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.

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Member Since: July 20, 2006

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Environment, Attitudes, and Behavior

Do No Evil – Does where we live shape how we think and act?

View Story Discuss (0) (worldchanging.com) 9 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:56pm

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The Arts and the President

Art & Design – War, energy, humanitarian intervention, public education, women's reproductive rights, the death penalty Ã;¢ââ;;¬Ã;¦ somewhere on the long list of policy positions among the presidential candidates is the arts. Or at least for one of them.

View Story Discuss (0) (blogs.walkerart.org) 9 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:55pm

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Rockwell Re-enlisted for a Nation's Darker Mood

Art & Design – Elliott Earls's reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" practically screams. A little girl seems to be crying, her eye bruised, with an American flag in the background and two words framing her figure: "Liberty Weeps." The color scheme is red, white and blue, but patriotic pride has been supplanted by sadness.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 9 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:54pm

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Morning Tears

Do No Evil – An orphanage in Xi'an, in China's midlands, 85 children whose parents are either executed criminals, or have mothers imprisoned for murdering their husbands. In almost all cases, the mothers claim spousal abuse. Unless the mother's can prove their case, they serve a 21 year sentence.

View Story Discuss (0) (ctzn.tv) 9 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:53pm

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Wind and Solar Powered Cellphone Networks

Do No Evil – Namibia is a big place with only two million people and not much infrastructure. They are building a cellphone system (cheaper than a wired one where there isn't much infrastructure or density) but it costs $ 8,000 per kilometre to put in grid power and it takes at least a year.

View Story Discuss (0) (treehugger.com) 10 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 08, 2008 02:25pm

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Antarctica Suite

Do No Evil – Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, visited Antarctica "to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress." Spooky has transformed the changing landscape's subtle vibrations into music.

View Story Discuss (0) (worldchanging.com) 10 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 08, 2008 02:22pm

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Alpha & Beta Table Lamp

Art & Design – the Alpha & Beta lamp references the iconic lampshade shape morphing two together seamlessly with an organic flowing form in his signature mirror gloss finish. Goh has been busy, you can check out more from his Resonates 08 collection at his site and a few core picks after the jump.

View Story Discuss (0) (core77.com) 10 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 08, 2008 02:20pm

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Human Mirror

Art & Design – For our latest mission, we filled a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror. Enjoy the video first and then see below for our report with tons of photos.

View Story Discuss (0) (improveverywhere.com) 10 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 08, 2008 02:19pm

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Challenges of $600-a-Session Patients

Do No Evil – "It used to be that my patients were the children of the rich: inheritors, people who suffered from the neglect of jet-setting parents or from the fear that no matter what they did, they would never measure up to their father's accomplishments," he recalled. "Now I see so many young people" people in their 30s and 40s" who'

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 11 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:44pm

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The Fallacy of Examples, and the problems of extrapolating from media

Do No Evil – David Weinberger has an intriguing post up today about the "Fallacy of Examples". He's reacting to a column from Nick Kristof in the New York Times titled "The Luckiest Girl", which recounts the story of Beatrice Biira, a young woman from Uganda whose improbable journey through Connecticut College began with the donation of a go

View Story Discuss (0) (ethanzuckerman.com) 11 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:42pm

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Shipping Container Playground

Do No Evil – We're always impressed with creative design reuse, but this children's playground made from recycled shipping containers takes the cake for one of the most imaginative examples of shipping container architecture we've seen. Known as the Skinners Playground, this kidscape puts four discarded shipping containers to use as the primary spaces for child

View Story Discuss (0) (inhabitat.com) 11 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:40pm

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NBC To Use Olympics as a 'Billion Dollar Research Lab'

Sports – NBC is using the Beijing Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using such platforms as video streaming, video on demand and mobile phones. The company will use about 10 methods for measuring audience beyond the broadcast.

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Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:38pm

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Thai Museum at Angkor Draws Tourists, and Criticism

Art & Design – There is no question that Angkor and its famed temples are among the world's archaeological treasures, providing a window into the Cambodian dynasty that flourished there from the ninth century to the 15th century. But tourists who flock to the site in northwestern Cambodia say something is missing; few artifacts remain to help them imagine the cus

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 11 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:37pm

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Big Touch-Up for the Blue and the Gray

Art & Design – These Civil War-style shoes are being pressed into duty for a battle that ended 145 years ago Ã;¢ââ;;¬" not for last weekend's re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg but for a conflict that still rages on the canvas of an enormous painting in the round.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 11 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:36pm

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A Giant Rubber Snake Could Be The Future Of Renewable Energy

Science – Across the planet wave energy is something that is constantly and vastly available. In the industry of renewable energy, solar energy has emerged as the indisputable leader because has broken away from the rest of the industry.

View Story Discuss (0) (econewz.info) 13 days ago by mikellll

Voted for on July 07, 2008 01:35pm

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