Today, major sites like Wikipedia and Reddit chose the “internet nuclear option” and blacked out their sites for a day in protest of two bills making their way through Congress: … Read more.
10 lessons for building projects within niche sites: Homicide Watch D.C.'s Year in Review
This is part of a series of blog posts from the first ONA class of MJ Bear Fellows describing their experiences and sharing their knowledge with the community. MJ Bear … Read more.
Just the Apps, Ma'am: Hashable
What is it? A mobile app that combs your contact lists and allows you to edit the information on each user, as well as enter information about where you met … Read more.
What Journalists Can Learn From: Psychologists
Sigmund Freud and brown leather couches aside, there are a lot of similarities between psychology and journalism worth note, particularly relating to questions of ethics. 1. A thorough code of … Read more.
Social Shares: New tools for the 2012 election and free training
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are … Read more.
A dozen years of homicides mapped
This is the first in a series of blog posts from the first ONA class of MJ Bear Fellows describing their experiences and sharing their knowledge with the community. Lucas … Read more.
Featured Member: Andy Carvin
Curent Location: My office is in Washington, D.C., but I work wherever my laptop takes me. Current Gig: Senior strategist at NPR, which is a rather vague title. Easier to … Read more.
How They Did It: ReadrBoard
There are many schools of thought on how to improve commenting on the internet, most of which focus on trying to convince commenters to be more civil. But ReadrBoard turns … Read more.
Test Drive: The Pomodoro Technique
“Remember, Time is a greedy player who wins without cheating, every round!” writes Baudelaire in his poem “The Clock” (1). Is this the true nature of time? — Francesco Cirillo, … Read more.
Social Shares: Top audio/photo slideshows chosen by ONA’s community
Inspired by a post that recommended an alternative to using Soundslides to create audio/photo slideshows, we asked our community on Twitter and Tumblr what they thought were the best audio/ … Read more.