Top 5, July 7, 2011
News Corp. shuts News of the World Guardian goes full-bore on phone-hack scandal; tweets pressure advertisers Facebook and Skype take…
How Important Are Writing Skills for Modern Journalists?
When I ask my university journalism students why exactly they want to be journalists, a majority tell me it’s because…
Top 5, July 5, 2011
Zuckerberg most followed on Google+ Is it because he’s more handsome than Google founders? How News Corp. screwed up MySpace…
The New News Paradigm: ‘Pivot or Perish’
At the recent MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, I had the pleasure of speaking to 16 of the most promising thinkers…
Golf Digest Adds Interaction, Depth, E-Commerce to iPad App
It seemed like the first-delivered iPad was hardly unsheathed from its box before News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, apparently unfazed…
What Do You Think of Google+?
Every few months, a new social network is born, and the cycle begins again. It starts with the emails: “Joe…
Smartphone Sensors Could Revolutionize Digital Magazines
We’ve all done those personality and health quizzes in magazines. You know, the ones where you suspect that answer A…
Mediatwits #11: Can Google+ Overtake Facebook, Avoid MySpace’s Fate?
Danny Sullivan Welcome to the eleventh episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s…
When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
In “Newsgames: Journalism at Play,” we argue that the news quiz “is an incredibly simple type of game, but one…
Top 5, June 30, 2011
Google goes social with Google+ Will Google’s “stream” be the new news feed? Specific Media buys MySpace Justin Timberlake gets…