"Who's to say their interpretation of one of their terms of service is that they get to analyze and mine every bit of text I enter into the system even text that's only meant for one other person to read?"

"Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online."

WordPress plugin that adds paragraph-level permalinks to your posts or pages

Multimedia in journalism extends beyond multimedia in the newsroom. I’m in journalism and I’m doing multimedia all the time.

Reportr.net has won a Best Blog award at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in Toronto. Congrats Alfred!

Alfred Hermida keynote speech about social media.

Content archived by newspapers is more easily accessible to more people than ever before through search
engines, and lives virtually forever. This has led to increasing requests from those named in articles to
remove content from Web sites – to "unpublish.” This project examined how North American news
organizations are handling and responding to requests to have content unpublished.

"And the discussion so far has swirled around news websites. Mobile sites and apps for smartphones and devices like the iPad bring yet another dimension to the issue of corrections. Are developers, online content people and editors asking "What about corrections" when developing the specs and feature sets for those? I think not."