Socially Edible: Let's roll location-based gaming,... Here's an idea that Shane Snow and I have had for a site and I've been meaning to share it for quite some time. The basic idea is to solve a problem in location-based restaurant...
Let's not get too excited about Google Buzz just yet
Update: Here is a Mashable post that highlights the release of the new feature.
Google is making a move into social media with a new status feature that it will launch...
Nonprofit journalism startups' executive pay: How much... Bay Area News Project's CEO Lisa Frazier has a $400,000 salary, which reminds me of the news and criticisms about Paul Steiger getting $570,000 to run ProPublica. This begs...
Why the Tablet won't save the print industry
Update: My friend and colleague Shane Snow has a funny comic on this same topic.
Over the course of the last several weeks, I have seen several articles calling Apple's...
Create your own newspaper (err aggregator) using NewsCred After two years, NewsCred relaunched its website today to give users the ability to create their own customized newspaper – without the paper.
Basically, the site allows...
Update: Just came across Washington Post’s Post Alert, which popups on the bottom of the browser for big stories.
Today I went to the NYPost.com and noticed that their top-of-the-page toolbar moved as you scrolled down (or rather stays in the foreground, as Greg Linch pointed out). I think this was an interesting idea and implementation for a news site and asked my Twitter friends what they thought of it. Below is some of the feedback that took place, along with someone pointing out MSNBC’s toolbar, which rests at the bottom of the page.
Check out both of the implementations above and let me know what you think in the poll below or comments. I think that overall it is a good idea as long as it doesn’t ruin or distract the reader in their experience of navigating the site. It should be a useful tool.
I’m a digital journalist working on social media at the New York Times and studying digital media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. I am building NYC 3.0, a 