We live in strange times for news and newspapers, for government and secrecy, for states and individuals. And the reaction of the media is interesting.

An attempt to figure out who the most important players and innovators are in the evolution of journalism — and to provide a centralized source for background, context, and the latest news about them.

Will combining your voice with your motor skills be a UX boon?

A shot in the arm for metadata. Broadcasting semantics from the video content to elsewhere in the page.

Curating Olympic Tweets with Eddy by Stamen

Nice in-depth breakdown of what we do [and plan to do] at the BBC http://j.mp/bHGQuz #bm #future /via @givp

Crowdsource video for your news website?

The Times is turning over day-to-day editing and oversight of the Brooklyn site to an editor paid by CUNY

ABC, on Digital Radio or Online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

No longer in control of the distribution mechanism, big media are unable to palm off substandard work through marketing smoke and mirrors. In a world of almost instantaneous information, mediocrity has no place and the long tail is king. No wonder the TV and movie industry don’t like it. They actually have to put some effort in now.

Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city

My favourite part of the proposal is: a single column layout optimised for readability applied to current articles, with a more conventional layout for archived ones.

"hybrid cars are designed solely to milk the guilt genes of the smug and the foolish" and other gems

Navigate video by facial recognition, demo'd on the original Star Trek

50% poking fun at itself, 50% potentially cool