Flat design or back to basics.

"The New York Times is documenting every tweet, retweet and click on every shortened url for Twitter and Facebook that points back to its site [...] the data is then combined with browsing logs to determine what the users do after they land on the site."

"Those who teach tomorrow’s journalists have a monumental task ahead of them: Not only do they have to instruct and mentor these students, they have to do so as the media landscape heaves and buckles beneath all of them. This can make for a wild ride for students, teachers and schools alike. But with the challenges comes great opportunity — for innovation, for creativity and for experimentation."

„The information revolution seemed to hit another high gear last week in Boston, leaving authorities on information technology pondering the ramifications. “The experience of people being stuck in their homes was very different because of social media. To some extent people felt like ‘we’re doing this together, and it’s a sensible thing,’ ” said Judith Donath, a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center."

“The current economic crisis of newspapers is so serious, that there is reason to doubt its survival in the form familiar to us“.

”Over the next two to three years, I believe we will see thousands of sensor-based products tied to apps on our smartphones, making it even clearer that the real hub of our digital lifestyles may actually be our smartphones.”

"Infographics simplify information in a visually engaging way in order to attract and inform a large audience. The best infographic designers use basic principles of design to support the information presented and to make it more easily accessible to a larger audience or to target one particular audience over another."

"It's easy to get carried away focusing on the trend-setting, digital-savvy younger generation. But for most publishers, the audience that matters is one that lived their formative years before the digital transition really began, one that is for the most part still waiting to be converted to digital media consumption."

"The metaphor implies that journalism is a settled profession with clear boundaries that needs only to be practiced more rigorously, instead of a field with its most fundamental premises unraveling. Rather than creating conditions for students to help re-think journalistic practices, the teaching hospital model reinforces the conviction that content delivery is the primary purpose of journalism. Put simply, it makes it hard for students to think differently."

"Over 2.5 million files analyzed by a global team of journalists reveal financial information about politicians, fundraisers. and celebrities from over 170 different countries."

"As technology and audience habits change, so do our professional functions."

"Stanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem—the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-million-core-supercomputer-barrier.html#jCp";

"Here is a list of 50 blogs by journalists. The list ignores blogs on other interest areas written by journalists, instead selecting those that are about journalism or the industry in some way."

The irony is that Larry Roberts didn’t want to build the ARPAnet. As internet historian Jim Pelkey puts it, Roberts was “blackmailed” into taking the job.