Will Sommer

Publish2 launches Digital Sunlight to cover stimulus

Scott Karp, one of the journalism blogging kingpins behind link journalism site Publish2, announced a Publish2 project called Digital Sunlight to help newsrooms and citizen journalists pool resources on covering the stimulus. It's not ready to go yet, but here's Publish2 friend Howard Weaver describing it: Using Publish2's free system, individual websites can easily let users submit information about projects. Some might be whistleblowers – imagine a Citibank secretary who didn't think the company should be [+]

Lee Abrams: Secret Genius

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="297" caption=""NEWS & INFORMATION IS THE NEW ROCK N ROLL""][/caption] Tribune's Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams gets a lot of crap for his energetic memos to Tribune employees.  The memos inevitably leak to Romenesko, where journalists who are about to be unemployed can laugh at that crazy guy who dared come over from radio. But while much of what he says sounds crazy, it actually makes a lot of sense. Take this, from [+]