The list of candidates for creating one of the greatest unsolved scientific hoaxes of the 20th century has many names, including Arthur Conan Doyle, but my friend Keith has pointed out a detail missed by other Piltdown students. In all of these photos, what is the constant? Yes, it is Chipper the Goose-- and it looks to me like that bird is supervising, nay, masterminding the whole thing. I think it is pretty obvious what is going on here and who is really responsible.

I watched two kingfishers yesterday hover and swoop back and forth between the 4th and 5th avenue bridges. Kingfishers have a distinctive sound and are quite fun to observe.

I have to give whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry on kingfishers credit for plain straight forward talk:

Kingfishers.......beat their prey to death, either by whipping it against a tree or by dropping it on a stone.

And here I thought kingfishers were "cute".

(David Nordfors, Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.12, Oct 31 2005. Recorded 27 July 05) A roundtable discussion about the future journalism with the "father of the Internet" Vint Cerf (Google /ICANN), Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems), journalists and experts. Producer and moderator: David Nordfors (Stanford / VINNOVA).

It's innovation time for journalism! Traditional news media are being challenged by innovative sources of news on the Internet, such as blogospheres, or citizen journalism. Traditional journalism struggles when covering innovation as a topic. While innovation pivots society it is not a key news word. Traditional news beats, such as technology, business or politics - chop up innovation processes to fit their news slots, missing the bigger picture.How can journalism report on innovation, following the cross-boundary interactions driving today's society? Who can do it?

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