What Newsrooms Can Learn from Obama Campaign
This thought occurred to me over the weekend when I heard that Barack Obama’s campaign had purchased advertising space in…
The Five Biggest Barriers to Online Participation
Team Crunchberry — so-called because we’re thinking about Cedar Rapids, Iowa, home of a large Quaker Oats cereal factory responsible…
The IncluderEpisode 5Hardship Letter
The Includer is a device for listening to a person’s deepest thoughts. This may take twelve years, which is how…
Your Guide to Political Polling Sites
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of…
Microblogging Tools for your Newsroom
I thought about ReportingOn for more than a year before the public beta launched on October 1; I turned the…
How the Focus on Print Hurts Our Newspaper Site
Byzantine: intricately involved. I don’t consider our print and online newspaper areas here at the Bowling Green Daily News to…
Teacher Fired for Inappropriate Behavior on MySpace Page
It’s not just students who can get into difficulty for school-related blogging. In a recent case, a federal court rejected…
J-Schools Use Geo-tagging, Wikis, iPhones to Teach
Professors are commonly stereotyped as people who know more about books than technology. But as classrooms are now filled with…
Top Five Week Two Hundred Nine
CNN iReport punk’d False news of Jobs heart attack not a failure of cit-j concept Real-time fact-check Bloggers, NPR, FactCheck.org…
Google Blocks Chrome Browser Use in Syria, Iran
Recently, I learned from Joshua Landis’ Syria Comment, my main source for news and analysis concerning Lebanon’s eastern neighbor, that…