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...
Lens selection and the lava monster from the center of the earth
Came across this very dramatic video yesterday of a group of freelance photographers and adventures heading down into a volcano, and right away I was amazed by what people were saying, but not for the reasons you may think. “With Fire Brigade breathing apparatus and heat proof proximity suit it was possible to stand on the very edge...
SnapDap: Drew Angerer’s Clinton surprise
Welcome to the latest installment of SnapDap, a series of posts where we give props to a single image, story or project and the photographers behind them. If there’s something inspiring your eye and you;d like to see it featured in a future installment, please let us know in the comments below! A couple weeks...
Tortuga Photo Workshops postcards are here, plus applications are live!
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 6pm to catch the delivery guy– but that all does not matter now, because they’re finally here! And...
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...
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...
Six ways to get more followers on Twitter
Personal branding and social media seems to be all the rage in our self-indulgent, opinionated, fly-by-the-seat modern lives. It’s the new self proclaimed SEO guru and just from my own experience searching LinkedIn, there’s been a 50% increase in users claiming social media as a skill over last year, on the business social site. That’s...
Time out Tuesday: Lynda serves up FREE! training
To tie in to the launch of the new version of Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Lynda.com has decided to offer up some free training. No doubt to get upgraders quickly up to speed with all the new features, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing in there to be learned by folks like you an me...
What is truth?
As journalist, our stories go into the paper and inform the public today, but in time it becomes history and if that history is built on lies, then we become a nation of lies. But how do we define truth and when does something become truth? We once believed that using leeches as a medical...
The original sports shooter
SJSU NPPA presents Brad Mangin. Click the poster (designed by you’re truly) for the details. See you there!
I will gladly speak today so that I may complain next Tuesday
Today is an important day… no, relax this isn‘t another column on why you should vote… ok so today is an important day, today is your chance to voice your opinion and have a say in how things work, are and will be. Today you decide what your tomorrow will be like. (Ok I lied,...
Old skooler, Ceppos speaks of the future of media
Former Executive Editor of the San Jose Mercury News, Jerry Ceppos spoke to San Jose State University students in a talk entitled “The future of mass media in a changing economic and technological environment,” a discussion about the future of the news and how people get the news. Ceppos spoke to a nearly packed audience,...
