Cloud Connect
Location: Mountain View, CA This is a conference on using Internet-based applications to meet business needs — ie. working in…
Obama’s Open Government Imperatives Must Trickle Down to Cities
Today President Obama issued two eloquent orders with the following subject lines: “Freedom of Information Act” and “Transparency and Open…
Top Five Two Hundred Nineteen
Microblog inauguration CNN, Facebook team up to microblog Obama’s inauguration RJI News Collaboratory Support network for entrepreneurial journalists on the…
Live Blog: RJI TalkFest on Serving Entrepreneurial Journalists
I am virtually covering the all-day sessions at the RJI TalkFest today, held at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism…
Jack Driscoll on Community Journalism (Part One)
One of the pleasures of living and teaching at MIT for the past 20 years has been the chance to…
Innovation in Inauguration Coverage
This week, instead of focusing on one innovative journalism project, I’d like to highlight some of the many projects that…
YouTube Helps Video Journalists Get a Start
When discussing the travails of major news outlets online, it’s not uncommon for someone to mention the effect that companies…
Choosing a Domain Name: Getting to Know Cyber Squatters (Starbucks Scene 1)
It’s not the case when you can remain unnamed. At this stage – when working out the site structure and…
The Journalism Bubble
You’ve heard about the housing bubble. And the dot-com bubble. I’m here to tell you about The Journalism Bubble. Anybody…
Local Press Subsidies Are Not The Answer
Most people would now acknowledge that there are serious structural issues facing regional and local news in Britain just like…