http://www.hypercrit.net wonton electron spillage about our emerging digital culture Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:01:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm intrigued by the question that Publish2 asked in its recent contest. The Web site, which offers tools for newsrooms to help them take advantage of the growing field called "link journalism," wanted journalists to finish the sentence "I'm the future of journalism because..." Entrants were encouraged to submit their ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2009/01/04/im-the-future-of-journalism-because/ Has anyone else had issues with the iPhone/iPod Touch interface for Disqus? I can't seem to get the thing to recognize the fact that I have unapproved comments waiting, even when I know for a fact that there are messages waiting to be approved. Even then, being able to click ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2009/01/03/disqus-on-iphone/ I'm a day late welcoming you to the new year, but I thought I'd welcome you nonetheless. It's been a quiet couple of days for posting to the blog... too much World of Warcraft and not enough reading and research, I guess. I'll get back into it on Monday. Until ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2009/01/02/happy-new-year/ A year or two ago, I decided that the bookmarking tools built in to my browser, Firefox, didn't do enough for me. So I opted to start using Delicious. It kept all my bookmarks in one place, and I didn't have to be on the same computer to use them. ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/31/delicous-or-diigo/ TechCrunch has it from several sources inside Apple that the company is planning on launching an iPod Touch-like device this fall that has a 7- or 9-inch screen. I want one already. http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/30/apple-may-release-jumbo-ipod-touch-this-fall/ This passage comes from Dan Gillmor’s “Principles for a New Media Literacy,” originally published as part of the Media Re:public project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. I think it unwittingly provides a great example of why “number of followers” is a poor gauge of authority ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/30/once-more-on-the-twitter-authority-thing/ Well, the issue of authority-based searching on Twitter is here to stay, even though Loic Le Meur, the guy who started all of this by asking for some sort of authority search feature on his blog, has amended his opinion. He points out now that “authority” was a poor word ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/30/in-which-the-author-summarizes-the-authority-based-tweet-debate-and-then-finds-something-new-to-write-about/ Having a lot of followers on Twitter doesn’t make you an authority. That’s the message from Jeff Jarvis and John Naughton, who both posted to their blogs recently about whether Twitter should rank tweets by some measure of “authority.” Both of them are responding to another post by Loïc Le ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/29/online-authority-debate-centering-on-twitter/ Maybe it's just my uninformed opinion, but Internet service providers should not be held accountable for what sorts of information flows over their networks. Several analogies have popped up online in comments about this, especially in comments on RIAA lawsuit stories. For example, toll booth operators are not held liable for ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/26/brief-opinion-isps-and-the-riaa/ Pat Thornton at The Journalism Iconoclast reacts to Anil Dash's post about TriCityNews. Dash, you may recall, wonders whether the alt weekly is really a "news"paper at all or just an adspace. Thornton agrees with Dash and chides the New York Times article's author, David Carr, for "not proving that ... http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/12/26/more-tricitynews-reaction/