Journalists can help the public make sense of the growing amount of government data now being made available.
Earlier this year the water began to recede on government data in the United States with President Obama's announcement of an unprecedented push
United States intelligence agencies will have a tool to read blog posts, Twitter tweets and chatter across the Internet. In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment arm of the U.S. government, has infused cash into Visible Technologies with plans to ma
There are lots of things you can do on Twitter besides tweet - and interactive storytelling just became one of them.
Neil Gaiman, famed author and creator of The Sandman comic series, and BBC Audiobooks America have gotten together to produce an interest
Virtually overnight, sites like ThisWeKnow.com and Datamasher.org created sites that parse this data into a true information grid where you can find out things like how states compare on virtually any criterion.
A new research report just released by cause branding pros at Cone shows that 79% of those online are behind orgs harnessing email, Web sites and social media to build awareness, grow giving and motivate action. Better yet, 60% of this group has engaged w
On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow in imp
May provide a way to handle partial migration of content (combined with Views Bulk Operations). Alternately use Views Bonus to export CSV, then import with Node Import.
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams took the stage for a discussion with Federated Media's John Battelle.
It was a lengthy discussion covering a lot of interesting topics. If you're interested in Twitter
For four weeks this summer, we got a crash course in data transparency. Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest, sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating
In her remarks today to the Forum for the Future, Secretary Clinton announced Civil Society 2.0, which will help grassroots organizations around the world use digital technology to tell their stories, build their memberships and support bases, and connect
With Twitter the phase of "do we really need it?" is over. The "how do we use it?" phase is right now. There are numerous ways of using Twitter for everything from business to bull**** and even clients come up to me and ask me about Twitter after reading