Items by By NOAM COHEN
NYT > Business
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Link By Link: ‘Kony 2012’ Video Illustrates the Power of Simplicity
Posted: March 12th, 2012, 1:20am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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A video on YouTube has raised awareness about the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony — and spurred a wave of criticism from pundits about the often simplistic nature of online activism.
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Wikipedia Protest Noticed, but Some Yawn
Posted: January 19th, 2012, 12:52am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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The site said millions of users followed protest suggestions, but others said they did not give Internet regulation much thought.
NYT > Home Page
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Media Decoder Blog: The Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012: The Media Try to Fill the Void
Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:21pm EST by By NOAM COHEN
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The Washington Post announced that it and other media organizations would be answering questions in place of Wikipedia - submissions would come via Twitter with the hashtag #altwiki.
NYT > Business
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Link by Link: Speed Bumps on the Road to Virtual Cash
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 9:00pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The past few weeks have shown that a virtual currency can be just as vulnerable as the paper kind.
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Media Decoder: Studying How 'Star Wars' Mined History
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 6:16pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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For a coming book, two professors asked their peers to submit essays that explore the parallels between world history and Star Wars history.
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Link by Link: Twitter Shines a Spotlight on Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas
Posted: January 10th, 2011, 1:36am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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Twitter’s successful challenge of the secrecy of an F.B.I. request for information about users’ accounts has brought renewed attention to the government’s use secret subpoenas.
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Link By Link: Computers Help Social Animals to See Beyond Their Tribes
Posted: December 20th, 2010, 12:55am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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I.B.M.’s internal social software defies the standard approach of Facebook and Twitter to avoid creating an “echo chamber.”
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Link By Link: WikiLeaks and the Perils of Oversharing
Posted: December 6th, 2010, 1:21am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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The debate over privacy rights online takes a turn from the personal to the government.
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Link by Link: Obsessions With Minutiae Thrive as Databases
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 12:30am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Two online standouts in efforts to catalog content are evolving differently: IMDB is trying to increase its profile on the Internet, while Gracenote is moving further behind the scenes.
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Spoiler Alert: Whodunit? Wikipedia Will Tell You
Posted: September 18th, 2010, 1:59am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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It is getting harder to preserve surprise in entertainment from Web sites that offer endings of movies and plays.
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Link by Link: In Google-Verizon Deal, Fears for Privacy
Posted: August 16th, 2010, 12:30am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Advocates of online privacy say that without Internet neutrality, the Internet becomes more like a mall and less like a public square.
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Link by Link: At Wikimania Conference, Wondering How Wikipedia Can Grow
Posted: July 12th, 2010, 1:29am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Contributors to and supporters of the online encyclopedia are collaborating with experts to improve the site, and dabbling in languages like Swahili to expand it.
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Link by Link: For a BP Spoof on Twitter, Biting Trumps Earnest
Posted: June 7th, 2010, 12:22am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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BP’s official account is overshadowed on Twitter by a much more popular satirical feed, with more than 130,000 followers.
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Link by Link: Through Soldiers’ Eyes, ‘The First YouTube War’
Posted: May 23rd, 2010, 9:55pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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There are sites aplenty showing the horror of war, and much of the material is filmed, edited and uploaded by soldiers recording their own experiences.
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Some Queries Prompt Google To Offer Suicide Hotline
Posted: April 4th, 2010, 11:50pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The suicide prevention information is only the second instance in which Google has added such guidance on troubling search terms.
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Link by Link: Advising Recovery Board on Offering Clear Data
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 1:00am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The information-design theorist Edward Tufte is using his critical eye to improve the recovery.gov Web site.
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Sales of ‘The Coming Insurrection’ Helped by Glenn Beck
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 11:09am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Sales of “The Coming Insurrection,” which first appeared in France in 2005, surged after Glenn Beck talked about it on his Fox TV show.
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Link By Link: Strangers in the Net, Exchanging Glances
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:01am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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ChatRoulette, a nascent Internet phenomenon, is providing Web researchers with a social networking case study into the nature of online togetherness.
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Link by Link: Super Bowl Merchandise and the Bets Behind It
Posted: February 7th, 2010, 7:42pm EST by By NOAM COHEN
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A Web site selling licensed Super Bowl merchandise mines the Web — and maybe a sports bar — and finds greater interest in the Saints.
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In Animated Videos, News and Guesswork Mix
Posted: December 6th, 2009, 6:18am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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A video that simulates Tiger Woods’s accident has drawn attention to a new world of pseudo-journalism in Taiwan.
NYT > Sports
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Writing a Sports Column Far From Print, and the Game
Posted: November 16th, 2009, 12:47am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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How a sports columnist’s early commitment to the Web is subtly changing a corner of sports journalism.
