Not 24 hours after I wrote my post about blogging, .Net Magazine announced they were closing down their site and migrating their top 500 articles to Creative Bloq. That’s a far cry from the close to 10,000 articles on their site, spanning a long history of the web and its evolution. These articles were a de facto historical archive of how the web has changed over the years, and techniques that have come and gone.
There are no journalists
Jeff Jarvis argues that defining the term “journalist” creates boundaries that run counter to the purpose of journalism.
The NSA vs. Democracy
Intelligence services are by nature in conflict with the principles of democracy - transparency and accountability for and by the people. Ezra Klein makes a case similar to the one I made a few weeks ago, but with more charts and figures.
Google+ Turns Two: Why I’m Becoming a Convert