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’.
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’.
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’.
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’.
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’.
