June 2012
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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 