The Art of Documentation

Call it the New Digital Divide. In the early days of the Web, social innovators predicted it would spawn a more open and democratic society. Today, though, that hope is being strongly challenged.

By Bruce Schneier

Schneier is the author of the best sellers “Schneier on Security,” “Beyond Fear,” “Secrets and Lies,” and “Applied Cryptography,” and an inventor of the Blowfish, Twofish, Threefish, Helix, Phelix, and Skein algorithms.  He is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT BCSG, and is on the Board of [...]

Do you use Gmail, even for personal mail? Do any of your clients use Gmail? If so, you might have noticed that there was a pretty massive shift in your privacy a couple of days ago. CNET corespondent Molly Wood called it a privacy nightmare. You might not have noticed it. But unless you [...]

As a visual writer, finding the right image to use is always important. Because there are a ton of photographers and graphic artists that generously upload photos for free and fair use using Creative Commons licenses, there is a lot of material out there.  But it can be difficult to sort through free and licensed [...]

Things are hectic here at The Art, but I wanted to share some really brilliant thinking of some of the brightest minds working on communication and new media.  I give you:
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens
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Social Media Time
Nielsen’s research states that 18% of time spent online is spent on social networking sites and services. At first glance, this seems a bit high – especially considering the figure is 3x’s greater than last year.
However, if accurate, it provides strong support to the reports claim that
“This growth suggests a wholesale change in [...]

On October 19, 2009, Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Founder and Chief Librarian, introduced what he calls his “BookServer” project. Why should you care? Because this is quite possibly one of the most revolutionary moments in publishing since the advent of the printing press.

If DocumentCloud lives up to its promise, this could be a massive paradigm shift for researchers and journalists.
From the Calais Blog:
The DocumentCloud initiative – winner of this year’s largest grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – has lined up some two dozen partners, everyone from Thomson Reuters, The Wall Street Journal [...]