Amidst all of the dire talk these days about the fate of the American newspaper, the Center for Social Media at American University has issued an important white paper exploring the future of public media more generally. When most of us think about “public media” these days, we are most […]
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This is my favorite feature yet: leveling up animations! As users express their opinions via Quick Rate and other Do Good Quick areas of bilumi.org, Munin drops pebbles into a water bottle. Contributors can watch the water level rise with every pebble until they reach the next level… and Munin […]
We just rolled out a pretty neat feature: anonymous users can now rate, evaluate and write reviews in the Do Good Quick part of our site. Their contributions are only saved when they login or register. Screen shot below: New and veteran users can start working immediately, while still preserving […]
Ed. note: Our research affiliate Huma Yusuf is in Karachi covering the political protests in Pakistan, and she is blogging about Pakistanis’ uses of citizen journalism on The Dawn Blog, from which we’ll quote as Huma posts more. Pakistan, a developing nation with 17 million internet users in a population […]
The newspaper business—not that people around here look to hasten its demise—has folks that want to rip apart the model and reassemble it. “Don’t Mourn the Passing of Business Models” is a brief post from a Cato blog that says, bluntly, “The news business as we know it today is […]