Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson’s campaign for people to move their money from the giant “too big to fail” banks to local community banks and credit unions is quickly going viral.Numerous financial writers have endorsed the campaign, including:Justi…
Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Sullivan’
Ross Robertson: Perspectives on Integral Ecology: A Dialogue
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Integral Ecology draws on the expertise of many disciplines and offers comprehensive, far-sighted, flexible solutions for the environment, which honor animals and people.
Adriana Dunn: On Embracing Digital Skeletons
July 21st, 2009 |
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How does a blogger embrace the others who will pivot you toward relative truth?
Why local-news aggregation is useful information, not information overload
January 26th, 2009 |
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My post on the Washington state linking project focused on the awesome innovation involved and on the benefits of collaborative linking in general. But the project also shows why this kind of news aggregation is so useful for a local audience.
The biggest danger with news aggregation is that instead of acting as a filter, it [...]
Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obsolete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
October 9th, 2008 |
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Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? It’s a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines — and what the trend looks like — and you’ll realize that algorithms are increasingly deciding what we pay attention to, what is important, what [...]
Explaining the Financial Crisis: Continuously Updated News Aggregation in Action
September 18th, 2008 |
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Scott framed his previous challenge to news sites in general terms: like Drudge, any site could use continuously updated aggregation to become a “destination for links to news of what’s going in the world.” But this kind of aggregation can be just as powerful when applied to specific stories or topics.
For example, you might have [...]
Spinewatch: Can Link Journalism Change How the Media Covers the Presidential Election Campaign?
September 15th, 2008 |
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Jay Rosen of PressThink has started a meme called “spinewatch,” which he’s pursuing on Twitter with the #spinewatch tag and on the Publish2 Spinewatch Newsgroup that he created, where he offers this description:
Spinewatch is a newsgroup and link bank for campaign 2008 stories of a certain narrowly-defined type. Here, we keep track of reporting from [...]