MediaShift Launches Idea Lab Group Blog
A few weeks back, I heard gunshots outside my window. It was pretty scary, and reminded me of my urban…
Playing the News…The Challenge of Gaming Reality
Our Knight project is to create a toolset that would make the creation of a news simulation environment / game…
Musicians Should Diversify Income in Post-CD Era
“If you love somebody, set them free.” It’s an old adage that Sting eventually made popular set to music, but…
Welcome to Idea Lab
A few weeks back, I heard gunshots outside my window. It was pretty scary, and reminded me of my urban…
What Do You Get When You Mix a Journalist and a Programmer?
We don’t know, but thanks to the Knight News Challenge, we’re going to find out. Earlier this year, the good…
To What End? Introducing Democracy Online
Over the next year as a Knight News Challenge “ideas blogger,” I’ll be blogging a bridge between my world of…
Beat Reporting with a Social Network
It started with: let’s take a beat reporter at a local newspaper with a strong online presence and develop with…
What is News? What’s Important? And Who Decides?
What is news? If we define news as what’s important, and we were to ask regular folks what they considered…
Deep Thought Strikes Again
Last year I sat down to brainstorm with my friend Ian Anderson in hopes that we could chip away at…
We Don’t Have to Save the Newspaper Industry. We Do Have to Bring “The Press” Across the Digital Divide.
At the recent Networked Journalism Summit I referenced a darker argument on the future of online advertising by Doc Searls.…