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Hacking? Hardly!
Some are calling what Virgil Griffith is doing hacking, but I think it’s journalism, computational journalism. Griffith, a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, created a stir last year when he released Wikiscanner. It revealed how active companies were in cleansing their Wikipedia entries of negative news. Now, Griffith, pictured on right,…
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In praise of small cities
Tennessee is full of small cities, but only one was good enough to m ake Money magazine’s 2008 version of the 100 Best Places to Live, Mon ey’s list of America’s best small cities. That city is Franklin. The list was limited to cities with populations between 50,000 and 300,000 and is featured in the…
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Adversity is a mean teacher, but damned effective
When the media “perfect storm” passes, some will emerge stronger and thrive: It’s inevitable that by the time the American economy improves, some of the metros will have figured out how to remake the slimmer, smaller-staffed newspaper work for both readers and advertisers. Those that are successful will provide the template. Out of that comes…