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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I'm a big believe in lifestreaming and technology as a new form of storytelling, and more importantly, as a new way to inform people about what it happening (as well as a new way to develop interactive storytelling techniques).
One of the downsides with social media is that hiccups occurring as ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
He may have written the dumbest article ever on the Internet, but people have been telling me to give Cliff another chance.And indeed, you should watch this video because he COMPLETELY redeems himself at TED.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
In 2006, newspapers were patting themselves on the back for partnering with Google and Yahoo (I believe) to help sell advertising in both print and online.
At the time, I was winding up my time at Technology Review; however, I was adamant that we not look into similar deals for magazines. ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This from my friend Chris, a link to Newsweek's article about the Internet, circa 1995. Disregard all the spelling errors from the fact-checked and copy-edited non-blog. I'm sure this was just an oversight by the traditional media.
The Internet? Bah!
Notable Quotables:
On Media
The truth in no online database will replace your daily ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The traditional media is in serious financial trouble. Classified advertising is gone (and it's not coming back). Local advertising is still doing okay, but advertising spending has level off throughout the last two years. I'm sure that's only going to get better as we sink into a recession.
It's dire straits ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
It's 8:46 on a Thursday. My kids are currently working through their first interactive, fiction story programs. They are at various skill levels. Some of the kids can only build stories in 10-15 rooms. Much more than that gets unwieldy. Others have created complex, 40-room stories.
None of them are programming. ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
I'm a little honked off. When I was working at Technology Review, we had a low-end predictive market section on the site. At the time, I was enamored with it, but we didn't have the resources to fully commit to it. I was in the midst of a complete business ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
My buddy Dan, who wrote a great book called We the Media, posted a blog about sustainability in citizen journalism.
His point is this: sustainability doesn't mean that one project goes on forever; instead, it's a series of ad-hoc projects continually spring up depending on the issues of the day. He ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
I've become increasingly vocal about traditional media's lack of foresight when it comes to technological innovations, so it's nice to see some others on the grumpy train.The point these two blogs make -- and they aren't revelatory by any stretch -- is that traditional media outlets have been shameful in ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The first time a designer discussed Adobe's AIR with me I was convinced it would change the way we surfed the Web.
The open interface (you can develop your own front end to any website), the desktop application, the opportunity to aggregate loads of information in one place -- how could ...
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