Are Photos by Aid Workers an Invasion of Privacy in Haiti?
I recently spent a week in Port au Prince, Haiti, helping in a tent hospital set up at the airport.…
Top 5 March 2, 2010
Conde Nast iPad mags Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Glamour coming in April NYT coming to screen near you…
The #Spill Effect: Twitter Hashtag Upends Australian Political Journalism
Australia is gearing up for a national election in 2010 and a core group of influential political journalists in the…
Councilpedia Uses Crowdsourcing to Link Money, Politics in NYC
As Gotham Gazette gears up to launch a pilot version of its Knight-funded Councilpedia project, we are confronting a number…
SXSW 2010 Photo 16
- Go to Photo 15 On a final note, I couldn’t resist the chance to show off my rope skills…
Self-Publishing, Author Services Open Floodgates for Writers
In 2001, the Wild Writing Women, a San Francisco Bay Area travel writing group of which I was a member,…
Can Citizen Journalists in South Africa Help Open up Government Data?
Communities need information, particularly information about what government is doing, and how people can access government services. In South Africa,…
4 Minute Roundup: Google’s Trouble in Europe; WAC vs. Apple
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap…
IOC Loosens Citizen Photog Restrictions, Launches Flickr Group
At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, social media was in its infancy. But in…
So You Want to Try Crowdsourcing?
It is no secret that I’m always on the hunt for great crowdsourcing projects. We’re still learning a lot about…