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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 12, 2012

Nathan Gibbs

by Nathan Gibbs, January 12, 2012

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The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs

1. The Philadelphia Experiment: Why a media company wants to be a tech incubator (Nieman Journalism Lab) 

2. The magical (and sometimes ridiculous) gadgets of tomorrow (The Wirecutter)

3. Inside the NYT's hyper-local efforts (Street Fight)

4. Disqus: People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality comments (Poynter)

5. How Google+ Hangouts could transform traditional TV broadcasting (Lost Remote)

6. Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media (Reuters)

7. Critics see 'disaster' in expansion of domain names (NPR)


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