The Problem with Web Measurement, Part 2
This is the second part of MediaShift’s special series on web measurement. In the first part, I looked at the…
Front Porch Forum Fans Adore Hyper-Local Email Reports
Yesterday, when I heard a shooting take place in broad daylight down the street from me in San Francisco’s Potrero…
What services do you trust for measuring web traffic to your site?
I’ve been engrossed in the topic of web measurement the past couple weeks, with a two-part series here at MediaShift.…
Food Lovers Become Experts at Chowhound, Yelp
Before the web was in widespread use, food lovers would wait patiently for the New York Times restaurant reviews to…
Top 5 Week Seventy-Three
YouTube debate Video questions steal show in prez debate QQ citizen media Chinese ISP enables news from flood zone Uncov…
The Problem with Web Measurement, Part 1
On April 19, 2007, the new CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Randall Rothenberg, sent a scathing open letter…
What’s your favorite way of getting hyper-local or neighborhood news?
Lately there have been a lot of happenings in the world of hyper-local citizen journalism projects. The venture-funded Backfence series…
‘Open Universities’ Try to Bring College to Masses
A college education in the United States can be one of the most costly in the world. For many young…
Top 5 Week Seventy-Two
Pegasus bought Citizen media site bought by broadcast chain Assignment Zero’ed Experiment ends with more lessons than stories Saving Business…
Your Guide to Widgets
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of…