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Joseph Carrabis, founder and chief research officer of NextStage Evolution, talks about how there are two kinds of bloggers, the Holmes and the Watson.

(Shot on a Nokia N95 at the ICA annual conference in Montreal)

The second day of the Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin starts with what some may consider an unusual topic for a journalism conference - video games.
Suzanne Seggerman, president of the non-profit Games For Change, offers an overview of games as a medium. She starts off by noting that parents, educators and the media [...]

Bring together a bunch of journalists and the talk will inevitably come round to the state of the industry, how the young don’t buy newspapers, how no one wants to pay for news anymore and the like.
This is a familiar litany of complaints but it overlooks a fundamental issue in the business of journalism. [...]

The idea of electronic paper tends to appeal to a generation that has grown up with newspapers. At the Future of Science Journalism symposium at MIT this week, one of the presentations was about E Ink by the company’s director of marketing, David Jackson.
The talk was full of information about how E Ink’s technology [...]

Day two of the Knight science journalism symposium in Boston and Henry Jenkins of MIT blasts the audience with a sprint through new media, popular culture and new possibilities for science journalism.
The thrust of his talk was how participatory culture is changing how we acquire knowledge, changing what we mean by the term “expert” and [...]

InsideHigherEd.com reflects on a meeting of journalism school deans, editors and news executives on the role of journalism schools in an age of new media:
Criticisms of journalism schools have ranged from questioning whether the institutions are necessary in the first place (since many journalists, and most senior ones, don’t have journalism degrees) to debating [...]

NewWest.net’s founder, Jonathan Weber, makes a compelling argument about the longevity of print.
At first, this seems odd, coming from one of the people behind the Rocky Mountain community news site. But like he says, revenues from print still outweigh those from online, and this is one of the reasons why NewWest.net is launching a [...]

From the BBC Internet blog, which offers insights into how the corporation is changing for a digital world:
2008 will become the breakthrough year for the BBC’s interactive audience facing services. The biggest ticket item we are working on is a complete refresh of our backend infrastructure. While this is fairly boring stuff for the average [...]

This video, played by Jane Stevens, multimedia instructor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, at the Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop at UC Berkeley, sums up the need for change.
In the context of journalism education, it highlights how we need to prepare students for jobs that may not yet exist. The time [...]

Just about anyone working in the digital industries, or covering it for the media, will be in Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show.
CES is a monster of an event, showcasing all that is new in the world of technology, held in Las Vegas from 7 to 10 January.
Over the past few [...]