How About a Chris O’Brien New Media Business Model Award!
Returning to Chris O’Brien’s Business Model Challenge, here are some suggested approaches and models from the perspective of an entrepreneur…
Virtually and Really Watching the Trees (grow)
The city of Shanghai is geo-tagging over 1500 registered ancient tress with the plan to use gps devices to monitor…
Your Guide to the Mobile Web
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of…
It’s Sunshine Week!
(Written by Tuna Chatterjee, CMLP Staff Attorney.) It’s March and it’s Sunshine Week. This year, from March 16 – 22,…
What Good is All This Data?
Imagine a website that would show you, not just how many copies of some book are available for sale from…
No Returning to the Cult of the Expert
In response to this week’s Newsweek article Revenge of the Experts suggesting the expert is back and user-created content is…
Is Citizen Media Skipping Small Town America?
I am on a hunt. While the new EveryBlock.com site uses maps to display aggregated content for three major cities…
How Far Should Transparency Go?
Government Technology reported on public employee protests to seeing their names and salaries online via a database on the Sacramento…
The State of the News Media Is Troubled
On Monday the Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual State of the News Media report. It’s worthwhile reading…
Markets Fail News
Thanks to Chris O’Brien’s challenge, serious talk of business models for journalism have come to the IdeaLab blog. Let’s pause…