Using the Climate Feedback tool, scientists have started to diligently add detailed annotations to online content and have those notes appear alongside the story as it originally appeared. If you’re the writer, then it’s a bit like getting your homework handed back to you with the margins littered with corrections and red pen.

Facebook “Notes” has long sat mostly dormant, a strange appendage to Facebook whose added function beyond "statuses" wasn’t quite clear. But now Facebook has decided what the function will be: blogging. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the company is “testing an update to Notes to make it easier for people to create and read longer-form stories on Facebook.” This update, at least in some forms, looks look surprisingly like Medium, as developer Dave Winer pointed out. The new update adds functionality like the ability to add a cover photo and resize photos, which makes a “note” feel li

Journalism is neither criminal activity nor the action of an enemy, at home during domestic strife or overseas in a time of war. Still, charges have been brought in Ferguson, Mo., against two journalists a year after they were detained in a McDonald's restaurant by police in the first days of violence during protests over the police shooting and death of Michael Brown. And a new, 1,176-page Department of Defense "Law of War" manual distributed in June opens the door for U.S.

By TOMMY WITHERSPOON twitherspoon@wacotrib.com McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna has asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to overturn a ruling by Waco’s intermediate appellate court that lifted a gag order in the case of a Hewitt man arrested in the Twin Peaks shootout. via DA appeals 10th Court’s ruling on Twin Peaks biker’s case gag order - WacoTrib.com: Twin-peaks-biker-shooting.

INDIANAPOLIS – Fifty-three journalism and open government groups today called on President Barack Obama – yet again – to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public. via More than 50 journalism groups again urge President Obama to stop excessive controls on public information | Society of Professional Journalists | Improving and protecting journalism since 1909.

By TOMMY WITHERSPOON twitherspoon@wacotrib.com McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna has asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to overturn a ruling by Waco’s intermediate appellate court that lifted a gag order in the case of a Hewitt man arrested in the Twin Peaks shootout. via DA appeals 10th Court’s ruling on Twin Peaks biker’s case gag order - WacoTrib.com: Twin-peaks-biker-shooting.

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From the Houston Chronicle:

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed about 1,200 bills this year, wrapping up Texas lawmaking until officials reconvene in 2017. A good deal of those new laws kick in on Sept.