Techdirt Saves* Journalism
Location: Mountain View, California This one-day tongue in cheek event is focused “on getting lots of smart people together in…
Can Financial Firms Use ‘Hot News Doctrine’ to Stifle Aggregators?
Traditional print newspapers and magazines are experiencing upheaval thanks to the rise of the Internet, but they are not the…
Top 5 June 15, 2010
New public-media platform NPR, PBS, APM, PRI and PRX join forces to share and extend content News Corp. goes shopping…
Fifth “Programmer-Journalist” Helps Develop Visualization Tool for Census Data
There is probably no government data used more by journalists — and non-journalists — than the trove of population and…
Teaching Ushahidi 101 in Kenya
This post is written by Melissa Tully and Rebecca Wanjiku. Melissa Tully is a PhD student at UW-Madison who is…
Tabla Rasa DC
Location: Washington, D.C. Those interested in attending this afternoon gathering at the Gannett-USA Today campus should bring an iPad with…
The Civic Media World Turns its Eyes This Week to MIT
This week, all past and present Knight News Challenge winners descend here upon the MIT campus as Knight Foundation and…
Social Media and Corporates — the #Promise Conference
A few days ago Vince Stehle from the Knight Foundation invited me to the Think Social’s The #Promise conference in…
4 Minute Roundup: iPhone 4 vs. Android Phones
In this week’s 4MR podcast I consider the new iPhone 4 announced by Apple, with a sleeker design, longer battery…
How Josh & Chuck Made ‘Stuff You Should Know’ a Hit Podcast
Perhaps you were hunting around iTunes one day and came across a list of the top audio podcasts. There in…