So Diana Lopez about two weeks ago decided to create a meme (several examples surrounding) called Privilege Denying Dude, that according to Colorlines writer Channing…
It’s November; ’tis the season of month-long marathon creative endeavors, such as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) For NaNoWriMo, participants aim to complete an original…
Only a few months after Clay Shirky’s book on the glorious new age of amateur content creation on the Web, Forrester Research reports that social…
If you live in Chicago and work in online … anything really, you know that there are about 5 – 10 events going on each…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPpRnzO9Aw] This was supposed to be a book review of William Patry’s new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. However, while reading this book,…
With a license, do you own the e-book? Recently, Amazon.com deleted electronic books written by George Orwell back from customers’ Kindles, including 1984. While Amazon…
So I was at a reception the other day, talking to someone about the internet and the free/gift economy and how it’s the inevitable future…
I don’t think you have to be a “new media expert” or a journalism scholar to realize that: 1.) The news business is in the…
Having worked in the non-profit sector for several years, and being a fangirl all my life, I can say – seriously! – that fan culture…
I was so pleased to co-present at MIT at Media in Transition 6 (MIT6) with Nell Taylor, Director of The Chicago Underground Library about the…