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futurejournalismproject: We Promise Not to Screw Quick, someone...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:00 +0800

We Promise Not to Screw

Quick, someone teach the Yahoo social team how to use the Tumblr Twitter box. STAT.

Image: Automated tweet from Yahoo’s Tumblr to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Twitter account.

Psst, Yahoo. Here’s what works (& what doesn’t work) on Tumblr. Me, via Poynter.

What happens after Yahoo acquires you by Matt Linderman of 37signals

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:50:00 +0800

What happens after Yahoo acquires you by Matt Linderman of 37signals:

Matt Linderman:

Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucracy. The products slow down or stop moving forward entirely. Once they hit the two-year mark and are free to leave, the founders take off. The sites are left to flounder or ride into the sunset. And customers are left holding the bag.

Ending a long week, preparing for another one

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:25:29 +0800

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WHEN A WRITER TAKES AN EDIT PERSONALLY

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:21:23 +0800

editorrealtalk:

How to know when to break up with your editor, over at CJR today.

theatlantic: Can You Tell a City By Its Blocks? What if city...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:03:04 +0800

theatlantic:

Can You Tell a City By Its Blocks?

What if city blocks could be extracted, isolated, stripped of all but their essential form, and lined up like soldiers for inspection? Would we know Paris or Berlin by the sum of their parts?

French artist Armelle Caron has satisfied this curiosity in “Tout bien rangé,” an assembly of what Caron calls “graphic anagrams” of well-known cities. The series, whose title translates roughly as “All in order,” is composed of digital images of cities printed on canvas — cities whole and cities disassembled, catalogs of parts for some Borgesian Ikea project.

Read more. [Images: Armelle Caron]

Would we know Manila by the sum of its parts?

futurejournalismproject: Mozilla Releases Popcorn Maker Via...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:29:02 +0800

futurejournalismproject:

Mozilla Releases Popcorn Maker

Via Journalism.co.uk:

Mozilla has released Popcorn Maker 1.0, which allows journalists to create web-native video that includes real-time tweets, Google maps, images and more.

Popcorn Maker allows users to drag and drop video from YouTube or Vimeo or audio from SoundCloud and then add other other elements such as images, tweets and links to content on the web. For example, tweets that include a hashtag can be added and will be automatically updated with new tweets containing that hashtag after the video is published.

For those with coding skills, there is a Javascript library called Popcorn.js, which was launched at last year’s MozFest.

After watching the videos and poking around a bit, Popcorn Maker feels like Storify but with a video wrapper.

Visit the site to how it’s been used. For example, this story on New York’s Stop and Frisk laws; this neighborhood tour that mashes up Google Maps and Wikipedia; or this remix of a TED Talk.

Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker 1.0 lets you turn video into the web (theverge.com)
New Mozilla tool lets anyone create and hack interactive videos (pcworld.com)
Mozilla Popcorn Maker aims to transform video on the Web (geek.com)
Mozilla launches Popcorn Maker web video tools (techradar.com)
Hack, Remix, Recreate Online Videos With Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker (fastcompany.com)

"Twitter, as we all know, is often wrong. Even when journalists are tweeting, they can do so..."

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:23:51 +0800

“Twitter, as we all know, is often wrong. Even when journalists are tweeting, they can do so impulsively, passing on incorrect information that they would never let into a story without double checking it. Twitter is not a reliable source, and it is a shame that people had to resort to relying on it on these issues because they felt like updated information wasn’t otherwise available.”

- Jennifer Vanasco, CJR

futurejournalismproject: Omnishambles The Oxford English...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:21:22 +0800

futurejournalismproject:

Omnishambles

The Oxford English Dictionary’s 2012 word of the year is “omnishambles”.

Although omnishambles is still most commonly used in political contexts, usage has evolved rapidly in other contexts to describe any debacle or poorly managed situation. Omnishambles, derived from omni- (‘all’) and shambles (‘a state of total disorder’), has given rise to its own derivative, omnishambolic, indicating that potentially this is a word with staying power.

The OED’s US counterpart, the Oxford American Dictionary, has chosen “GIF” as its word of the year.

Takeaway: The English are pessimistic while Americans are optimistically distracted by kittehs.

Online charts are now easy with infogr.am

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:19:08 +0800

Online charts are now easy with infogr.am :

infogram:

We just updated our Charts site. Look how many amazingly beautiful charts you can now create with infogr.am All of them are combinable in cool, animated infographics as you may expect. Everything from a simple bar chart to treemaps, word clouds, stream graphs and gauge. Fine-tuned for data journalism needs.
So, check it out and create some cool online charts (see examples).

"The richness of life doesn’t lie in the loudness and the beat, but in the timbres and the variations..."

