Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Sudan?
JUBA, SUDAN — “If someone from southern Sudan trusts you, they will tell you enough to write a book,” said…
3 Excellent Videos Explain the ‘Game Layer’ Conversation
Want to learn more about the gamification of news that Chris O’Brien wrote about here last week? I did, so…
Top 5 January 25, 2011
NYTimes.com + app = $20/month? Along with pay wall, NYT partners in Ongo aggregator Google cracks down on content farms…
Mike Elk: Dismissal Signals Change in Direction for HuffPost
Last Thursday, I was “fired” as a labor blogger from the Huffington Post by executive business editor Peter Goodman for…
Salon.com Retracts Vaccination Story, But Shouldn’t Delete It
Last week Salon.com, a publication I helped edit for many years, officially retracted “Deadly Immunity,” a 2005 story by Robert…
NYU’s Studio 20 Creates Innovative, Collaborative Hothouse
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by the USC Annenberg nine-month M.A. in Specialized Journalism. USC’s highly customized degree programs…
Turning the iPad into an Open, Offline Mapping Platform
We’ve talked here before about [TileMill](http://mediashift.org/idealab/2010/08/tilemill-custom-maps-to-help-with-data-dumps-hyper-local215.html), an open source tool for creating your own custom map tiles (the individual pieces…
Teens Turn to Social Coding to Protect Privacy on Social Nets
In certain teen social circles, it’s considered a subtle act of arrogance, a signifier of the loner, to use a…
Top 5 January 20, 2011
iPad users prefer ads over paid apps Study found 86 percent will watch ads for free content Company suing commentors…
Dotspotting Expands to Track Homicides, Food Vendors, Road Trips
Since my last post, we’ve been busily working on extending the functionality of Dotspotting, the first project in our larger…