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The 2010 CAR Conference begins on Thursday, and here are some of the sessions I’m trying not to miss: Thursday, March 11 Big Data: Analyzing legislation with machine learning. Always good to hear what Chase Davis has been up to. Open Source GIS. Now that mapping is more and more accessible, it pays...
A Gentle Introduction to Google App Engine
As part of our roll-out of version 3 of the NYT Congress API, I was tasked with coming up with a sample application that uses the API to do something mildly interesting, or at least functional. I had gotten a book on Google App Engine for my birthday and was...
This year’s computer-assisted reporting conference in Phoenix has a couple of new sessions on the schedule. One of them is an idea a couple of us have been pushing for a few years: lightning talks. A staple of technical conferences, lightning talks are based on the notion that while 45-50 minutes...
Fumblerooski and Raw SQL in Django
Over the weekend I was able to make some upgrades to Fumblerooski (the off-season being a good time for that), and to do so I took advantage of some of the new features in Django’s development version (with the 1.2 release being just around the corner). (Yes, I know I shouldn’t...
Using Geocoders with GeoDjango
Update: Simon has updated his library to make it easy to reverse the order of coordinates. Thanks! For a “15-minute project“, Simon Willison’s geocoders library is pretty handy if you’re doing geocoding with Python. It offers a common interface to the geocoding services provided by Google, Yahoo and other sources. When...
Readers aren't dumb; they want to know what we know, and they know that the web makes it possible for us to share with them at a national and even local level. The level of commitment and effort that we put into responding to their need for relevant and meaningful...
Advertising Age - MediaWorks
Elle Teams Up With a California Magazine in Hunt for New Ads
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the latest bid to make local marketing pay for a national media property, Elle has a new deal with C magazine, the luxury title focused on California, to get advertisers to spend more with special incentives and new custom programs. ...
Chuck Norris, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber Walk Into a Bar ...
Yes, 20% of the top 10 most-tweeted brands this week are dead-celebrity brands. ...
Valencia Festival of Media Names Award Nominees
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Valencia Festival of Media has announced the shortlist of nominees for its second annual awards show to take place on April 20 in Valencia, Spain. The awards show, of which Advertising Age is a sponsor, is part of the three-day festival that kicks off on...
Dobrow Checks the Pulse of 'Saturday Night Live'
It's not that the 2009-2010 iteration of "Saturday Night Live" isn't funny, but what "SNL" has lost is its sense of immediacy. Prior to the viral-videos-gone-wild era, you lived in fear of missing a Moment-With-A-Capital-"M." Now, deliverance is only a few clicks and a 30-second pre-roll ad away. Barring the...
Do Marketers Still Need News Brands?
Ken Doctor writes that publishers must acknowledge a lot of hard truths while they hold out hope for a platform-switch rebound. ...
Taking the Extreme Sports Rush to the Bathroom
Georgia Max Coffee wrapped toilet cubicles in Japanese ski resorts so extreme sports fans could feel like they were still snowboarding even while they were in the bathroom. ...
Robb Montgomery
Creating a Facebook presence for a non-profit
Is it time to revisit your Facebook strategy? Should you have Groups vs. Pages. Fans vs. Members?...
New media workshops (Western Canada)
The Canadian Newspaper Association is bringing Robb Montgomery to western Canada to produce a series of workshops in digital content reporting, mobile strategies and multimedia storytelling for the Web. (April-8-10)...
This session will examine the rapidly-evolving mobile media landscape and generate a discussion of steps your newsroom can take to begin or enhance mobile gathering and distribution of content....
Web reporting at 24Sata (Zagreb)
Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, use RSS to save you time, clear your bookmarks bar to gather better research and use online tools to run surveys and conduct interviews....
Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?
Apple enters "content filtering" with vague policy towards nudity in iPhone apps. Should newspaper and magazine publishers worry?...
New media seminars at The Toronto Star
Camp VJ Toronto: May 17-19, 2009. Digital Content Workshop. The cost is $250 for all three days and single-day courses are offered for $99....
News Videographer
I shot entire video using Flip camera
I published a true multimedia story today about firefighters practicing fire drills in a home donated by a couple that was about to tear down the house. I call it a “true” multimedia story because it has several elements that all work together, doing a different but complementary job. The...
I have new respect for my readers
When I started this blog and committed to it in a serious way, I was a full-time videographer at a major newspaper in Texas. Even though I had to self-teach a lot of my video skills — Which was very hard — I had it easier than a lot of...
