Gnomedex
Location: Seattle This is a conference for bloggers and social media leaders to talk aboutwpersonal media revolution has affected politics,…
4 Minute Roundup: EveryBlock Sale to MSNBC.com; Report from Gnomedex
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the recent sale of micro-local…
Video Volunteers Creates a New Kind of Sustainability Using Community Video
“You mean to say that sending the email is free?! I don’t have to pay for it?” Laxmi was amazed…
Gnomedex 9.0: Tech Conference Looks Deeper at Social Media
SEATTLE — I am here attending the geekfest of geekfests called Gnomedex. Its name is a play on the old…
HuffPost Social News Helps Close the ‘Awareness Gap’
Back in December, as a team of Medill students (including the first two Knight News Challenge "programmer-journalists") was developing the…
Students Get Blogging Seminar, Digital Cameras for SochiReporter
I’ve just returned from helping deliver the first seminar about blogging and citizen journalism ever held in Sochi, Russia. Just…
Journalism Students Need to Develop Their Personal Brand
As a journalism professor, I have found there is one thing guaranteed to set off a flurry of frenzied activity…
When FM Radio Meets the Mobile Phone in Pakistan
Cricket game in Pakistan In the United States, high-end smartphones like the iPhone and BlackBerry don’t have built-in radios. But…
What Will Record Labels Look Like in the Future?
The pioneers of the music industry couldn’t have seen this coming in their wildest dreams. When publishers were selling sheet…
EveryBlock, MSNBC.com and the General Public License
By now everyone has heard the news: EveryBlock is now part of MSNBC.com. And anyone familiar with the Knight News…