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Response Stack: build stories out of reader comments.
Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot.
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Late last month the Israeli Consulate in New York held a Twitter-based news conference, inviting anyone to ask questions of the Israeli government about the conflict in Gaza. While activity around the conference blossomed, President-elect Barack Obama’s Twitter account has had little to say since Election Day last year. The conflict in Gaza has become […]
[Trying out an intresting service called Plinky, it looks like a good way to have fun blogging.] Don’t Stop Believing by Journey Who can resist singing along to this one? Elevation by U2 The part where Bono screams Elevation.. obviously. Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf “Stop Right There! I Gotta Know Right […]
I’ve just finished speaking with Consul David Saranga and Moriel Schottlender, Internet Applications Development Manager at the Consulate about the #AskIsrael Twitter Conference. They both were very pleased with the results. I’m compiling the text and audio for the article now. It should go up soon. I found the conference fascinating. For the most part, […]
I’m currently watching New York Israeli Consulate’s Twitter conference wind down. I’m tracking the thing using as many ways to get a handle on the thread of the conversation as possible. Right now the two top methods are TweetDeck and Tweet Grid. There are a lot of questions being asked and some of them, unfortunately […]
I recently read a post by Robin Cannon on “Why Facebook is Useless.” It was very well written and upon my first read, I sort of agreed with the points made. However, I was at an event earlier today and something happened to change my mind. I was sitting at a group dinner at the […]
Here’s a collection of links to some of the most interesting articles of last week. The overall theme is video games, what they do, how they do them, and how you can get into building them. Check out some very good articles below. “Games as Language Systems ” – Moving Pixels has a very interesting article up comparing […]
The problem with Evernote is that it is absolutely horrible at taking notes. Actually there are more problems than just that, but the core of the issue is that, for a program that has the word ‘note’ in its name, it is pretty bad at just that. For those of you not in the know, […]
Huzzah! The election is over and now I can finally put Mason Votes to rest. By the end of the project we had built a student-powered election map. At the very end we had a very cool live video showing students half-way to rioting in celebration of Obama. But I’m also posting because I found […]
