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...
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...
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 reflections on a given prompt. This month guest ringmaster Michael Rosenblum asks “Can a good journalist also be a good capitalist?”...
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...
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....
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...
