A moment of reflection with the Dec 2013 #JCarn wrap up
Happy New Year folks!!! This is the time of year for getting together with old friends, to ring in the new, to make listicles of everything under the sun and get our freelance receipts in order for Uncle Sam. It’s also a time of reflection as we celebrate another successful orbit around the sun; and...
Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn
Yup, 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 I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a...
Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt
Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end...
A note of aggregation #JCarn
Yup, 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 I’m going for a two-fer as the prompt was a two parter. Yesterday...
Teach them well #JCarn
Yup, 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. If you’re a journalist, journalism student, professor, blah blah media expert/guru/ninja/something-else-cultural-taken-out-of-context-and-caricatured-for-lolz or pretty much anyone...
Will Smith and kids not shocked by Miley’s VMA performance; how did so many get it wrong?
Last night, if you haven’t been bombarded by it enough already (lucky you), was MTVs Video Music Awards show. Also known as that show Colbert has a beef with now. I didn’t see it, but this morning I was forced to catch up for work. If you’d told me a couple of year ago the...
Forget 3D, Google Maps in 4D!
It sounds crazy at first glance, the idea of mining still frames from Google Maps and stitching them together like a flip book, but the end result is pretty, well, awesome! There’s not much to analyze here, just put it into full screen mode, lean back and enjoy.
Gaming News Apps #editorslab projects from the NYTimes hackathon
I’m so excited for this hackathon at the NY Times. This is a topic I’ve been passonate about for years: Gamification and how to turn news consumption into an interactive experience. I’m not sure if anyone else cares, but I wanted to just leave this Storify here so I’ll have an easy way to check...
Playing with gifs: Now that’s a great way to start the day
I recently acquired my first smart phone and started playing with mobile video and making gifs. Click on the picture above to see what I’ve been up to. As a storyteller I think it’s important to look at alternative forms. The idea of introducing time to still images fascinates me. Beyond fodder for Reddit or...
Week in Pictures for Newsweek/The Daily Beast
I recently had the opportunity to edit the week in pictures slideshow for Newsweek/The Daily Beast and culled together a slice of the world. It’s a small slice of the world, but it’s my view of the world. These are the everyday people whose lives we never cross and yet here they are, existing, living....
Stopped by Delaware and saw a lot of trees
Over the weekend I went down to Philadelphia and moseyed on down the street to meet up with a friend in Delaware. While down there I ended up shooting an assignment for The News Journal. Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, a retirement community, hosted the northern leg of Delaware Hospice’s annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees....
One year: New York City
It was a year ago this month that I rolled into New York City, the last year has had its ups and downs (oh those downs) but it’s always been interesting. I think I know now why they call it the city that never sleeps… it’s not the city, it’s the people in the city...
