Last week I was a guest on a panel at Mashable's NextUP NYC event for social media week, New York. We talked about the skills required for modern journalists, and how outlets for journalism and other media continue to evolve.
It's all in the videos. Read more – ‘Mashable NextUP NYC: Emerging Skills of Tomorrow’s Journalist’.
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’.
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’.
I got a quick tour of recently opened Pizza Paisan in Berkeley, including some time to chat with their master pizziola (pizza chef) recently emigrated from Italy.
They do classic Italian style crust and baking (brick oven and all) but fold in some of the fresh, local ingredients that have made the Berkeley food scene so famous. Read more – ‘Pizza Paisan in Berkeley, CA (video)’.
Didn't know what it was back then, but I shot a quick video of one of Google's autonomous Prius (Prii?) before it drove away from in front of Joya in Downtown Palo Alto. Read more – ‘Google’s Autonomous Prius in 2009’.
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’.
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’.
Lick Observatory has been doing science since the late 1880s, when the first telescope was installed there. These photos were part of research for a forthcoming article. UC Lick Observatory Read more – ‘On The Mount: A Photo Tour of Lick Observatory’.
We all need to find insights about how to make our projects more relevant to users, but have only a finite amount of time to gather user data. If we were bigger and funded, we could to focus groups and A/B testing out the wazoo. Instead, I suggest you take a page from the Stanford design school (d.school) playbook. Read more – ‘People Are Slow: How to Get User Insights and Innovate Quickly’.
How I converted a standard Timbuk2 backpack into an iPhone-charging, laptop-toting, enviro-hipster envy making, solar power machine. Plus all the instructions for you to make your own. Read more – ‘Solar Powered Backpack— The Solar Timbuk2 Mk.2’.
ice folks at the MOTO development group have released this video detailing the performance characteristics of various touch screens on the market. It gets ugly for the Droid.
This is just one performance test, but frustration runs high when you touch it here and it opens something there. Click through to see the video. Read more – ‘You Touch it WHERE? Smartphone Touch Screens Compared by Actual Robot’.
E-Mag designers are paid by magazine companies, not readers. It shows.
No one seems to remember the quiet, indelible, human truths that have driven magazine consumption for a hundred years. It's not too late. Read more – ‘Beautiful E-Mags Miss the Point’.
