Media and Technology Did The NYTimes Change The Story's Lede To Implicate ProtestersOnce-upon-a-time, long before blogging software became synonymous with digital publishing, a core ethic of those who blogged was “show the reader when you change an article.” The resulting full disclosure was a boon to readers. Two recent incidents from the MSM illustrate why I think news organizations should...

A telling anecdote from Fred Wilson: With my phone in hand, I looked up at the young man helping me and said “can you make a photocopy of this page so I can take it home with me?” He looked straight at my phone and said “that has a camera in it, right?” I felt silly and chuckled. My friends who were with me laughed at me and the irony of the situation. I snapped a picture of the sheet...

“I don’t collect vinyl. I have a small collection. I’d say none of it is prized.” That’s Gregg Gillis speaking in episode 4 of Hulu’s, A Day in the Life, from documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. The quote comes as a series of interviewers repeatedly and mistakenly ask the musician about his career as a DJ: I never play with DJs; I never really associated with DJ culture....

Nicholas Carr is beyond words: With the Fire, as with its its whizzy-gizmo predecessors, the iPad and the Nook Color, we are seeing the e-book begin to assume its true aesthetic, which would seem to be far closer to the aesthetic of the web than to that of the printed page: text embedded in a welter of functions and features, a symphony of intrusive beeps. Even the more restrained Kindle Touch, also introduced...

The check from Metropolitan Edison arrived, as it always does, at mid-month. You see, we don’t pay our local utility for electricity. It pays us for the surplus electricity we generate from the 20 photovoltaic cells on our south-facing roof, which is more than enough to light our house, run our appliances and heat our water. The installation of the system was not cheap, but because of generous federal...

Chris Anderson’s take on the cause of email overload: E-mail is easier to create than to respond to. This seems counterintuitive — after all, it’s quicker to read than to write. But reading a message is just the start. It may contain a hard-to-answer question, such as “What are your thoughts on this?” Or a link to a Web page. Or an attachment. And it may be copied to a dozen other people, all of...

Me in March 2010: The truth is, when it comes to revenue, Google is a one trick pony. Online advertising is it. (Google captures 70 percent share of search ad revenue and about 30 percent all online advertising.) For all the cool projects coming out of Google Labs, none makes money. Google makes it easy for customers to switch to competitor’s products and, unlike other technology giants in years past, the...

Yeah, global financial markets are way down, the Pakistani intelligence service conspired with insurgents to attack the U.S. embassy in Kabul, and the Chicago Cubs will not be going to the World Series yet again. But the big news is that pieces of a disintegrating NASA satellite that once was the size of a bus are expected to enter the Earth’s atmosphere late Friday or early Saturday as a fiery meteor...

After months of drought, it finally rained last night in Middle Georgia. A wild, heavy rain with bouts of loud thunder and lightning that had the dogs running scared. I woke up happy, even mildly euphoric; the rain had arrived, our trees might survive. Soon enough that turned sour. Why? Maybe the dogs? Maybe not. I’m a fairly happy guy. Still, sometimes in the night I have odd terrors. Scared remembrances....

Jamal Simmons Says “Broadband Technology Can Help Spur Economic Development” & “We’re Moving into a Technologically Driven World” by Janet Shan Jamal Simmons, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance, principal at The Raben Group and former strategist for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, continues to make the case for the urgency and importance of broadband...

If I asked you to close your eyes and conjure up a scientist, would would you see? Would it be an aging Einstein, a dapper Doctor Who, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Madam Curie? What if I then asked you, “What do scientists do?” Could you answer? With science and math scores at abysmal levels in the US, perhaps this entertaining chat with six (very non-stereotypical) scientists should be incorporated...

In the book Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge envisions a world where crowdsourcing is S.O.P. and “games” can be a source of public good. Today, we’re living that vision. Over a three-week period, online gamers playing Fold.it were able to decipher the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus. (The Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, M-PMV, retroviral protease causes an AIDS-like disease in monkeys.) One...

In a classic “bait and switch” customers are enticed (“baited”) to purchase a specific product but when they try to buy it they discover that it is “out of stock” and the salesperson begins the up-sell (“switch”). But bait-and-switch as a technique is not such a narrowly-defined behavior. Some people apply the term to product advertising with extensive “fine...

I’m a big Flipboard fan. Yesterday Robert Scoble posted on his Google+ feed that Google is working on a competitor. “My source says that the versions he’s seen so far are mind-blowing good.” Kara Swisher follows up: Google is indeed working on rolling out the new product, which is currently called Propeller. Sources said Propeller is apparently one of a number of new socially focused announcements...

So says Harvey E. Eisenberg, a Maryland Assistant U.S. Attorney, in this moment from Frontline’s new monthly magazine series. Watch: The segment, titled Are We Safer, is reported by the WaPo’s Dana Priest: Priest examines Maryland… Here, Gov. Martin O’Malley tells FRONTLINE how the Department of Homeland Security backed his state’s efforts to track down terrorists, funding the...

Update and correction: Jimmy Leeward, the pilot of the Mustang P51 that crashed in Reno was first reported by media to be 80 years old. He is actually one month shy of being 75. TMV regrets carrying the error forward. Dr.E, M.Ed. Being closer to 80 than to 20 years of age, I bristle when people say ‘old people’ cant, shouldnt, ought not to (fill in the blank with any number of harmless, funny,...

Has the United States been in the midst of a national neurotic episode since the 9-11 attacks? According to this editorial from Japan’s Ibaraki Shimbun, going around the world and “brandishing an ideal” is just as foolish for the United States as it is for al-Qaeda. The Ibaraki Shimbun editorial says in part: Ten years have passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States...

For making iOS accessible to all. At a nightclub appearance in LA last weekend, said Stevie: There is nothing that you can do on the iPhone or iPad that I can’t do. Watch: Via.

“A swirl of fame swept down a dirt road to find Bobby Kirk and his country wisdom,” says the NYTimes in a Most Emailed article from late July. Stephen Colbert parses the piece in a deliciously sarcastic joke that appears at first to be a skewering of small town journalism. The action (or lack thereof) takes place a few miles up the road from me, in Athens, GA, so it got local tongues a-waggin’. Be...

about whether Perry signed the writ to execute Cameron justly… even though it is thought now that Cameron may have been innocent. 234 people executed during Perry’s governorship. That’s equal to more than a third of the small town population where I grew up. I sit here imagining every third house in the northwoods having the hearse pull up. It seem odd that some politicos say they are pro...