Online Map Craze Helps People Visualize Data
It’s not often that you find an Internet trend based on something ancient. But that’s what’s happening with maps. Google…
Top 5 Week Sixty-Eight
Stating the obvious Newspapers shouldn’t blame Google, Craigslist RCTV on YouTube Banned Venezuelan TV channel finds air online CBS-Last.fm Buyout…
New Media Literacy as Important for Educators as Students
For so long, the focus of media literacy education has been on helping students understand the media they consume. What…
Dangers Overblown for Teens Using Social Media
Anastasia Goodstein I remember the first time I watched Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator, a TV series where they…
Community-Edited News Sites Abound in Other Languages
Back in 2004, when developer Kevin Rose launched the community-edited news site Digg, he could not have imagined it would…
Placeblog Pioneer Sees Geo-Tagging as Key to Local Aggregation
For the past few years, bloggers have been living in a keyword-based world. When they write a blog post, they…
Twitter Week Brings Praises, Catcalls
It seems like everyone who went to the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, last March came back talking…
What’s the right age for kids to start visiting virtual worlds?
Forget about Second Life. The big buyout talk in virtual worlds lately has been around sites such as Club Penguin,…
Reporting from Afar Might Work, But Not for Local News
While much has been made of the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries, until recently the field of journalism…
Top 5 Week Sixty-Seven
Center for Future Civic Media MIT scores $5 mil grant; other Knight winners $16.9 billion Internet ads bring in record…