Smartphone, HDTV Boom Begets Gargantuan E-Waste Problem
The digital media revolution promises to improve the quality of our lives though an expanded capacity to communicate, collaborate, learn…
4 Minute Roundup: Facebook Places Wants to Be Turned Off
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in…
Stroome Helps Journalists Collaborate via Online Video Remixing
This post was co-authored by Nonny de la Peña Stroome, a winner of the 2010 Knight News Challenge grant, fosters…
CrowdSpring Brings Crowdsourcing to Design, Writing
If you run any kind of business, large or small, you’re always looking for ways to get quality work done…
Top 5 August 19, 2010
Facebook Places checks in Social network launches location feature; privacy worries begin Gannett goes back to school Company launching hyper-local…
Social Media, Entrepreneurship Dominate AEJMC 2010
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell…
How Can Civic Media Help Cover ‘Slow-Motion Disasters’?
I’m helping MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media put together a talk on how better to cover slow-motion disasters, and…
How Metadata Can Eliminate the Need for Pay Walls
You have to admire his chutzpah. Rupert Murdoch, the so-called nemesis of public interest news, is now being hailed by…
How Training Citizen Journalists Made a Difference
I recently attended the Walkley Media Conference in Sydney, Australia. It is run by the Walkley Foundation, a very interesting…
Top 5 August 17
Hulu eyes IPO Would value company at $2 billion but IPO market might be soft Wired editor declares web dead…