DoApp Wants to Dominate Mobile Apps for Local Media
The buzz surrounding mobile and tablet apps is deafening. Media companies of all sizes are considering how mobile apps might…
Top 5 May 6, 2010
PolitiFact expands to Texas Plans to franchise its fact-checking model Social media drives big traffic Is Google’s influence waning? Google…
China Tightens Media Control at Shanghai Expo
In honour of the Expo Shanghai China, the biggest display of Chinese might since the 2008 Olympic Games, Reporters Without…
Social Media & Community 2.0 Strategies
Location: Boston Executives from McDonald’s, eBay, Yahoo!, the Chicago Bulls and many other companies will share case studies and best…
Ushahidi-Based Voice of Kibera Aims to Map Kenyan Slum
Melissa Tully is a PhD student at UW-Madison who is researching the use of social/new media in social justice work…
CCTV Shows How Public Access TV Can Transition to Digital
In 2008, Mike Rosen-Molina wrote on MediaShift about public access TV’s “fight for relevance” in the digital age: In an…
Top 5 May 4, 2010
New Yorker’s online evolution A conversation with its first web editor Strategies for handling comments What HuffPo, Economist, others are…
OurBlook Roundup: Journalism Will Survive in Digital Age
OurBlook.com is a website that gathers opinions from today’s top leaders in the hopes of collaboratively finding tomorrow’s solutions. It…
Freedom Fone Answers Questions on Zimbabwe Constitution
Two weeks ago the latest version of Freedom Fone, affectionately known to his handlers as “Fred,” was set loose. Inspired…
How to Pair Smashwords and Scribd for Ideal E-Book Strategy
Self-published authors are in a unique position to benefit from the increasing consumer acceptance of digital books. The challenge, however,…