From the The Oklahoman (NewsOK.com): The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism has launched a searchable database of terrorism victims dating back to 1970. The database includes more than 4,000 names of Americans killed in acts of terrorism. The victims also are memorialized by a 60-by-20-foot flag hanging from the ceiling of the institute’s [...]
New: "Searchable Database Memorializes American Terrorism Victims Back to 1970"
Filed by on September 11, 2011
Report From Paper to Persona — Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in the Attention Age
Filed by on August 9, 2011
From Paper to Persona – Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in the Attention Age by Bill Densmore, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (University of Missouri School of Journalism) “From Paper to Persona: Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in an Attention Age,” explains how a new public-benefit collaboration could help slow the [...]
Reference: UK Phone Hacking: Full Text Transcripts and Searchable Video of House of Commons Committee Hearings
Filed by on July 20, 2011
The three text transcripts are all via The Guardian. Full Text Transcripts from the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Hearing on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1. James and Rupert Murdoch 2. Rebekah Brooks Full Text Transcripts from the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1. Sir Paul Stephenson Video of Hearings [...]
Jakob Nielsen: Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews
Filed by on July 12, 2011
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews The Wall Street Journal‘s iPhone app had just 2 stars in Apple’s App Store at the time of this writing. Averaged across 68,418 consumer reviews, the rating is not just a reflection of a few irate users. As a rough estimate, a 2-star average across 68,418 reviews means that [...]
Personnel Changes at Library Journal Announced
Filed by on June 21, 2011
“Library Journal Announces Staff Changes” (via LJ) Congrats to all. Two congrats and kudos “shout outs” to a couple of INFOdocket pals who have new positions at LJ. First, Josh Hadro has been promoted into the newly created position of Executive Editor, Digital Products, effective July 1. Josh has been with LJ since 2008. Second, [...]
Reed Elsevier Leads $6 Million Investment in GigaOM, the Media and Analysis Company
Filed by on May 25, 2011
Want To Be Like Jon Stewart? New Governmental Open Data Standards Are For You
Filed by on May 2, 2011
Want To Be Like Jon Stewart? New Governmental Open Data Standards Are For You Forget leaked cables: There’s enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012. However, unless citizens have an entire team scouring government video for hilarious hypocrisy, like the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart does, [...]
View the Front Pages From Hundreds Of Newspapers
Filed by on May 2, 2011
UPDATE: 11:00AM Monday May 2, 2011 Due to overwhelming demand the site the Newseum site linked below has crashed. Until or it returns or at any time users can view the front pages from thousands of newspapers via the wonderful PressDisplay service. Read a limited amount for free beyond the front page but for a [...]
