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
Image by Eric J. Lubbers via Flickr How to take advantage of micromedia, niche sites, and community blogging for better reporting: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/what-happens-after-newspapers-reporting-apparently-still-gets-done/ Here’s a great article on how the best way to get eyeballs on your news site and keep them there is by building a community around your content. It notes NPR‘s presence on […]
I have to admit, when I was initially thinking about writing this post, I was split. I wasn’t sure whether the post should be “Spymaster – Twitter’s version of an annoying Facebook app” or “Spymaster – Cool Game.” Then I had my mind made up for me. As of approximately 0200 hours on Mon. Jun […]
A recent presentation on the semantic web API called Amplify really put into focus the issue of targeted advertising online and how to solve the recent decreases in display ads for newspaper websites. Image via Wikipedia I went to a Social Networking and Semantic Web meetup on May 13. The event, which was the Roy […]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife This past weekend we had a great discussion in the #collegejourn chat about the future of journalism. Starting off talking about the recent congressional hearing, we quickly moved towards the subject of how newspapers should work on the web or in print. I feel like that discussion, regarding the […]
Here’s Episode 5, We talk briefly about the new Halo 3 maps, some old games, and Aram finally gets to play GTA4’s DLC, The Lost and Damned Welcome to the Patriot Games podcast! George Mason University students Keith Wick and Aram Zucker-Scharff take a look at video games, game culture, and what it means to […]
Here’s Episode 4, find out all you need to know about Fallout 3’s DLC: The Pitt, get the final word (or letter) on Halo Wars, check out the new Prince of Persia and more. Welcome to the Patriot Games podcast! George Mason University students Keith Wick and Aram Zucker-Scharff take a look at video games, […]
Somewhat delayed due to Aram’s jet-leg and subsequent sickness, here is Patriot Games episode 3! Welcome to the Patriot Games podcast! George Mason University students Keith Wick and Aram Zucker-Scharff take a look at video games, game culture, and what it means to be a gamer in college. In this second podcast, Keith and Aram […]
Much delayed due to Aram’s jet-leg and subsequent sickness, here is Patriot Games episode 2! Welcome to the Patriot Games podcast! George Mason University students Keith Wick and Aram Zucker-Scharff take a look at video games, game culture, and what it means to be a gamer in college. In this second podcast, Keith and Aram […]
Welcome to the Patriot Games podcast! George Mason University students Keith Wick and Aram Zucker-Scharff take a look at video games, game culture, and what it means to be a gamer in college. Welcome to the first Patriot Games podcast. In this podcast, Keith and Aram talk about the brand new Street Fighter and slightly […]
Hello all, Since there hasn’t been much content up on this blog lately, I figured I’d point out what I have been working on. Over the last week, the Office of Student Media has re-launched Connect2Mason, a website built to cover breaking news and converge content from all of our various Student Media outlets. The […]
