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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 [...]

My RSS Trends and Why I Read What I Read

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Syndication is — and will continue to be — an important trend in online media simply because it is so specific to the medium.
These feeds can’t be replicated in traditional media, thus making it one of the areas that all companies should be investigating for revenue and traffic generation. Of [...]

Bringing The Noise. Bringing Less Funk.

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I’ve helped a few students set up RSS Readers recently, which has forced me to look more closely at my own RSS consumption habits.
For me, there are elements of less is not enough with some forms of media (RSS for one) and less is way to much in other (lifestreaming such as FriendFeed [...]

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