Why Unions Should Not Support SOPA
A version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog. I was supposed to speak…
Mediatwits #33: CES Jumped the Shark?; SOPA Battles; Google+ in Search
Welcome to the 33rd episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser…
Pew Studies the Power of Text-Based Donations After Haiti Quake
A simple text message can have a big impact. Mobile giving makes it easy to donate almost instantaneously after disaster…
E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Jan. 12, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing 1. Amazon: Time to start programming…
Daily Must Reads, Jan. 12, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. The Philadelphia Experiment: Why a media…
Wearing Our Computers on Our Sleeves
It’s natural to imagine our computers as devices that have screens and some sort of keyboard input, real or virtual.…
NextDrop’s Dashboards Look Great, But Mobile Content Would Be Better
One year ago, when we were just a team of graduate students with a big idea, our teammate Thejo Kote…
Daily Must Reads, Jan. 11, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Justice Alito: “It is not going…
3 Laws for Journalists in a Data-Saturated World
At the Cyberspace Conference in London in November, Igor Shchegolev, the Russian minister of communications and mass media, referred to…
The Top 10 Data-Mining Links of 2011
Overview is a project to create an open-source document-mining system for investigative journalists and other curious people. We’ve written before…