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Guest blogger Brian Boyer is a hacker journalist who writes about the intersection of technology and journalism. He's worked at public-interest journalism site ProPublica and is now at the Chicago Tribune, building their new News Applications team.

It's not news that journalism is in crisis. CNN turned newspapers into first-day fishwrap and Craigslist killed the business model. Solutions are scarce, and our democracy is at risk. I don't have a chart to guide our way through the darkness to Citizenry 2....

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(tag cloud created from Velocity session & speaker information using wordle.net) My favorite interview question to ask candidates is: "What happens when you type www.(amazon|google|yahoo).com in your browser and press return?" While the actu...

At last month's RSA conference in San Francisco, I stumbled upon a vintage 1944 model of the German crypothographic machine, popularly known as the Enigma. This particular machine was owned by the National Cryptologic Museum, and was part of a larger booth hosted by the National Security Agency. The staff at the exhibit were quite friendly and it didn't take much to convince someone from the NSA to talk on-camera about the Enigma. (I did decide to submit the video to the NSA public affairs office for final ...

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Question: When you plug something in do you say Im using electricity or Im using the wall socket? Sometimes I feel the discussion about innovation in mobile tech sounds like a discussion of innovation in energywhere the discussion centers on the design of plugs & sockets.

Eduardo Jezierski, in Phones Don't Change the World, People Do.

P.S. It's unbelievable that more people don't follow Edjez on twitter, or read his blog. He doesn't blog or tweet often - he's out saving the world. He's worth paying attention to.