Top 5 January 4, 2011
A Google digital newsstand? Drumming up publishers for iTunes competitor Facebook tops Google as most visited % Site had 8.9…
Winning a Golden Ticket to the MIT Media Lab
I’m a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab. I guess I’m old now. I started writing this post three…
Neighborhood Sites Can Awaken Community Involvement
“When I was first on my own I used to bemoan that my fellow renters could hardly be bothered to…
2011 Flash Points: Open vs. Closed, Google vs. Apple
Social Media content on MediaShift is sponsored by the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, a program offering innovative and entrepreneurial…
Lessons Learned from ReportingOn
In 2008, I was awarded a Knight News Challenge grant to build ReportingOn, a back channel for beat reporters to…
Top 5 December 30, 2010
iPad editions won’t save mags Sales of single edition mag apps drop as novelty wears off New tablet competitors coming…
Top 10 Media Stories of 2010: WikiLeaks, Facebook, iPad Mania
Click here to read all the year-end roundups This year has been all about privacy, or lack therof, online. Time…
2010: The Year Self-Publishing Lost Its Stigma
For over a decade I’ve been speaking at conferences about self-publishing to audiences of dejected, rejected authors. There was always…
Why Are New Media Conferences Lacking in Minorities?
It’s been a couple of weeks since Tim O’Reilly’s News Foo rolled into the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and…
Top 5 Deceber 28, 2010
SEC eyes Facebook stock buys Agency looks into whether company needs to disclose financials Protest over open-records proposal In wake…