Users, Humans and Eyeballs: Designing for News Readers
The Best Star Wars Nonrequired Reading of 2015
The Myopic Web: shrinking the filter bubble with Dropcat
Going to work at Salon.com
Peeking into Facebook’s algorithmic black box
My 12 rules for talking with others on the internet
Response Stack: build stories out of reader comments.
Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot.
But our professor is in another castle: Universities don’t get MOOCs
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For the profession of journalism, video games journalism is our canary in the coal mine. How it deals with the challenges and ethical conundrums of the new journalism will teach us all, if we’re smart enough to pay attention.
While numerous tools for publicly archiving Twitter searches have gone premium or disappeared entirely, I’ve built a new one that works entirely within WordPress. Now I need your help to test it.
About a year ago, I wrote an article about how to archive Twitter chats using the then popular and perfectly functional WhatTheHashtag. Later on the site was suddenly shut down and the service discontinued. Since then, I’ve stumbled from tool to tool, trying to find an equally optimal solution that would allow me to generate HTML containing Tweets and post them on my blog (independent from any other platform) with the greatest amount of speed possible.
These past few days I’ve presented at CMANYC12, the conference run by a professional organization for advisers and associated positions working with college-level student media. For this year’s conference, I presented one workshop with Michele Boyet and three sessions on my own. For convenience, here are all the presentations I gave. All are under a creative commons attribution […]
The last episode of the Everything is a Remix video series is now online. Kirby Ferguson’s excellent documentary, covering the history and art of remixes, is a must see. The concept of remixes is nothing new, but the legal attacks that have abounded in recent years are. The derision remixes now receive from mainstream media could cause […]
I’ll keep it brief. This site is not normally the place where I address politics or “The News.” I’ve been following the riots around Occupy Oakland with significant concern. However, we’re here to talk about storytelling and there is something going on that you shouldn’t miss when it comes to Occupy Wall Street and storytelling. […]
I don’t care anymore when George Lucas abuses Star Wars. But when BioWare gets the licence? That’s exciting. Star Wars The Old Republic is no exception. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oy-2E4YQpU[/youtube] I mean, that’s only one of the many trailers I’ve watched and it alone gets me more excited to play the game than all the Brewmasters in Pandaria. […]
The header of a website is one of its most valuable areas, but it is often underused. How to fully use the top of your website. Website headers (or the [tooltip content=”Perhaps the most popular alternate term for the header area. ” url=”” ]banner area[/tooltip]) seems considered sacrosanct. It’s one of the most visible parts of a […]
Amazon’s $80 Kindle could close the gap in access to information technology and provide the good experience without the bad. When I’m involved in discussions about using new media and technology in education the inevitable rejoinder is ‘What about the digital divide?” It’s great if you make the ultimate teaching tool for the iPad, but what about […]
For the fifth time at Mason, I have delivered a D’var Torah, an interpretation of the Torah, to the High Holidays congregation at the university Hillel service. This year I spoke on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and my topic, relevantly enough to this blog, was the power of storytelling and why it is important that we […]
Facebook’s new feature will change the way we think about social media content because it introduces permanence to our digital lives. Since the beginning of the social media revolution, the structure of the sites we use inspires a fire-and-forget philosophy towards creating content. This is especially true on Twitter, where you can’t even reach past a week into your […]
