News Is Code #1: Attack of the Podium Weasels
How can technology improve on even the best journalistic work and help journalists hold officials to account? In the first…
Journalists, Citizens, and the Media Conversation
In my first post to this blog I said that the professional/citizen journalist debate was a “topic best left for…
Blogger Kathleen Seidel Fights Subpoena Seeking Information About Vaccine Litigation
We’ve been following the subpoena issued to Kathleen Seidel in the Citizen Media Law Project’s Legal Threats Database, but thought…
Community News Companies Will Become Extinct
The internet has created the need for radical change in the community news business. Incremental changes such as Yahoo consortiums…
‘Blog Till You Drop’ Phenomenon Overblown; Disconnecting Is Key
The New York Times recently published a story , “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop,”…
Top 5 Week Ninety-Five
Blogging to death Blogosphere on fire over NY Times story Web of Pulitzers Prize-winners using web more than ever Behavioral…
Our City, Our Voices Graduates Second Round of Students
On Sunday April 13th, Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) and Juntos will graduate a second round of twelve students from an…
A Blogger Posse in Israel
I’ve been busy the past two weeks readying for a last-minute trip to Israel. I’m honored to be past of…
The Social Press Release: Multimedia, Two-Way, Direct to the Public
Foremski’s View of the Press Release (Illustration by Chris Dichtel) Silicon Valley journalist/blogger Tom Foremski had had enough. Two years…
Early Adapters Don’t Conform to Conventional Use
At a recent meeting, a representative from Verizon and a former BET executive were discussing the seeming contradiction between the…