Pew’s New Media Index Tracks Disparities in Coverage

The week of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism launched its New Media Index.

The NMI is a partner project to its News Coverage Index, which tracks the top five stories across traditional, U.S., print-based media on a week-to-week basis.

The NMI was designed to combat criticism that monitoring traditional media sources only is missing the boat....

Things I Would Have Blogged About If I Had More Time (2/25/2009)

This is shaping up to be one of those weeks where you have more ideas for blog posts than time to write them.  Given that, I’m going to cheat and write up a quick link post covering some of the things I’ve found interesting this week.  Most of these items have already been featured on the Bivings Twitter feed,...

Embracing an Iterative Approach to Site Development

The Bivings Group has been creating web programs for clients for over thirteen years.  I’ve been around and involved for a lot of those years.  Pretty much everything – from the tools you use to the way you write code to the Internet knowledge of our clients – has changed for the better since 1996....

New Version of ImpactWatch.com Launches

Yesterday we launched a new version of the marketing site for our monitoring platform, ImpactWatch.  The new site includes new branding and copy, a new IW Twitter feed and a redesigned blog.  I would encourage you to check out the blog if you haven’t already.  JW has a great post up that provides a bit of a behind the scenes look at our redesign process and Hannah has a good take on a recent social media study. ...

Drupal.org Finally Upgrades to Drupal 6

Anyone that has done a lot of work in Drupal knows what a complete pain it is to upgrade from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.  The change was dramatic, and many vital Drupal 5 modules still haven’t been upgraded to work in Drupal 6.  For many sites,...