Scout Digidave

I am a freelance science and technology writer, or what I like to call a "geek writer."

My main interest is taking what I know about the networking effects of the internet and applying it to journalism. I do this at NewAssignment.Net

On Netscape I manage the Do No Evil channel. A dubious channel indeed. Help me define it by leaving a comment here.

I also work at NewsTrust.Net - a media literacy nonprofit that lets you rank news based on journalistic quality.

Get to know me more at my blog (link below)

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Member Since: July 20, 2006

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Are We Living in a Perfect Storm for Print Media?

Do No Evil – For starters, as gas prices go up, so will the distribution costs. This could have a significant impact on margins. However, there are larger societal factors at bay here too.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 06, 2008 02:42pm

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Your personal/professional identity in a small town

Do No Evil – I can't remember the last time I went out shopping or to eat or to the park without recognizing someone from my beat or having someone recognize me. When you get large crowds together, it's even more likely to occur.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 06, 2008 02:35pm

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An American in China

Art & Design – This summer, widespread Beijing fatigue is an inevitability. But it's high-flying Olympic Beijing that may become overfamiliar, a city that's appeared before our very eyes as in a scene from "The Matrix." This is not Michael Meyer's town. The Beijing he has called home is being systematically eradicated, and this book is his testament.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 06, 2008 02:30pm

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Sky Larks in Architecture

Art & Design – There comes a time in family life when the kids need their own rooms. One solution is to add on. Rarely, though, does your average middle-income household hire one of the world's leading architects to do the job.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 06, 2008 02:30pm

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Hooray for Uribe

Do No Evil – Two cheers"but only two"for Colombia's president

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 05:08pm

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Clay Shirky on Politics As If Everybody Can Participate

Do No Evil – Clay Shirky teaches at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and writes and consults on the design of social software. In this keynote talk, he draws on his new book Here Comes Everybody to illustrate new forms of technology-enabled bottom-up political action, and argues that the law and society needs to catch up to help foster even stronge

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 05:06pm

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Dark Journalism

Do No Evil – Censorship isn't the only thing wrong with Chinese reporting. The other one is corruption

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 05:03pm

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Fixing Earth One Dome at a Time

Art & Design – Cold war culture has been back in style for a while now, at least in architecture circles. The clarity of its Manichaean worldview, in which everyone seemed to know who the bad guys were, is a comforting refuge from our current ideological confusion. And the era's brooding architectural monuments look pretty good compared with the Disney-inspired v

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 05:02pm

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China's Legacy: Let a Million Museums Bloom

Art & Design – This year, in a drive to promote awareness of China's national heritage, the government introduced a free-admission policy at the country's public museums. Officially the cultural establishment greeted the news with smiles.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 04:59pm

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For an Artist at Full Speed, Everything Else Just Takes a Back Seat

Art & Design – The interior of the rambling Victorian house is dark. The sparse furnishings in the front rooms are covered by a patina of cigarette ash, gobs of dried paint and coffee cans filled with paintbrushes. Hundreds of paintings lean against walls and are piled against the porch windows.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 04:58pm

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Australia's First Carbon Neutral Solar Powered Resort

Do No Evil – Hidden Valley Cabins is Australia's first carbon neutral resort and tour company. The solar powered getaway is located one and half hours northwest of Townsville, near Running River on the western slope of the Paluma range in Queensland, Australia. This is Australia's first stand-alone resort that operates solely on solar power, and saves 78 tonnes

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Submitted and Voted for on July 05, 2008 04:20pm

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Where'd You Get That Vintage Turbine?

Do No Evil – It's exciting to witness development of increasingly efficient wind power technologies (to see Popular Science's geek-worthy eye candy on that front, click here and here). But what can we do with our old wind power equipment as the early models become outdated?

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:19am

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Tony Wheeler on Nontraditional Travel Destinations

Do No Evil – I'm all for comfort. Over the years I've sampled my fair share of five-star hotels, tried an international selection of Michelin-starred restaurants, wandered through museums and galleries from the Louvre to an assortment of Guggenheims, even sat up at the sharp end on quite a few flights.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:17am

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Fun with Art

Art & Design – Jonathon Keats makes art that makes you think. How much is that worth?

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 12:17am

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The Return of French Decorative Arts

Art & Design – The Parisian designer Christophe CÃ;Æ;Ã;´me is part of a rich lineage of French decorative artists that stretches well over one hundred years. To look at his creations in rusted iron and blocky glass, one would think they were the fruits of collaboration with the great Scotsman Charles Renee MacKintos

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