It isn’t “shovelware” to me if I never saw the pile it was originally shoveled from.

Personal note: I just won a 2004 George Foster Peabody Award at work. I only have so much shelf space, so goodbye Edward R. Murrow Award!

Newsmap: Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Participatory journalism in an unlikely (or likely?) place: Adrian Holovaty talks about consuming as-it-happens news from where you least expect it, and also getting it from the sources that you least expect.

A Near-Perfect Flash News Portal: People are nitpicking this site under entirely unfair assumptions and agendas, and not looking at the site in the context of its audience: newly converted broadband customers.

I am beginning to enjoy my array of available posting purgatories, along with the public transparency and cross-pollination of links and sources. Now I can have multiple levels of filtering, yet I (and everyone else) can see the original sources, such as my personal editorial process: scan all the content sources (bloglines.com/public/magnetbox), filter out the interested portions (del.icio.us/magnetbox), and decide what the general public gets to see (magnetbox.com).

I can’t help but think it would be amazing if content sources (news organizations?) did sort of the same idea, so that people could decide for themselves what level of news/filtering fits them best.

mySociety: Our aim is to build internet projects which have strong, real world benefits, and which do so at very low cost per person served (with already an amazing number of excellent proposals).

Public broadcasting helps audience sort fact, fiction: NPR, PBS audience holds most accurate views of Iraq war, says new study. Fox News viewers were almost four times more likely than public broadcasting’s consumers to hold misperceptions about the war.

Web helps compete in community publishing: Even the smallest community newspapers can use the Web to compete not only against metro dailies, but against television as well. Here’s a look at how four newspaper sites take advantage of the Web, and some lessons that can be learned from their experiences.

Making waves: The future may lie in radio not television: Years ago pundits were predicting the demise of radio because of the inevitable success of television. Moving pictures plus sound must be better than sound alone. Not so. Radio is snapping at the heels of its upstart rival and recently has actually put its neck in front in terms of listening hours per week.

A new generation is watching less television and turning to the internet and new forms of radio. One explanation is that viewers are switching off from so-called “crap” late-night television to hear music or serious radio programs. It may be too soon to be talking about a new golden age of radio, but it is fascinating that three new technological platforms — mobile phones, digital television and the internet — have revived the fortunes of a medium that was once thought to be in terminal decline.