August 2012
4 posts
Crossrider's Blog: 25 JS Developers You Must... →
crossrider:
Who you follow on Twitter is key to your overall Twitter experience. Follow the wrong people and you’re going to be getting nowhere very quickly.
But follow the right people and you’ll find an endless flow of advice, updates, tips and tricks to try out, even new languages to learn.
The question…
Crossrider's Blog: 25 JS Developers You Must... →
crossrider:
Who you follow on Twitter is key to your overall Twitter experience. Follow the wrong people and you’re going to be getting nowhere very quickly.
But follow the right people and you’ll find an endless flow of advice, updates, tips and tricks to try out, even new languages to learn.
The question…
July 2012
2 posts
1 tag
13 lenses to use in looking at First Person...
Like all shooters games, shooters are just puzzles to be figured out, with competition, rules and strategies to make them winnable. This is a really brilliant piece of thinking.
Tom Bissell reviews Spec Ops: The Line and explores the reasons why we play shooter games. - Grantland.
Original Article
June 2012
5 posts
1 tag
Monday's Mix: Listen to everyone lay in on The...
Techno flashback time, here’s The Cure, with their big hit “Just Like Heaven.”
It’s an impressive mix, but electronic music should have a good mix. Decades before the really heavy techno and house productions brought in booming bass and robotic beats, the guitars and bass and drums of The Cure might not sound overly produced to today’s ears. But those chorus...
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The user is king, not content.
We used to say that content was king. Really, it is the user who is king and always has been. The user is the sole, undisputed and perpetual ruler of their own time and attention. In social media, it isn’t the content that’s at the center, it is that the user who liked the content or shared it that is at the center. In social traffic driving, it is that relationship between the sharer...
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J-Lab university news sites #jnewslab
This past weekend, I was priviledged to be included in a two-day conversation about how universities are producing news sites. This blog post does a really great job summing up a number of the sites represented and discussed at the meeting.
These university-sponsored news sites feature interactives, videos, photo slideshows and social media journalism; but need improvements in web writing and...
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The differences between professional, amateur,...
A professional isn’t just someone who wears a suit to work. Stephen King has asserted that a person isn’t a writer unless they have been paid to write. We call people who are great at what they do “pros.” Sometimes we think the things we see look “amateurish” because they are not slick and polished as we’d expect from a professional standard. But what are...
“Just listen to the layering of vocal tracks and lyrics in the title track....”
– D@J | David Andrew Johnson
May 2012
74 posts
[Infographic] PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby →
Udemy has put together an infographic that compares Ruby, PHP and Python. This looks (briefly) at the history, popularity, ease of use, demand for programmers, benchmarks and more for each language. If you’re job-hunting, Udemy says that you probably want to know PHP above Ruby or Python. According…
15 Stats About Facebook | Hitwise Blog →
Facebook.com received 9% of all US Internet visits in April 2012.
“Clicks Are Out, Engagement Is In as Video Service Goes Longer-Format to Conquer...”
– YouTube’s Video Views Are Falling — By Design | Digital - Advertising Age
Profile of the Data Journalist: The Data News... →
this is all it takes to get the skills: curiosity and desire. that you are interested in using data in different ways to approach answering the mission of journalism than via traditional interviewing, summarization and creating a narrative… that is different. this is how programming and using information as a programmer changes how journalism is done.
“Women’s magazines are still offering us the same take on weddings, weight...”
– Eva Wiseman: How time stands still in women’s magazines | Life and style | The Observer
Watch(via Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found | Video on TED.com)
“Bottom line: the choice an online business makes between an app and an HTML5...”
– Apps Aren’t Dead. Neither is The Web. The Parrot Is, Though…
“The designer today should not help to produce more — he has to help produce...”
– The Role of the 21st Century Designer | Drawar
“To be really successful you need to go a level or two deeper than most do in...”
– Psych 101: Instagram, OMGPOP and the Secret to Building Great Products - Forbes
“The model consists of two major components: the need to keep having new and...”
– Futurity.org – Skip the ups and downs. Stay happy
“Huh has been thinking hard about how journalism is evolving for some time, and...”
– Ben Huh says journalistic objectivity is a trap — Tech News and Analysis
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review →
The future of media on mobile devices isn’t with applications but with the Web.
“But this market has incredible distortions thanks to a variety of ownership...”
– 7 ways Comcast is killing the cable killers — Broadband News and Analysis
“AOL’s Q1 total ad sales grew by five percent from last year’s corresponding...”
– AOL ad sales go on growing, but U.S. display ‘off-tune’ — paidContent
“This year, for the first time in history, celluloid ceases to be the...”
– Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling - Page 1 - Film TV - Los Angeles - LA Weekly
“Marvel Studios, a division of the Walt Disney Company, spent about $220 million...”
– ‘Marvel’s The Avengers’ Top Box Office Record - NYTimes.com
That’s a figure worth acknowledging. The marketing budget is 1:2.2 of the content budget. The property has already pulled in nearly $2.5 million globally in the opening weekend.
So - what content businesses spend 1:2.2 in marketing...
“The problem isn’t the government itself, but rather the people who are...”
– Reagan was wrong: Why government is not the problem and what really is - Orlando liberal | Examiner.com
This has always struck me as a logical conflict in the current conservative argument, so I am interested that others have been perplexed by this phrase. In the theorem, it is given that USA is...
“Beyond even that. I think journalism is being replaced.”
– stdout.be | Fungible
this. this is what i’ve been talking about.
“Our cultural reading practices have trained us to consume stories...”
– Are Twitter Storytellers the Heroes of a New Postmodernism? - SocialTimes
