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 advantage of the web and jostling to become the top shared news provider for the...
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. We are always building on the past, yet unified in our signaler endeavor of eking...
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 three things, it was a year packed with news events and continued debate about what journalism’s of...
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 The Guardian Developer blog gets into the holiday spirit to step in and ask: If you are a...
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 its heart the NBA lockout was an exercise of kabuki theater between employees demanding a...
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 public, because viewers need trusted, reliable and accurate information from news gatherers in a timely...
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 online news is produced or experienced” I was invited to the second round of the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship....
“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 online news is produced or experienced” I was invited to the second round of the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship....
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 unexplored path for a new kind of life that combines his knowledge of the brain...
Open source doesn’t mean forgetting to build the community
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 online news is produced or experienced” I was invited to the second round of the...
The power of story
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 online news is produced or experienced” I was invited to the second round of the...
Seven peeks at the future of news video
The future of video is an evolution and it’s going to look radical or familiar depending on how critically you think about it, so don’t be intimidated, like my community college journalism instructor said, “everything’s been done, but it hasn’t been done by you.” Flip an old idea, see what happens. It’s fun. I’ve been...
