Mark Coddington

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 12, 2010.]
Google Buzzes social media: For the second week in a row, the biggest story at the intersection of journalism and new media is an innovation by Google: This week, the talk was about Google Buzz, a real-time program for sharing status updates, links and [...]

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 5, 2010.]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few incremental happenings that proved to be interesting, and several of [...]

There was quite a bit of compelling stuff said this week in the new-media-and-journalism department, but unlike the last few weeks, there’s no one or two issues that much of the discussion has orbited around. So rather than doing my usual mini-essay on the top item or two, I’m going to have some shorter comments [...]

Rupert Murdoch is operating as if the web is still his own little media playground, ruled by scarcity. Instead, it’s ruled by abundance, and that causes the value of any one online publication to tank, even if they’re as large as Murdoch’s.

(A little about what I’m doing is here.)
— Clay Shirky talked about journalism this past week, and when he talks about journalism, people listen. Shirky, an NYU prof, has been regarded for years as one of new media’s most respected thinkers. But after his March essay “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” went viral and reached [...]

This week, we’ve got a few new developments, a load of nifty resources and several more go-rounds in the always-festering paid content debate. Let’s get to it. (Explanation here.)
— The biggest news in new media this week was probably the launch last Monday of Google Fast Flip, which allows you to flip through articles across [...]

Lots of good stuff to get to this week. And I’m getting closer to being on time. (Explanation is here.)
— Mark Bowden of The Atlantic takes a case study of the discovery and development of Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” and “make policy” videos to use as a launching point into a diatribe against advocacy journalists [...]

What an inauspicious beginning: After a jam-packed Labor Day weekend, I’m waaaay behind on my first “This week.” I’d like to post them on Sundays, covering material going back to the previous Sunday or so. This time, I’m covering stuff that’s a week and a half old. I don’t intend for that to be the [...]