Newsrooms Should Use Blogs to Battle Bloat, Complexity
Media professor and writer Clay Shirky recently wrote about The Collapse of Complex Business Models on his blog. That post…
Top 5 April 22, 2010
Pricey Honolulu Civil Beat Full access costs $19.99/month; Omidyar’s welcome message Facebook announces changes Introduces Open Graph, launches closer integration…
A Real Watershed Moment for Citizen Journalism in South Africa
Ever heard of load shedding? It’s one of the cleverest bits of Orwellian double speak the south African government (or…
Printcasting Plans Mobile Expansion With FeedBrewer
About two years ago, I wrote up an idea for how to leverage standardized web content to create locally-targeted publications…
Helium Balloons with Digital Cameras Create Grassroots Maps
I’m getting ready for day five of a two-week workshop for high schoolers at Beaver Country Day School in a…
Top 5 April 20, 2010
Gizmodo’s iPhone scoop Apple employee lost prototype; Gizmodo paid $5,000 for phone New York’s tech entrepreneurs New York mag profiles…
WikiLeaks, Bay Citizen, and Lessons from the Logan Symposium
Over the past two days, I had the pleasure of attending the 4th Annual Reva and David Logan Investigative Reporting…
Serving the Community of Programmer-Journalists: Help.HacksHackers.com
For many years now, the NICAR-L email list has been the online home for journalists doing data analysis — the…
WePad Takes on iPad with Support of European Publishers
BERLIN — When I made plans to travel to Berlin to help judge the Best of the Blogs awards for…
Logan Symposium Explores New Models For Investigative Reporting
BERKELEY — We’re gathering at the University of California-Berkeley for Day 2 of the 4th Annual Reva and David Logan…