Learning By Accident
I totally dig the phrase "just-in-time learning." There's a growing market for that.
Tagged: Education, hacking education
The case for context: my opening statement for SXSW
Systemic knowledge makes the episodic much more valuable.
Tagged: Journalism, hacking journalism, contextual journalism, sxsw, Jay Rosen, Tristan Harris
Demand Media's content assembly line
Sean Blanda brings clarity to other reports with his first-hand experience.
Tagged: Demand Media, algorithmic journalism, Journalism, content farms, business models
Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location
To be formally announced in late April at f8, the developer conference.
Tagged: facebook, Technology, scoops, social networks
WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties
Edit Flow gets a bit of high-profile attention.
Tagged: WordPress, Edit Flow Project, Publishing, content management systems
The Panic Status Board
Large monitor in the office that provides a real-time stream of information about and relevant to the company is awesome. If each person had access to one of these, it might even make remote working more effective.
Tagged: ideas, productivity, Technology
TEDxNYed: This is bullshit
Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company. Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability? The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.
What's broken about education and approaches Jarvis would take to fix it.
Tagged: hacking education, TEDxNYed, Jeff Jarvis, New York City, Education
News is a lousy business for Google too
Search is most profitable where there is "purchasing intent."
Tagged: google, search, advertising, Newspapers
Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
Demonstration of a browser for a web of data, not of pages.
Tagged: videos, Gary Flake, user experience, microsoft, presenations, Pivot
Attention Is the Real Resource
Gruber prices advertisements in his full RSS feed at a premium because his readers are more engaged than one-off webpage visits.
Tagged: advertising, business models, Journalism, RSS
Summer internship
Get paid to work with the awesome News Apps team at the Chicago Tribune.
Tagged: Chicago Tribune, Newspapers, hacking journalism, internships
What the Times-NYU partnership says about the future of journalism education: A Q&A with Jay Rosen
Students get valuable experience and The New York Times expands its breadth of coverage.
Tagged: Journalism, Education, hacking education, experiential education, New York University, The New York Times
This is why (college) old media is failing
Penn State Daily Collegian posts an unpaid web developer job, listing gets torn apart on Hacker News.
Tagged: student newspapers, web development, Technology, PSU Daily Collegian, Journalism
The Hood Internet vs. The 2000's
Radiohead to Lil Wayne.
Tagged: mashups, hip-hop, Music
AOL To Pour $50 Million Into Patch This Year
According to an SEC report, Aol will be investing up to $50 million in Patch, a hyperlocal news site.
Tagged: Patch, Journalism, Business, AOL
A design critique of Publish2
Andrew takes a look at the bookmarklet and how saving data fits within the architecture of the rest of the site
Tagged: publish2, web design, Technology, user experience
The Game-ified Life
Kevin Kelly recommends watching a talk by Jesse Schell on the future of games.
Tagged: gaming, reputation systems, Jesse Schell, Technology
Operational transparency
Continental leveraging transparency to build better relationships with their customers.
Tagged: transparency, continental airlines, aviation industry, Jeff Jarvis
"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
Interesting... I wonder what the psychology of this is.
Tagged: web design, Technology, user experience
The Oregonian announces layoffs of 37 employees
Most are in the news department, with some in advertising, circulation, and accounting.
Tagged: The Oregonian, Newspapers, layoffs, Journalism, portland, oregon
