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

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

I Read the News Today... Oh Boy

Do No Evil – Spend some time on the "future of news" conference circuit, as I have recently, and believe me, you'll need a drink and perhaps a Prozac.

View Story Discuss (0) (thenation.com) 5 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:55am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Mr. Obama Goes To Baghdad

Do No Evil – Do candidates have to visit Iraq before they can set a war policy?

View Story Discuss (0) (cjr.org) 5 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:51am

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My Mercedes is not for sale

Art & Design – Photos of vehicles in Africa. And you thought gas was a precious resource?

View Story Discuss (0) (mijnmercedes.nl) 5 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:50am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Stuck on Lapel Pins

Art & Design – Since Mr. Obama promotes himself as the candidate of change, maybe he should start wearing a different kind of lapel pin that signals his patriotism as well as other values he wants to communicate. To provide him with options, I asked some illustrators and designers to suggest alternatives. Here are a few:

View Story Discuss (0) (campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com) 5 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:46am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius

Do No Evil – The National Labor Committee (NLC), a New York-based human rights group, has been investigating working conditions at Toyota Motor Corp., and the labor used to produce its best-selling Prius hybrid cars.

View Story Discuss (0) (inthesetimes.com) 6 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 17, 2008 08:22pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Art Purchases Lead to Lawsuits Following Cruise Ship Auctions

Art & Design – When most people think of art auctions, they think of Christie's or Sotheby's in New York or London, not a cruise ship. But over the last two decades, auctioning "fine art" on cruises, often to first-time bidders who have never met a reserve or inspected a provenance, has become big business.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 6 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 17, 2008 07:58pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

Vibrant Gateway Planned for Lincoln Center Campus

Art & Design – Describing it as a "front porch" for Lincoln Center, the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have redesigned Harmony Atrium between West 62nd and 63rd Streets as a "theatrical garden" featuring 20-foot-high walls of plants and rods of falling water.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 6 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 17, 2008 07:52pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Adam Spangler on 21st-century Jazz

Do No Evil – After years of concerts, it finally dawned on me as I surveyed a crowd one evening: It's not jazz that is dyingÃ;¢ââ;;¬"clearly there are musicians worth seeing, producing music worth buyingÃ;¢ââ;;¬"it's the audi

View Story Discuss (0) (goodmagazine.com) 6 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:05am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Oil: A History

Do No Evil – A short history of black gold, from the ancient Persian army's flaming oil-dipped arrows to today's piercing pain at the pump.

View Story Discuss (0) (awesome.goodmagazine.com) 6 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:03am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

The World's Most Intriguing Typography

Art & Design – Breaching the boundaries in a juxtaposition of typography, art, and science, Oded Ezer writes his own rules as an experimentalist with works of letters transformed into bizarre, zany, and mesmerizing shapes and designs from insects to cloned human sperm cells injected with typographic information into its DNA.

View Story Discuss (0) (weburbanist.com) 6 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:03am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Artists Forced to Explain Modern Art, Critics Complain

Art & Design – "Is art running out of ideas? Artists forced to explain modern art", runs the headline of Tom Lubbock's piece in the Independent yesterday. After discussing viewer experience and publicity interpretation of Martin Creed's Work No. 850, a performance work in which relays of young runners sprint one at a time from one end of the central Duv

View Story Discuss (0) (artfagcity.com) 7 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 16, 2008 01:07pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Apple Art: Macs and the iPhone at the SFMOMA

Art & Design – It doesn't take a gadget freak to appreciate the art that technology can be now I have legitimate art-world backup! San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art has put Mac products from the past and present on display.

View Story Discuss (0) (geeksugar.com) 7 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 16, 2008 12:54pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

NYC Mayor Announces New Alternative to Federal Poverty Measure

Do No Evil – First Government Ever to Reformulate Faulty 40-Year Old Federal Poverty Measure

View Story Discuss (0) (knowledgeplex.org) 7 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 16, 2008 12:52pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Portland police raids against homeless

Do No Evil – Over 100 people joined a spirited march through downtown July 9 to protest a string of police raids on homeless encampments--a total of six over the past two weeks.

View Story Discuss (0) (socialistworker.org) 7 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 16, 2008 12:42pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Hey buddy, can you spare a movie ticket?

Do No Evil – Hundreds of Denver's homeless could be cooling their heels in a movie theater or museum while the Democratic National Convention is in town next month. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless plans to get 500 movie tickets as well as passes to the Denver Zoo, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and other cultural facilities for the people it helps.

View Story Discuss (0) (rockymountainnews.com) 7 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 16, 2008 12:41pm

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