December 2011
10 posts
“News media may either fail to see the new opportunity to become a new kind of...”
– A good, nerdier view of what I strongly believe from @javaun
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism? | Javaun’s Ramblings
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I grew up Iowan. I still am Iowan. {actual...
“Iowa is a good place to be from.”
That’s what I usually say when a Californian asks me how it was to grow up in Iowa.
“What do you mean?”
And here’s where it gets tricky. I just finished reading Stephen Bloom’s Atlantic article on Iowa and I understand parts of what he is saying. And I understand the backlash. So here’s my picture of Iowa, one of...
“The developer gap is particularly meaningful in an industry whose success over...”
– BTW, we have openings for developers. Seriously.
MediaShift Idea Lab . Public Media Should Mind the Developer Gap | PBS
“Every story has an ideal medium of communication. For some, social media is the...”
– Social media isn’t killing journalism – but it is fundamentally changing the system | The Wall Blog
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How a tweet turned into a DDOS attack {stories...
Sometimes, I play reporter (for those of you who do not know, I was a reporter for years before I moved over to social/web).
Last night was one of those nights.
Earlier in the day, our friends at the LATimes broke a story: Someone had posted a bunch of personal information on LAPD officers. The immediate question was “who?”
Around 5 p.m., the reporter who sits next to me figured it...
“The ideas are out there, but what we need in doing the work of news is to create...”
– USC Annenberg | Executive-in-Residence Sill makes a case for open journalism now
“In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and...”
– Amen.
Joichi Ito - Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants - NYTimes.com
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#newsfoo distillations: audio, occupy and...
After every conference or gathering I attend, I’ve built in the habit of sitting in the airport (if it has wi-fi) or on the plane and typing up everything. It’s almost necessary to ensure that I go back home and remember the conversations I had and things I learned.
But to get this out of the way. Yes, newsfoo was an invite-only conference. I consider myself far from the media elite,...
