Archive for the 'Technology' Category

announcing knight pulse

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Voilà, the project I have been working on these few months at the Knight Foundation:
KnightPulse.org, a place to discuss the future of information—to talk about new ways to give, share, find, and receive information we need. We’re posting video conversations to start off, and we’ll build tools the community wants next.

All mistakes are [...]

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kthread goes to maker faire

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I’ve just spent the weekend with hackers at Maker Faire in Austin, Texas.

Sitting next to the cool kids from the Austinist, who offered maps to let people draw their area landmarks,

I met inventors, idealists, and geeks and told them about the Knight News Challenge.

Wandering, I watched as the Austin Metal Authority forged [...]

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so we built a garage

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

I thought some of you might be interested in a talk I gave today on behalf of Knight Foundation.
This morning, my colleague Robertson Adams recorded my presentation of the News Challenge Garage (the incubator site I helped build for the Knight News Challenge contest to fund innovative digital news delivery ideas) at the Communications [...]

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canopies of suspended rain drops and culture modding

Friday, September 12th, 2008

After a storm, suspended rain drops reveal hidden webs on plants, dot the insides of flowers.

On my way to the University of Virginia this morning, I paused at a small outgrowth that held up a canopy of interlaced threads, much like I was about to do for a small audience of colleagues in the [...]

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and who will deliver the news tomorrow?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

When not chasing spider webs, you might find me dodging grates in downtown Miami sidewalks as my high heels carry me toward the tall building where I work managing online community for the Knight Foundation.
As most of you know, I was hired three months ago to architect and implement a large community area that will [...]

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satellites of love, groovy gravatars, and openID

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

As of this morning, if you look below kthread posts, you’ll see lovely little pictures of yourselves.
These are called gravatars (for globally recognized avatar) and the groovy part is when you make one here (thirty seconds, tops) then your gravatar image will automagically appear when you post a comment on any blog that has [...]

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