Earlier this week Chipotle, the burrito-centric Mexican(-inspired) grill, launched an iPhone application to order your meal from your phone and then pick it up once it’s prepared.  Users could find the nearest location, customize their order, pay fo…

A recent article in the New York Times highlighted a really great organization called NYC Resisitor. It’s a group of tech hackers who have gotten together and created a workshop in downtown Brooklyn for all kinds of like-minded tinkerers to meet up,…

In a press release detailing the perils of texting at the wheel, SayType just announced their speech-to-text service that enables hands-free texting, email and internet search. What really caught our eye, though, was a service called “license plate m…

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Content has changed. It’s no longer the passive programming of years past. Thanks to new-and rapidly fragmenting–media channels, today’s audiences demand interactive, personal and customized experiences.
I’m not just talk…

Massify has created an online model that enables filmmakers, actors and even the audience to “connect, collaborate and get films made.”  And now the community fueled site is preparing to release its first project, a horror movie titled “Perkin…

Interesting news from the worlds of citizen journalism and open source learning – the Oakland Press has just announced that they will be opening a classroom for citizen journalists. The newspaper will train anyone who’s interested in news writing, v…

It turns out that happiness really is contagious. Need proof? Nicholas Christakis and James Folwer recently published a paper in the British Medical Journal, suggesting that offline social networks have “happy” and “unhappy” clusters. In that …

Nick Denton points us to a ranking of online media networks generated by Editor & Publisher. The Gawker Network founder says that despite the erratic way that this ranking is generated, this is the best guide we have so far about what is happening …

While conducting research for one of our client projects, we stumbled across an in depth??discussion on tinkering written by??Alex Soojung-Kim Pang following a conference entitled??”Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge: Production in the Digital Age” p…

A juror in the UK was unsure of which way to go on a difficult court case. In order to get a wider perspective on the issue, the woman created a Facebook poll to gather her friends opinions. A crowdsourced legal system? Sounds interesting, but unfo…