Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
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Kevin: In July, Matt Brian of The Next Web reports about recent successes enjoyed by location-based network Foursquare: "Just days after securing $20 million series B round of capital, the location service has announced another big milestone – 1 million check-ins in one day."
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Kevin: A look at the competition heating up in the location space with the launch of Facebook Places. "While some of you might think this trend marks the moment when
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
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Kevin: An interesting development for anyone interested in 'transmedia' and stories. With the rise of social media, there has been a focus on interactivity, which I really enjoy. However, I think we pressed pause on story innovation during this time. The rise of social media and the dot.com crash before it, led to some stagnation in thinking about how we tell stories. Fortunately, I think with data visualisations and the mass appeal of the digital content, we're seeing a revival of exploration. This is a project to watch in that vein
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
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Suw: Despite a silly headline, this is actually a very good opinion piece by Mike Altendorf, questioning the kneejerk reactions of HR and boardrooms towards social media in the business.
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Kevin: Yahoo's Barcelona research lab has created a tool that will not only puts past articles on a timeline, but it also looks at predictions made in those past articles. For instance, Tom Simonite in the MIT Technology Review gives
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
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I’m often asked at conferences and by journalism educators what skills journalists need to work effectively in a digital environment. Journalism educator Mindy McAdams has started a nice list of some of these skills in a recent blog post. A lot of journalists (and journalism educators) scratch their heads over what seem an ever-expanding list of skills they need to do digital. It feels like inexorable mission creep.
I can empathise. One of the most difficult parts of my digital journalism career, which began in 1996, has been deciding what to learn and, also, what not learn but delegate to
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
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Kevin: Om Malik has a very plausible explanation of Foursquare's business strategy. "Foursquare wants more folks to use its application-programming interface (API), and thus build an ecosystem around Foursquare’s data." The more people who build apps using its API, the faster it will grow and the easier it will be start monetising its business. "Foursquare (and others like it) can essentially bring a cost-per-action business model to the real world, perhaps either supplanting or complementing traditional forms of advertising." Very intriguing idea.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
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Kevin: AllAboutSymbian.com has a detailed tutorial on how to publish audio using the mobile audio recording and publishing app Audioboo using a Nokia Symbian-based smartphone. Audioboo has brilliant apps for the iPhone and Android, but Nokia users have to use a dialup service, which doesn't have the same level of clarity. This detailed tutorial shows you how to use a service called Pixelpipe, which looks like it has the ability to publish content to a number of services. This is a very detailed tutorial, well worth bookmarking.
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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Kevin: A sponsored post on ReadWriteWeb with some tips on how businesses can best use the location-based network Foursquare. One good tip is to use a tool called Foursquare Perspectives to find out information about how users are interacting with your business.
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Kevin: My former colleague Jack Schofield interrogates the numbers behind Wired's proclamation that "the web is dead". Like a lot of pieces, Wired's headline bleeds out the nuance in the piece
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