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We were talking about the importance of the “little orange icon” in class last night, so I decided to play around with the “text boxes” in the WordPress widget barn. Feed Icons is a great place to download the RSS icon, and they provide code snippets as well. Enjoy!
I, on the other hand, wrote this post after commenting on Chris’ column! In the process, I learned a little about Sphinn (not much, need to dig some more).
Like polls on LinkedIn (or any other social media site), the odds of getting responses increase with the size of your social network. However, there are ways that you can increase the probability of a reply. You can add the hashtag#poll or #twitterpoll to a post; the hash groups tweets, makes them easy for people to find. Or you can turn to an external aide; for example, PollDaddy has a Twitter poll feature.
More good stuff if you’re still trying to figure out how to use Twitter: Paul Bradshaw just wrote a post about how journalists are using (can use) Twitter. Of course, as I wrote earlier this month, I’m working on Twitter genres (another way to analyze how people are using the tool).
WiredPen really isn’t All Twitter, All The Time, although it might feel like it lately! I just discovered this great little tribute to Twitter at ShinyRed … and of course, I found Shiny Red via Twitter.
I love Twitter for its serendipity. I lurked for a long time before I started posting … erh, tweeting! I’m currently archiving each day’s tweets for a little content analysis in a month or so.
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In prep’ing for digital journalism workshops for our UW undergrads, I discovered that the Seattle PI has opened up at least some editorial board meetings to the public via “podcasts.” (I challenge you to try to find the podcast archive/description via the masthead links, however.)
The NY Times Caucus blog reported Saturday that a Friday afternoon Indianapolis Star editorial board meeting with presidential candidate Barack Obama was “live streamed in real time.” (The blog link to the webcast is now broken — poor planning on the Indianapolis Star’s part and a lead-in to the “tech incompetence” portion of this post. See updates: nosome editorial transparency in the archived clips.)
I question the merits of a live video stream: mid-afternoon on a Friday while most folks are at work? I like the PI’s simplicity — an mp3 of the session, with give-and-take. Video might be nice — doubtful, as there is no “motion”, simply talking heads. And the mp3 is easy to download and listen to when disconnected from the website. Read the rest of this entry »
A friend asked me (via Facebook) how to use FB to follow a Twitter feed. As I was typing an explanation, Facebook decided to pitch its new “chat” feature. I wasn’t interested, so I clicked the “close” button. NOTHING happened! Well, nothing happened re the chat promo … but the interruption killed my ability to reply to her question. There was no way to get to the “send” button … in fact, the entire “message box” was hosed.
Fortunately, I was able to open my friend’s account in a new window, open a new message window, and paste my already-created reply. And then send.
All the while, the annoying “Facebook Chat Promo” popup remains intractable on the original page. The promo is not only “in your face”, it’s poorly executed.
Can’t even blame it on being on my Mac — I’m on a PC at the moment. Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Interview with Mark Deuze of Indiana Univ and University of Amsterdam regarding his new book, MediaWork, which is a series of interviews with media professionals. His goal was to identify what it means to “work in media” — in part for his students, in part to document what is happening with convergence. (tip)
Game industry may offer a model for advertisers (people skipping commercials on TV) and newspapers (declining readership): recruiting directly from your own user base to help innovation. But the gaming industry is challenged because its audience is not a mass one.
Deuze says that when media organizations had control of the megaphone, they didn’t really have to listen — even though communication has always been a conversation. Today, however, they’ve lost control of the megaphone. Watch the interview!
Across the pond the BBC is calling for government “intervention in the market in order to ensure everyone has access to broadband internet.”
[We] would like to emphasise the importance of considering the case for a new definition of universal service aims in a higher-speed future. There is a need to scope the case for public intervention to ensure all parts of the UK have access to modern broadband networks, even in areas where it may be commercially unattractive. For if broadband delivers social value that goes beyond private value, then it will be essential to ensure that no-one is left out.
In the US, the FCC Chair told Congress that Comcast was blocking peer-to-peer traffic even when there was no network congestion, contrary to what Comcast had told the FCC.
Then there’s the Dave Winer Comcast story from last week. With no warning, Comcast cut off his service, not once, but twice. The company threatened to send workers to his house to put a regulator on his router.
Winer pays $180/mo for his combined Comcast offerings, which includes its “power boost” internet service. He’s an edge case, but his usage is legal.
To be expected, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), of “the Internet as a series of tubes” fame, opposes any network neutrality bill. Regulation, of course is “unwarranted.” Media companies, telecoms and television services are three of the top 20 industries buying the Senate seat for Stevens.
In honor of Earth Day, here’s a treat from The Colbert Report, an interview with Seattle photographer Chris Jordan. Jordan takes the waste products of our mass culture — such as cell phones, aluminum cans, cigarette butts — considers statistics about their consumption, and creates photographic works of art that, he hopes, will disgust you.
The series is called Running the Numbers, and in it he “turns the waste and refuse of contemporary society into abstract compositions of pattern, light, and color with a stunning clarity and impressive level of detail.” His work is currently on show at the Allen Memorial Arts Museum at Oberlin College.
I stumbled upon (not with the software) this CV (I would not have my cellphone number public like this) and thus was introduced to Visual CV (warning: big annoying Flash promo). From their about pages:
The VisualCV makes a traditional resume come alive with video, pictures and a portfolio of your best work samples and other supporting documents. Informational pop-ups provide background data on the companies you’ve worked at and the colleges you’ve attended. You can securely share different versions with your own network of employers, colleagues and friends, and control who sees what.
You can create a similar resume/portfolio with WordPress, but you need CSS fluency (your own or someone else’s) to tweak WordPress templates. The permissions part, that’s harder with WordPress — either the portfolio (or certain pages) is public or it isn’t.
I’m surprised a site like LinkedIn hasn’t already offered the eye candy that’s in this site (multi-media, work samples, etc.).
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