I've been getting a lot of requests for information surrounding the iPhone 4-based video rig I use to record my videos for AllThingsD.com and The Wall Street Journal. Obey the "best camera" principal - that the best camera is the one you have with you - and check it out. Read more – ‘My Ultimate iPhone 4 Video Recording Rig’.
I'll be on a panel Tuesday, Feb. 8th at 6:30pm (EST) talking about what journalists need to know today and tomorrow to remain useful, relevant and employed.
I'd bet we'll also talk about media companies and people doing things right, and how to train for whats next.
I'll be joining Jay Rosen of NYU, Vadim Lavrusik of Mashable, Jenna Wortham of the NYT tech section and Laurie Segall, a reporter at CNN. A pretty decent cast of characters for this subject, actually.
Why should you believe us? I'm not certain you should, but here are the perspectives you will get: Read more – ‘What’s Next for Journalists? Hear Me Guess @ NextUp NYC’.
I was just congratulated on having made a real change to the way wikipedia works across the entire world. Now, or, rather, a week from now, all wikipedia editors will be able to use an RSS feed of their edits, to share them with the world. Read more – ‘Playing With Live Ammo-I Just Added a Feature to Wikipedia’.
Yesterday my cousin Jordan asked for a little advice about computer purchase. Laptop vs. desktop, Mac vs. PC, and what are all these netbook things? For background, she was looking for something for her husband, who is in his late twenties or early thirties, active and business-minded, though not “techie.” Below is the email I [...] Read more – ‘If I Were Buying a Computer Today…’.
The following tutorial was designed as part of the curriculum for Stanford University's Comm 217: Digital Journalism class. It has been pared doen to only the necessary steps.
It only covers installing WordPress.org (the self-hosted, single user WordPress variant) on a Cpanel-based hosting platform. In this case, we are using Hostmonster.com.
In later tutorials, we will be covering basic web-development tools and WordPress administration, such as theme, widget and plugin selection. Read more – ‘Installing WordPress.org in 10 slides and 8 minutes’.
Now that you’ve posted your first messages to twitter, and made use of best practices from the Twitter 101 Cheat Sheet, take your tweeting to the next level by learning some twitter specific language, adding multimedia to your tweets and beginning to engage with twitter, rather than publish to it. To take this next step, [...] Read more – ‘Twitter 201 for Journalists- Twitter Etiquette, or Joining the Cocktail Party’.
Several years ago, I was a foreigner in a strange land on Thanksgiving day. Every Thanksgiving since, I've thought back to how my wonderful friends there welcomed me and my traditions into their lives. I've written a the short tale below to try and share the feelings about this day that I was blessed with thanks to the generosity of my foreign hosts. Read more – ‘The Truths We Find Self Evident- A Thanksgiving Day Message for Those I Love’.
A few weeks back, The Newy York Times City room blog decided to give the crowd-sourcing business a try and build a photo montage of the NYC waterfront. New York has a working waterfront, and lots of it. Manhattan, after all, is an island. I went out to Brooklyn Bridge Park around dusk and looked [...] Read more – ‘Waterfront Covered. My Images from the NYT Crowd-Sourcing Project.’.
The weekend of July 31, The New York Times' City Room blog is asking you to help them cover New York's waterfront, in a crowd-sourced storytelling adventure.
Below you'll find all the info needed to submit some images and descriptions. Some of the best will be featured at nytimes.com and likley in the print edition of the paper.
They don't have a post with instructions about it up yet, so I've pasted most of the email sent out about the project here so everyone can join in the fun. Read more – ‘Covering the Waterfront: Shoot Photos for The New York Times’.
Planned, shot, edited and filed all from the iPhone 4- this is my report from the gulf coast early in the week most experts predict the oil from the BP spill will begin to come ashore.
I'm currently on a road trip on my way to become an intern at The New York Times somewhere between the tech reporting and social media desks. Predictably, I picked up a new iPhone 4 on release day, with the hopes that the new camera and editing tools would make it a formidable news gathering device.
While my comrades and I didn't see any oil on the beaches yet, we came across some very interesting preparations underway by the local population, as well as plenty of orange BP sponsored oil protection booms. Read more – ‘Video: News From The Gulf- Planned, Shot, Edited and Filed from the iPhone 4’.
Facebook is beta testing a product in the same space that so many giants have attacked and fallen short. The curated question-answer service has stumped the biggest of bigs. Has it been about social scale all along? Read more – ‘Facebook Moving to Answer the Quora Question’.
This past weekend, a little crowd of journalists, app developers and designers got together under the watchful eye of one Burt Herman to engage in an act of positive rebellion. They were there to wake up the old grey lady, drag her out of her bed, and teach her to dance like lady Gaga instead of like Grace Kelley. Read more – ‘Hacks and Hackers Unite: Developing an iPad app for The New York Times Lens Blog’.
