The Journal of Cool

White House Changes on Versionista

By Anikka Weerasinghe

A few weeks ago CBC published an online article about the release of the U.S. stimulus package. Accompanying it was a foreboding image of the White House with a dark and stormy sky in the background.  I wasn’t sure what the picture was meant to represent, and similarly [...]

Launched as a new project by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Open Net Initiative (which monitors Internet filtering and surveillance), Herdict uses crowdsourcing to track global web accessibility. Users can report sites which don’t work, and can see in real-time if the problem is shared among others. The possibilities for quickly [...]