The cultural critic on what 2012 will bring for branding, diversity, and serendipity…and what hipster angels have to do with the media’s future.
The value of crowdsourcing can be more than mining social media for sources. nie.mn/JLgvek 
Archives: December 2011
December 31, 2011
December 31, 2011
Voices that would not have been widely read or heard just years ago are now helping to define mainstream conversations.
December 30, 2011
The MoJo co-editor on why “there’s no better time to be an investigative journalist”
December 30, 2011
“Focus on the user and all else will follow”? There’s more to it than that.
December 30, 2011
…And that’s when social media will also get really interesting.
The New York Times, word clouds, paywalls, b.s. goggles, Twitter, Facebook — here are the posts that generated the most traffic on Nieman Lab this year.
December 23, 2011
Kred Kurrency, Billionaire Bingo, and The Socializer: You may not have them on your iPhone, but you’ll feel their effects in 2012.
December 23, 2011
Plus: A look at the world of news in 2011 and 2012, a SOPA update, and the rest of this week’s news and commentary in journalism and technology.
December 21, 2011
The digital strategist shares the big tech trends we can expect to emerge in the coming year.
December 21, 2011
News has always been about making choices among lots of information; technology just helps us make those choices more smartly.
December 21, 2011
In 2012, we’re due for a great leap forward in mobile reading.
December 21, 2011
In the real-time news cycle, social media can — and should — be about much more than conversation.
December 21, 2011
The media entrepreneur shares a vision of Lower Left Coast domination.
December 21, 2011
Predictions from Brian Boyer, Joy Mayer, Kevin Kelly, Sree Sreenivasan, and more.
December 21, 2011
A big question for the coming year: How will the right communities get the right kind of news?
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