On Friday, like clockwork, I got calls from three reporters asking me to defend citizen journalism (again) after its latest mortal sin against the gods of journalism: the report/rumor/lie on CNN's iReport that Apple's Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital with a heart at …
I figure since that since the economy is doing poorly right now, there must be a lot of people looking around for freebies [free stuff] online.
Software engineer Dmitry Orlov was making good money. He had a luxury condo on the east coast, a wife, a car, and a steady, high-paying job. One day, seemingly out of the blue, he sold everything and bought a boat--a big boat, one big enough to live on.
Google AdSense can be a very effective way to make money online, but if it's your intention to make money with AdSense, it helps to get educated on how to do it successfully and sustain the earnings over a long period of time
Technology is an intricate part of my everyday life. Today I woke up to my alarm set by my cell phone, pressed snooze a few times, and finally woke to check my email on my laptop. I received an email from my teacher whose class I had in thirty minutes.
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JOURNALISM has evolved rapidly and will change immensely over the coming years with the public increasingly participating in providing news because of technology.
As the printed newspaper industry suffers swinging job cuts and more titles move online-only, some news start-ups see the recession as a launch pad for their projects.
There's going to be a party in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Most Americans won't experience it in person, but many will share their feelings about it on social networking sites.
Thought Facebook was for flicking through photos of people you don't know? That Twitter was only for office-workers with nothing better to do? Think again: Web 2.0 is an indispensable tool for multi-tasking celebrities.
The first report of the miraculous rescue of 150 passengers from a US Airways jet floating in the Hudson River also provided the latest evidence – if indeed it was still needed – that emerging social media are not only supplementing but supplanting the legacy mainstream media …
Bombs, bullets and missiles did the damage in the battle over Gaza, but the fight also played out on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Social media took its place as the newest weapon in the modern arsenal, nestled next to laser-guided missiles and Qassam rockets.
Student journalists working for public high school newspapers would be entitled to free speech and freedom of the press protections similar to their professional counterparts under a proposal before the Kentucky House.
As part of our new Virtual Poynter training, I spent an hour last week discussing social networks as a journalism tool with the journalists from The Roanoke Times. In that short time, the staff at the paper produced the skeleton of a guideline for journalists everywhere.
He isn't quite the King of All Media, but Barack Obama will enter the White House on Tuesday unusually well-poised to make effective use of the media by exploiting an admiring press and the high-tech communications savvy of his young staff.
At Barack Obama's inauguration, every twelve-year-old with a cell phone will be a reporter. Bloggers will be blogging, YouTubers will be YouTubing, Twitterers will be tweeting.
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