I Wouldn’t Want to Belong to Any Twitter List That Would Have Me as a Member
Networks are funny. As soon as they get big enough to have a lot of value, it gets harder to…
Speculative Fiction Novelists Find Success with Online Donations
Over the years, many authors have tried versions of the online donation model, with mixed results. But one specific genre…
Internet Summit 09
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Web entrepreneurs, marketers and investors from the southeast will gather for the second edition of this…
Hossein Derakhshan’s Arrest: One Year Later
It’s been over a year now since the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan, popularly known as Hoder. Ever since he wrote…
FT’s Long Room Uses Velvet Rope Approach to Online Community
What determines a successful community? The number of unique visitors or page views? The number of comments? Those metrics can…
Kicking Off the Grant Process With Monitoring and Evaluation
We at the Jefferson Institute began our experience as a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner with one of the more…
@FakeAPStylebook Editors Explain Their Overnight Success on Twitter
For anyone who has suffered through reading the entire AP Stylebook for a journalism class, there’s a cathartic release when…
New Media in the Courtroom
Location: San Francisco This half-day conference looks at how social media is changing legal reporting and press coverage of the…
10 Projects that Help Citizens Become Government Watchdogs
With the 2010 U.S. elections coming into view, many people are looking for more information about the people running for…
TheDigitel.com Brings Human Context to Local News Aggregation
Many news websites are working to refocus on local news, and often this means turning to automated aggregation. One hyper-local…