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
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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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Most of the people I'll blog about are technologists of some sort, or people who are using social media in ways that can be replicated in the news room.
This is not one of those people. This is one of the kings of technology journalism: Steven Levy.
My bias in this particular ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
My buddy Dave just posted a great thought on how you can engage your audience to develop more comprehensive reporting covering.
It's a wonderful idea, one that is already deployed with distributed computing. Strangely, though, I think traditional news rooms would outwardly reject the notion on engaging their readers to contribute ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I'm working on a story for ECT News right now about a new report by the Project in Excellence in Journalism research organization. The State of the News Media report is enlightening, and quantifies much of what the digerati have been discussing.
But there's even more that we don't discuss, such ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I've been fooling around with a tool called Simplify Media, which is supposed to allow me to stream my music no matter where I am through iTunes or Winamp.
Then I realized that I don't actually listen to music, and I could care less what my friends are listening to. It's ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
My talk went quite well today. Was very well attended and the audience was more than attentive. This was definitely worth the drive here. It's always nice to be around students and working journalists who seem to be engaged in the world of modern media.
I have the podcast finished, and ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Frank Warren is the man behind the Post Secret website, an ongoing project that invites people to anonymously send in secrets. It started out as an art project, but quickly turned into one of the most intense Internet phenomenons.
The community is rabid, but not in the flame war way. Instead, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The first time I met Henry Jenkins, he told me that when he started working in Comparative Media Studies his colleagues looked down upon him. He was the first person who labeled what we did as "the cultural gutter."
It's great to see him opening the SXSW Interactive Conference, filling ballroom ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Imagine if you had a journalist, connected to lots of really important people in their field...particularly people who blogged, Facebooked, MySpaced...or whatever.
Even better, what if you found the people who did those things even if they weren't the most prominent people. You just found passionate people and collected them in ...
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