For example, if you have a reporter covering a huge parade, a bike tour, travelling along the coastline, taking a wine tour across the country, or you want to collect reader photos from a highway closure — really, the use cases are endless — an easy way to get interactive, live content from the field is through a Flickr map. And, you can accomplish it all from email, with no extra apps or training required.

The Associated Press says that it will start offering additional credit to other news organizations when it picks up their stories for the AP wire. This change — starting August 1 — will be noticeable mainly on the websites of AP’s member newspapers and other sites that offer AP State News Reports. A memo from Mike Oreskes, AP’s senior managing editor for U.S. news, is after the jump.

How many times have you seen a website say "We're not responsible for the content of our comments."? I know that when you webmasters put that up on your sites, you're trying to address your legal obligation. Well, let me tell you about your moral obligation: Hell yes, you are responsible. You absolutely are. When people are saying ruinously cruel things about each other, and you're the person who made it possible, it's 100% your fault.

For most of the last two million years, our ancestors were hunters and gatherers who worked in teams to find fruits, roots and seeds and to capture animals to eat. Among contemporary hunter-gatherers, folks who don’t collaborate or share well are either shunned as foraging partners or ridiculed.