Daily Must Reads, March 20, 2014
1. A website asks readers to finance independent journalists (Sydney Ember / New York Times) 2. Australia’s fevered streaming market…
SXSW: Where Unbranded and Branded Content Mix, Questions Emerge
Branded content, from advertising to sponsored work, has long used the skills of filmmakers and (often ex-) journalists. At SXSW…
11 Steps to a Better Twitter Stream
Twitter can make or break a journalist’s (or indeed an educator’s) reputation in less time than it takes to write…
#EdShift Chat: How to Teach Social Media
On Friday, March 21, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on how to teach social media. The chat will take…
Digital Book World’s Top 10 E-book Bestsellers; Week Ending 3-15-14
Veronica Roth’s Divergent series is doing its best Hunger Games series impression. The HarperCollins property has been dominating e-book bestseller…
Daily Must Reads, March 19, 2014
1. Analysis: What Viacom has to show for seven years of pursuing YouTube (Eriq Gardner / The Hollywood Reporter) 2.…
A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index last week — a ranking first launched in 2006 intended to track countries…
7 Rules for Startups from the Founders of 37signals
“Ignore this book at your own peril.” –Seth Godin That’s spelled out on the front cover of “Rework,” a book…
Futures Lab Update #51: SXSW Recap; Text Searches for Audio and Video
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week we present some key takeaways from the annual South by Southwest…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, March 18, 2014
1. Nook Press self-publishing platform launches in UK (Mike Koslowski / Good e-Reader) 2. Cupcake Digital buys Zuuka, maker of…