May 27 Gov 2.0 Expo: Holovaty on Empowering Citizens With Neighborhood Data By Hari Sreenivasan The Rundown took the show on the road this week, visiting the Gov 2.0 Expo in downtown Washington, D.C., to get some perspectives on efforts to make government more transparent and useful for its citizens. Everyblock.com founder… Continue reading
May 27 Conversation: Jonathan Galassi, President of Book Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux By Molly Finnegan On Tuesday, a panel of publishers, book agents, authors and booksellers kicked off Book Expo America 2010 -- the major annual U.S. publishing convention and exposition held in New York each year -- by asking a fundamental, but newly challenging… Continue reading
May 27 Ginsberg Saw the Best Minds of His Generation, and Captured Them on Film Though Allen Ginsberg will forever be remembered as an influential poet, he also documented his life through photos. The exhibit, "Beat Memories: The Photos of Allen Ginsberg," showcases more than 80 photos captured through his camera. Continue reading
May 27 Publishers Say, 'Lights! Camera! Action!' for Book Trailers Publishers -- big houses and small independents alike - have lately turned to video to generate buzz and advertise their new releases. Over the past few years, book trailers have been gaining in popularity as publishers hope to cash in… Continue reading
May 26 Photos: Wildlife Suffer as Oil Spreads By Sarah Clune, Lea Winerman For AP photographer Gerald Herbert, the story of the oil spill in the Gulf is personal. A New Orleans native, he worked for years out of Washington, D.C., covering Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But just after he… Continue reading
May 26 Facebook's New Privacy Approach Shifts Control Back to User EmbedVideo(3427, 482, 304); Facebook unveiled new privacy controls Wednesday, after the social networking site came under heavy criticism in recent weeks for hard-to-use new settings and for making chunks of previously private information public. Continue reading
May 26 The Beautiful Game, Rendered in Art 2010 Fine Art, a Cape Town, South Africa-based company has commissioned more than 100 artists from around the globe to paint, whittle and sculpt works inspired by the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Continue reading
May 26 Lots to See, But More Importantly Do, at Maker Faire More than 80,000 people descended on San Mateo in California's Silicon Valley this weekend for the fifth annual Maker Faire, the world's largest DIY -- or Do-It-Yourself -- festival. Continue reading
May 26 Maker Faire 2010 Images from the 2010 Maker Faire in San Mateo, where artists, innovators and DYI-ers commune to show off their latest inventions and art works. Audio credit: KQED… Continue reading