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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…

Terri Thornton

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…

Nicola Hughes

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…

Nathan Gibbs

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…

Nathan Gibbs

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…

Doug Ward

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.,…

Mathew Lippincott

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…

Nathan Gibbs

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…

Jenny Shank

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…

Tom Grasty

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…

Nathan Gibbs