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’.
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…’.
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)’.
It’s a lovley song by a classmate of mine and a member of the Bluegrass band Nimbleweed. The Idealized Science Diitty Read more – ‘Idealized Science Ditty’.
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’.
The Nutshell: You head over to chatroulette.com, hit start, and your webcam and microphone are activated. You are immediately connected to another live human being, selected at random from the users online at the time. If a person doesn't look interesting for whatever reason, you just hit next and you are shuffled over to the next random person. Sounds Harmless, right? Read more – ‘Chatroulette- Freebasing the Social Web’.
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’.
I know we don't need another CES postmortem, so I'll keep this short.
I've grabbed some images and statistics that give a sense of CES' modern largesse as compared to twenty years ago. Read more – ‘CES’ Huge Growth Depicted—That’s What She Said’.
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’.
A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.
This week: A video visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Chris Wetherell and his creation, Brizzly, a Web-based social media reader.
Read more – ‘First Column at AllThingsDigital’.
Reinventing the retirement experience for the rebellious baby boomer. A project deliverable for Stanford's design boot camp. Read more – ‘Design Boot Camp’.
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 is a test of Apture. If I were to write about Ghana, this is what Apture can do. I can also look at Stanford. And Miran Pavic. If I were to add a link to Make-a-Wish, it would be here. Damn. Read more – ‘Testing Apture- The Ghana Edition’.
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’.
My 8 year old self is shooting temporally displaced spit wads at the back of my 25 year old head today. Jealousy, thy name is NASA. These are some iphone shots from this mornings briefing at NASA Ames. I guess this is post is the first of many about my experience as a test subject [...] Read more – ‘Jealous?… You are if you’re 8.’.
