Unindexed is an
online community that anyone can contribute to; it runs a back-end
process that continuously scours Google for signs that it has been
indexed, and securely erases itself once it discovers evidence of same.
It’s a cute art project (as opposed to a cute engineering project, which
would have just used a robots.txt file to stop Google from indexing it
altogether), and apparently included some kind of artistic statement of
purpose that was nuked, along with the rest of the site, when Google
indexed it 22 days in.
March 07Comments Off on Why Allbritton was right to short-circuit TBD.Category: Blogging, Feed, HackText
Someone realized that TBD was doing the worst thing in the world for Allbritton, telling the competition that they could compete. The cut-backs issued to Allbritton Communication’s grand experiment TBD were surprising. First the outlet cut community profit-sharing, than Allbritton paired the organization down to just a website and put it under the purview of […]
February 23Comments Off on Links 2-23-11: TBD staff dumped, Easier bibliographies, Compelled consent, A world without oilCategory: Actual, Links
TBD was the great social experiment in DC; a group of media outlets turned into one community-powered converged news source. At least it was before Allbritton systematically removed its limbs.
February 08Comments Off on Crowd-sourced television goes to the next level with Bar Karma and StorymakerCategory: Feed, HackText
Current’s newest TV show, Bar Karma, is an evolution in storytelling. The show is a platform for community contributions, ideas and amplified cooperation. The creators leverage contributions, recommendations, pitches and votes through a platform created by video-game great Will Wright. The project is powered by a tool called Storymaker, which would be very useful to journalists, video game developers and narrative […]