My dirty little secret: I have no tripod
Around May of last year I took the plunge and bought my own video set up. I got the Sony A1U, a Sennheiser wireless kit, a nice light, and a jiffy bag. Around that time my workplace had two tripods I could borrow any time. Plus, I really didn’t know what...
Ten ways to make your photos better « Mastering Multimedia Colin's giving great advice! Read it all. (tags: photography tutorial) a links for 2009-11-12 a links for 2009-11-12 ...
One door closes, another opens
Until about two months ago I really didn’t know what would happen to my journalism career. I had put it on pause so I could move to the same city as my fiancee. I took a job in another industry and spent a lot of time missing journalism. Finally that...
Here’s a cool new site to ask and answer questions about video: VideoWTF? The site has great functionality. Anyone can post questions, answer other people’s questions, rank them, tag them, etc. It seems like there are some really knowledgeable people contributing to this site. Check out this one. I learned something new! a VideoWTF? a VideoWTF? ...
Random Mumblings
Engel Stadium: Down in the last inning
It is great to see a group of people are trying to save Chattanooga's historic Engel Stadium, the second oldest minor league baseball stadiums in America and one that is on the National Register of Historic Places.It's an 80-year-old,......
Image by Thomas Hawk via FlickrI'm finding mediagazer really useful. It launched March 8 from Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera.Thoughts?Related articles by ZemantaMediagazer is to Media as Techmeme is to Tech (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News) (techmeme.com)Techmeme's creators introduce Mediagazer (vator.tv)Mediagazer: Techmeme Launches......
Knoxville video has gone viral
TV reporter Gordon Boyd's unfortunate "technical difficulties" have gone "randomly viral" on YouTube.The big social media blog Mashable linked to it today and the YouTube video has topped 137,000 views since being posted on March 5, 2010. Here is the......
I want to give you more, not less. I don't think McDonalds will assume that as long as you keep it in a yellow box, people will buy a smaller, drier Big Mac. Yet our industry seems to think people......
If we could only get you to screw off more at work
... and at home, too, for that matter.However, visitors to online newspaper sites don't spend a lot of time there. The average amount of time looking at online news is about 70 seconds a day, while the average amount of......
Just got a copy of Mark Briggs' latest book Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing. Some of efforts we have been doing at the Knoxville News Sentinel are highlighted. He visited Knoxville during his research......
Newspaper Death Watch
Not Yet Time To Burn the Boats
TechCrunch has an interview with Marc Andreessen in which the Internet boy wonder advises media companies to “burn the boats,” an analogy to the instructions Cortés supposedly gave his army upon landing in Mexico nearly 500 years ago in order to insure that the soldiers pressed on. Print newspapers and magazines...
Johnston on Journalism’s Future
We don’t get a lot of e-mail from Pulitzer Prize winners, so we were pleased and intrigued when David Cay Johnston sent a lengthy response to our recent comments on the shortcomings of American journalism schools. Johnston is a reporter’s reporter in the classic mold of “comforting the afflicted and...
Research Dramatizes Changing Practices
Three new studies document the changing way in which journalists practice their craft, for better and for worse: New research by the Society for New Communications Research and Middleberg Communications finds that seven in 10 of journalists are using social networking sites for research and reporting, a 28% increase over the...
Interview: Young Journalist Makes Online Transition
Melissa Massello is the 31-year-old “Stealfinder in Chief” at Shoestringmag.com, an online magazine for people who want to live a frugal but socially responsible and healthy life. She manages a loose federation of freelance contributors, many of whom barter their services, while writing more than 5,000 words each week and...
This week’s sorry tale of a New York Times reporter being forced to resign for plagiarizing content from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources, apparently over a long period of time, raises questions about how traditional practices can survive the pressures of the online age. Zachery Kouwe (right) walked...
Publishers Find a Tenuous Balance
During fourth-quarter earnings calls, several newspaper executives tried to put a positive spin on their financial situation, noting that the rate of decline in advertising revenues has slowed. That’s true, says Martin Langeveld, but it’s still a dismal situation overall. Langeveld totes up the numbers from the five publishers who...
Open
It's time for another roundup of links from NYT developers and Open blog readers. This week features lots of JavaScript-oriented links (not that there's anything wrong with that)....
Introducing Version 3 of the Congress API
Version 3 of the Congress API offers many additions and revisions, making the API easy to use and more useful....
