How the Anti-Social Media Crowd Misses the Mark
Facebook’s impending stock offering has rekindled laments about the ills of social media. They largely miss the mark. The toppling…
How One Reporter Ditched His Laptop and Covered a Conference with an iPhone, iPad
For the first time in my career last week, I went to work naked. I had the requisite snazzy shirt…
iWitness Aims to Aggregate News By Time and Place
Let’s face it: The great promise of citizen media has not really been fulfilled. News organizations have struggled to find…
Daily Must Reads, March 5, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Latest Pew study on state…
What Would You Pay for Access to Your Local Paper’s Website?
Does information really want to be free? Or do we all just want to get all the news that’s posted…
Triangle Wiki Day a Win for Open Source in Raleigh
This post is a guest column by Jason Hibbets, chair of Raleigh’s South West Citizen Advisory Council (SWCAC). A version…
Daily Must Reads, March 2, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Courtney Cowgill. 1. Broadcasters sue over Aereo’s $12…
Mediatwits #40: Pay Walls at L.A. Times, Gannett; TechCrunch Turmoil
George Kelly Welcome to the 40th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, this time with Mark Glaser and the George Kelly…
NextDrop Announces Its First Public Tap Pilot
NextDrop’s first 15,000 customers have been primarily middle class families. However, we wanted to see if our solution could be…
E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, March 1, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Who chooses what gets sold…