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Michael Wines offers an excellent overview of the grass mud horse controversy, managing to discuss various mythical Chinese beasts without actually translating the offensive phrases. A good introduction to the current discussions on Chinese censorship and filtering.
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Adding to the pile of unlikely but worthwhile ideas to help save difficult journalism – ask professors to do it. Of course, it's a little easier if you have tenure, or if this sort of writing would help advance your academic career, but that's part of the idea outlined here…
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Astoundingly good new music built from the raw material of samples on YouTube. Each track is layered from loops of people signing and playing, recording themselves. Some of the most impressive bricolage I can imagine.
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Columbia J-School is having a hard time adapting to new media, and faculty resistance is part of the complication. How do you keep whats great about a storied J-school while readying students for a media environment that requires them to be programmers and graphic designers as well as reporters?
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Intriguing new project from Alex Weir, Scottish/Zimbabwean software developer. Designed to be a giant, international ecommerce marketplace usable via mobilephone. Clearly in early stages, but some very interesting design decisions and ambitions to be useful on a very wide scale
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50 media sites most linked to by Technorati bloggers, with links to other indexes of MSM cites in citizen media
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