Online fundraising campaigns have the reputation for being successful in the social media world without any of that success actually translating to physical donations. That’s not the case with the current Haiti relief efforts. Read below for a few of the initiatives taking place that harness user-generated sites to raise real money for Haiti. (more…)

Do you want a free download of Pearl Jam’s new single? You can have it, but you have to tweet about it first. Pearl Jam is using the digital media house Culture Jam’s Twitter application to trade tweets for an iTunes download of their single “Just Breathe”. (more…)

More and more readers are talking about the decline of print media, and its growing competition on the web.

Publications like The Rocky Mountain News and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer have disappeared, and even the great Canwest media empire is walking a line dangerously close to bankruptcy. Online - new user-generated hyperlocal news sites are popping up in an attempt to replace them, when profit seems to be a rare commodity. (more…)