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’.
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’.
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’.
I went about my normal wake-up routine this morning of drowsily perusing twitter while in bed, on my back, with my iPhone myopically close to my face.
I clicked a link from my friend @lheron that promised tos end me to one of those awesome interactives put together by the various teams at The New York Times. Read more – ‘The election will be tweeted- My surprise byline in The New York Times’.
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’.
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’.
In late 2009, San Francisco Chronicle Staff writer and fellow Stanford grad student Kathryn Roethel and I followed the Coughlin family through several weeks of treatment and preparation leading up to Little Chase's Make-a-Wish trip to Disneyland. Read more – ‘Matters of the Heart Photo Essay’.
Early last week, Stanford's graduate journalism Students used phones, email, text messages and twitter to reenact the earliest moments of reporting after the recent catastrophic earthquake in Chile. Did they do irreparable harm to the information landscape? To those who lost loved ones in the actual quake? To the reputations of their own brands? Read more – ‘Please DONT Retweet! A Tale of Learning by Failure’.
