Monthly Archives: December 2009
Google Wave: Good for a 2009 Year in Review but is it useful for more?
Barb Dybwad over at Mashable picked up on a video by Whirled Interactive where they use Google Wave as vehicle for a clever 2009 Year in Review that breaks down the major news events. As Dybwad writes, this video shows … Continue reading
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Panic Attack! Brilliant YouTube short turns to $30M movie deal
As the BBC reported today, Fede Alvarez was signed to a movie deal a month after uploading the terrific short embedded above to YouTube. “I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails … Continue reading
Linking, tweeting and social search on the human-curated Web
Comments have increasingly become distributed. They’ve fled into the interstices of the Web, into tweets, Facebook updates or threads in Google Reader, for those who use those platforms. That’s why Disqus or Echo or other ways to aggregate comments about … Continue reading
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My 1st post to WordPress and Twitter using Tweetie 2
My 1st post to WordPress and Twitter using Tweetie2 “@photomatt gets big hooray for http://is.gd/5lfiH wordpress+twitter=!!!” – @dangillmor
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Distributed collaborative birding? Yup, there’s an app for that.
My friend Ed shared something me that’s pretty nifty if you’re a geeky birder, like me: an iPhone application that gives you instant access to reports of birds near you. As Mary Esch wrote in an “App in the hand” … Continue reading
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Blackbox Republic: “Velvet rope” socialnet targets niche social dating
There are few certainties in the world. One clear phenomenon is that the Burning Man Festival continues to spawn innovative online communities. The most recent virtual entrée into the online maelstrom, Blackbox Republic, was conceived on the seventeen hour trip … Continue reading
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FTC workshop explores future of journalism, regulation of aggregation
Early on Tuesday morning, I walked up Massachusetts Avenue to attend the FTC workshop on the future of journalism. Ten hours later, I emerged overstimulated by the volume of ideas presented, saddened again by the tens of thousands of journalists … Continue reading
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Is journalism going through its own Reformation?
Is Catholicism to the old media view of journalism as Protestantism is to new media? To be clear, this isn’t an exact metaphor, nor does it in any way reflect my opinions of any branch of organized religion (or those … Continue reading
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