L.A. Times uses mapping, databases to build interactive homicide map
The newspaper is mapping every homicide in Los Angeles county, giving readers the ability to search and filter the data.
View ArticleTake a fresh look at your site's posting rules
Commentary: Social media evolves constantly. Don't wait for readers to find new ways to abuse other community members. Change your rules frequently to discourage conflict.
View ArticleJournalism can be welcome in 'smart homes'
Commentary: What success journalism has had online seems more by accident than design. As the wonders of the "smart home" unfold, this might be a good time to re-examine assumptions about how...
View ArticleTim Berners-Lee's Web of people
The founder of the World Wide Web lectures on maps, bobsleds and the human qualities of his digital creation.
View ArticleBest practices for online polls
Commentary: Here's how your online widget polls can help spark reader interest in your site, instead of weighing it down with irrelevant garbage data.
View ArticleOnline technology can help any website use people, not pundits, to drive...
My mind spent much of its thoughts this week on the U.S. presidential campaign – specifically, on this week’s, final, debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. What inspires me to write this piece,...
View ArticleOnline publishers need new heroes in the battle for community relevance
Picking up from my piece on Wednesday…. The Obama campaign did not build its social network in isolation. In many communities, it built upon an existing “netroots” of progressives that had developed...
View ArticleReinventing arts journalism… by starting with a virtual summit
Sasha Anawalt is director of Arts Journalism Programs at USC Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of A National Summit on Arts Journalism. I’m told by people who know such things that I...
View ArticleLearning by doing: Seeking best practices for immersive journalism
Ernest Wilson, the dean of the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, put it like this: What if, after receiving the home and garden section in the morning, the reader could walk right into...
View ArticleSteve Jobs and business of inspiration: A lesson for journalists
When was the last time you inspired someone? I thought of that question while reading the many tributes to the last Steve Jobs this week. Those recollections prompted me to tweet: “Steve Jobs’ greatest...
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