studying the media ecosystem
Peer pressure is a condition generally associated with youth. But in this era of social networking has peer pressure become more of a lifelong force?
A Columbia University research project suggests that the Web acts as an echo chamber to amplify certain signals to the point where they become popular by dint of repetition, over and [...]
Joel Makower (above) has been kicking around environmental issues for some 20 years. I’ve interviewed him on occasion for newspaper articles on the green energy trend and so was pleased to see a profile of his publishing startup in the magazine Media Business.
In that article writer Matthew Schwartz notes how Makower is leveraging his expertise [...]
I spend a lot of time web surfing. A few years ago I ran into an old college buddy, now a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who spends his off time wave surfing and had the slim physique to prove it. Apparently all that ocean-loving fun paid a rich professional dividend. Yesterday when [...]
Online journalist Mac Slocum has written three brief commentaries for the Poynter Institute about skills he wished he had learned more about at journalism school. He talks about wanting more instruction on how to be a researcher and (information-finding) guide; about how to generate traffic for a website; and how to lead and moderate online [...]
For the last 14 weeks I’ve dedicated every Friday to arguing for the release of Josh Wolf, an activist and freelance videographer who spent 226 days in jail for refusing to turn over outtakes of the video he took of a demonstration in San Francisco.
Last week he was released but before I give up on [...]
Lulu.com is one of several sites that I’ve mentioned before that serve as production backshops for media startups. You create the media, they manufacture the books, CDs, DVDs, or etcetera.
The current Lulu newsletter (it comes sporadically which is fine given e-mail glut) includes a story about a writer’s conference in Northern California that included a [...]
Sick of listening to pundits and their softball questions? Why not ask comment or hurl a zinger yourself through Prez Conference, a YouTube forum where citizens and bloggers are trying to get the attention of the powers that would be.
Blogger J.D. (Social Media) Lasica was recently thrilled to learn that Sen. Joe [...]
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