Craig Newmark: Fact-checking should be part of how news organizations earn trust
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that restoring trust to the new business via fact checking might be an idea whose time has come. It won't...
Why Our Startup Decided Not To Target the Newspaper Industry
Are there opportunities for technology startups which target the media business?Fred Wilson -- a venture capitalist who has made investments in Twitter, Zynga, Tumblr, Etsy, and FourSquare, among others -- apparently thinks not. As repo...
Take that, Craigslist! n0tice, The Guardian’s community message board, makes its public debut
Today brings the public launch of n0tice, The Guardian's new tool that brings a digital sensibility to the age-old practice of community messaging. (Think Craigslist, with SoLoMo sensibilities.) The service allows community members to create customized noticeboards (the So part) that are tailored to a particular geographic area (LoMo).
Daily Must Reads, Nov. 11, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology
1. Judge: Feds can get Twitter users' data without warrant (Wall Street Journal)
2. Facebook settles with FTC to make new privacy changes opt-in (TechCrunch)
3. Romenesko out at Poynter after attribution problems surface (Media Decoder)
Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism
It's hard not to be curious when the man some have vilified as mortally wounding the classifieds business in newspapers gets into the business of supporting journalism. Craig Newmark's most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark's attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations. In the way...
Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism
It's hard not to be curious when the man some have vilified as mortally wounding the classifieds business in newspapers gets into the business of supporting journalism. Craig Newmark's most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark's attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations. In the way...
Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism
It's hard not to be curious when the man some have vilified as mortally wounding the classifieds business in newspapers gets into the business of supporting journalism. Craig Newmark's most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark's attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations. In the way...
Gawker’s Nick Denton: See, You Ingrates? This Is What We’re Trying to Do (Video)
The Blog King doesn't want to be the Blog King: He wants his sites to be as compelling as TV. Here's his promo reel.
Please Don’t Read This Year-in-Review-Look-Ahead Piece
Seriously. We remember what happened 12 months ago, and we've got no idea what's coming in 2011. But--here's a special Specials video!
