Top 5 Week Eighty-One
Gawker strike Writers fight Evian ad takeover; Denton relents MSM absorbs blogs Newspapers start blog syndication, ad $ sharing MSNBC-Newsvine…
Your Guide to Virtual Worlds
Second Life avatars From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources…
Can Internet, Blogs Sustain the Saffron Revolution?
Protester in Chicago When the ruling military junta in Burma cracked down on protesters, killing unarmed Buddhist monks, the world…
6 Maxims for Music Promotion in the Digital Age
Not too long ago, there was an established route for promoting musical talent. The music would go into heavy rotation…
How do you think bands should make money?
With digital distribution and file sharing online, bands have been able to get their music in front of more fans…
People Will Pay for Niche Content, Ad-Free Newspaper Sites
With the end of the TimesSelect pay service for New York Times editorialists and archives — and the possible end…
YouTube, Flickr Become Forces for Cultural Change
The term “social web” brings to mind images of people around the world interacting with each other without borders or…
Top 5 Week Eighty
Myanmar citizen media YouTube a potent place for protest footage Amazon MP3 iTunes rival has lower prices, no DRM Brandfame…
Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Look for Resurgence
When I mentioned the name “Henry Blodget” to a friend from the old dot-com daze, she wrinkled her nose with…
EarmarkWatch.org Enables D.I.Y. Investigative Work
As professional journalists, we often believe that we have all the answers, or that we can find the knowledgeable source…