Real Life, Only Better: Augmented Reality Takes Off
My favorite technology — augmented reality, or AR — lets anybody feel like Harry Potter, except that you make magic…
ScraperWiki: Wrapped Up in Time for Christmas
Come the holidays, we all like to do ourselves up — a new frock for the party season, or a…
Journalism Education Roundup, Dec. 14, 2011
Education content on MediaShift is brought to you by: Innovation. Reputation. Opportunity. Get all the advantages journalism and PR pros…
Daily Must Reads, Dec. 14, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Farhad Manjoo: Buying books online is…
New Etiquette Needed for Technology In (and Out of) Classrooms
If you want to see a teacher fume, just bring up the topic of cell phones in class. Technology, especially…
Grassroots Mapping in Butte Goes Analog
This article was co-written by Olivia Everett, Butte site coordinator for Public Laboratory. As a newcomer to Butte, Mont.,…
Daily Must Reads, Dec. 13, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. FBI: Carrier IQ files used for…
Print Books Still Rule the Holidays: The Trouble With Gifting an E-Book
My template for what Christmas should be was set during the holidays I spent at my grandparents’ farm in eastern…
The Pros & Cons of Hiring Third-Party Vendors
Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight…
Daily Must Reads, Dec. 12, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Is HP’s decision to make webOS open source a good…