The TED conference has been surrounded by some pretty heavy mystique since its inception almost 20 years ago.
This year’s conference seems to be changing that. In addition to the main conference in Monterey, Calif., 300 people are in Colorado, attending a simultaneous gathering at TED@Aspen.
TED organizers announced they’ll be live streaming the TED Prize ceremony [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: conferences, TED
Down in Miami, people are recovering from a massive power outage.
Now that the power’s back to most of the city, I expect We Media Miami will be kicking off.
In addition to scanning Twitter and following Web posts by other attendees, conference organizer iFocos has an embeddable widget that carries the latest from the official blog.
Not [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged: conferences, learning
You may have spent several minutes (or hours) of your day sifting through the rants on AngryJournalist.
One of the main problems I see is it’s a lot of venting and no resolution.
Businesspeople will tell you complaining will only get you fired. Raise a complaint and propose a solution, though, and the people in charge — [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: business, discussion, future
As mentioned earlier this week, the live webcast from “Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field” (a symposium on computation + journalism) begins at 1 p.m. ET.
Speakers and panelists include:
Krishna Bharat – Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News
Ian Bogost – videogame designer, critic, and researcher, Assistant Professor at [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: conferences, innovation, netJ, technology
Those who blog conscientiously know this already, but it’s worth bringing up this excellent post from Mindy McAdams.
Today, OC Register science columnist Gary Robbins spoke at a panel about blogging during the Future of Science Journalism Symposium.
In addition to writing about things his local audience can actually see and experience for themselves, Robbins times his [...]
Categories: Making Money, Tips & Tools
Tagged: conferences
Starting Friday, journalists and researchers from all over will gather at Georgia Tech for Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field.
Though there hasn’t yet been a lot of discussion on the group’s CrowdVine site, a look at the member list shows a wide swath of interesting minds and movers who are pushing online [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Mobile, Social Media, Tips & Tools
Tagged: conferences, innovation, netJ, technology
Ryan Sholin at Invisible Inked is looking for bright spots that redefine news.
He’s started a list that shows some creative Web executions. Several commenters have added sites of their own. For example:
Beatblogging.org, which launched during last year’s Networked Journalism Summit at NYU. A group of reporters and bloggers use it to incorporate community into [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Maps, Mobile
Tagged: innovation
Spring’s not quite here, but it was time to do a little revamping.
Ricochet launched quietly at the end of November with the intent of looking both within and outside the journalism industry for ideas to keep the news profession — and the business — thriving.
The new site, based on a free template by Design Disease [...]
Categories: General Journalism
A few weeks ago, database journalist extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty launched the much-anticipated EveryBlock, the geotagged local information website.
While there’ve been complaints that EveryBlock is little more than a tremendous database of photos and impersonal facts, it is a data-rich site full of stories and story possibilities, as Matt Waite points out.
Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous interviewed [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism
Tagged: everyblock, fimoculous, holovaty
Steve Outing, “Stop the Presses” columnist and online media consultant just launched a new site aimed at those looking for ideas to increase news website readership and make money.
Not all of Outing’s recommendations are earthshaking, but the comments will probably prove to be the true goldmine.
On a post about showing the numbers associated with “most [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money, Social Media
Tagged: business, ideas, Steve Outing