Journalism, Technology, History

Hashtag set for Mobile Migration workshop

We have a hashtag for the “Mobile Migration” workshop next week. You’re coming right? It’s on April 1 at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville. The hashtag is #ONAMM. See ya there.

Ah, mobile's the new, new thing

On successive weeks, you can attend workshops focused on mobile and journalism in Nashville. March 25 The Society for News Design is hosting a Mobile Design Quick Course on Friday and Saturday (March 25-26) at the Freedom Forum’s John Seigenthaler...

Tennessee gets a D- for government transparency

In the second annual ranking of states’ progress toward new standards of “comprehensive, one-stop, one-click budget accountability and accessibility,” Tennesse gets a “D-.” The ranking of how states are achieving Transparency 2.0 standards was done by U.S. PIRG, the federation...

In Washington, a half-effort on open government will get you an award

(U.S. Rep. Rep. Darrell ) Issa disclosed in his letter that (Catherine) Papoi complained confidentially to the inspector general in March 2010 that the department, under a directive signed by (chief privacy officer Mary Ellen) Callahan, had illegally sidetracked hundreds...

Make the 'Mobile Migration'

A new survey released with this year’s report, produced with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, in association with the Knight Foundation, finds that nearly half of all Americans (47%) now get some form of local news on a...

I bet you first saw this online

Now we know that 2010 was the year that the declining line of newspaper readership and the growing line of online news consumption crossed. Eric Sass in MediaDailyNews: The inevitable shift finally came in 2010, as more Americans got their...

Dark spots in the Sunshine

Jennifer LeFleur of ProPublica has put together a great piece on the dark spots in federal “Sunshine Laws” as part Sunshine Week. Some of those statutes allow exemptions that seem quite reasonable, for example to protect medical or financial information....

SEO (the short version)

If you produce your URL first and get it out there with just one sentence, Google will reward you with search results. #hacknewsSun Mar 13 16:35:03 via Twitter for iPadColleen Newvine cnewvine
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