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’.
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’.
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’.
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’.
Twitter for iPhone 101 Turn your device sideways if it helps you see the images. Next, go to my ‘Twitter 101 for Journalists’ Cheat Sheet Then, take it to the next level. Wan’t to post a picture, share a link, add your location or look up recent #hashtags you’ve used? It’s all easy. Click the [...] Read more – ‘Twitter for iPhone 101 – In 5 Minutes’.
Tweeting Guidelines 1. Confirm you are tweeting from the correct account. 2. Keep it to < 120 characters 3. Get others’ @usernames to mention in tweets. Ask for their “twitter name” or “twitter handle.” 4. Lead with the important info. 5. Finish with only one correct #hashtag 6. When tweeting from a shared account, finish [...] Read more – ‘Twitter 101 for Journalists- Cheat Sheet’.
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’.
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’.
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’.
My Digital Media Entrepreneurship group from used a Stanford d.school technique to brainstorm 100 possible names for our product, organize them by theme and then cut them down to the final four, all in under 10 minutes. Here are two quick photos of the process Read more – ‘Quickie Photos of Prototyping for Branding’.
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’.
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’.
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’.
If you are interested in how the the news is presented and why its broken, I say this. Watch this, laugh, ponder, foment rebellion, repeat. Read more – ‘Rethink the NEWs.’.
Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Ning, email, digg, delicious..... Today the personal sharing options are endless. Using enough of thes services in concert most certainly connects you with more people than many "broadcasters" who have to be licensed by the FCC. That is it say, its powerful stuff. Read more – ‘Digital Journalism: The Project Proposal’.
For Redwood City parents coping with 5-year-old’s chronic disease, normal life is the greatest gift.
My colleague Kathryn Roethel produced an amazing magazine length story that I was lucky enough to photograph. Please read this amazing story of a remarkable little boy. Read more – ‘What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?’.
Today's NewTeeVee Live conference at S.F.'s Mission Bay Center is aimed at foretelling, and maybe saving, the future of TV. Read more – ‘Live Blog: NewTeeVeeLive’.
Canadian geese have come to dominate the lawns of the city’s beloved Memorial Park. In their Thursday, Oct. 1 meeting, the Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission took up the unusual problem and discussed goose abatement strategies.
Read more – ‘Who They Gonna Call?’.
The NYT Doesn't Cost a Dime Anymore. I Don't Know Why We Expect it to Turn on One.
In front of an audience of roughly 100, some of whom appeared to have arrived from the myriad alumni events happening on campus this homecoming weekend, Professor and Pulitzer winner Joel Brinkley moderated a combo lecture and discussion between some of Journalism's giants-left-standing. Read more – ‘44th Annual Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium’.
This week we covered the basics of audio recording equipment and then delved into Wordpress Extend and Firefox developer tools.
Read more – ‘Stanford BlogLuck 2.0’.
On Sunday the 20th, the Graduate Program in Journalism Cohort at Stanford held the first installment of our "BlogLuck". The goal of the program is to leverage the various expertises in the group into informative lessons and conversations to share amongst the group. Read more – ‘Stanford BlogLuck ver1.- Teaching Tech’.
All of these communications technologies: Twitter, Google Voice, skype, Flickr, etc are, lets face it and call a duck a duck, just data handling and interface engines. It’s all streams of digital information, that is, ones and zeros at the most basic level.
We are witnessing the slow death of telephony. Read more – ‘How do YOU use it? Data Stream of Consciousness’.
This week I officially started my employ as intern at allthingsD, WSJ affiliated tech sector news site. I attended my first staff meeting at their headquarters in the Noe Valley in SF, and hopped right in the saddle to write my first “Weekend Update”. Its a weekly wrap-up of some highlights from the previous week [...] Read more – ‘My First allthingsD Assignment- now online!’.
The following is an excerpt from a June 18th issue of the NYT online edition. I posed a question about growth of visual media in the online environment and the role of it’s producers. Assistant Managing editor Michele McNally had this to say. Talk to the Newsroom: Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally The Changing Role [...] Read more – ‘The Changing Role of the Photographer’.
