Iammodern. Jason Falls at Social Media Explorer looks at I Am Modern Magazine, which he calls "the only traditional media property totally driven by social media." Excerpt:. With limited funding, an outside-the-box approach and the ... Go to Full Article

The Knight Commission Community Forum is coming to Silicon Valley. What:. Are Silicon Valley citizens getting the information they need to solve community problems, coordinate civic activity, maintain public accountability and foster ... Go to Full Article

Joe Klein at the Time blog on the right's attempt to bully the news media into pulling back in its reporting on Sarah Palin. (The anti-media meme is widespread at the Republican Convention.) Excerpt:. Steve Schmidt has ... Go to Full Article

The news is in . And it may upset some of you. Turns out that only slightly more than half of adults know what social networking is. According to eMarketer's reporting on a recent Synovate study, only 58% of the multinational ... Go to Full Article

This is worth a read, even if Hurricane Gustav is now just a big wet blanket: Poynter Online: NPR's Andy Carvin on the Role of Social Media in Gustav Coverage. Go to Full Article

Recently I had the honor of meeting Ignacio Escribano, who runs a citizen journalism site for Argentina's Le Nacion, the leading newspaper in South America. In an hourlong conversation on my back deck we talked about citizens' media, ... Go to Full Article

I've been wondering why this has been completely ignored in the traditional media:. Credo.com: This is America. We don't jail journalists here. Jailing journalists is unacceptable in a democracy. But that's exactly what is happening at ... Go to Full Article

Summer is over , or at least it looks like so from the traffic trends in the last two weeks. Web traffic has been going up again quite rapidly and I expect the trend to continue for another week or two still, until the typical traffic ... Go to Full Article

San Jose Mercury News: Google rolls out the beta its first browser, Chrome, for Windows today. A Mac version is not yet available. So far I don't see anything that will make me want to switch from Firefox. Go to Full Article

Socialmarketing170. The other day I pointed to Chris Brogan's list of 20 free ebooks about social media. I recently came across another ebook that's not quite free but the modest cost ($29.95, or $14.95 for the Amazon Kindle version) is ... Go to Full Article

Reuters: Google Offers Video Sharing For Businesse. Google is adding YouTube-like video communications features to its business application suite, looking to make video-sharing among office workers as easy as trading e-mails or instant ... Go to Full Article

Eve Dmochowska at Two Jumps Ahead: Social Media Must Reads, Sept. 1, including:. 10 ways to make money BECAUSE of your blog. Top 10 tips for Social Media success. Is podcasting dead or alive? Go to Full Article

Social_media_marketing_guide. The other day I pointed to Chris Brogan's list of 20 free ebooks about social media. I recently came across another ebook that's not quite free but the modest cost ($29.95, or $14.95 for the Amazon Kindle ... Go to Full Article

Interesting. Here's a video explaining Viewzi, the visual search engine that organizes relevant images on the Web from sources like Amazon and Flickr. A handful of searches I conducted weren't particularly impressive, but it's still ... Go to Full Article

Manyeyes. New York Times: Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data. The Times look at Many Eyes, site was created by scientists at the Watson Research Center of IBM in Cambridge, Mass. Above is a visualization of Barack ... Go to Full Article