By Mindy McAdams
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When I hear about someone who’s supposedly an expert in some area, I type that person’s name into Google. (Don’t you?) If I don’t see a likely link on the first page of search results, I add a keyword to the search and re-run it.
Here’s a simple example. The newly appointed dean of our journalism [...]
The other day, a friend of mine said some sites we were discussing should get together and become a “portal.” I had to bite my tongue. Portals — what a sad, misguided idea that was!
Portals always seemed to me like an undifferentiated mess — like the failed Pathfinder site that Time Inc. carried around its [...]
The missing link in the concept of “community” on news organizations’ Web sites: Who are these people? New media consultant Marshall Kirkpatrick says you can add the necessary social glue without trying to look like a cheesy Facebook imitator:
… instead of adding a social network to their site, they should just add rich user profile [...]
Jason Pontin (writing in The New York Times on Sunday) anointed Pownce as the next great online thing:
What struck me most was the site’s potential to be powerfully disruptive. Most file-sharing occurs on public sites, which can be monitored by media companies; if the users violate copyrights, the sites or the users themselves [...]
If you’re going to build a social networking site online for a geographical community — what I like to think of as a “real world” community — what software will you use?
You might think with all the free and open source tools available, the hardest part would be choosing one. Not so. According to an [...]
At my university, we are playing host to 17 journalism educators from 17 countries, most of which are “developing” rather than “developed.” We have arranged six weeks of lectures, workshops and travel for them with the goal of increasing their understanding of how we practice and teach journalism in the U.S.
Of course they all use [...]
David at Strobist kindly (I think) tagged me with the Thinking Bloggers meme. I am invited to post links to five blogs that make me think.
Well, it would be too simple to link to blogs that already appear in my blogroll, wouldn’t it? After all, the charge is not to list my favorite blogs, or [...]
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