Back in the excellent philosophy class I took in high school (Hi Mr. Lutness!), epistemology was simply explained as How You Know What You Know.
And different philosophers said you know what you know for different reasons. George Berkeley, for example, had this whole “seeing is believing” thing, for example. If he didn’t perceive it with [...]
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Epistemology and sources
February 2, 2010
Tools for News: Chris Amico’s new database of online news tools
January 2, 2009
Behind the scenes at Wired Journalists, a few of us have been talking for some time about the need for an all-encompassing database of online tools for news, featuring tutorials, examples, ratings, and reviews.
Chris Amico has made a solid run at building out the guts of it, launching his Tools for News this week.
Looks pretty [...]
Innovation is easy.
September 25, 2008
Here’s a PDF of the short presentation I made at SND in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago.
It’s remarkably simple. I think I waved my arms a lot to fill up my five minutes.
This presentation goes well with the list of mostly free online news tools I posted a couple weeks ago, as well. That [...]
Check out my online news toolbox
September 8, 2008
I finally finished a basic Tools page to start a list of some of the basic, mostly-free, mostly-embeddable applications that I recommend for quick and simple Web production.
It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of things I find useful. You might find them useful, too.
But if you have any suggestions for [...]