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SXSW 2010: Even More Five Good Minutes

Posted on | March 14, 2010 | Comments

Tim Malbon, founding partner, Made by Many (London, England)

My friend Aleks Krotoski introduced Tim and I last year at South by Southwest. The two of us are still trying to determine if this is because she likes us…or doesn’t. Made by Many builds custom publishing platforms, creates media on that platform and manages the community for companies. Most notably, they built The Telegraph’s platform for social media and blogging.

Full disclosure: I edited about a minute from our discussion because I asked him a question about a platform the company built that isn’t public knowledge because they White Label their work. Rest assured, it’s awesome.

Category: Media, SXSW, Video

SXSW 2010: More Five Good Minutes

Posted on | March 14, 2010 | Comments

Andrea Phillips, Alternate Reality Game Writer (Long Island, NY)

I came across Andrea last year while doing some interviews for The Cult of Me and Dungeons + Dreamers. She was one of the writers on Perplex City, a complex ARG created by Mind Candy (and the esteemed Hon brothers, Adrian and Dan of Six To Start). She delivered a wonderful talk about women and gender representations in ARGs (and games), particularly as it relates to creating great narratives. It was awesome.

Michael Adamson, Vice President of Sports New Products and Services, Turner Sports, (Atlanta, GA)

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Category: Media, SXSW, Video

SXSW 2010: Five Good Minutes

Posted on | March 13, 2010 | Comments

Instead of blogging this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW), I’ve decided to record segments with folks I meet with the express purpose of answering one question: What’s the one thing, in your media sphere, that excites you the most. I’ll be gathering a few of these each day. Some I’ll post here. Some I’ll post at the AEJMC Tech Meme.

Now, the first installment.

Eric Hellweg, Editorial Director, Harvard Business Digital (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Four years ago, Eric took over the online operations of the Harvard Business Review. His charge: help overhaul the print business, preparing it for the digital transition. Within the last year, the site and magazine were re-launched, and they are now poised to move forward with a modern publishing process.

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Category: Business, Media, SXSW, Speaking, Video

SXSW 2010

Posted on | March 12, 2010 | Comments

I’ll be blogging and adding my thoughts about this year’s SXSW Interactive festival.

It probably won’t be live blogged, but I am co-ordinating with the folks at AEJMC try to get the most interesting stuff here. Stay tuned.

Category: SXSW

AEJMC: Video (Column Coming)

Posted on | December 15, 2009 | Comments

In my last column of the year, I decided to take on the idea that news is “special” when it comes to content. I take a look at the similarities between the music and new industries, pointing out why Rupert Murdoch’s decision to remove content from Google, the AP’s decision to track its work and other choices mirror what the music industry did in 1999.

But first, the video discussion of why the column:

Category: AEJMC (Writing), Media, Video

IDMAA: The Distributed Story Stream

Posted on | November 7, 2009 | Comments

Category: Storytelling, Video

Two New AEJMC Columns + Videos

Posted on | November 5, 2009 | Comments

I’ll post the links to the AEJMC posts I’ve written, but here’s a sneak peak at the companion videos.

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Category: AEJMC (Writing), Media, Video

More Hallmark News

Posted on | November 2, 2009 | Comments

We’ll be announcing some new work on the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition project (even though the house is built).

Here’s a neat little blurb about what we did.

Category: Social Media, Storytelling

Extreme Makeover

Posted on | October 30, 2009 | Comments

It’s been an interesting few weeks. A builder involved with ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition got in touch with Ball State and before I knew it: 30 students were running a social media team for the 7-day event.

Here is the press release from Ball State about this team. Here is the blog for the event with links to the Flick and YouTube account.

Here is an interview I did with GoGladiatorTV:

Category: Social Media, Storytelling

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-24

Posted on | September 24, 2009 | Comments

  • My vlog companion piece for the AEJMC: an in-depth look at the what Bartle's Taxonomy of Players teaches journalists: http://bit.ly/SZn7n #
  • Thoughts: my next AEJMC piece is either on Open Source and Journalism or Prohibition/DRM and Journalism – which sounds more interesting? #

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