30 Good Minutes: Emerging Media and the News

Following up on my 5 Good Minutes series from South by Southwest Interactive, I’m now interviewing folks in the news (and related) industries about emerging technology at their organizations. Primarily this is for my students at Ball State University and the AEJMC. But I thought you might find it interesting as well. I’ll be [...]

 

 Technology Review: Jason Pontin [32:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (32)

 

 Time Magazine: Caitlin Thompson [45:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (28)

 

 Time Magazine: James Poniewozik [28:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (19)

 

 Spot Us: David Cohn [29:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (20)

 

 Pegasus News: Mike Orren [31:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (30)

 

 PR: Kevin Dugan [29:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (24)

 

 Wired: Eliot Van Buskirk [23:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (18)

 

 Times of London: Joanna Geary [21:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (18)

 

 Author: Dan Gillmor [26:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (18)

On The Future of Technology, Remix Culture and Software Tools

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Last week, I gave a presentation at the Popular Culture Association that didn’t go very well.
It was the first public presentation of a project that Brian McNely, Matt Mullins and I had worked on for the better part of this school year. The goal of “The Object Remix”: create a story using publicly available footage [...]

More Hallmark News

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.

Extreme Makeover

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 [...]

Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History

This is a talk given by Clay Shirky, one of the leading voices discussion social media and storytelling.

Chapter 8: Catching Content

The idea of a distributed story is, like the product itself, emerging in various forms across the Web. There’s no one place — nor can there be one place — that encapsulates the idea. Instead it will manifest in many forms; however, there are some basic principles that are necessary for this type of emergent [...]

3 Types of Puzzles in The Go Game

I’ve had the chance to see Chris and Mei discuss The Go Game, a team building exercise that requires small groups to work together to complete different puzzles that are sent to them on mobile phones.
There are 3 primary puzzles:

Sleuthing: trivia
Inter-Team: head-to head networking, battle of wits, talent and skills
Creative: open-ended prompts that require the [...]

Where’s Brad

I’ve been a bit on the MIA side for the past few weeks but that hardly means The Modern Journalist is going away.
Quite the contrary. I’ve been doing a few things that are moving my project along quite well — in no small measure to some of my readers, my blog readers and — let’s [...]

The Ad Problem: Why Smart Media Companies Are Fine

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Newspapers are facing a serious problem. The more publishers are looking at their bottom lines the more they are seeing this: shrinking black on the print side and a large red on the web side.
But that’s not always going to be the case, I hear people say. At some point, this [...]

Citizen Journalism and Video

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I’m a novice when it comes to video.
Everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned from either watching videos online — Rocketboom, for instance — and reading research reports done by smart folks. It’s the kind of knowledge that normally drives me crazy because I really need to get my hands on something, play around with [...]