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Citizen Media Business Issues: Traffic Rankings, Search Engines, and Search Engine Optimization

June 05, 2009 20:39

(This is the seventeenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. To that end,...

Citizen Media Business Issues: Web Statistics

June 03, 2009 18:59

(This is the sixteenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site.   To that end,...

Investigative Blogger Raising Funds

April 23, 2009 19:13

Firedoglake is raising money to pay for investigative blogging.Firedoglake is raising money to pay for investigative blogging.

Berkman Center Talk Next Tuesday

April 16, 2009 18:11

I’ll be speaking next Tuesday at lunchtime at the Berkman Center. Topic (and link for RSVP): Mediactive: Why media consumers, not just creators, need to be active users.I’ll be speaking next Tuesday at lunchtime at the Berkman Center. Topic (and link for RSVP): Mediactive: Why media...

Journalism and Location

April 15, 2009 22:38

I’ll be speaking at the Where 2.0 conference next month in San Jose, about journalists are using, and can use, location-related products and services. The talk is called Where Does Journalism Go? You can get a 25 percent discount by using this code — whr09rdr — when...

Summer New Media Program at Arizona State

April 13, 2009 18:01

The Cronkite School at Arizona State is offering a summer New Media Academy “for adults who want to understand how communication is changing and how to set up and maintain a fully functional, multimedia-rich Web site.”The Cronkite School at Arizona State is offering a summer New Media...

ProPublica Invites the Public's Help

April 09, 2009 16:19

ProPublica has launched the citizen-journalism portion of its operation, or at least the first iteration. By posting The Obama Team’s Disclosure Documents and asking readers to help figure out any potential conflicts of interest or other facts that are worth knowing, the site is doing what...

Location, Location

April 06, 2009 13:48

Combining mobility, time and location is becoming one of the most valuable techniques of media creation. Last week, some students and I did a small experiment that demonstrates how easy this is to do, and suggests all kinds of possibilities for journalistic follow-ups. This Flickr map has more than...

Pundit to Critic: Fuck You

April 01, 2009 04:02

UPDATED It’s hardly surprising when someone fires back at a harsh critic of his or her employer’s competence and/or ethics. But when that someone is superstar New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, and the return fire takes the form, in part, of “Fuck you,” it raises a...

Reporting on the Phantom Financial Economy

March 30, 2009 17:46

Accompanying Simon Johnson’s remarkable, must-read Atlantic article, “The Quiet Coup,” is this chart: What’s not noted here — or in most traditional media coverage of the meltdown — is something that everyone should understand. These profits were an illusion in...