Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The listserv continues to add members, but right now most of the discussion seems to be Dave Thomas and I sharing some of the tools we find interesting. His email today was so spot on, I thought I'd report it here. What follows is all him: Right now I ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
That's the quote that jumped out at me while I was reading (the first page) of The New Yorker article by Eric Alteramn.
It's a scathing review of the industry, which is exactly the kind of review the industry needs. This week alone I've had a half-dozen new media types instant ...
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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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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I spent a lot of time extolling the virtues of true interactivity, but it's still a work in progress.
I start my Journalism 2010 presentation with a look at the difference between what traditional media thinks is interactivity and what the digerati thinks is interactivity. The point is to demonstrate that ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I'm oftentimes asked what classes and skills I think a modern journalist should have if they want to stay competitive in the world.
That's a tricky question. My alma mater, the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, runs the Knight Digital Media Center for mid-career training. While I've never attended, I ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I've been a journalist since 1995, although I could easily say that I've done the job of a journalist my whole life.
I was a curious kid. Some say obnoxiously curious. And that hasn't slowed down as I've gotten older. On more than one occasion, I've been told that having a ...
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