radar.oreilly.com — It's not news that journalism is in crisis. Solutions are scarce, and our democracy is at risk. Journalism needs great hackers. Not just nerds, but programmers who care - about the values of journalism and the power of a free press to hold government accountable.
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twistedwriterMay 9, 2009
Because when I think of Pulitzer-winning, in-your-face journalism that cuts to the heart of issues and holds our government accountable, I think of Tim The Code Monkey in engineering. Go get 'em, Tim.
pinkertinkleMay 9, 2009
Journalism is dying. Saving democracy is up to bloggers now. God help us.
marogerMay 9, 2009
Needs subtitles or descriptive blurb. Titles aren't relevant enough. Good concept.
mckirkusMay 9, 2009
Good idea, it's now on the todo list. I sketched the dog and a guy from Disney made it look good, sorta Plutoesque no?
eedesignerMay 10, 2009
Take an average programmer. Give them a lobotomy. They'll then only be slightly twice as intelligent as a journalist. Programmers have to produce ideas that actually work. Journalists go around thinking that the Obamaloon can actually think.
grueslayerMay 10, 2009
Why would hackers want to "dance with the devil"? Hackers want truth out there for everybody... journalists want to sway "truth" to favor their own political agenda.
mckirkusMay 11, 2009
"Again, if the era of for-profit journalism is dead, then these news aggregator sites are just scraping money away from the people who do the actual work."News.google.com aggregates news on a national/global level. The AP is suing them "The AP believes that desperate times call for desperate measures and that means demanding royalties from any company profiting from any aspect of their content. When Google links to an AP story in a search result with an Adwords ad on the page the AP expects to be paid. "I'd argue that charging people for linking to a site is a bit ridiculous. In that case Digg likely wouldn't even exists. I imagine that Journalists that truly create exceptional content will continue charging for access while providing a summary to entice people to pay. Is Google Adwords "scraping" money away from the NYT when links to it show up on a popular search?