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:12:16 +0800

“The richness of life doesn’t lie in the loudness and the beat, but in the timbres and the variations that you can discern if you simply pay attention.”

- Why Listening Is So Much More Than Hearing - NYTimes.com (via greglinch)

lopeziana: Laon Laang, Plaridel, at Tigbalang! Larawan maaring...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:46:56 +0800

lopeziana:

Laon Laang, Plaridel, at Tigbalang! Larawan maaring gamitin.

Lopezseum Blog: ¡CAIÑGAT CAYO! Liberty and Libel: A Closer Look at the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. Oct. 20. 2-4PM. Lopez Museum and Library

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Liberty and Libel: A Closer Look at the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. Oct. 20. 2-4PM.

Liberty and Libel: A Closer Look at the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012
With Atty. Florin Hilbay and Norman Sison
October 20, Saturday, 2-4pm
Fee: Php120.00 (Php 100.00 for students)

Please join us at the Lopez Museum and Library on October 20, 2-4 pm for an engaging afternoon discussing the newly-passed Cybercrime Law. Atty. Florin Hilbay, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and Director of the Institute of Government and Law Reform, will explore the topic from a legal standpoint and discuss how the newly-enacted Cybercrime Law affects ordinary Filipinos. Writer and journalist, Norman Sison, will talk about how our revolutionary heroes used writing as a weapon to advocate social change as evidenced by the publication of reformist magazine La Solidaridad, the novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, and the newspaper La Independencia. He will also discuss how freedom of speech has been a recurring issue in our country’s history since the Philippine revolution began over a hundred years ago.

To complement this lecture, the library of the Lopez Museum will be displaying copies of original La Solidaridad, La Independencia, and El Renacimiento, as well as early editions of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo from its rare book collections. A lecture fee of Php120 (Php100 for students) covers admission to the museum, which currently features the exhibitions Beat and Liberal Streaks.

Limited seats so please call Fanny San Pedro/Ethel Villafranca at 6359545/6312417 or send an email to edvillafranca@lopez-museum.org.ph to register.

Memo From Tina Brown to All Staff Re: Newsweek's Digital Future

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:44:20 +0800

newsweek:

This email from Tina hit staff inboxes a little before 7:00am this morning. Newsweek’s going all digital. Last edition will be the December 31st issue. Ch-ch-changes.

To: All Staff

We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the U.S. will be our December 31st issue. Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well as its successful global partnerships and events business.

Newsweek Global, as the all-digital publication will be named, will be a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context. Newsweek Global will be supported by paid subscriptions and will be available through e-readers for both tablet and the Web, with select content available on The Daily Beast.

Four years ago we launched The Daily Beast. Two years later, we merged our business with the iconic Newsweek magazine - which The Washington Post Company had sold to Dr. Sidney Harman. Since the merger, both The Daily Beast and Newsweek have continued to post and publish distinctive journalism and have demonstrated explosive online growth in the process. The Daily Beast now attracts more than 15 million unique visitors a month, a 70 percent increase in the past year alone - a healthy portion of this traffic generated each week by Newsweek’s strong original journalism.

At the same time, our business has been increasingly affected by the challenging print advertising environment, while Newsweek’s online and e-reader content has built a rapidly growing audience through the Apple, Kindle, Zinio and Nook stores as well on The Daily Beast. Tablet-use has grown rapidly among our readers and with it the opportunity to sustain editorial excellence through swift, easy digital distribution - a superb global platform for our award-winning journalism. By year’s end, tablet users in the United States alone are expected to exceed 70 million, up from 13 million just two years ago.

Currently, 39 percent of Americans say they get their news from an online source, according to a Pew Research Center study released last month. In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format. This was not the case just two years ago. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead.

It is important that we underscore what this digital transition means and, as importantly, what it does not. We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it. We remain committed to Newsweek and to the journalism that it represents. This decision is not about the quality of the brand or the journalism, that is as powerful as ever. It is about the challenging economics of print publishing and distribution.

Newsweek is produced by a gifted and tireless team of professionals who have been offering brilliant work consistently throughout a tough period of ownership transition and media disruption. The inexorable move to an all-digital Newsweek comes with an unfortunate reality. Regrettably we anticipate staff reductions and the streamlining of our editorial and business operations both here in the United States and internationally. More details on the new organizational structure will be shared individually in the coming weeks and months.

We realize news of a big change like this will be unsettling. We wish to reassure you the transition is well planned, extremely mindful of the unavoidable impact on our staff and respectful of our readers, advertisers and business partners.

There will be an all-staff town hall meeting at 11am on the editorial side of our floor to answer your questions and address your concerns.

