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Sponsored conversations Companies pay bloggers for coverage; RWW cries foul NYT’s The Local Times tries hyper-local as Patch.com comes on…
Can African-Americans Find Their Voice in Cyberspace?
One of the most powerful sessions of my class on New Media Literacies and Civic Engagement last fall came as…
5 Great Services for Self-Publishing Your Book
In past posts, we’ve looked at some of the questions a new writer should keep in mind when considering whether…
Social Enterprise Conference
Location: Cambridge, MA The conference brings together key leaders in the private, public, and non-profit sectors to discuss how to…
Messages From Hot Places
Yesterday I got to go to the MIT Media Lab to sit in on a gathering of researchers and graduate…
4-Minute Roundup: Facebook Democracy; Newspaper Strife
This week, I’m soft-launching the new weekly 4-Minute Roundup — or 4MR — audio report from MediaShift. I will embed…
Army of Geeks
As communications change and the demand grows for local networks, our mission becomes clear: we are being called upon to…
How Animal Rights Activists Beat the Rodeos in Videotaping Events
As cell phone cameras and palm-sized videocams have become cheap and ubiquitous, there is little if anything that is immune…
Breaking Even While Staying True to the Margins
We recently applied to present Freedom Fone: Dial-up Information Service at an upcoming ICT for Development workshop. Our application was…
How Obama Inspired Israeli Politicians’ Online Campaigns
Just as television changed the way political campaigns were run in the 1960s, the Internet has changed the way political…