Whither Hyperlocal Mapping
Three and a half conferences (12 hours onsite training at Google counts as the half) in three weeks has about…
Three Obstacles to a Truly Global Conversation
Imagine your own blogging community for just a second. Go ahead and put yourself at the center of your personal…
Swimming Lessons for Journalists
Yesterday on the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits blog (which I edit), contributor Alan Abbey posted an item about the latest…
Using Flowgram to Explain and Illuminate
I’ve been advising a San Francisco startup, Flowgram, where Abhay Parekh and his team have come up with a novel Web…
Starting Small and the Importance of Being Iterative
The short story: People are starting to ask me how they can get involved in Spot.Us. The site won’t really…
Hyperlocal Media Meets Negative Campaigning
If all politics are local, then hyperlocal media of sorts should be in tall cotton when it comes to local…
Cheap, But Not Free
A lot of the interest in citizen journalism over the past few years has been related to economics. Sign up…
Street Team Honors Young Vets for July 4
Since January, 2008 and through the primary season, the team of 51 MTV / Knight Street Team citizen journalists has…
$100 Laptop Redesign
A new laptop design for the one-laptop-per-child project is being worked out. They have removed the keyboard and replaced it…
When Will Video Games Become Easy to Create?
When will we have a software program that makes it as easy to create a video game as iMovie makes…