[Today, we're starting a four-part series by our friend Justin Rice on how the media tables are turning in the world of sports, where the subjects of coverage are becoming the creators of coverage — and what implications those shifts have for the rest of the news business. —Josh]
Thirty-eight days after Major League Baseball launched [...]

Our friend Jeff Howe — author of Crowdsourcing, which was the subject of our first Lab Book Club — was back in town last week to give a talk to our other friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. At one level, it’s about his book, which centers on what happens when jobs [...]

— Interesting to see a NYT writer blogging for the NYT about being laid off by…the NYT. Marci Alboher was a freelancer for the Times (who wrote great pieces on career advice), but still, this feels like a step in the direction of openness. (More here, including the response Marci got from readers.) There are [...]

From the Metaphor Dept.: I point you toward this essay on the explorer and journalist Henry Stanley (of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” fame) for a couple reasons:
— It’s an fascinating read for history buffs, a group I suspect includes a lot of journalists. (The blog it’s on, The Edge of the American West, is a [...]