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
This month’s Carnival of Journalism asks: how do you hack your life? What tools and techniques allow you to work smarter and more effectively? There are four big things I want to focus on in this post. How my Kindle makes me a better worker and a more reliable journalist. Why After the Deadline makes […]
TV advertisements are using music and mobile app Shazam to create links from the ads to the products they are selling. What else can audio tagging do for us? For a while now, Old Navy has teamed up with Shazam to provide what is essentially the audio version of QR codes to consumers watching the […]
I’m announcing a new tool for Kindle users. P2 for Kindle is a WordPress theme built for group work and note-taking on Amazon’s Kindle device. As previous visitors to my blog may remember, I think of the Kindle 3G as my swiss army knife of internet-enabled devices. With an internet connection pretty much anywhere, a […]
Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.
By integrating choice and multiple user-controlled viewpoints into the game, Dead Space 2 provides a refreshing alternative to traditional video game cut scenes
Hello all, No big blog post today. I’ve spent most of the day traveling to NYC for the College Media Advisors spring 2011 conference. I’ll be presenting for a few workshops and it will be cool. I’ll have more up here about what I’m doing later. If you will be at CMANYC11, I look forward to […]
Entrepreneurs are often told to fail quickly, but when you’re a writer, your primary product is content. What can you do to build the same mentality into written text? When start-ups seek to fail frequently, they’re really aiming to try new things and to not be afraid to throw out what doesn’t work. If you publish often, the same mentality […]
Someone realized that TBD was doing the worst thing in the world for Allbritton, telling the competition that they could compete. The cut-backs issued to Allbritton Communication’s grand experiment TBD were surprising. First the outlet cut community profit-sharing, than Allbritton paired the organization down to just a website and put it under the purview of […]
There are few games I’m more excited for than Dragon Age 2, but I’m struggling with whether or not to purchase it. The prospect of zero-day DLC just feels wrong to support. In four days we will have passed the deadline to get a whole bunch of free DLC with a Dragon Age 2 pre-order. I didn’t order […]
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Sometimes it is important to maintain a character or narrative over multiple stories. The tool for that is story arcs. Story arcs are most common in TV and graphic novels, however, with the easy linking of stories, there is an opportunity to expand the use of arcs. A quick review: A story arc allows you to move one narrative thread […]
