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Pope in a Box: The Vatican Comes to YouTube
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 23, 2009 8:15 AM / 3 Comments
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Pope Benedict XVI made a big jump into the world of social networking today, making public statements about Facebook and MySpace and launching an official Vatican channel on YouTube. The Continue reading »


Can the Washington Post Create the Killer Political Database?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 22, 2009 11:14 AM / 5 Comments
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The Washington Post launched a new political database site today, lead by a top political blogger it snapped up this month from a leading new media site. Are these the Continue reading »


Citizen Journalism Gets a Cash Infusion
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 14, 2009 5:29 PM / 1 Comments
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Tonight, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Knight Foundation has just awarded a total of $5 million to a number of local journalism projects in the U.S. These projects Continue reading »


NewsMixer: An Innovative Community News Framework
Written by Sarah Perez / December 19, 2008 7:23 AM / 7 Comments
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With the apparent death of newsprint now upon us, journalists and others in the business are struggling to come up with a new model to save their industry. One new Continue reading »


Would You Pay for a Web App That Delivers the News?
Written by Sarah Perez / December 10, 2008 7:13 AM / 23 Comments
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Can you imagine a news-delivering web application so compelling that you would pay a couple of dollars per month for it? What would it look like? That's the challenge facing Continue reading »


Techmeme Becomes A Cyborg With Hire of Human Editor - Megan McCarthy
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 3, 2008 1:26 PM / 4 Comments
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Freelance tech writer Megan McCarthy just landed one of the coolest jobs on the new web, editing semi-automated news aggregator Techmeme. The hire was made last month but just announced


NaNoWriMo: 'National Novel Writing Month' Still Going Strong After 10 Years
Written by Richard MacManus / November 27, 2008 1:43 PM / 4 Comments
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5 years ago, before this blog was a media business, I participated in NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. It's an annual creative writing project, in which participants try to Continue reading »


Creative Commons Scores One of Its Biggest Wins Ever: Democracy Now!
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 19, 2008 12:16 PM / 5 Comments
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The Creative Commons Foundation announced today that award winning TV and radio news show Democracy Now! will now be distributed under a CC license. Democracy Now! is broadcast daily on Continue reading »


Boxee Raises $4 Million for Open-Source Media Center
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 18, 2008 9:24 AM / 3 Comments
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These are clearly not the easiest times to secure financing for a startup, but Boxee, which makes an open-source media center application that works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Continue reading »


President Elect Obama's FireWire Chats: Transparency Redefined?
Written by Lidija Davis / November 15, 2008 5:22 PM / 9 Comments
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Yesterday, President Elect Obama's transition team announced the weekly Democratic address will be posted on YouTube. Today we saw the first of these fireside chats go live on the new Continue reading »


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