3 Reasons FriendFeed Is Great — and 3 Ways It Scares Me
Ask me what my mother is doing right now and I couldn’t tell you. Or what my best friend has…
Give the Public Access to Public Records
I’m on an open API kick here at IdeaLab, so here’s the second of three entries on the potential of…
Newspaper Vet Malcolm Finds Blog Religion with ‘Top of the Ticket’
If you have preconceived notions about political blogging, Andrew Malcolm is here to shatter them. Malcolm, 64, has decades of…
Should We Teach with Open Source Software?
Western Kentucky University if one of seven academic programs working on a joint Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge grant…
Post-Mortem on the Multimedia Boot Camp
Team Gecko huddles For five and a half days, a group of mostly newspaper journalists (with a few broadcasters and…
NY Times to Test Crowdsourcing Its Data
News about a potentially big deal in the newspaper industry broke just before the holiday weekend. No, not another story…
Still Seeking Coders Interested in Journalism
It’s now been almost exactly a year since we announced (thanks to a Knight News Challenge grant) that programmer-developers could…
From GeoGraffiti to GeoJournalism
I recently began playing around with a new service called GeoGraffiti, which allows you to post or access voice notes…
Ensuring Content in User Driven Conversations
Before I went home this summer I had the opportunity to talk with Steve Twedt, a reporter at The Pittsburgh…
Collaborating with Distill for Games
Finally I am able to post independetly, and after the semester is over I will have a chance to work…