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
When you get right down to it, Privacy is a poor hack. Right now, the privacy controls are out of our hands. Though we may think that editing our Facebook feed and hiding behind fake e-mails protect us, the truth is anything but. A few years ago, I was able to find my grandmother’s social […]
There are a lot of tools on the internet, some are great, some not so much. Diigo is a tools you should stay away from. It seems like whatever you create on the service may disappear. A while back, everyone thought that Yahoo was going to shut down Delicious and went out to find alternative web-bookmarking […]
Every media platform has its own language. For video part of that is the art of editing. Jim Emerson is breaking down editing technique and theory in exquisite detail in his series on Press Play. It’s well worth the watch. When working to tell stories over multiple mediums, it’s important to create content to keep the strengths, traditions […]
On the web everything is in the present, but that doesn’t mean it is presently relevant or even accurate. Timestamps are an essential component of any online content you create. Timestamps are enormously important to participants with online content. While the content you are authoring may not always have relevance, it will always be on the web, sometimes […]
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Part of the purpose of this blog is to examine elements of narrative, especially those that could be used outside of a traditional storytelling setting. I’m going to look over my notes and write down some of the elements I hope to explore in greater depth in the future. As I write stuff in the future, […]
A while back I was in a professor’s digital journalism class talking a bit about what I do for Student Media at George Mason University. When I had finished the professor told his students that they should be more like me. While I’m not sure I can recommend “being like me” to anyone, I’d agree that […]
Getting ready to finish off the series of posts on Narrative Artifacts. Don’t know what a narrative artifact is? Find out with the previous posts in the series.
I think that there is another commenting issue that should be addressed. Comments on a blog post or article are narrative-additive artifacts.
I’ve been using the two terms ‘Story’ and ‘Narrative’ very frequently on this blog. As I look back, I realize that I may not have done a very good job defining them, or more importantly, the difference between the two.
Commenting systems have become a popular way to increase engagement online. But it means giving your comments live offsite. What do we lose and is it worth it?
