Live-Blogging EconSM Gathering About Social Networking on Mobiles
SAN FRANCISCO — I am at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center right down the hill from where I live…
Twitter Mania: Will Twitter Change the World?
Twitter has become a multi-headed phenomenon since MediaShift devoted a week to covering micro-blogging two years ago. Twitter is now…
Tech Policy Summit
Location: San Mateo, CA The summit brings together prominent leaders from the private and public sectors to examine critical policy…
Streaming Media East
Location: New York This is a conference for broadcast executives, viral video producers and marketers to discuss developments in all…
Wikipedia Art: Vandalism or Performance Art?
Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern developed the idea to create a self-referencing Wikipedia article late last year. The plan…
How Crowdfunding at Spot.us Has Worked — and Fallen Short
It has been a year since Spot.Us was officially announced as a project and six months since our website launched.…
Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Five
Wikipedia obit hoax Irish student gets fake quote into newspapers who relied on Wikipedia Cell-only households CDC report finds that…
PressTerra Tests Newspaper ‘Printernet’ on Iberian Peninsula
In my March 24 column, I talked about the “printernet,” a system of networked desktop publishing where the desktops and…
‘Hacker-Journalist’ Finds Job, Seeks More Coders for Journalism
For Brian Boyer, the circle is complete. Almost exactly two years ago, Boyer saw a posting on BoingBoing about scholarships…
4 Minute Roundup: Kindle DX; Google vs. Newspapers
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. This week I look at the unveiling of the new wide-screen Kindle…