Facebook Has a Problem with Trust
In the not-too-distant past, I remember fondly getting an email notification from Facebook that one of my friends had sent…
What might entice you to use e-books or e-readers like Kindle?
It seems like every few years a new e-book device comes out that promises to revolutionize our reading experience, hoping…
Crowdsourced Election Coverage
What with the nonstop drumbeat of presidential campaign news these days, it’s easy to forget that we’ve actually got some…
How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives — For Better and Worse
A lecturer in the U.K. made headlines this month when she banned her students from using Wikipedia and Google for…
Primer on Copyright Liability and Fair Use
As a lead up to next week’s launch of the Citizen Media Law Project’s Legal Guide, we are putting up…
EveryBlock Launched
We’ve launched the first version of our Knight-funded project, EveryBlock. It offers a news feed for every block, neighborhood and…
A Crisis in College Media?
Anyone interested in the challenges facing college media, especially independent college media, should check out a series that ran this…
Top 5 Week Eighty-Eight
EveryBlock Data-driven info down to the street level Pay WSJ.com Murdoch nixes free-for-all at Journal site Tribune unblocked Zell lets…
BusinessWeek.com Pushes into Aggregation, Video, Participation to Stand Out
Business news is often about numbers. And when you check the audience numbers on the various top financial news sites…
The Efficiency (and Shame) of Long-Distance Reporting
My writer friend Marlene once had a dot-com job that seemed odd. She wrote for a travel site about various…