Newspaper Study on MediaShift

Mark Glaser of the PBS blog MediaShift gave our newspaper study a nice shoutout today.  Here's an excerpt from the article he wrote about us:

"Though newspaper websites have been around for a decade, they’ve often been slow to innovate, and have been mainly used for “shovelware” —...

The Use of the Internet by America’s Newspapers: Highlights

After finishing our study of America's top 100 newspapers and their use of the Web, I took a closer at the top 20 most circulated papers and tried to pick a few favorites. To be honest, this was a difficult task. Most newspaper websites are adequate and have similar formats....

New Media and the Florida Gubernatorial Race

Yesterday, the Herald Tribune out of Florida published an article on the use of blogs and podcasts by FL gubernatorial candidates. I was interviewed for the piece and it includes a mention of our study on the use of the Internet by 2006 Senate candidates.

Not being from Florida,...

What IS that?

If you use Google Maps a lot, every once in a while you’ll see something large and unusual in the “Satellite” view. Next time, instead of trying to decide what it is, head over to the Wikimapia mashup.

Wikimapia allows visitors to highlight any place on the map with a retangular outline and enter a short description of the place....

$100 Laptop Enters Testing Phase

Nicholas Negroponte’s vision to give every child in the developing nations a laptop is closer than ever to becoming reality. The Bangkok Post reported last week that testing of the $100 Laptop (part of the One Laptop Per Child program) is set to begin in Egypt, Nigeria, India, China, Thailand,...