The Great Debate on Micropayments and Paid Content, Part 1
I am a lover of roundtable discussions and debates, and have turned a long-running series of “virtual email roundtables” into…
Social Media for Government
Location: Chicago Leading social media experts in government and public service agencies will speak at this conference on how to…
New Tools For Journalists From TechCrunch 50
Earlier this week, I spent two days at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco. The conference organizers pick 50…
For News Organizations, Transparency is the New Objectivity
Back in the spring, I made an analogy about journalism being a game of chess. On the chess board of…
Mainstream Media Miss the Point of Participatory Journalism
The ability of anyone to play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and sharing news and…
Top 5 Sept. 15, 2009
Fast Flip Google works with publishers on online news viewer Bing’s visual search Structured search uses thumbnail images, requires Silverlight…
Got a new way to talk green? Go digital.
Looks like digital is the official medium for all things hip and green. Weekly, the Beanstockd team peruses the online…
Environmental Reporting Becomes Hazardous Work in Egypt, China
Since May 2009, Tamer Mabrouk has held one of the saddest records regarding human rights abuses in Egypt. He is…
Mobile Projects Shouldn’t Overlook ‘Dumbphones’
This week, CityCircles (formerly Daily Phoenix) attended a lunch event at Arizona State University that allowed us to have one-on-one…
4 Minute Roundup: Examiner Buys NowPublic; CIMM Wants Better Metrics
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the recent buyout of NowPublic…