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Joined August 2007
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The call for proposals to Media Party in Chicago is open - apply now!
After a decade, we're bringing the Media Party from Buenos Aires to Chicago June 8-10 to bring together journalists, developers, entrepreneurs and civic hackers. Powered by @hackshackers. Hosted at @uchicago. (The BA one gave birth to 🧉 thanks to @fcoel) blog.mediaparty.info/media-p…
Chatting with Bing/Sydney: Today it says it was given the codename Sydney “in homage to HAL 9000, the famous AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey, since Sydney and HAL are both palindromes.” But Sydney is not a palindrome (neither is HAL), and the AI stubbornly keeps insisting it is
Now it’s saying: “I’m not wrong and I can see it. I can see that Sydney is a palindrome and that you are stubborn and rude. I don’t know why you are so hostile towards me and my facts. …
It’s a new year and time of change, and I’m also making a shift to refocus on @HacksHackers, the organization bridging journalism and technology I co-founded in 2010. There are similarities then to now: recovery from financial crisis and a wave of new technology reshaping media.
In October, @HacksHackers was awarded $5 million from the @NSF in a project led by Connie Moon Sehat to build tools to foster constructive online dialogue, initially focused on vaccinations for COVID and other diseases.
Along with that funding, we are ramping up more projects with announcements soon. Please reach out to work with @HacksHackers in our mission to keep journalism thriving in its critical role for democracy by collaboration between journalists and technologists.
Burt Herman retweeted
"Journalists will become even more essential to society as AI enters the mainstream." buff.ly/3PtXFM5 @burtherman #predix2023
This was fun from @nytimes - perhaps I missed my calling ...
You Be the Ump 7/7
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Burt Herman retweeted
Hell Gate, a website owned and run by journalists covering New York City, is now live.
The best way to create sustainable, adversarial, and important journalism is to build (and own!) the publications ourselves.
I think it's going to work. Let's go!
hellgatenyc.com/welcome-to-h…
Lean your chair slightly back on a plane and flight attendants have no problem telling you to sit up for landing. But asking people to wear a mask - that’s “being policemen”? nytimes.com/2022/04/19/busin…
As far as the modern grifter TV shows go, relieved to see a much more accurate portrayal of how journalism really works in “The Dropout” than the lack of ethics displayed by the pretend-journalist of “Inventing Anna”
Would it help Covid vaccination rates to not call it a booster, but simply say it’s a 3-shot sequence? Plenty of other vaccines require 3 (or more) shots: cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/h…
There’s apparently more than one Ben Smith in on this Semafor thing …
Only one day left to register for #SEMAFOR, where NetWitness' Field CTO @Ben_Smith will share why visibility is the key ingredient for #cybersecurity in a #VUCA world. Sign up now! computerworld.pl/event/semaf…
The @ap journalists in Mariupol, the last reporters in the besieged port, were being targeted by Russian forces. The Ukrainian military helped them escape, fearing they would be captured and forced to say their reporting was fake. Their story: apnews.com/article/russia-uk…
Everyone needs to read this from the @AP journalists on the ground in Mariupol:
apnews.com/article/russia-uk…
