At Hacktoberfest, Forget the Ode, Show Your Code
> “The Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership is all about producing kick-ass open-source code, recipes, and ideas to solve real problems,…
Colleges Run Afoul of First Amendment in Barring Sports Journalists
College athletics are, in some ways, the epitome of what sports are supposed to represent. In our collective minds, college…
ONA Boston Succeeded in Diversity of Speakers
What a difference a year makes. The Online News Association Conference in Boston looked a lot more like America in…
Social Good Summit: Digital Philanthropy Grows Up
Business content on MediaShift is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three…
School Libraries Struggle with E-Book Loans
Just as many predicted, sales figures show that more people are opting to buy e-books rather than printed copies. Sales…
This Is How Water Really Works in India
This post was co-written by NextDrop’s Jessica Tsai and Madhusudhan B. NextDrop, which informs residents in India via cell phone…
How to Get Your Self-Published Book in All Kinds of Stores
With triple-digit growth in self-publishing services, technologies evolving weekly, and advertising hype, it’s tough for authors to figure out which…
Online News Association
Location: Boston The annual meeting ONA brings together new media movers and shakers, journalists and online news managers and includes…
Which Social Network Do You Use the Most?
In the past decade, the surest way to start a fight in the tech world was to write a negative…
Top 5, September 23, 2011
Facebook unleashes Timeline, social apps Wants to become your personal newspaper Twitter introduces political ads Mitt Romney is one of…