Following last Decembers post, I've collected a slightly larger round of links from my colleagues as well as solicited links from our readers - from Flash on the iPhone to official New York City subway data....
More Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud
Today we're pleased to announce the addition of approximately 5,000 new subject headings to data.nytimes.com: organizations, publicly traded companies and geographic identifiers....
Article Search API Enhancements
The Times Article Search API already had a rich set of data attributes, but we couldn't resist adding a few more....
This post is the first in a new series that offers a look at what NYTimes.com developers are reading and sharing online....
Twitter / themediaisdying
themediaisdying: Great dataviz on how the BBC spend the UK license money : http://bit.ly/bGkf4M
themediaisdying: Great dataviz on how the BBC spend the UK license money : http://bit.ly/bGkf4M...
themediaisdying: Why asking should media companies charging for content is the wrong question : http://bit.ly/aZGtZB (via @eacastel)...
themediaisdying: Who are the online publishers that matter? Now you know. http://bit.ly/b1onuT (via @Permuto)...
themediaisdying: @utneReader creates 'The Dead Magazine Club' : http://bit.ly/aK1bN2 via: @ferndiaz / neyorkist)...
themediaisdying: Are we connected on LinkedIn? http://bit.ly/4v2dVc
themediaisdying: Are we connected on LinkedIn? http://bit.ly/4v2dVc...
themediaisdying: Condé Nast Says No To Pay Walls: http://j.mp/aucxtX (RT @Mediabistro)
themediaisdying: Condé Nast Says No To Pay Walls: http://j.mp/aucxtX (RT @Mediabistro)...
washingtonpost.com - Tom Shales TV Column
Preview: New NBC game show 'Minute to Win It' is unoriginal and imbecilic
NBC made only about 38 minutes' worth of Sunday night's two-hour "Minute to Win It" premiere available for preview. But hey, who's complaining? You don't complain about a gift from the gods -- nor even one from the creatively bankrupt NBC programming department....
Tom Shales finds pretentiousness aplenty, whether on 'Idol' or the Oscars
On "American Idol" -- returning Tuesday night for another performance round -- amateurs try to look like professionals. On the Oscar show, professionals often come off looking like amateurs, whether they're trying to or not....
TCM's Robert Osborne, on the Oscars and his brilliant career
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe. He appears before and after each prime-time...
Tom Shales hails 'Southland' as 'next big step' for cop shows
Every few years, television takes a giant step forward, perhaps partly to compensate for all those other steps backward. One dependable area of improvement is the cop show -- the "CSI" shows represented a major advance in production values, HBO's harrowing "The Wire" was another, and "Hill Street Blues" was...
Seinfield stops by Kennedy Center while prepping 'Marriage Ref'
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage. I had a paroxysm just the other day...
Tom Shales reflects on 'Father Knows Best' and his real-life Margaret
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about "Father Knows Best"? At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic. The father on the...
One Man & His Blog
Love this: OK Go ditches record label because they won't allow embedding of music videos.If you publisher won't promote you properly, why should you stay?......
So, About That Journalistic Fact-Checking Thing...
So, the thing that seperates journalists from the blogger pack is reliability, accuracy, research and fact-checking, right?So, how come this happens?"Girl with a One Track Mind" blogger and author Zoe Margolis has said she is taking legal action against the......
Afternoon Coffee Reading - 9th March 2010
Let's start with something that's as much a public information message for the blogosphere as a link:Why Blog and Comment Spam isn't Going AwayOnwards to linkorama:News has become a social experience - The news business is still collective underestimating how......
The Future of Newspapers - In Video!
Print journalists of a sensitive disposition might want to look away now...How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?......
Read more about the campaign and the man.......
Seven Years of One Man & His Blog
This is the 2,568th post on this blog.It also marks seven years since One Man & His Blog began. Strangely, I suspect it began much the same way this is being written now - sat at my desk at Estates Gazette,......
PressThink
News Without the Narrative Needed to Make Sense of the News: What I Will Say at South by Southwest
These are my notes. You can help me make my presentation great by reading them over and commenting. If you're at SXSW, come to "The Future of Context," Monday, March 15 at 9:30 am in The Hilton, Room H....
Explaining The Local: East Village, NYU's Collaboration with the New York Times
"Look: Not everyone is going to be thrilled that NYU is doing this with the New York Times. We'll have to take those problems on, not as classroom abstractions but civil transactions with the people who live and work here. You know what? It's going to be messy and hard,...
