Today, celebrate Constitution Day by learning more about the First Amendment.
Take the quiz, find ways to protect student journalists, and nominate a school for the First Amendment Press Freedom Award (deadline December 1st).
How else might we celebrate Constitution Day?
Tonight at the Newseum, Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation.
The new foundation's mission as articulated by Berners-Lee:
-to advance One Web that is free and open,
-to expand the Web's capability and robustness,
-to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet.
The Knight Foundation is funding a $5 million seed grant over five years. Sir Tim Berners-Lee:
Knight CEO and president Alberto Ibarügen announcing the $5 million seed grant to the World Wide Web Foundation:
More details in the press release, tonight's speech and on the World Wide Web Foundation site.
On Wednesday, J-Lab (the Institute for Interactive Journalism) announced the winner of this year's Knight-Batten Innovation Award: Wired.com's Wikiscanner coverage "which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries."
PolitiFact.com, with its "Truth-o-Meter" for 2008 presidential campaign statements, and Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information, a site to report incidents of political violence from mobile devices, email, and the Web, won Special Distinction Awards.
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Yesterday, Patricia Martin of the Culture Scout Blog posted about teens and the Knight Future of the First Amendment survey and research.
"It seems that when First Amendment rights are made relevant through self-expressive technologies, kids grasp it. It makes the case for why information privacy needs to become part of the First Amendment freedoms."
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At the 2008 Online News Association Conference (follow the conference Twitter updates) that continues until Saturday, sessions and pre-conference workshops on media included a workshop on news games; Kurt Greenbaum of STL Social Media Guy blogged about how journalists are embracing news games. The Knight News Challenge winner Gotham Gazette is mentioned.
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And Heidi Williamson, who helps promote the Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative digital news delivery), has posted a new Seesmic video "What are the obstacles for innovation?" More than two dozen video responses have been posted, and you can join the discussion with your response here.