When Mobile Media Becomes Political
MobileActive.org posted an interesting interview with “Artivist” Ricardo Dominguez, who is working on a locative media project designed to assist…
“Locating” the Mississippi Blues in 3 Platforms
lat 33.4043 long -90.3055 Mississippi Blues Trail Tour in Google Earth (download Google Earth for free, then launch the kmz…
Open Journalism Challenge: Can Paid Media Report on Plan Mexico this Well?
Immigration, military contractors, fiscal responsibility, foreign policy, domestic policy, trade policy, business, labor, crime- this story has it all, plus…
Rethinking Newspapers
I’ve been reading with fascination the email threads in the Rethinking the Mercury News project, which launched a Google Group…
7 Lessons Learned While Judging World-Changing Blogs
I spent the past week in freezing wet Berlin, helping judge the Best of the Blogs awards once again, an…
Wanted: A Marshall Plan for Campus Media
Over the past few months, I’ve had a chance to visit various campus media groups as part of our research…
What Will Journalist- Programmers Do?
One of the most common questions I’ve gotten about our journalist/programmer scholarships comes from news organizations: "When can we hire…
Old World Meet New World: Exploring History with New Media Tools
Here’s an interesting post about a mobile game called Amsterdam 1550 that was designed to teach local students about the…
Making a Video Game Educational and Entertaining
I mentioned in my last post how we’re balancing the sometimes conflicting demands of education and entertainment in our Remembering…
Losing the Journalistic Security Blanket
Clyde Bentley Mark Glaser is away on vacation this week, but we’re happy to have Clyde Bentley filling in as…