Are the Yellow Pages more widely-used than Google? Short answer – No.

On a journalism mailing list to which I subscribe, the following claim was made recently: One more thing: the last time I checked, more people used the Yellow Pages as a reference tool than Google. Suffice it to say, I found this claim somewhat unbelievable, since I personally haven’t had a yellow pages book in … Read more

News Grader: our KNC 2011 entry

So tomorrow is December 1, which is the deadline for entries into the Knight News Challenge, an annual contest for innovative ideas for the intersection of technology and news, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. I (along with my buddy Eric Marden) have an entry in this year’s competition.  It’s a … Read more