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creativemornings: “We’re living in a time of digital...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:13:55 -0400

“We’re living in a time of digital ignorance.. All the information in the world and young people don’t know shit.”

George Lois, Art director, designer, and author
speaking at CreativeMornings/NewYork(*watch the talk)

#FortuneCookie, Snackable & Shareable Content

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:50:20 -0400

The Three S Model for Content Success (Source: SmartBlog)

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:30:00 -0400

How Forbes is using graphic novel to revive...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:22:46 -0500

How Forbes is using graphic novel to revive business #journalism : http://bit.ly/zCIjo7

Graphic novel & journalism have been used by the French Revue XXI (http://www.revue21.fr/) for the past 3-4 years. It’s an interesting way to inform and reach out to a new audience (maybe a younger audience?).

kirklove: One step closer to being able to take photos by...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:41:07 -0500

kirklove:

One step closer to being able to take photos by blinking. My ultimate wish for taking pictures of all the crazy people on the NYC subways and streets!

Opinion: How Twitter should embrace its media entity

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:00:05 -0400

Opinion: How Twitter should embrace its media entity: Mathew Ingram from GigaOM opinion & ideas...

A new type of newsgathering and open source journalism?

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:00:05 -0400

A new type of newsgathering and open source journalism? : ANDY CARVIN: THE MAN WHO TWEETS...

QR Codes & News Organizations

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:00:00 -0400

QR Codes & News Organizations: How 6 news organizations are using QR codes to drive traffic to news...

lookhigh: The NYC tabloids are eerily in sync today with their...

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:06:28 -0400

lookhigh:

The NYC tabloids are eerily in sync today with their hurricane hysteria - Twitpic

Beautiful video. curiositycounts: Absolutely beautiful,...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:14:00 -0400

Beautiful video.

curiositycounts:

Absolutely beautiful, cinematic storytelling for India’s Oxelo Skateboards

futurejournalismproject: The Big Mac Index The Economist has...

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:56:23 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

The Big Mac Index

The Economist has this thing called the Big Mac Index. It basically tells us the purchasing power of currencies around the globe.

Let’s let them explain:

THE Economist’s Big Mac index is a fun guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level. It is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalise the prices of a basket of goods and services around the world. At market exchange rates, a burger is 44% cheaper in China than in America. In other words, the raw Big Mac index suggests that the yuan is 44% undervalued against the dollar. But we have long warned that cheap burgers in China do not prove that the yuan is massively undervalued. Average prices should be lower in poor countries than in rich ones because labour costs are lower. The chart above shows a strong positive relationship between the dollar price of a Big Mac and GDP per person.

If you can stomach a pun-drenched article on the pros and cons of the Big Mac Index, and what lipstick and men’s underwear have to do with forecasting economic activity, point your browser here.

In this new RSAnimate, Professor Renata Salecl explores the...

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:24:33 -0400

In this new RSAnimate, Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralyzing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?

Source: The RSA Organization YouTube Channel

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress for over 250 years.

Learn more about the RSA on http://www.thersa.org/

Many networks (ABC, NBC) are teaming with the startup Vook to...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:05 -0400

Many networks (ABC, NBC) are teaming with the startup Vook to create and publish “enhanced book” for tablets.

According to Vook’s website a “vook” is “a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.”

I already see so many content opportunities. Don’t you?

Article - Huffington Post: ‘Networks team with Vook for Multimedia Products for iPad, Android, Nook’.

futurejournalismproject: Last February, the English...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:51:47 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Last February, the English photographer Giles Duley stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan while covering an American infantry patrol.

Via the New York Times:

“I remember looking up and seeing bits of me and my clothes in the tree, which I knew wasn’t a good sign,” he said. “I saw my left arm. It was just obviously shredded to pieces, and smoldering. I couldn’t feel my legs, so straightaway and from what I could see in the tree, I figured they were gone.”

Mr. Duley had become, in that flash, a triple amputee. Now he risked swiftly bleeding to death. He recalled uttering a single word: “bollocks.”

As the American soldiers he had been walking with rushed toward him and began tightening the tourniquets that would save his life, a fuller line of thought took flight. Rather than tally what was missing, Mr. Duley counted what remained.

“I thought, ‘Right hand? Eyes?’ ” — he realized that all of these were intact — “and I thought, ‘I can work.’”

CJ Chivers, The New York Times. Bomb Took 3 Limbs but not Photographer’s Can-Do Spirit.

Interview of Karina Brisby, Head of Interactive Campaigns at Oxfam

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:05 -0400

Interview of Karina Brisby, Head of Interactive Campaigns at Oxfam: untanglingtheweb: Karina...

The Best Newspapers on Facebook ranking (by Innova et Bella)

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:00:06 -0400

The Best Newspapers on Facebook ranking (by Innova et Bella): Innova et Bella, a strategic...

futurejournalismproject: Today, in Citizen...

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:00:11 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Today, in Citizen Journalism

The Tiziano Project provides people in conflict and post-conflict zones “the equipment, training, and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.”

Recent projects have included multimedia documentary reporting from Kurdistan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Rwanda

The organization just received a $200 thousand grant from the Knight Foundation to continue pursuing their work.

To Tumblr or Not to Tumblr

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:00:06 -0400

To Tumblr or Not to Tumblr: Very good debate to follow about Tumblr’s assets and...

Very interesting interview of Danah Boyd on Youth...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:00:06 -0400

Very interesting interview of Danah Boyd on Youth Culture.

untanglingtheweb:

danah boyd (@zephoria on Twitter) is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Boston, Massachusetts and a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. She has been studying teens on social networks for almost a decade, first becoming the global expert on MySpace (see her PhD dissertation and other publications, including Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life, and more recently helping to contribute to a MacArthur-funded project that led to the report Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (for my notes on the first three chapters of this text, head here). I spoke with danah on Monday about the effects of web technologies on how kids “do” youth culture in a hyper-connected, networked public, and she offered her observations and advice. Here’s the unedited 14 minutes of the interview, which became part of a feature on this week’s Tech Weekly podcast for The Guardian.

I love the idea of augmented reality to experiment great...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:00:06 -0400

I love the idea of augmented reality to experiment great interactive experiences using your smartphone or tablet (games, museums, tourism, etc.).

But when it comes to the publishing industry, I doubt, especially when I look at this video: it seems that the technology is still not practical enough to be used on a daily basis to read an entire book. So far, just a gadget for the publishing industry. What do you think?

futurejournalismproject:

Book publishers begin their augmented reality play.

Here, two dimensional architectural illustrations are transformed into three dimensional spaces.

Don’t understand French? Let us translate: welcome to a whole lot of awesome.