Rethinking the Mercury News…with Community Participation
When I was clicking through the website of the San Jose Mercury News metro newspaper, I noticed the navigation bar…
A Big Week in Mobile and What It Means for Media
This week VOIP provider Skype announced a new free phone to be available in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere (not yet…
Is This News? Reporting with Opinion on Plan Mexico
What is the public to do when an important matter such as $1.4 billion of military-police funding for a neighboring…
Free and Open Source Games
Our Technical Director, Amanda Hickman, is not a formal Idea Lab blogger, so I’m posting this on her behalf. This…
What’s the role of unions in the digital age?
Unions have had a long history representing media workers at traditional media organizations. But now they are being tested, as…
Locative Media and Geo-tagging the Delta Blues Continues
Our geo-tagging of the Blues Trail in the Mississippi Delta continues, albeit from afar. We’ve been deep in research. Using…
Figuring Out Beat Reporting with a Social Network
Below is a lightly revised version of a letter that went out last week to a number of professional news…
Local News + Local Maps = YourStreet
An interesting new site called YourStreet will be launched tomorrow, allowing you to get hyper-local news and comments tied to…
Traditional Media Evolves for Wildfire Coverage, But Hyper-Local Still Lacking
KPBS’ Google Map When people think of community or hyper-local neighborhood news, they typically think of bake sales, petty crime…
Reader Comments: Send Me Your Success Stories
I am working up a post on reader comments to news stories on media sites, comments on media-hosted blogs, or…