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Baseball-saving Sonia Sotomayor inspires accusations of judicial activism as she graduates from the school of hard knocks to possibly become the first Hispanic to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court [NYT, WSJ, USAT, BBC] Powerful judicial institutions chat about legalities instead of gay marriage in California while voters pursue their preferred form of justice … Read more

When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization. It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the … Read more

In Thailand, you can abandon your troubles and start anew for a few dollars with the help of some monks, a white sheet and a coffin. It’s the easiest death and rebirth I’ve ever seen. On this piece, I edited footage from a freelancer around voice over supplied by Seth Mydans, the author of the … Read more

After editing a freelancer’s footage of a remarkable golf video game in South Korea, I had only one question: Is virtual basketball out yet? On nytimes.com.

After a marathon sprint, ample footage of the Olympic torch protests and one energetic demonstrator in Hong Kong has been turned into 2 minutes and 38 seconds of video journalism. I shot and edited the video while a producer for the International Herald Tribune. I also performed all of the interviews, and provided the voice … Read more

I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you. Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections Being in the know / personal topic guidance Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices Forming opinions / critiquing service Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to create … Read more

When Terree Campbell learned the daughter of one of her employees had cancer, she knew she had to do something. She had to do something to help with the family’s monthly medical bills, which were running in the thousands of dollars. She had to do something about the family’s house payments as her employee, who … Read more

Information experience micro-culture is my somewhat academic attempt to create a term encapsulating the rituals, behaviors, expectations and experiences involving humans and our interactions with information, which includes the concept of story, one way of many (and one of my favorite ways) to organize data. Why this is important: To make long-term, effective decisions about … Read more

To enhance your story’s online ferocity, build it as a standalone, interactive network hub for the topic it broaches, and make it easily embedded in other Web sites. Building a network hub means you provide content filtering services in addition to your own researching and reporting: Provide well-described links to other news, opinion and information … Read more

The implications of this are: Every piece of content should function as an independent business that can be embedded in whatever Web site wishes to host it; Advertising needs to integrate with every piece of content and go wherever it goes; Journalism organizations should think of themselves as wire services providing content for any interested … Read more