We Need a PowerPoint to Make Games
“Playing the News” Update – Distil Interactive I just returned from Ottawa where Nicole Rinerand I went to collaborate with…
Slingbox Lets Me Take Live TV Abroad
Last month, I moved to Spain, and I took my TV with me. Not the actual TV set, but my…
‘Technology Sabbath’ Offers One Day to Unplug
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with taking one day each week away from work completely. You might think this would be…
Prisoners Become Media Makers in Jamaica
When thinking of Kingston, Jamaica, blogging and podcasting are far from the first words to come to mind. “Murder capital…
Killing Trees and the Future of News Online
Seth Godin on the news buiness versus the paper business: Jason wrote in to ask why I thought that the…
EveryBlock Does Special Report on Corruption Case
We’ve launched our first EveryBlock “special report” — an analysis of Chicago addresses mentioned in the recent federal investigation “Operation…
People Get Picky on Adding Friends on Social Media Sites
There comes a time in every person’s online life when they have to make a decision: to add or not…
Top Five Week Ninety-Nine
NewsJunk Winer’s addictive stream of political news, blogs Newspapers grow? WAN chief: China, India, free papers lead News snacks AP:…
Google News Layered in Google Earth
At the Where 2.0 conference in May, Google announced Google News would be now be accessible and located in Google…
Can newspapers rejuvenate or reinvent classified ads?
American newspapers are hurting for a number of reasons — loss of readership, the rise of cable TV and online…