I helped launch the Mobile Media blog in January 2010, days before Apple unveiled the iPad. Now, 15 months and 20 million iPads later, this is my last week as a daily contributor to Poynter.org.
I’m moving to The Boston … Read more
The news aggregator News.me launched Thursday morning as a subscription iPad app, with support from more than 20 major media outlets.
Facebook added some features to its commenting system this week, but for publishers the tool is still a work in progress.
Launched in March, the system lets readers use their Facebook logins to comment on other websites. The company … Read more
Amazon.com will begin selling ad-subsidized Kindles on May 3, and it may be time for newspapers to revisit the same business model.
Consider the original Kindle, … Read more
The New Yorker is experimenting with Facebook this week, making a 12,000-word piece by Jonathan Franzen free behind a “like-gate” for a limited time.
When users “Like” the magazine’s Facebook page, they’re given access to the “Fans Only” section. This … Read more
Microsoft’s new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form.
The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because … Read more
Unveiled this week, Twitter’s newly upgraded search engine promises to deliver more relevant “who to follow” suggestions for users. But in my examination, the results appeared inconsistent, if not biased, when searching for the best Twitter sources in specific U.S. … Read more
Personalized news app Zite made headlines last week for a minor skirmish with a group of major publishers, but the personalized aggregation app expected to make news any day now is Betawork’s News.me.
News.me, which has been in beta … Read more
In an era of free, frictionless content distribution, how can creators of that content be paid for their work?
The question was highlighted on Wednesday as 11 major media organizations — from Dow Jones Co. to Time — sent a … Read more