UPDATE — The folks at ONA have announced that they’ll provide rooms for un-conference talks! Woot! But if there’s more need than space, it’ll be up to a vote, so *please* get there early and vote me up! Hope to see you there!
The schedule for ONA09 is jam-packed with shiny stuff — social networks, mobile [...]
Wikipedia sez: “A Lightning Talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.”
This particular lightning talk was delivered to the ProPublica newsroom a couple weeks ago. To experience it [...]
In her TED talk, Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech, Pattie Maes demos a system that creates interactive visual layers over the real world. The actual implementation, a tiny projector tied to a wearable computer that watches your fingers for input (using colored marker caps to identify fingertips!) is cheap, but not something you’d [...]
The Tribune announced this week that they will begin printing the fat Chicago daily as a tabloid! Huzzah!
The Tribune’s move, replacing its broadsheet edition with the tabloid version at the retail level, is an aggressive bet that a switch in size will improve sales. There are no plans to make the tabloid-sized edition available for [...]
Ryan Mark and I built enviroVOTE to help people visualize the environmental impact of the 2008 elections. We designed it in two evenings and made it real in a three-and-a-half-day long bender of data crunching and code.
This is the story of that time.
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Sunday evening, 26 October: the concept
The idea struck [...]
TechCrunch posted about CNN’s twitterings the other day: Apparently, the feed’s followers were upset about a tweet that spoiled their Olympic viewing experience by revealing golden boy Michael Phelps’ latest feat shortly after he kicked the aquatic asses of the world’s other really freakin’ fantastic swimmers.
But it wasn’t CNN that tweeted. It was cnnbrk, [...]
I just had an interesting chat with Daniel X. O’Neil, EveryBlock’s People Person, and he confirmed my suspicions…
Two (maybe three) *totally amazing* things happened on chicagotribune.com today.
They silently released a new “(beta test)” feature, an EveryBlock-enabled police blotter. Gaper’s Block got the scoop, from, get this, a tweet by the Tribune’s twitter persona, according to [...]
Ryan Thornburg has posted a quiz for his readers — an excerpt:
Could you explain how Twitter.com spread like wildfire the rumor of the death of Subway spokesman Jared Fogel? (And why it will be important for every political journalist to monitor the site on Nov. 3?)
Could you use Wikipedia’s revision history to see who edited [...]
The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome — A List Apart
We have lots of “brand identity guidelines,” but not so many “style guides” (for content, at least). We have “strategists,” but no “commissioning editors,” and we more often “go live” than “publish.” Hence, we tend to first think “copywriter” when trying to get our content sorted, whereas [...]
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