Top 5, September 1, 2011
DOJ blocks AT&T/T-Mobile merger Lawsuit cites anti-competitive movements Facebook to launch music platform Partners will include Spotify, MOG and Rdio…
Online Comments Run Afoul of Thailand’s Laws Shielding Royalty from Criticism
BANGKOK — As a high profile case against a prominent media campaigner returns to court in Bangkok, it has emerged…
Journalists Should Join Google+ to Understand What Comes Next
This month’s Carnival of Journalism, a site that I’ve organized where bloggers can convene to all write about the same…
Traveling Back in (Technology) Time With Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene brought home for me how our media technology defines eras. On the eastern end of New York’s Long…
Top 5, August 30, 2011
CNN buys iPad magazine Zite News app goes for reported $20 million to $25 million Hurricane Irene knocks down pay…
ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together…
Teaching Magazine Journalism Beyond the Magazine
While magazine industry professionals struggle to come up with the best ways to use today’s technology, magazine journalism educators are…
Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable in the Horn of Africa
Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that’s unfolding…
Why Schools Should Stop Banning Cell Phones, and Use Them for Learning
Last week, a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that cell phones have become “near ubiquitous”:…
PANDA Aims to Make Data Analysis Easier for Journalists (And We’ll Be at ONA!)
What’s got rows and columns and sucks at data? Excel. Though to be fair, we misuse it. Excel was built…