the reality tunnel

This was originally posted on the Local Fourth blog as part of my participation in a community media innovation project at the Medill School of Journalism. You’re in the middle of a big project with tight deadlines. Parts of your infrastructure are a little, well, jenky. Do you take the time to make things cleaner […]

This was originally posted on the Local Fourth blog as part of my participation in a community media innovation project at the Medill School of Journalism. I first became acquainted with the term hackathon in college. A computer science student group organized an all-night event in one of the computer labs and ordered in pizza […]

This was originally posted on the Local Fourth blog as part of my participation in a community media innovation project at the Medill School of Journalism. I’m finding the word community increasingly confusing, especially when navigating the world of hyperlocal publishing.  When someone says community, do they mean community like the city of Evanston, or […]

This was originally posted on the Local Fourth blog as part of my participation in a community media innovation project at the Medill School of Journalism. One aspect of spending so much time working on this project in Evanston is eating at a lot of Evanston restaurants. Today, the project coders went to Bat 17, […]

This was originally posted on the Local Fourth blog as part of my participation in a community media innovation project at the Medill School of Journalism. I’m really excited that our project is working in the domain of local online-first news. Recent discussions at the Block by Block conference and analysis of best practices from recipients […]