Social Media Week
Location: New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo This event is held simultaneously in six cities…
Rent vs. Own: The Streaming Music Debate Continues
The exponential growth of Internet bandwidth combined with the ability to significantly compress digital audio has impacted the music industry…
4 Minute Roundup: Facebook as News Reader; Engadget Comments
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap…
Moving on After the Knight News Challenge
In 2008, the Open Media Foundation (then Deproduction) received a $380,000 Knight News Challenge award, and it was a major…
Google News to Publishers: Let’s Make Love Not War
Krishna Bharat In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech…
Email is Far From Dead
For years, the digerati have been declaring the end of email as a useful tool. Back in 2003, experts said…
What Are the Universal Principles that Guide Journalism?
Defining principles of journalism is difficult. Rewarding, but difficult. Back in 2005 it took the Los Angeles Times a year…
Top 5 Feb 2, 2010
News orgs test Twitter ads Austin paper, HuffPost try paid tweets and comments Engadget disables comments Tries to stop ‘trollish’…
Printcasting 1.5 Boosts Design for On-Demand Publishing
A funny thing happens when you win a contest like the Knight News Challenge. Suddenly, what was once just a…
Truly Serving the Public — With Web Tools
We journalists are fond of saying that journalism is constitutionally protected because of our critical role in providing information that…