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Saturday, November 1, 2003 |
THE FUTURE OF NEWS
Preparing for
the Coming Era of Participatory News
The Internet means now everyone is a journalist - or can be.
Dale Peskin, Online Journalism Review,
posted: 2002-03-26
Forty years ago Marshall McLuhan
observed that we look at the future through a rear-view mirror. He
foresaw a time when our small planet would become a connected,
ever-changing global village that would immediately and inextricably be
altered by the way it is observed and reported.
McLuhan warned that few would notice. We would be changing and moving
too fast, he predicted. Our vision for the future would be left to a
backward glance through a small window of a moving vehicle....
3:23:20 PM 
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MediaCon: Cooper's new book. Mark Cooper, of the Consumer Federation of America has published a new book, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age. The book can be purchased at Amazon (link to come), or it can be downloaded for free under a Creative Commons license. [Lessig Blog]
2:27:59 PM
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Toward a paperless government
When Congress passed the Government
Paperwork Elimination Act in 1998, proponents talked about the remaking
of an enormous paper-bound bureaucracy into the prototypical 21st
century organization, complete with e-signatures and the electronic
storage of documents.
If you want an inkling of what this
involves, consider that the federal government's computer systems
stretch back some four decades, thus representing what may be the
biggest IT petri dish in the world.
The deadline for complying with the bill came and went last week with
little of the fanfare that accompanied the start of the project. CNET
News.com caught up with Ray Wells, IBM's top software executive in
Washington, D.C., to gain some perspective on how close Uncle Sam is to
realizing the ambition of a hard-copy-less system....
By Charles Cooper , Staff Writer, CNET News.com, October 27, 2003
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The New Road to the White House. The blog may be the first innovation from the Internet to make a real difference in election politics. But to see just why requires a bit of careful attention. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
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The Fiscal Problem of the 21st Century. Charles Jones, Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, writes about the fiscal challenges ahead.
The fiscal problem of the 21st century, then, is this: Under current policies, the fraction of resources society devotes to health care appears likely to rise substantially over the next 50 years. Reasonable projections suggest that spending on Medicare and Medicaid as a percentage of GDP may well rise from 3.4% in 2000 to nearly 15% by 2075. [Scott Loftesness]
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© Copyright 2003 Russ Savage.
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