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Is Investigative Journalism Dead?
All the words and images pouring in from Haiti remind us how social media have revolutionized the standards for communicating in times of crisis. In spite of the gut wrenching imagery, it’s a positive thing that anyone with a camera, phone, or computer can publish their thoughts and feelings globally.
Crowd-sourced news and freelance / celebrity writers have reduced the need for traditional investigative journalism. We no longer rely on “the professionals” to challenge existing orthodoxies; rather, we leave the critical thinking to the people we know and trust and respect.
As other have said, disasters of the scale that struck Haiti this week usually see a huge outpouring of cash and interest in the immediate aftermath, which almost disappears within the first year. And who will do the follow up reporting? Professional journalists, or the crowd?
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Anyone care to use an elevated biking system? Check this out for a highly-detailed and ambitious project that puts cyclists above the streets.
From the Kolelinia website:
Kolelinia is a city fly attempt… a concept for riding our own bikes on a steel wire, a new type of bicycle-lanes…
Can this actually work?
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Our transition towards a hydrogen-based economy has begun…
SINGAPORE – January 4, 2009. “A hydrogen station in every home” is a futuristic vision that is about to become reality this week as Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies unveils what could be its biggest breakthrough to date: a small home hydrogen refueling and storage solution that could begin our transition to a hydrogen-based economy.
In addition to making many new fuel cell products possible, the refueling device enables a lower cost, scalable, and consumer-centric hydrogen supply model which eliminates the dependence on large-scale fueling infrastructure investments. Horizon’s game-changer innovation can unlock the age-old dilemma over which comes first: clean cars, or clean fuels.
“We no longer need to rely on nationwide networks of hydrogen fueling stations to enable large-scale fuel cell commercialization,” comments Taras Wankewycz, one of the company’s founders. “Horizon is initiating a transition that places consumers in the driving seat. Thanks to our innovation each household can gradually become a major part of tomorrow’s hydrogen fuel supply infrastructure.” Read the full press release.
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