NYT > Business
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Writing a Sports Column Far From Print, and the Game
Posted: November 15th, 2009, 8:59pm EST by By NOAM COHEN
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How a sports columnist’s early commitment to the Web is subtly changing a corner of sports journalism.
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Link by Link: Exploring News by the Amish Online
Posted: September 21st, 2009, 12:52am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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A 22-year-old journalist from Wales found familiarity in the way news spread among the Amish though there was little Internet use.
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Link By Link: Wikipedia Looks Hard at Its Culture
Posted: August 31st, 2009, 12:54am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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At an awkward moment, Wikipedia has hired consultants to tell it how to diversify its contributors and its offerings.
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Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People
Posted: August 24th, 2009, 9:16pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Founded on the concept that anyone could change its content, the online encyclopedia is requiring reviews on articles about living people after embarrassing incidents.
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Complaint Over Doctor Who Posted Inkblot Test
Posted: August 24th, 2009, 1:15am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The doctor, James Heilman, defended his decision to publicize the images on Wikipedia and demystify the secretive Rorschach test.
NYT > Health
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Complaint Over Doctor Who Posted Inkblot Test
Posted: August 24th, 2009, 1:15am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The doctor, James Heilman, defended his decision to publicize the images on Wikipedia and demystify the secretive Rorschach test.
NYT > Business
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Care to Write Army Doctrine? With ID, Log On
Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:26pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The Army has begun encouraging its personnel to go online and collaboratively rewrite some of the manuals that guide Army life.
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A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia?
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 10:13am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Psychologists and Wikipedia users are at loggerheads over whether images used for Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test should be available online.
NYT > Health
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A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia?
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 10:13am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Psychologists and Wikipedia users are at loggerheads over whether images used for Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test should be available online.
NYT > Business
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The Power of the Brand as Verb
Posted: July 19th, 2009, 1:19am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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For brands such as Google and Twitter and, Microsoft hopes, Bing, a trademark might not be as useful as becoming a part of speech.
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Link By Link: How the Media Wrestle With the Web
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 11:10am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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At the deaths of Michael Jackson and Neda Agha-Soltan, traditional news outlets had to make some fast decisions on the credibility of YouTube and Twitter.
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Now Hiring at Talking Points Memo
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 1:06am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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An investment of $500,000 to $1 million was completed, which the political news Web site will use to expand its staff.
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Link by Link: The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts
Posted: June 8th, 2009, 12:51am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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In Wikipedia’s less-traveled corners are obscure entries where the facts, point of view and wording can cause heated editing fights.
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Link by Link: As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes
Posted: February 16th, 2009, 12:31am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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As illustrated in Alex Rodriguez’s positive steroid test result, personal information that seems anonymous is often traceable, and potentially life-changing.
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Link by Link: Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New Lives
Posted: January 19th, 2009, 12:21am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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Over the last year there have been important new efforts to put these classics online.
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Link By Link: All a-Twitter About Stars Who Tweet
Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:56pm EST by By NOAM COHEN
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It seems the whole world is Twittering, and people like Shaquille O’Neal and Natalie Gulbis are no exceptions.
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Link by Link: In Britain, Outwitting Strict Laws Against Libel
Posted: November 24th, 2008, 2:22am EST by By NOAM COHEN
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Reporting on what cannot be reported is something in which the British have much more experience.
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Trading Variance in Election Predictions Raises Questions
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 9:37pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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To the amazement of economists and online bettors, predictions for the presidential election have varied a great deal among betting Web sites.
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Link By Link: Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 12:27am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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In recent days there has been a range of false Internet reports that managed to gain great purchase across the globe while the truth is still logging on.
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Link By Link: Who Owns the Law? Arguments May Ensue
Posted: September 29th, 2008, 1:21am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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A variety of organizations claim copyright to the basic code that governs our society. Yes, it is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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Media Talk: What George Orwell Wrote, 70 Years Later to the Day
Posted: August 24th, 2008, 11:23pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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George Orwell’s copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made.
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Link by Link: Like Politics? Broadcast Your View for Only $6
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 10:04pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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Saysme.tv didn’t invent the loudmouth, but, as the company’s logo indicates, it sure hopes to sell him a megaphone.
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Link by Link: An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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The State Department’s creation of “Diplopedia,” an internal wiki, is part of its changing ethic from “a need to know culture” to a “need to share culture,” an employee said.
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Link by Link: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 1:03pm EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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A professor has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a given subject, turn them into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally. -
Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 3:29am EDT by By NOAM COHEN
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A shoestring operation stunned by its own success faces growing pains.
