4 Minute Roundup: Comcast-NBC Deal; AOL’s Robot Army
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift (the Stuffy Head Cold Edition). In this week’s edition, I look at…
Iran Cracks Down on Internet Expression, Bloggers, Journalists
Last week, the Iranian blogger Sasan Aghaei, who runs the site Azad Tribun, was arrested by intelligence ministry officials after…
Supernova
Location: San Francisco The Supernova conference “explores the transformation of computing, communications, business, and society in the Network Age,” according…
Online Information & IMS 2009
Location: London, England This conference and exhibition covers content management, search solutions and web 2.0. It also offers a range…
Will Google Sidewiki Shift Control of Online Comments?
Journalists and news outlets are accustomed to offering comments and criticisms about others, but they’re not as used to being…
FTC’s Hearings on Journalism: Why?
As everyone knows, the nation’s scam artists, monopolists and market-riggers have all gone into hibernation during the worst economic crisis…
Best of Twitter: FTC Workshop Discusses Future of Journalism
For two days this week, some of journalism’s most high profile executives and experts descended upon Washington, DC, for “How…
How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?
Location: Washington, D.C. The FTC is hosting a two-day workshop to examine the future of media. Speakers include Arianna Huffington,…
How Gotham Gazette Used Games as Storytelling Devices
With the launch of its energy game Switch, Gotham Gazette this fall completed a two-year Knight Foundation-funded project to create…
How Programmer/Journalists Craft Their Own Study Programs
After writing about the skills a journalist/programmer might need, I thought it would be interesting to see what college students…