Exploring a Range of Development Options
In the past few weeks, I’ve ramped up development of ReportingOn. Of course, for me, that means I’m spending time…
How Technologists Can Boost a Journalism Classroom
So what happens when people with computer programming backgrounds are part of the same journalism class with more traditional students?…
World of Digitalmediacraft
There is one reason and one reason alone that I haven’t catastrophically dropped out of college yet: I avoid World…
Quick Video Services Spark Conversations, Boredom
Online video has moved way beyond simple video-sharing on YouTube. A growing number of services are allowing users to make…
Representative Journalism: Funding Beats or Stories
I’m on the “board of advisers” for Representative Journalism and Leonard Witt, who coined the phrase, is also on the…
Online Video Ads Finally Find Their Niche
McDonald’s sponsors Hulu The numbers tell the story of the disconnect between online videos watched and online video ads sold:…
Journalists Need to Update Stories Online
For people without their own web site or blog, a newspaper article can become their primary identity online. Local news…
How Community Radio Becomes the ‘Voice of the Village’
It all started in the Tetherless Computing Lab at the University of Waterloo. Our research group led by Prof. S.…
Educational Centers for Journalism Experiments
Will print newspapers exist in 10 years? How will we fund investigative journalism in the future? How can journalists learn…
What kind of video advertisements would you welcome?
Researchers have predicted that video ads would explode just as online video audiences have expanded — but it hasn’t happened…