeb – I side with this reader: "Color me nutty, but, as much as I love me some Interwebs, nothing beats seeing the 4×100 men's relay in glorious HD." Especially after I just got me my HD TV.
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Kurt's Tweets- @bfelice Hey, thanks so much for the heads-up on this. Great to see.
- Funny. SW airlines magazine bothers to mention that pacemakers are always authorized electronic devices. #fb
- A disgrace, St. Louis. People still litter? http://post.ly/OUsk
- Redemption for Lindsey Jacobellis in snowboardcross? Only click if you really wanna know. http://bit.ly/99OgbM
- West Countians: If you're in the market for a pancake supper tonight, there's one here: http://stmartinschurch.org.