“Aggregation” Is Not A Villan
Posted by: kegill on: 28 June 2009
Citing the classic public-official-gone-bad investigative journalism that many of us worry about losing in these days of belt-tightening at newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz takes aim at “aggregators” as the source of online newspaper financial woes.
She compares “aggregation” at sites like The Daily Beast and Newser with a 1918 case between the Associated Press and International News Service. She writes: Read the rest of this entry »
Summer BBQ Schedule
Posted by: kegill on: 27 June 2009
Announcing Mike and Kathy’s summer BBQ schedule:
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Tool: Trottr
Posted by: kegill on: 25 June 2009
TwitPic brings us photo tweets; Trottr is the latest audio tweet tool.
It’s simple. Create a (free) account and then call one of the access numbers (there are several countries on the list). Enter the PIN you received upon registration, and your phone is synched.
To make a recording, call an access number and record 140 seconds of audio. You can then tweet the message, include it in an email or on a web page, share it on Facebook or Digg or del.icio.us. Listen to my test case (on the Trottr site). Or download the mp3. How do you see this tool being used?
iPhone 3G S: First Thoughts
Posted by: kegill on: 19 June 2009
My iPhone (16GB, white) and I got off to a rocky start.
After standing in line (in the rain, the first in 30 days) for an hour and a half, I entered the very-well organized Apple iPhone purchase-and-activation system.* Buy the phone and give the AT&T computers a heads-up that a phone number migration is about to happen. Move to activation station. In less than the time it took to take that picture, my Blackjack had been deactivated (which I discovered when I tried to post it to TwitPic).
Open the box, remove the phone, plug it into one of those laptops, and moments later I hear, “You’re good to go. It will take a few minutes for the phone to show that it’s active.”
Use that “wait time” to pick up screen protection (I choose matte finish) and grippy side/back cover. Wander over to a station with no Apple employee to sync my contacts with my MobileMe account. (I migrated my Blackjack contacts to Apple’s address book, using The Missing Sync.) Phone still showing “not activated” so I connected to my MBP and the store wifi network. Walk through iTunes setup stuff; sync calendar and address book. Check phone. Still not activated.
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Unraveling The Social Web
Posted by: kegill on: 16 June 2009
Presentation made to Puget Sound PRSA at Verizon office in Everett. Links below the fold!
Why Local TV is Spiraling Too
Posted by: seaphotog on: 9 June 2009
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From Knute Berger on Crosscut.com — on why he is not buying a box to convert to HD:
Which isn’t to say I won’t still watch TV: I can see Conan or Colbert highlights online, broadcast and cable clips at Huffington Post, Seattle Channel or KCTS websites. I didn’t need broadcast TV to learn about international talent competition phenom Susan Boyle. I found her on YouTube. I much prefer watching TV series on DVD, which allows you to avoid the ads and watch a whole season’s worth in a weekend. You’re a year or so behind everyone else for Mad Men, In Treatment or Battlestar Galactica, but you don’t have to wait for installments. I got lost watching Lost; I’ll catch up when it’s out on disc. If I still care after a year.
Let’s just say – no he won’t watch TV – that is the device. He will watch content produced for television, but on his computer. Soon he might watch it in the “lean back” position in his livingroom or den — piped from his computer to the TV screen he formerly used to watch programming that was pushed to him at specific times.
Beware local affiliates – your audience is giving up on your schedule! You had better be putting something great on your websites!
Digital Journalism Students Reflect On Twitter
Posted by: kegill on: 8 June 2009
The assignment (COM466):
Students will use Twitter as a news gathering, monitoring tool throughout the quarter. Includes final 600-800 word essay on Twitter experience. What did you learn? What do you think of the future of Twitter as a tool for journalists? For citizens? For news organizations? Give evidence for your opinion. Post to your course blog.
Maybe it was Twitter moving to mainstream consciousness (Oprah, Ashton, CNN). Maybe it was my enthusiasm for the new(ish) technology. Whatever the reason, my Spring Quarter journalism students have become enthusiastic about Twitter and have specific reasons why journalists should share their endorsement.
How To: Back Up TweetDeck Groups and Preferences
Posted by: kegill on: 5 June 2009
While configuring a new netbook (Lenovo S10), I wondered how to retrieve my profile and group settings from TweetDeck on the Mac so that I could transfer them to the PC. And I remembered that last week at 140|The Twitter Conference (@140tc), Vicki Harres (@prnewswire), shared a tale of woe when her IT folks didn’t back up her TweetDeck groups when they gave her a new laptop.
Digital native Joey Mornin (@joeymornin) gave me the first clue. This information is located in two files: preferences_twitterUserName.xml and td_N_twitterUserName.db (where N is a number). Read the rest of this entry »
Digital Goods Are Non-Rival; Why Is This Concept So Foreign To People?
Posted by: kegill on: 30 May 2009
I am beyond weary of arguments that compare digital goods with physical goods, those made of atoms instead of zeros-and-ones. Physical goods are what economists call “rival goods” and they are “rival” because they can’t be consumed by two people simultaneously. Thus, if I have an apple, you can’t eat it unless you persuade me to give it to you (via a threat or a bribe). If I have checked out the only copy of a book at the library, you have to wait for me to return it.
When I worked in the cooperative movement in the 1980s, I remember one of the David’s (Thomas or Simpson?) from the American Institute of Cooperation explaining cooperative philosophy to young farmers and high schoolers like this:
I have a dollar, and you have a dollar. We swap. Neither of us is richer.
I have an idea, and you have an idea. We swap. Both of us are richer.
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