The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism
"The quest for innocence means the desire to be manifestly agenda-less and thus 'prove' in the way you describe things that journalism is not an ideological trade. But this can get in the way of describing things! What's lost is that sense of reality Isaiah Berlin talked about..."...
He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User
Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says they do, but I say...
Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund (And My Own Role in It)
"The announcement of its birth, along with the $1.75 million starter budget, is really the launch of a new Internet-based news organization with a focus on original reporting. You might say the Fund's operating principle is: report once, run anywhere."...
Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News
For March 2009. The pace quickened after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter....
mymediamusings
Will Bubbly Be the Next Twitter? Not in Tech-Lame North America
In rolling out Bubbly, Mr. Clayton plans to skip North America and Europe and focus on fast-growing, mobile-savvy markets such as India, Japan and Brazil. via businessinsider.com A sort of spoken version of Twitter is taking India by storm but what’s more interesting is that the Silicon Valley based makers...
Printing Entire Buildings – Amazingly Organic Results
via blueprintmagazine.co.uk Although still in very early stages, this complete stunning 3D printer hopes to eventually be able to print, on-site, entire structures. Via the excellent Make.com, check out the whole article at Blueprint. Posted via web from My Media Musings...
Reggie Watts – Remember the Name, Enjoy the Video
via thecomicscomic.typepad.com If you are at all a part of the NYC comedy scene, you know Reggie Watts. He is that guy everyone has tapped as “the next big thing” for years. Now he is going to be opening for Conan O’Brien on his live tour and it might finally...
As Record Sales Die New Ways to Monetize Live Music Emerge
Tonight and tomorrow, March 12th and 13th, The Drive By Truckers will be live streaming two nights from Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, courtesy of iClips.net. The concerts are being streamed to drive interest in their new album, “The Big To-Do,” which will be released on Tuesday, March 16th. Prices for the...
What Fox Should Learn From Being Most Pirated on YouTube
via businessinsider.com As the chart above show, Fox is by far the most pirated network on YouTube. Sadly, Fox will see this and say, “hey, who do we need to sue to get this to stop?!” Instead, they should say, “hey, how can we give these eager viewers what...
Hacker’s Best Hope – You Are a Technical Moron
It was only a matter of time. First, jailbroken iPhones were humorously Rickrolled by a worm, and now both iPhones and Android phones have been exploited to form a botnet that is over 9,000 devices strong! Fortunately, like the Rickroll, the botnet was a benign experiment by...
VideoJournalism
fileinfo.com is turning out to be a wonderful resource. A month or so ago I bought a couple of Aiptek isdv2.4 video cameras – very low end little plastic cameras. The price was right (about $70 each) plus I wanted to see how well they would work or...
As usual I was looking words up in my Random House Dictionary (unabridged, 1966) when I realized that the book was forty-four years old and might not contain certain everyday words from the current year…such as “google” (the noun or the verb). Took a peak – and yeah – no “internet.”...
…or problem solving. I’m exploring the realm of video files and compatibility with older computers, operating systems, and editing programs. And there are some serious issues which must be researched before purchasing anything. But the entire problem solving issue is a wonderful learning tool. Too often folks take it for granted that...
The saga continues… My senior with a new Sony hard drive camcorder reported back (as mentioned in the update below) that he could not import and edit with his new camera on his older computer with Windows Vista. After trying to open and convert with QuickTime Pro (four year old version) we...
The two lighting workshops I don’t need to prep much for…and Kathy Newell will carry me through. We pretty much agree on light – it should be natural. But there are times you need to add light and times (we may disagree here) where you want a professional...
Come April 15 I won’t be worrying about what I owe (or get back) from Uncle Sam…I’ll be white-lining it north to Portland for a conference. Kind of a good feeling – my very first conference as a teacher was the same JEA/NSPA gathering in the same city. ...
CNET News - Digital Media
Come see Paris--in 26 gigapixels
Site, which offers a breathtaking view of Paris, enables you to pan around, see monuments, and get a high-def feel for what the City of Light is all about. Originally posted at The Digital Home...
Viacom's departure from Hulu comes with a bite
Viacom content is leaving Hulu next week, though users will still be able to watch those shows over at ComedyCentral.com. What this really could end up hurting are bloggers and other people trying to share specific clips, which Hulu was able to do. Originally posted at Web Crawler...
