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
I shot off an e-mail to Tara, the Community Catalyst (which, by the way, is one of the coolest job titles I’ve ever seen) for Lijit thanking her company for how helpful the Lijit search tool has been in George Mason University‘s Mason Votes project. I figured I’d also take a moment here on my […]
So, if you’ve been keeping an eye on Facebook news you may have noticed ReadWriteWeb’s article “Speed Dating on the Oregon Trail.” I’m the type of person who likes to keep their friends up to date on news so they don’t, say, get surprised by opening up their favorite app and seeing a speed dating […]
This election year, George Mason University has been using openly available social media tools to help inform, educate, and coordinate its students. Using websites like FeedBurner, FriendFeed, YouTube, Feed.Informer, Lijit, Yahoo Pipes and Facebook combined with open tools, including WordPress, http://masonvotes.gmu.edu is a website built by students, for students, to create an easily accessible source […]
Hello everyone. I’ve been very busy, which explains the lack of posts. What I’ve been busy on has been a pretty cool project, and just yesterday I put out v1.0. So, stay tuned and I’ll be writing all about it. Don’t touch that dial!
I missed an episode of Grimm yesterday and I’ve discovered something, I don’t care enough to buy it. So, I’ve been playing the episodes of Grimm as they’ve been coming out. The Grimm episodes are hardly special, merely arcade-style gaming with a more historical framing device than, say, Gauntlet. They are fun, I won’t disagree […]
Boldly Play will be Live Blogging Cryptic Studios’ reveal of new information and actual gameplay footage this Sunday at 1:30 p.m. PST. Join them to discuss what is going on with Star Trek Online as it happens.
Jack Emmert, chief creative officer at Cryptic Studios, was interviewed by Star Trek podcast Hailing Frequency. In the discussion, Emmert went into greater detail on some previously revealed information and reveled some new game elements. Emmert confirmed that the Klingon Empire and the Federation will be opposing forces in Star Trek Online and that new […]
Cross-posted from Boldly Play, a new blog covering Star Trek Online. In an AP article released Friday, Cryptic Studios, which had taken the reigns on the Star Trek Online project, gave the first hint of what the game would be like. It seems that Cryptic will be choosing to discard the direction of the P2 […]
Where is journalism going? That seems to be the question on people’s minds today. The answer is right in front of us, The New York Times wants a place on your blogroll. Newspaper sales continue to fall, while some blame journalism and the writers, Slate has an article up about how the fault lies in […]
In case you have not been following the fail whale of twitter as the service suffered serious errors this week, I’ve compiled some of the top articles on the topic. Twitter Conversations Come To A Screaming Halt; Users Simply Move To Friendfeed [TechCrunch] So You Thought Nothing Could Be Worse Than Fail Whale? Now Get […]