Tina Brown & Baba Shetty

There’s also a piece from Tina co-bylined with our new CEO, Baba, up on the website: A Turn of the Page for Newsweek.

Disruptive innovation.

Photo

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:52:00 +0800

mentisflatus: Protest Art: Simoun of El Filibusterismo + Guy...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:46:00 +0800

mentisflatus:

Protest Art: Simoun of El Filibusterismo + Guy Fawkes: NO to Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Remix of Un Guerrero by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo and V for Vendetta’s Guy Fawkes)

Lopez Museum and Library on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/Qyj7vK

ONA 2012: The best technology tools for journalists

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:46:07 +0800

gannettona2012:

Back from the Online News Association annual conference, my head is spinning with a few key topics — augmented reality, data visualization, possible resurgence of audio, reporting on the go, data visualization and the role of social media directors. (And did I mention data visualization?)

Here are resources I’m taking back to my Gannett newsroom after hearing from ONA panelists and participants.

Some are new and have piqued people’s interest. Some still have people buzzing months or even years in.

What should we add? Comment here or tweet me at @kjmcginty.

After the Deadline This plug-in or add-on speeds up the editing process by checking your story for grammar, spelling and style.

Buffer Easily schedule articles, pictures and links to move out via your social media accounts.

Census.IRE.Org IRE led this project to make the 2010 U.S. Census data more manageable for journalists. Next up, they’ll be creating guides to help journalists and will allow you to browse the American Community Survey results.

Chartbeat Chartbeat promises real-time analytics, including how long your audience is actively engaged and how far they’ve scrolled down the page. (Paid service. Free 30-day trial.)

FilterStorm Dessigned specifically for photojournalists, you can edit your photos and send them in via email, FTP, Dropbox or SFTP. ($3.99 in app store)

Gopano Create, share and view 360-degree photos and videos with any camera. (Free in app store)

HyperMac HyperMac is an external battery for any USB-driven device — your iPad, your iPhone, your laptop. “This is a life saver,” Robert Hernandez (@webjournalist) promises.

iTimeLapse Create time lapse and stop motion videos from iPhone or iPad. Options include selecting how often to snap photos and how long the video should be. ($1.99 in the app store)

Meograph ”Four-dimensional story-telling” This is video meets infographic — combining maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories “in context of where and when.”

Mobile Reporters’ Field Guide Developed by UC Berkley Graduate School of Journalism, this free PDF or iBook promises to be everything a reporter needs to know when reporting from an iPhone. Search Mobile Reporting Guide in the app store.

Overview “Visual document mining for journalists” Developed at the Associated Press, Overview analyzes the complete text of every document, extracting keywords and sorting documents into categories and sub-categories. Email info@overviewproject.org or tweet @overviewproject for your “preview login.”

Podio “An online workspace for everyone” Social work platform for basic project management tasks — calendar, contacts, activity stream — that helps teams collaborate and communicate. (Free and paid versions.)

Reddit “The front page of the Internet” Site tracks what’s new and what’s popular online. Submit your own links, or vote on others to drive what’s appearing on the front page. (“I think Reddit is on the rise,” said Liz Heron.)

Reporters Committee First Aid mobile app Free guide gives reporters in the field immediate access to legal resources, particularly in situations where access or news gathering may be stymied. Search “reporters committee” in App Store.

Scribble Live Create, curate and publish content to provide real time coverage and storytelling.

SpliceApp A video editing app that works with music, photos, text or video clips. ($3.99 in app store)

Spundge “Smarter curation, genius content.” Read, save, filter and annotate content from the web — Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube included. (Free and paid versions)

Spotify Digital music service gives you access to millions of songs. Consider creating and sharing music playlists from your local music scene.

Storify Take the best of what people post on social media — photos, tweets, videos — and easily publish it into a compelling story.

Topsy Search content published on Twitter and the web, and sort it by date or relevance.

Ustream Broadcast (free) live video to the world from a computer or iPhone in minutes, or watch thousands of shows.

Vyclone Record a video at the same time and place as another person, and this app will automatically synch your videos into a single, multi-angle masterpiece (based on GPS). (Free in app store)

Watch Up Tap the news videos you want to watch, creating your own playlist. Then sit back and watch. (Free iPad app.)

Want more? Links to other sources

Amy Webb, founder of WebbMedia, presented the Top 10 Tech Trends for 2012 to a standing-room only crowd — and she wants your input here.

Robert Hernandez posted this collection of multimedia tools a while back that is mostly still relevant.

A “Q and A with Liz Heron on Her Share-worthy Strategies” (via @caseycapachi) here.

Anthony DeRosa, Reuters social media editor, made his #ONA12 notes open here.

