May 2011
4 posts
What can Journalism learn from Text-based...
Some of you may know that i’ve been quite interested in the Knight-Mozilla Journalism Challenges (MoJo for short). Journalism currently rests at an interesting point, where grass roots support and interest is coalescing around movements such as Open Data, and technologists are pursuing innovation not just for developer tools but as a means to change fields outside of the typical world of...
Hacker pwns police cruiser and lives to tell tale... →
See, i can’t decide which Science Fiction world we’re living in. Is this Ghost in the Shell? Or Megaman Battle Network? Something else? To be sure, technology being employed by people who don’t understand the consequences of what they’re using.
Hanna; a short review
There’s a textural quality to Hanna that stands out as its most prominent feature. Hanna is a film that was made to explore an idea, and that idea is a (barely) scifi, spy drama filmed as a fairy tale. It’s both grittier and more grounded than “Pan’s Labyrinth” but considerably more fantastical than the Bourne Identity.
Hanna’s extent, though, begins and...