"We are building skyscraper favelas in code?—?in earthquake zones."Zeynep Tufekci explains that while its nice to know that the "great glitch" of July 8th (which included a downed United fleet, a dark NYSE, and an offline WSJ site) wasn't due to cyberterrorism, we should still be worried because, well, "software sucks."
The growing trend of stealing data... to share it. More often organizations are being hacked not by criminals seeking credit card numbers, "but by people intent on stealing as much data as they can and publishing it," for whistleblowing or revenge, explains Bruce Schneier in an essay for CNN.com. (For example, the recent hacking of the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry's internal communications, which you can read more about on the Internet Monitor blog.)
What APIs can do for news.David Weinberger has published a new paper that explores the successes, challenges and opportunities for news organizations using APIs. In an article for Nieman Reports, he explains how the newsrooms at NPR, The Guardian, and The New York Times, were transformed by APIs in unexpected ways.
WATCH: The Web We Want & The Ed We Want Justin Reich at the Berkman Center on July 7, 2015
Reich is an educational researcher broadly interested in the future of learning in a networked world.In this talk, he highlights some of the exciting innovations within education that seek to put students and learners in charge of their online lives.
We speak with Nieman Fellow Melody Kramer who's researching what it means to be a member of a public or community radio station. Kramer pulls from examples at stations all over the country of people supporting their public radio stations in non-financial ways, including code and story ideas.
