DocumentCloud Weathers Obama Birth Certificate, Palin Emails, Merger with IRE
When President Obama released his birth certificate and dozens of news organizations turned to DocumentCloud to present it to their…
Prototypes, Visualizations Take Shape in Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab
Today marks the end of the second week of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, an experiment in which 63 “mad scientists”…
Why Missouri J-School Should Rescind Its Apple Laptop Requirement
This story originally appeared on J-School Buzz and was edited and adapted for MediaShift with permission. It was written by…
What’s Your Current Interest in the Phone-Hacking Scandal?
The phone-hacking scandal seems to have everything: tabloids chasing celebrities, celebrities suing news organizations, police getting bribes, politicians cozying up…
Mediatwits #14: This Week in Rupert; NY Times’ Pay Wall Pays Off
Welcome to the 14th episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser…
International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Location: Barcelona, Spain ICWSM-11, will be held on July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona (Spain) and will be collocated with IJCAI-11.…
Top 5, July 21, 2011
Phone-hacking probe may widen to other tabloids Panel created to investigate British newsrooms. iPad revenue supersedes Mac Apple reaches mobile…
VIDEOS: Should the MIT-Knight Civic Media Confab Get Supersized?
One of the things we at MIT are very quietly considering — quietly in the same sense that I first…
Google+ Terms of Service, Illustrated
Editor’s note: When Google+ launched, there was much ado about the Terms of Service, especially in how they related to…
Dotspotting + Embeds = Great Maps of Prisons, Crime, Pavement Dots
There are three basic parts to working with online representations of urban civic data in Dotspotting: collating the data, manipulating…