Poynter’s 12 bite-size takeaways from the Online News Association conference

NPR’s David Wright posted these slides from his presentation, “Design is how it works.” (thanks to @macloo)

ONA collected more than 100 articles about #ONA12 via Kippt here.

— Compiled by Kate McGinty, reporter for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California.

ONA12 Takeaways for Educators (slideshare.net)
ONA12 Recap - from The Seattle Times (slideshare.net)
Top 3 Things I Learned at ONA12 (chartbeat.com)
Data journalism: Where did #ONA12 attendees come from? by @NicoleChavz @QinChenCQ @ona (nextlevelofnews.com)
Poynter and Online News Association Announce New Partnership (prweb.com)
Gannett outfits newsroom with iPhones, iPads (reviews.cnet.com)
Friday Q&A: Kevin Delaney on making Quartz an essential international brand (niemanlab.org)

In case you don’t know yet, retweets, Facebook...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:06:00 +0800

In case you don’t know yet, retweets, Facebook ‘likes’ and Tumblr reblogs can be libelous under the Philippine cybercrime law.

Maximum prison time for an erring tweet, share or reblog?

Seventeen years, with no parole.

Why Filipinos Claim Jessica Sanchez - and Everyone Else with a Drop of Filipino Blood

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:20:27 +0800

fabafter40:

My friend Janine was having an interesting discussion on her Facebook wall yesterday about a question that Charice’s manager asked on Twitter. It was a valid question, but her follow-up statements pissed quite a few of my fellow Filipinos off.

Now before I write anything else, I think I should clarify that I think Jessica Sanchez is a fabulously talented singer, but I haven’t really been following her career so I’m a little out of the loop. Last time I saw her, she was narrowly escaping the jaws of Jennifer Holliday at the American Idol finale.

I’m glad she survived.

But like everyone else on my islands, I do think of her as part-Filipino — even if, as Charice’s manager pointed, she doesn’t speak Filipino, never visited the Philippines, holds an American passport and blahblahblah.

She has Filipino blood, so she’s part Filipino. It’s that simple to us.

I understand that this concept of Filipinos claiming Filipinos (whether they’re willing to be claimed or not) is mystifying to foreigners, because you have to be Filipino to understand it.

Here’s the thing… The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands and one big-ass network of extended families.

Allow me to illustrate.

When most people think of a family, this is what usually comes to mind:

When FILIPINOS imagine a family, THIS is what comes to mind:

Sorry, I didn’t have space to draw the neighbor’s kids, the daughter’s BFFs, and the guys who come by every night to have a drink with dad or the boys, but they’re part of the family too.

We like to adopt people. That’s our thing. Everyone’s welcome to join the fam. And I think that’s beautiful. In fact, I think it’s one of the best things about being Filipino.

I know this because I’ve been adopted into so many families, I can’t even count anymore. I have like 25 extra Moms. And I’ve been adopted by countless Filipinos abroad as well — even staff members in hotels, who barely knew me but decided to take care of me anyway.

Because we’re blood, baby. It’s awesome.

So I think it’s only natural that when a member of the big ol’ Filipino Mafia does well, we show our support and give a big ol’ collective family cheer.

We don’t particularly care if the family member in question is aware that he/she is actually part of the family. Pfft. Minor detail.

It’s not always rosy, of course. We also tend to make a big fuss and bicker and criticize and gossip among ourselves and talk about each other behind each others’ backs.

Just like regular families do.

And you know how it is with families… you can bitch about each other like crazy, but it’s a whole other thing when someone else pipes in….

That’s just the way it is.

And that, dear Charice’s manager, explains (1) why Filipinos claim Jessica Sanchez (and everyone else with even just a drop of Filipino blood), as well as (2) why you’ve pissed a lot of Filipinos off.

FAMILY. It’s what being Filipino is all about.

theeconomist: Richard Saul Wurman, creator of TED, argues that...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:35:55 +0800

theeconomist:

Richard Saul Wurman, creator of TED, argues that we often use words like “innovate” and “trillion” without understanding what they really mean. In this clip from The Economist’s Ideas Economy event series, Mr Wurman explains why knowing a word’s definition is so important.

theeconomist: KAL’s cartoon: this week, bubbles.

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:31:03 +0800

theeconomist:

KAL’s cartoon: this week, bubbles.

theatlantic: The Writing Revolution For years, nothing seemed...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:46:18 +0800

theatlantic:

The Writing Revolution

For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with closure, the school’s principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class. What followed was an extraordinary blossoming of student potential, across nearly every subject—one that has made New Dorp a model for educational reform.

Read more. [Image: Kyoto Hamada]