I had lunch with Erica Noonan who, among other things, runs the mom blog for the Boston Globe. We were discussing the fact that these days everyone really has to take charge of their own career -- no employer or client will pay you for the kind of work...
Jeff Warren of the MIT Media Lab has launched a project which has mapped miles of the Louisiana coastline using digital cameras attached to kites towed by boats. Not only does this technology produce maps quickly and inexpensively where they're needed, they are now the most high-resolution maps of...
Today, the Knight Foundation will announce this year's winners of the Knight 21st Century News Challenge, a program which funds innovative ideas that will have an impact on the future of news. Placeblogger's seed capital came from the News Challenge. Since then, we have worked...