Chinese scientists recalibrate Google's evil scale
Scientists in China overwhelmingly choose Google over Baidu for their research, which AllThingD's John Paczkowski sees as lending credence to Google's original decision to enter China despite the known censorship minefields....
MySpace CEO is out after less than a year
Owen Van Natta and MySpace agree to part ways after he spends just 10 months as the company's CEO....
East to west, 'Street Sounds' maps U.S. in audio
New online project aims to create an audio map of the country. It's a great way to relive the drama of a tropical Florida thunderstorm, amble through San Francisco's Chinatown, or visit that Connecticut Radio Shack you've always wanted to see....
robcurley.com
Sometime in the future, I’ll probably look back at this post and wonder what I was thinking when I wrote it, and maybe even regret that it’s in my blog’s archives, but who cares? Live a little. Big-time convergence doesn’t have to be reserved for just big-time stories. (If you’d...
Dating back to our online team’s time in Lawrence, I’ve always had a nice friendship with John Temple. And shortly after our decision was made to come to Las Vegas to work with the Greenspun family of publications, John gave me lots of advice. His advice that keeps proving to...
Weekend in Vegas: Some nifty examples of converged cross-platform/multimedia journalism
This past weekend was interesting here in Las Vegas as a lot of very different types of stories were swirling around us — President Obama was in town, a new Cirque du Soleil show opened, a huge new section was launched on our site, the city’s hot-and-cold Rebels played basketball...
Covering high-school recruiting. On a Sunday afternoon. Please meet Ray Brewer.
I’m a huge fan of Las Vegas Sun preps writer Ray Brewer and I love the way Brewer leads our coverage of high school sports in this valley. Plus, his enthusiasm and drive are contagious. Other than Brewer, what also makes the Sun’s high-school sports coverage so unique is that...
Real-time news in Las Vegas: The Federal Courthouse shooting
Sorry about the lack of posts lately. Any way you slice it, there have been lots of things going on … with our company, with the holidays, and lots of huge events and big breaking news here in Las Vegas. I’m eventually going to try to write about all of those...
Newspaper Next
Which vendors are America's favorites? API wants to know and we bet you do too. Nominate your favorite vendors to be included in API's nationwide survey. Find out which vendors are truly delivering quality solutions to meet our industry's needs....
API reveals huge revenue opportunities through Sales Resource Optimization
Newspaper organizations can increase revenues by as much as 15% according to a new report released by API and ZS Associates. Download a free copy of "Sales Resource Optimization: Bringing Science to the Sales Force."...
Find your path to paid online content
Join us for an important discussion on monetizing content, March 8-9. "15 Paths to Paid Online Content" draws on original API/ITZBelden research to provide actionable data, sharp analysis and real-life case studies....
American Press Institute's ground-breaking seminar, "15 Paths to Paid Online Content" (scheduled Feb. 11-12), has been postponed to March 8-9, 2010 due to winter storms. For more information, contact API Associate Director Mary Peskin, 703-715-3336....
Powerful lineup for New Revenue seminar
API's New Revenue Models That Work! seminar (Feb. 15-17) teaches practical strategies and tactics for developing, launching and maximizing new revenue models....
Dollar Match Program extended until Feb. 15
You now have two additional weeks to take advantage of API's 2010 Dollar Match Program, and double the value of your training investment! For every tuition dollar deposited into an API training bank by February 15, 2010, API will match it....
sans serif
How Arun Shourie became the Express editor
Magsaysay Award-winning former Indian Express editor turned BJP ideologue, Arun Shourie, in conversation with Mahesh Sarma: How did you get the Indian Express editor’s job? Emergency had passed [in 1977]. I had got to know [Express proprietor] Ramnath Goenka through many episodes. And the Janta Party had come to power. We were...
10 media barons in India Today power list of 50
Ronnie Screwvala of UTV, and Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy of NDTV, are the three prominent media names missing in India Today magazine’s annual ranking of the 50 most powerful people in India for the year of the lord, 2010. Otherwise, this year’s list comprise the usual barons: Samir Jain and...
GOOGLE: Experiment. Experiment. Experiment
Stop cribbing, start innovating, Google economist-in-chief Hal Varian’s advice to newspapers. Varian arrives at some stunning conclusions: 1) Newspaper ad revenue is where was it ws in 1982 in inflation-adjusted dollars. 2) The medium with the largest increase in ad revenue since 1995 is cable TV, not the itnernet. 3) Online...
