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Mark Glaser: Journalist, Critic, Facilitator, New Media Expert
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MediaShift is a weblog that will track how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture. Continued...

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16April2008

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Net Neutrality

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered micro-blogging and Twitter, citizen journalism, the mobile web and other...continued...

20March2008

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to the Mobile Web

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, hyper-local news and other topics. This week...continued...

13February2008

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Online Privacy

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, social networking and other topics. This week...continued...

13December2007

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Your Guide to Hyper-Local News

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, widgets and other topics. This week I’ll...continued...

10October2007

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Your Guide to Virtual Worlds

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogs, social networking, widgets and various other topics. This week...continued...

29August2007

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Social Networking Online

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, widgets and various other topics. This week...continued...

19July2007

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Widgets

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, online advertising and various other topics. This...continued...

27June2007

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Online Advertising

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, presidential campaign videos and various other topics. This...continued...

15May2007

Point of Presence

Your Guide to Micro-Blogging and Twitter

This is a special week at MediaShift as we are all a-twitter about micro-blogging and Twitter. We also have a special Q&A with the Twitter founders, and Jennifer wrote about her life on Twitter as well. But first, here’s a basic guide to help you learn all you need...continued...

18April2007

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Presidential Campaign Videos Online

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, the digital divide and various other topics....continued...

28February2007

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Podcasts

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and hopefully consider trying your hand at a new endeavor. I’ve already covered blogging, RSS feeds,...continued...

17January2007

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Your Guide to the Digital Divide

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism and wikis. This week I’ll look at...continued...

01November2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Wikis

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and hopefully consider trying it out — even if it’s all new to you. I’ve already...continued...

27September2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Citizen Journalism

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and hopefully consider trying it out — even if it’s all new to you. I’ve already...continued...

01August2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Soldier Videos from Iraq

If the first Gulf War put cable news and CNN on the map, the second Gulf War in Iraq has put video shot by soldiers in the spotlight. I first wrote about these videos in January, focusing on the ones that proliferated at the video-sharing site YouTube. But now,...continued...

06July2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to RSS

From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and hopefully consider trying it out — even if it’s all new to you. I’ve already...continued...

16May2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Blogging

From time to time, I’m going to try to give an overview of one broad new-media topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and hopefully consider participating in some way — even if it’s all...continued...

21March2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Personalized News Sites

The great thing about getting your news online is that you are the person in control of your experience. You can visit the news sites and blogs that you like, and follow a trail of hyperlinks to learn about events happening around the world. And if your niche interests...continued...

14February2006

Digging Deeper

Your Guide to Podcast Directories

Even though podcasts didn’t exist until mid-2004, there are now so many of them that it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number. Yahoo recently listed more than 23,000 podcasts in its News category of podcasts. So what’s a listener to do? Luckily there are a few excellent online...continued...

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