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
Hey everyone, I’ll be attending #BCNIPhilly tomorrow to talk, listen and learn about the future of news. It looks like it’ll be a lot of fun and I’m considering presenting onMason. If you want to follow my usual rapid fire live tweets, they’ll almost all be going up on the account I’ve turned on for […]
This April 1 two separate mainstream websites launched a prank that mapped adventure game-type controls to their website. This got me thinking, is it time to revisit how we build and play Interactive Fiction? Both XKCD and Woot applied game elements to their website on Thursday. Woot’s appears to be static HTML and more ‘choose […]
How can we use order and placement within a multimedia package or interactive story to enrich the narrative? I’ve been reading through Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on and off these last few months and it strikes me just how important this book is to anyone dealing with multimedia, not just comic artists or aficionados. When […]
A few thoughts on Sunday at the College Media Advisors Spring 2010 National Convention. A lot more multimedia stuff this time around, a few great folks, but are we changing? I’ve only done the CMA National Convention once before, about two years ago. At that CMA, it was mostly old-school sessions, very little relevant multimedia, […]
I’ve written a great post for the UPIU Blog on my methodology for managing the social media presence of both UPIU and the Office of Student Media. Glittering promises to transform you into a social media powerhouse overnight are scams. Focusing on a long-term method to grow your social media presence, though, is a good […]
With WordPress.com’s latest announcement, Google has now achieved dominance in real-time RSS. It’s PubSubHubbub for the win. This Wednesday, the official WordPress.com blog announced that their huge blogging network would now universally be implementing Google’s PubSubHubbub protocol alongside WordPress’s competing plugin rssCloud. There’s been a bit of a race to determine the web-standard in real-time […]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I am immensely excited about the upcoming TRON movie for many many reasons. As it turns out, the trailer has just gone live, along with some sort of ARG-looking thing. I’ll be following this more closely later, but it is late, so I’m just going to post the links. […]
Taking a look at popular posts among my peer group (college students, aged 17-25) shows that few of them share the same type of popularity on Digg that they do on other networks. Likely because these students have little interest in using Digg, even for a quick upvote. To put it simply, Digg has voted […]
If you read my blog back in its RWV days, you may recall my post about the need for player characters to speak and how a failure to do so, as in BioShock, was detrimental to the game. It seems that I am not the only person to think so. I just stumbled upon a […]
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Hello folks, a quick post on what’s going on these days and some nifty stuff you might be interested in following or getting involved in. I turned on CNN this morning and started getting all the info about the Chile and Hawaii. Shocking stuff. CNN seems to have taken the opportunity to break out the […]
