I’ll admit it: I got into journalism for the money.
Columbia Journalism School dean Nicholas Lemann has said: “I’ve never met a single person in 35 years who went into journalism out of pure economic reason.”
He never met me. While my motivation wasn’t purely financial, I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t the primary reason [...]

These are a few things I found interesting on October 31st:

94107 news | EveryBlock San Francisco – Good example of hyperlocalized news
GeoDjango – Django – Trac – “geographic web framework” for Django
Geotagging the News – Knight2008Applications – my proposal for a metadata standard / microformat to allow people to tag news stories and blog posts [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from October 21st through October 22nd:

The Food Issue – An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief – Michael Pollan – NYTimes.com – Long, detailed piece about how we’re entering a global food crisis — with a detailed prescription for what to do about it
Gadget [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from September 16th through September 22nd:

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Zell is not your problem. You are. – Newspapers and newspaper companies are about to die. The last remaining puddles of auto, home, job, and retail advertising are about to be sucked down the drain thanks [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from September 3rd through September 8th:

Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, but he’s still not getting any money | Mail Online – Kane Kramer invented an iPod-like device in 1979, and now struggles to make ends meet. ?I was up a ladder painting when I got [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from August 7th through August 22nd:

TechCrunch50 » TechCrunch50. It?s like TechCrunch40, but 10 better! –
Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT –
Economist.com – debate on global energy – Proposition: “We can solve our energy problems with existing technologies today.” View arguments, vote pro & con
Limelight Networks: [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 20th through July 23rd:

NASA’s Best Photos: You Make the Call | Wired Science from Wired.com – Vote on NASA’s most iconic images, from 5 decades of space exploration
Our Electric Future ? The American, A Magazine of Ideas – Intel’s Andy Grove argues that we [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 13th through July 18th:

FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH – Agenda – Lots of very important people here
Face of the Future – Upload a picture of yourself and see what you’d look like in the future, or as a different race, or as painted by various artists. [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 8th through July 10th:

There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave Your Twitter | Evil Genius Chronicles – Notes on how to move yourself off Twitter and onto FriendFeed
Media Standards Trust | Transparency Initiative – Tim Berners Lee and others, backed by Knight News Challenge [...]