It wasn’t easy and for a moment it appeared that UPS was going to tag them as undeliverable– long story but basically my NYC apartment building has a broken doorbell to my apartment, so I had to stand outside between 10am and…
If you don’t suck at first, you’re not doing it right
Let me preface this post by saying that Louis CK inspired today’s musings. Why is that pertinent, it’s not really, but I’m not so secretly hoping he’ll google himself and end up here and then we’ll go down to the…
Making paper while filling papers #Jcarn
Once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn.
The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their…
The Super Bowl of Journalism: A #SOTU Round Up
You could say that the president’s State of the Union address each year is like the Super Bowl of web journalism. If you won’t say it, I will. It’s a single manageable time of immense importance and scrutiny and every news org is experimenting to take…
Miller’s Crossing
Ralph Miller doesn’t complain about the back aches or the mice chewing up crops or the lack of hands around the farm.
The 77-year-old retired minister knows what he singed up for and he wears it all with a smile.…
Multimedia that made me go f’yea! in 2011
It’s the end of the year and that usually means two things, left overs and best of lists. This year saw a lot of newsworthy events from the Arab Spring to OWS, Obama got Osama to Rick Perry trying to remember…
All I want for Journo-festivus is everything #Jcarn
Once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn.
The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt.
This month
Reader Guide: The NBA lockout is over, but its economic impact still ripple
The National Basketball Association lockout is over, and what may seem like a run of the mill sports story of high stakes brinkmanship is actually akin to a natural disaster sending economic impacts throughout local economies across the US.
At…
Introducing VidScribe, an open source #MozNewsLab project
Online news video does a poor job of making itself available to viewers and thinking about how they access it. In order to build audiences and grow their business, newsrooms need a better way of structuring video to serve the
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Talking Tech to non-techies
This entry is part of a series of #moznewslab posts that I’ll publish over the course of my time as a participant in the Knight-Mozilla learning lab. On the merits of a video idea“that will improve the way that…
“Hack” seeks “Hacker,” my open source project for #MozNewsLabs
This entry is part of a series of #moznewslab posts that I’ll publish over the course of my time as a participant in the Knight-Mozilla learning lab. On the merits of a video idea“that will improve the way that…
Converge
What happens when you reach a path divided? After nearly 30 years as a successful neurologist in Europe, Luis Perez-Bayas couldn’t fill the void that was left when he pursued medicine at age 18. Now he’s foraging back to an…
