140 Characters Conference
Location: Los Angeles This Twitter-focused conference looks at “the effects of the emerging real-time Internet on Business.” Twitter hashtag: #140conf…
How to Win a Knight News Challenge Grant
October 12 was a day of high emotion; it was finally time to thrive under pressure. I got home from…
Top 5 October 27, 2009
U.S. newspaper circ continues to fall Weekday sales down 10 percent from last year. The Awl charts the drop Eisner’s…
FAILCon
Location: San Francisco Who else is tired of reading all that gushing praise about web 2.0 geniuses and their greatest…
Did the Web Kill Gourmet Magazine?
The murder happened in the kitchen with a laptop. That possible explanation for the death of Gourmet magazine sounds like…
The New Era of Media Development, Part II
It is a telling sign that Wikipedia has no entry on media development. Rather, the search results suggest that perhaps…
4 Minute Roundup: Twitter’s Real-Time Search Deals; Bloomberg Rising
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the deals Microsoft made recently…
The Right Way For Media Companies to Create Social Media Policies
Swimming in the roiling sea of online journalism, increasing numbers of newsrooms have decided to take up the challenge of…
Printcasting Bridges the Digital Divide for Hyperlocal Coverage
We’ve had a busy few months with Printcasting, launching some significant new features and engaging in a number of partnership…
Cloud Computing World Forum
Location: London, England This one-day conference examines the current state and future of cloud services. Speakers include executives from Rackspace,…