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White House Tweetup live blog
I was invited to attend the holiday edition White House Tweetup on Monday. In the morning we will ask questions of many administration officials including CTO Aneesh Chopra, economic adviser Brian Deese, first lady chief of staff Tina Tchen, director … Continue reading
How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site
Storify is growing in popularity and being used by more and more sites to tell stories by curating social media. But while you see Storify embedded on more and more sites, you’ll notice it looks exactly the same on all … Continue reading
Silencing WikiLeaks
What I have found most significant in the WikiLeaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables is not the information itself or the fact it was leaked, but the moves by governments and large corporate web services to cut off avenues of … Continue reading
Video: Watch the sessions from ONA 2010
Many of the sessions from the Online News Association conference here in Washington were streamed live online. For the benefit of those who weren’t there, or even those who were and want to watch again, I’ve pulled together as many … Continue reading
Malcolm Gladwell’s errors on social media activism
New Yorker writer and sociologish author Malcolm Gladwell has a new essay out in the New Yorker that seeks to draw a line in the sand between social networks and “real-life” relationships when it comes to producing significant social change. … Continue reading
Google’s secret micropayment strategy for publishers – is it a trick?
So Google is planning to roll out later this year a micropayment system for web content called Newspass. The concept is a single, standardized system for many publishers to put a “pay to read this story” button on their web … Continue reading
2011: The year mobile takes over
You have less than one year left to talk about mobile devices as the “future” of media. A lot of people have been talking about the eventual dominance of mobile. Some people have been planning. How many are truly ready? … Continue reading
Find me at Digital Capital Week (#DCweek)
Digital Capital Week kicks off with a big party tonight at and around Long View Gallery in NW. There are a ton of great events (including one hosted by TBD) over the following week for the DC area digital/tech community.
Tips for institutions (and others) to succeed on Twitter
A friend who recently started working for a journalism institute e-mailed me for advice about how to grow the institute’s Twitter following. My response applies to both institutes and institutions, including newspapers, and somewhat to individuals as well. So I … Continue reading
7 revelations about Google
Jeff Jarvis got some prime access at Davos to the top executives at Google and has a great post at Buzzmachine detailing the questions and answers. The whole thing is worth a read, but I want to quickly highlight 7 … Continue reading
Wednesday event showdown: Apple tablet vs. Obama’s speech
Two big events will dominate the news on Wednesday. Apple is announcing a much anticipated new tablet computer, and President Obama is giving his biggest annual policy address, the State of the Union. Which is most important? Let’s break it … Continue reading
Why NYT’s metered model is a big gamble
The New York Times has decided that direct consumer payments for content must be a part of its online revenue mix. The metered paywall plan announced today was envisioned as a safe way to test the waters, keeping a mix … Continue reading
NYT plans to charge online: Will it work?
The paywall debate is about to move from words to actions. In the biggest large-scale test of whether a news website can successfully charge readers for access, The New York Times is about to announce an online subscription model, New … Continue reading
Google CEO Schmidt hints at “very powerful display advertising solutions” to help news websites
From an article in the Telegraph: (Google CEO Eric) Schmidt … to him the revenue model the newspaper industry will have to use comes after a pretty simple, and essentially binary, decision. “The simplest model to think about is that … Continue reading
Improving news with user-directed assignment desks
Journalism is about asking and answering questions. So for journalism the “metaquestion” — the question underlying all other questions — is, what questions shall we ask? Until now, that metaquestion was answered by an analog process. It leveraged no network … Continue reading
