Anonymity And Identity In News Media: What? Why? Who?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

A very timely conversation about anonymity and identity has been going on since Saturday. It started with a discussion on Twitter between Mathew Ingram and Howard Owens. Mathew has written a great post about it, then Steve Buttry added important points on his own blog. I say “timely” because suddenly a lot of people are […]

Harper’s and MetaFilter: magazines and communities

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Can the content produced by readers be a part of a magazine? This is crucial question that a lot of media are asking. Paul Ford, Web Editor of Harper’s Magazine, tells first in a conversation with journalist Choire published in Awl: What I wish I could do is take our tens of thousands of nice […]

Moderating is a real job

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

People often ask me to describe the job of a moderator. Luckily for us, MetaFilter member SpacemanStix asked this question: Dear mathowie, jessamyn, and cortex: how many hours do you commit to keeping MeFi afloat? Is it a huge time commitment, not a big deal, or somewhere in the middle? It seems like a lot […]