The barbs that resulted in a Rs 500 crore lawsuit
Udayan Mukherjee of CNBC-TV18 letting fly at rival channel “No. 4″, in other words Bloomberg, on the latter’s claims of its showing on budget day. Bloomberg has now sued the CNBC-TV18 managing editor, but not his employers CNBC TV18, for a round figure of Rs 500 crore. Mukherjee’s lawyers, clearly aurally challenged, ...
Now, who could this honourable minister be?
A gossip item appearing in the columns of the New Delhi-based tabloid, Mail Today, owned by the India Today group, two days in a row. Also read: When a politician weds a journalist, it’s news Filed under: A bit of fun, Newspapers, People Tagged: Churumuri, India Today, Mail Today, Sans Serif ...
Times of India to shut down Kannada edition
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, the publishers of The Times of India, have decided to shut down their Kannada edition, published with The Times of India masthead, tomorrow. An internal email has convened a meeting of all staff of the paper with CEO Sunil Rajshekhar...
Endemic
The people need the iPad and simpler computers
A lot of technologists don’t realize how broken the current computing experience is for so many people. Desktop computers (with desktop-metaphor OSes) are really work machines, but many people — if not most — spend the majority of their computing time these days doing non-work stuff on their computers. Desktop computers...
Today I finally did what I should have done a long time ago: I donated to Wikipedia. I strongly believe that all human knowledge should be free. Wikipedia is the leading project to help make human knowledge free and accessible. We still have a lot more human knowledge to unlock, but...
It’s not about the perfect Pepsi but rather the perfect Pepsis
Where would the world be without chunky tomato sauce? Watch this TED Talk about not trying to create the perfect product and how we should instead try to create the perfect products to target distinct groups. Apply this logic to journalism. What do you come up with? So why are news orgs...
“You no longer control the message. And that’s OK.” If you want to succeed on social media (and the Web in general) you have to be willing to lose control. This fantastic TED Talk should be a must watch for anyone engaged in social media and for marketing departments around the...
My best advice for social media
Be yourself. Be passionate. Social media is nothing like the tightly controlled, sterile communication messages of the past. Want to get good at social media? Be passionate about something and let that passion show through. It’s really that simple....
You know that day that you never thought would come? Well it came. And I’m no longer a full-time journalist. There are a lot of reasons that I’m no longer a full-time journalist. The main reason is that I don’t want to be. These are incredibly difficult times in journalism, and it...
The Linchpen
Bringing journalists and coders together for #wjchat, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. ET
The second Web Journalist Chat on Twitter (#wjchat) will be Wednesday (tonight) at 8 p.m. ET and I’ll be the guest moderator. (Sidenote: #wjchat is not affiliated with Wired Journalists, the Ning network I administer for Publish2.) Here’s a preview of what we’ll be discussing: The relationship between programmers and journalists in your...
Linkbaiting, thinking while linking and why link journalism requires more than just a URL
Sections: Context, How to investigate, What to do, Other examples, Conclusion, Epilogue If you see a blog post titled “10 Iconic Journalists Every J-Student Should Study” and want to share it, please consider what you’re attaching your name to on the interwebs. At the time of posting, more than 70 people have...
New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2009 live blog
I’m in DC today for the New Media Women Entrepreneur summit. Here’s a live blog that’s also pulling in tweets with the hashtag #nmwe. New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2009...
Ideas for visiting Virginia Commonwealth University graduate journalism class
I’ll be trekking down to Richmond, the capitol of the commonwealth I now call home, to speak with a graduate-level online journalism class on Friday evening. My esteemed Publish2 colleague (and all-around awesome dude) Ryan Sholin was not able to attend and I’ve been invited to discuss what we do, how...
Videojournalism brain dump: Some advice I’ve picked up over the past few years
Poynter College Fellows win again, this time on video. Seriously, that e-mail group is inspiring me. And, yes, I was asked directly. I don’t just randomly spout off like this. Ok, not THIS much. Thanks #pcf09 kids. This is in response to a request for advice on teaching a video workshop...
Poynter fellows’ e-mail thread: Response to a “social media” question
One of my fellow former fellows asked our pcf09 Google Group about social media, singling me out near the end of her message. After I wrote this response (sent 6:33 p.m. CT), I thought “sharing is caring,” so here you go! Whoa, I kinda feel on the spot. Well, um… I’m...