Social TV Knight News Challenge Deadline October 15th By Stephen Warley on Oct. 5, 2007 - 2:03 PM The Knight Foundation is giving away another $5 million as part of its News Challenge initiative. If you have an innovative journalism idea involving the use of technology focused on a specific geographic area, submit your idea no ...
Social TV New mobile voice blogging service launched By Stephen Warley on Sep. 19, 2007 - 12:01 PM RPM Communications out of Maynard, MA launched Utterz this week. It’s a new mobile voice blogging service. You call a number, record your message, and then it gets posted to the web! You can also send texts and pics from you ...
Social TV WikiScanner reveals anonymous Wikipedia editors By Stephen Warley on Aug. 16, 2007 - 5:36 AM This is a journalist’s dream come true! You can now discover which organizations (or at least their IP address) have added or edited entries on Wikipedia using the WikiScanner. Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tec ...
Social TV RTNDA requests meeting with NFL commissioner By Stephen Warley on Jul. 26, 2007 - 7:36 AM Lost Remote has frequently posted about the extremely restrictive (and sometimes zany) NFL guidelines for local coverage of games. Yesterday RTNDA Executive Director Barbara Cochran sent a letter to Roger Goodell requesting a meet ...
Social TV Help beta test a new journalism website By Stephen Warley on Jun. 12, 2007 - 12:53 PM Editors’ World is a new service to help journalists better localize international stories for their communities. It’s inviting working journalists to test its beta site. They are in the very early stages of developmen ...
Social TV No newspaper for my parents this morning By Stephen Warley on May. 18, 2007 - 5:13 AM I’m visiting my 60-year old parents in Florida right now. Their newspaper, Florida Today (a Gannett newspaper), is usually delivered by 7am each morning. Well, it didn’t come today. This has happened to them a few time ...
Social TV Xbox Live Originals contest By Stephen Warley on Apr. 17, 2007 - 7:04 AM Microsoft has teamed up with the New York Television Festival to give aspiring television producers the chance to win an opportunity to produce the first original programming for Xbox Live. The winner will get a 6 episode commitme ...
Social TV Google introduces free wireless broadband via your toilet By Stephen Warley on Apr. 1, 2007 - 8:01 AM Google has just announced it will offer free wireless broadband access to anyone with a computer and a toilet. (Yes, you are reading that correctly.) I’m from Boston, so you know how susceptible we are to hoaxes (it is April ...
Social TV WBZTV.com launches special videos about future of media By Stephen Warley on Mar. 6, 2007 - 11:10 AM WBZTV.com teamed up with the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, an association of media and tech professionals, to produced a series of one-on-one video interviews with local technology thought leaders about the f ...
Social TV Online video in the real estate industry By Stephen Warley on Feb. 16, 2007 - 2:02 PM I couldn’t agree more with Cory (below) about the dangers of looking at selling online video based on CPMs alone. To make the big bucks you have to think more like a radio salesperson, who are use to selling concepts, not j ...