Hop with bunnies or die with newsosaurs
My friend Newsasaurus, the found-art sculpture that resides in my courtyard, is puzzled (note the quizzical look in his portrait at the...
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American Gothic, broadband version
Fifty years ago, the memo that launched the space program and put man on the moon contained just a few, clear paragraphs. The U.S. government's plan to expand the nation's broadband is 376 pages – and that’s just the beta. There’s a story here about how the adoption of public policy hasn’t kept pace with a global, always-on world.
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Sources, myths, economics and moonshine.
A new survey is certain to stir the Clash of the Myths. An overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media to...
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Mad Ave. does Gutenberg wrong
If you can't get the facts right, make up a story. Nothing is too shameless for digital marketers.
Read MoreNewspapers fall out of orbit
Late last year William Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews, announced he had identified the problem behind years of steep decline in the...
Read MoreContent in the creative commons. Who profits?
There’s a story going around that touts the Internet as a perpetual money machine. It goes something like this: many pieces of old...
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SOS: We Media Miami, another reason
30 inches of snow at We Media world headquarters in Reston. More on the way. Help. Please register for We Media Miami today. Will buy the...
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Digital Nation: What it means to be human
Near the end of PBS’s Digital Nation, we’re taken to a military facility in the desert an hour outside of Las Vegas where a soldier...
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Ashton Kutcher punked: We are a virus.
If Ashton Kutcher’s 4.5 million Twitter followers make you feel inadequate, I’ve got good news: scientists investigating social...
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Raising Voices: Amra Tareen at We Media
Amra Tareen, the savvy and ebullient founder of AllVoices, has just closed a $3 million funding round for the innovative, citizen...
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Tabula Rasa: iPad’s blank slate
The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly...
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Who will create the news experience?
New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the exciting part of Apple’s new tablet, an old idea whose time has apparently...
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Oops, there goes local
A few months after three, young software architects launched an obscure social networking and microblogging service, students at a rural...
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FCC gets into the act
Going boldly where everyone has gone before, the Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the future of news....
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