The Washington Post vs. washpost.com
The Washington City Paper this week published an extensive profile of the online strategy used by The Washington Post. Called,…
Crashing the E-Politics and E-Democracy Gates
My focus tends to be the “citizen” in citizen media. Over the last few years I’ve increasing found myself at…
How One Investor Used Social Media to Shake Up Yahoo
Eric Jackson If you’re following the twists and turns of Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo, you can’t escape one name…
Every Nonprofit Tries to Give People Information, Which is Power
At this year’s SalesForce.com Foundation gathering, “Innovation for Nonprofit Success,” the recurring theme was less the SalesForce software than the…
Databases as Entry Points to Investigative Stories
If you want to know what the future of investigative reporting might look like online, check out what the Las…
WikiLeaks Block Hurts Anonymity Everywhere
Anonymous communication online is becoming quite a theme here on Idea Lab. The web site WikiLeaks.org (if you’re in the…
Is Your Blog Login Secure?
Several News Challenge projects, including ours (the Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker), feature blogs as a publishing tool. So consider this…
How Our Next President Should Use Participatory Media
Today is President’s Day in the U.S., celebrating the February birthdays of past presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. But…
Computation + Journalism = ?
When the Knight News Challenge awarded me (and the Medill School of Journalism) a grant to offer journalism scholarships to…
CMLP Legal Guide: Deciding Whether and How to be Anonymous
In light of Dan Schultz‘s excellent post entitled Anonymous vs. Scientology: A Case Study of Digital Media, I’ve decided to…