Esquire editor Ryan D’Agostino will be taking over as Editor-in-Chief at Popular Mechanics in a few weeks. Godspeed Ryan, we can’t wait to see what you do with it!
The first story published about L.A.’s Monday earthquake had an interesting line appended to its end: "This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author."
     |
Last night, CBS ran a 60 Minutes special about the ongoing NSA debacle. It claimed to give "unprecedented access to the agency’s HQ" and "for the first time" explain "what it does and what it says it doesn’t do: spy on Americans." It was also, incidentally, a pile of steaming bull.
| |
While everyone is freaking out about Amazon’s plan to unleash an army of delivery drones
| |
Drones are starting to be used for more than war and espionage these days. Even journalism schools are trying to harness them, by offering classes on drone reporting, despite that this practice is illegal for professional journalists.
Domestic US drone regs are still strict about their use, and while some companies would love nothing more than having Big Brother have their eye in the sky watching you, there’s something to be said about using drones for improving journalism, not in order to invade the privacy of others. In the Drone Journalism Labs of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Missouri, students are learning how to fly UAVs, collect video footage and phtoos, interpret the FAA regs and grapple with ethical questions.
The hope is that drones could be used for things like water sampling, drought surveillance, and controlled fire tracking.
[via FastCompany]
Animated GIFs, the New York Times wants you to know, are a thing on the internet. And the Times is always on top of upcoming trends. Unfortunately, though, the Times’ GIF in its GIF piece does not loop, making it barely a GIF at all for all practical purposes. More »
“Investigative reporter” Teri Buhl is running around the Internet threatening to sue people for publishing her public tweets. That’s ridiculous in and of itself. But then your head just about explodes when you realize that a few years ago she published a teenager’s private sex diary online without permission. What a hypocrite. More »
Because the NY Times recently exposed China’s Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, for having made billions of dollars through business dealings, Chinese hackers have been trying to hack and infiltrate the NY Times for the past 4 months. Security experts say the hackers used methods consistent with the Chinese military. More »
The NYTimes’ spectacular multimedia feature “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,” is incredible. The elegant design and tasteful extras only contribute to the gripping narrative. It’s everything we’ve been promised about the journalism of the future. But if you’re looking at it on Internet Explorer 8, you’re doing it wrong. More »
It’s undeniable that Twitter has changed—and is still changing—the face of journalism. It makes some things simpler and some things more complicated. But how is it affecting journalism on the whole? This PBS Off-Book segment gives that some thought and uncovers one deep, universal truth: Twitter is neato. [PBS Off Book] More »
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
