Apple’s Siri voice technology is one of the must-have features of the iPhone 4S, and has become one of the phone’s biggest selling points.
Voice technology is not new. What makes Siri and similar technologies different is that… Read more
Apple’s iPad and iOS come with several built-in accessibility features that make the iPad relatively easy for disabled people to use. Unfortunately, many news applications were not built to take advantage of these accessibility features, rendering the apps ultimately useless… Read more
When I first started on the BeatBlogging.org project almost three years ago, very few journalists and news organizations were using social media. In fact, you were considered kind of strange if you used social media. Now, it’s strange if… Read more
The Plain Dealer rolled out a new commenting policy this week that aims to end bigoted comments and trolling, while also encouraging staff members to engage users in meaningful discussions.
Editors and writers got tired of all the racism, fighting… Read more
The Knight Foundation is assembling a new team to further develop the code behind the hyperlocal, geo-coded EveryBlock project and to develop plug-and-play architecture to make it easier for news organizations to install the software.
Meanwhile, the foundation… Read more
NASA launched its own social network, Spacebook, earlier this year in an attempt to increase interaction among employees and foster more group collaboration. The network, which I describe in detail below, offers several lessons for how news organizations… Read more
Washingtonpost.com has developed a new commenting interface dubbed “WebCom” that arranges comments in a web based on which ones are most-liked by readers and spur the most discussion.
It’s the latest effort to solve a problem that has persisted since… Read more
Journalists and news organizations are all atwitter these days, but they are seeing different returns on investment from their uses of Twitter.
Conventional wisdom says that to be good at using social media sites like Twitter, one must be social.… Read more
I don’t believe that the majority of people on the Internet are racist, vulgar or acidic; it’s just that after the trolls and racists are allowed to flourish, most of the normal people looking for civil conversations leave. … Read more
More news organizations are encouraging their reporters and bloggers to interact with users on social networking services, but when it comes to responding to readers’ comments, they’re drawing a