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Viral Video: Chris Hadfield Rocks in Outer Space

Stressed out after a long week? Gravity be gone – we’re off to the moon with Chris Hadfield, who returned with his Russian and American colleagues on Monday night.  Yes, Hadfield is Canadian.  Who else would take a guitar into … Continue reading

Ohio the Rudest State in US, South Carolina Most Polite

It’s National Etiquette Week; did you know that? And in keeping with demographically oriented analyses and infographics this morning, here’s some information on the most polite and rudest states in the US — as reflected by swearing and “potty mouth” conversation. Marchex performed an analysis on “more than 600,000 phone calls placed from consumers to [...]

Fat People Use Yahoo and Other Search Demographics

2 days agoMedia / New Media : Screenwerk

A company called WebpageFX, which tracks “over 1,000 profiles in Google Analytics” has put together regional and demographic data about search engine usage in the US. The company says it has “search data for over 35,000,000 queries in 2012.” From this corpus it submits that “Google owns nearly 81% of the US search engine market.” In [...]

New Poderopedia Features Let You Reuse Content, Find Power in Community

2 days agoMedia / New Media : Idea Lab

The Poderopedia platform helps show the relationships among the elite in a country or region, especially in places where power is concentrated in the hands of a few people. After winning the Knight News Challenge in 2011, we launched Poderopedia in Chile last fall, with the goal of mapping who's who in business and politics in our country. Show More Summary

Game Night 2: EMP Style

On Friday May 10th, the EMP (Experience Music Project) exhibition The Art of Video Games signed off in the same awesome way it signed on, with an epic night of gaming. As described on the EMP website, this exhibition was … Continue reading

MCDM Connect: Be there!

Hi everyone–it’s been a long time since I’ve posted my last Viral Video! Since then, I’ve become a part of the MCDM Fellows, which is a pretty awesome group of alums who are charged with making the world a better … Continue reading

Seahawks & Smack Talk

#Gameoverman, this was the hash tag to use if you were lucky enough to have made it to the epic Madden battle between select Seahawks team members at game night, the party  that signaled the end of  The Art of … Continue reading

4 Lessons for Journalism Students from the Digital Edge

4 days agoMedia / New Media : Idea Lab

This past semester, I flew a drone. I helped set up a virtual reality environment. And I helped print a cup out of thin air. Nice work if you can get it. Working as a research assistant to Dan Pacheco at the Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair for Journalism Innovation at the S.I. Show More Summary

KIROtv.com’s Michael Fox – Tips for New Media

Michael Fox is KIROtv.com’s Emmy-award winning Web Videographer & Producer. He’s been working at KIRO 7 studios on the corner of 3rd and Broad in Seattle for the last six years. Want a Job in New Media News? Michael Fox … Continue reading

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