February 2012
3 posts
“NPR’s Facebook page and its 2.3 million-like audience is made up of users from...”
– How we’re experimenting with member station content on NPR’s Facebook page | NPR Digital Services
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“Reporting from Henderson, Nev. —— I got kicked out of a Nevada caucus. I...”
– ‘She’s a spy!’: Reporter banned from Nevada caucus - latimes.com
January 2012
10 posts
Fascinating discussion of DIY and hacker...
Beth’s insights in this field come from studying creativity around technology in the developing world, as well as US hackerspaces, makerspaces, hacker cons, and makerfaires. Extrapolating from both types of sites, she observes three characteristics: - The importance of actual space in bringing communities together
- Systems of apprenticeship or scaffolded learning, including workshops that show people what they need to know to join a community
- Contests and other systems for building reputations, like the “black badges” issued to winners of capture the flag contests at Defcon, or the badges people win on instructables.com She’s interested in the possible overlaps between university research, industry labs and independent researchers. Her goal is not to map the actual Venn diagram of the space, but to understand how independent researchers work in this space. She believes that independent researchers are particularly important for building disruptive technology. Academics have a disincentive to build highly disruptive systems – they’re hard to get academic funding for, and hard for PhD students to pitch dissertations around. It’s hard to disrupt in the corporate community, especially when disruptive tech is cheaper, as those sorts of innovations tend not to fit within existing sales structures. Independent researchers may be immune to these restrictions and especially capable of pushing forward disruptive innovations.
“Traffic doesn’t seem to be the right measure of civic impact. A story that gets...”
– …My heart’s in Accra » Metrics for civic impacts of journalism
“Who’s got the biggest smile among our U.S. senators? Let’s find out and exercise...”
– Analyzing the U.S. Senate Smiles: A Ruby tutorial with the Face.com and NYT Congress APIs | Dan Nguyen pronounced fast is danwin
“Again, this is really difficult, but necessary. I feel that the news outlets...”
– Craig Newmark: Fact-checking should be part of how news organizations earn trust » Nieman Journalism Lab
I’m with Newmark on this. The value of information that is verified and correct in a time of information overload is great. When attention is currency, then I’ll pay for better...
“JR: What are your basic research rules for students? Eric Ferkenhoff: Number one...”
– Research chat: Eric Ferkenhoff of Northwestern’s Medill School – Journalist’s Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
“Embattled wholesale satellite broadband contender LightSquared has taken off the...”
– LightSquared to FCC: it’s our spectrum, interference is GPS industry’s problem
This whole issue is very interesting. The interference questions raised here will be common as our communication methods shift from broadcast and wired apps to broadband and mobile apps.
“An article in The New York Times highlights two growing collections of words...”
– New Online Dictionaries Automate Away the Linguistic Middleman - Slashdot
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“The technology to successfully run and manage remote teams has never been...”
– Stop whining and start hiring remote workers - (37signals)
December 2011
11 posts
“Only use QR code reader software that allows the user to confirm the action to...”
– QR Code Malware Picks Up Steam - Dark Reading
“Companies have long hired journalists for traditional public relations and...”
– We’re All Media Companies Now and We’re Hiring - Marketing and Sales Jobs News and Advice
It is all about working with an eye on commerce, not advertising. Scoble is a prime example of success in this. The idea is to assert editorial independence but work at an organization that wants...
Can You Learn To Code In One Day? We Sent A Non-Nerd To Find Out - http://pulse.me/s/49xvz
“We don’t want to see people sent out into the world slaughtered by the...”
– MediaShift . Tear Down the Wall Between Business and Editorial! | PBS
We don’t necessarily need to train every student to be an entrepreneur, but every student needs to understand the pros, cons, and realities of their work and themselves as a brand. It isn’t unjournalistic, it is...
“From Apple to Microsoft, Desktops Begin to Resemble Mobile
The desktop app...”
– 100 Million Apps Later, Apple Pushes the Desktop Toward a Mobile Experience
“And in terms of time spent, social networking consumes more time than going to...”
– Social networking’s salad days are ending, Forrester says | Webware - CNET
He is predicting an end to the social media bubble.
“Yet internally, AOL is in the process of figuring out just how small (or large)...”
– AOL’s Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local | Digital - Advertising Age
“It also brings up the issue of who defines journalism. Certainly, the definition...”
– Bloggers Are Not Journalists Rules Portland Judge - 10,000 Words
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November 2011
8 posts
A Newspaper For The Twitter Age: The Size Of A... →
Tiny printer. Great idea. Check out the story.
Prints stories the size of receipts. So, get your Suduko or crossword puzzle, a cartoon. Anything that you would like to see in a “glass less” way.
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Interview With John Paton, a Newspaperman Who... →
“The goal behind the project is to create a global darknet, a decentralized web...”
– The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network
“Organizers of Occupy Chicago are focusing on getting an indoor location for the...”
– Occupy Chicago planning for cold weather ahead | WBEZ
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“calls strategic or surface learning, instead of the deep learning experiences we...”
– A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Good ideas:
Social bookmarking. create accounts on a social-bookmarking service and to bookmark Web sites, news articles, and other resources relevant to the course you’re teaching. Create a...
6 Data Journalism Blogs To Bookmark, Part 1 -... →
These are wonderful resources. Don’t miss them if you teach or work with data in journalism
October 2011
2 posts
DailyTech - FCC Files Paperwork to Dismiss... →
Specifically, the FCC’s new rules exempt wireless carriers like Verizon from the ban on throttling internet connections. Verizon is perhaps upset about the provisions that would prevent it from banning certain sites such as 4Chan and the provision which prevents it from charging users fees on a per-site basis, something that communications companies arecurrently in talks to deploy. Under...
Occupy Poor Wall Street- Brian McFadden gets the... →
Incensed by the attention given to the protests, the wealthiest 1 percent respond.
September 2011
9 posts
The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your... →
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BBC has a new very clean and easy to use new template.
“The journalism of makers aligns itself with the tiny hotbeds of knowledge and...”
– Jonathan Stray » Journalism for Makers
A fantastic piece about what kind of journalism is needed as we go into post Mass Media and the age beyond broadcast.
Hacks/Hackers groups and open gov groups are working in this makers and journalism space.
Scientists build WiFi hunter-killer drone and call... →
Let us hope that life is not copying “art.”
Epic Win Book Release Party, Cole Stryker’s 4Chan... →
“Joichi Ito, who will take over as the Media Lab’s director next month,...”
– MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning - MIT Media Relations
“The reason to be on Google isn’t because it’s the newest, hottest,...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab . Journalists Should Join Google to Understand What Comes Next | PBS
Social Media’s Long Tail of Industry Disruption -... →
This “Facebook Generation” will age, and as they get older, they will become customers of new companies and industries that haven’t yet been fully impacted by the growth of social media, customer communities and the expectation of one-to-one, rapid customer reaction.
August 2011
12 posts
Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing... →
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When computer programming was ‘women’s work’ - The... →
Transmedia Design for 3 Screens - Make That 5... →
Summify - Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves →
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Political Polarization on Twitter -... →
Wow, I came across this by accident via a tweet, but it is very cool - both the setup and content of his lecture.
I was looking at “truthy” during the last election.
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This looks like a very cool way for Dan to publish his book.
Social Network Wars: How The Five Major Platforms... →
Most people don’t have the social steam to power a presence on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr. Sure, there are handy apps like Twitterfeed and Hootsuite that can help spread one post to all of your networks, but that ignores the individual strengths and weaknesses of each platfor…