In my first post on the Seattle Interactive Conference , I went over some locally developed tools designed to make information more relevant and insightful. Mobile apps like Trover, which allows geo-discovery through photos, and Evri, which organizes ~15,000 news feeds into a friendly iPad interface, are useful on an individual level. But my concern is: How can they scale to community [...]

Journalists have always covered the tech industry as a section of the newspaper, but now, due to the personal media explosion, the very existence of the trade is dependent on conversations and decisions that happen at events like this year’s Seattle Interactive Conference . #SIC2011 had many of the same trimmings as the now messianic #SXSWi (South By [...]

Hackathons are getting trendy. Not just in journalism, but health care , education, entrepreneurism, crisis management , mobile tech , government, and other arenas. Yes, it’s another technology buzz word, but one that hopefully sticks around and evolves into a combustible formula. Bringing together software experts and social leaders who sprint together to solve big challenges is a remarkable thing, especially when there’s a $10,000 prize [...]

Mozilla is best known for Firefox, the open source darling loved by millions which showed us that a browser is more than just a way to load websites, it’s a way to customize your experience of the web itself. Under new direction from Mark Surman , Mozilla is growing new legs to go beyond Firefox. They recently [...]

(cross posted form the Seattle Journalism Commons ) Part two of the #NewsNext series brought to us by the Online News Association/Society of Professional Journalists collaboration featured a lively discussion with Cory Bergman ( msnbc.com, breakingnews.com, Next Door Media ) and Ben Huh ( Cheezburger Networks ). As the owner of the largest humor network in the world, you’ve probably stumbled upon one of his many [...]

The Washington News Council received the honor of being named 2010 Organization of the Year by the Municipal League of King County. Here is a video of John Hamer accepting the award from Seattle based philanthropist Bill Gates Sr. at the awards gala.

Last year Journalism that Matters held its monumental Pacific Northwest Unconference where several projects have since emerged. It was then that Fancher formally launched his mission to “cultivate abundant journalism” and last night marked a significant milestone in that effort. Twenty-one of the region’s most influential news experts and enthusiasts gathered at the swanky offices of Seattle [...]

Martha Kongsgaard was born and raised in Napa, Calif., to a family of jurists, grape growers and cattle ranchers. Kongsgaard met Peter Goldman in law school, married him in 1988 when they founded the Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation. Her community activities currently include participation on the Washington Women’s Foundation, the national board and the executive committees of Earthjustice [...]

We’re joining in on the action as a special team from the Sunlight Foundation, The Center for Public Integrity, CQ Roll Call, and the Huffington Post brings us a live investigative factchecking presentation of Obama’s State of the Union Address (Tue. 5:30pm Pacific) using Sunlight Foundation’s award winning Sunlight Live platform Read more from the Sunlight [...]

This post is a part of the Carnival of Journalism project brought back to life by David Cohn at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. If you aren’t familiar with the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, I highly suggest you become acquainted with their report and recommendations, as well [...]

While many hail the awe and power of the internet as the most revolutionary medium since the printing press, its most complained about side effect is information overload. Popular web evangelist Clay Shirky likes to say, “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure,” and there are plenty of technological filters in place to help us [...]