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"Mercenaries have no place in your company and your culture. Doubters are a bit different. You..."

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:26:11 -0400

“Mercenaries have no place in your company and your culture. Doubters are a bit different. You certainly don’t want to create a culture of “yes maam” in your company. So some doubting is healthy. But it should be out in the open. The doubts should be expressed upfront and they should be discussed and debated. But once the decisions have been made, everyone needs to get behind them. Ongoing doubting is not helpful to a culture.”

- Fred Wilson: How To Be In Business Forever: Week Three (via bijan)

fred-wilson: “Avner Ronen and Boxee want to change the way you...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:58:43 -0400

fred-wilson:

“Avner Ronen and Boxee want to change the way you think about input one”

(via Can Boxee reinvent cable with the help of a TV antenna? | The Verge)

Boxee presented at NBT in 2009!

Today, watch presentations from #waywire,...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:19:17 -0400

Today, watch presentations from #waywire, PublishThis, NewsCred, CrisisConnection, and The Internet Archive TV News Search & Borrow.

The Next Big Thing in Digital News Innovation is streaming live at 10:30am PT/1:30.

"It’s not just a focus on data that connects the most recent class of Knight News Challenge winners...."

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:00:42 -0400

“It’s not just a focus on data that connects the most recent class of Knight News Challenge winners. They all are part of a distributed civic media community that works on open source code, collects and improves data, and collaborates across media organizations. These projects are “part of an infrastructure that helps journalists better understand and serve their communities through data,” commented Chris Sopher, Knight Foundation Journalism Program Associate, in an interview last week. To apply a coding metaphor, the Knight Foundation is funding the creation of patches for the source code of society. This isn’t a new focus: in 2011, Knight chose to help build the newsroom stack, from editorial search engines to data cleaning tools.”

- Four key trends changing digital journalism and society, O’Reilly Radar

nycdigital: Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg visited Boxee’s office...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:11:05 -0400

nycdigital:

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg visited Boxee’s office and discussed the latest efforts to grow New York City’s technology industry.

See more photos at http://on.nyc.gov/PKpDys or watch the video at http://on.nyc.gov/PKq4bX.

Boxee was one of our first Next Big Thing presenters!

futurejournalismproject: Congratulations to the Winners of the...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:53:21 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Congratulations to the Winners of the Knight News Challenge!

A Knight Foundation contest that looked for the best cases of giving big data to the general public has announced its six winners.

Three projects present new data. OpenElections, Census.IRE.org, and Pop Up Archive plan to provide comprehensive, highly-searchable data for public research and enjoyment.

The other three — Safecast, LocalData, and Development Seed — have created new toolsets for people to contribute to big data, be it by measuring radition in Los Angeles or by using a smart phone to share data with Google Earth, Fusion Tables, and elsewhere.

Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria,...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:58:36 -0400

Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. “We want to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by humans,” Mr. Kahle said. As of Tuesday, the archive’s online collection will include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news. The latest ambitious effort by the archive, which has already digitized millions of books and tried to collect everything published on every Web page for the last 15 years (that adds up to more than 150 billion Web pages), is intended not only for researchers, Mr. Kahle said, but also for average citizens who make up some of the site’s estimated two million visitors each day. “The focus is to help the American voter to better be able to examine candidates and issues,” Mr. Kahle said. “If you want to know exactly what Mitt Romney said about health care in 2009, you’ll be able to find it.”

-All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site

You can watch Kahle demo the Internet Archive at PaleyNext in Los Angeles on 10/16, streaming live here.

"Facebook was always an outlier — a once in a decade success story by a young kid who came out of..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:36:35 -0400

“Facebook was always an outlier — a once in a decade success story by a young kid who came out of nowhere and built something huge. But while rare, we’ve seen those sorts of outliers before. Twitter is something even more uncommon: A company that has violated nearly every spoken or unspoken rule for how you build a successful company in the Valley. You hear it muttered everywhere in startup circles these days: This company should never have made it this far. And yet, here it is.”

- Will Twitter’s Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out? (via courtenaybird)

sunfoundation: Congrats to Sunlight grantee Politify on their...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:30:53 -0400

sunfoundation:

Congrats to Sunlight grantee Politify on their launch!

Politify

Election 2012

paleymediacouncil: “Degrading authorship is something the web...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:21:25 -0400

paleymediacouncil:

“Degrading authorship is something the web already does spectacularly well. Work gets chopped and sliced and repurposed. That last animated GIF you saw — do you know who made it? Probably not. That infonugget you saw on Gawker or The Atlantic — did it start there? Probably not. Sites like Buzzfeed are built largely on reshuffling the Internet, rearranging work into streams and slideshows.

It’s been a while since auteur theory made sense as an explanation of the web. And you know what? We’re better for it. In a world of functionally infinite content, relying on authorship doesn’t scale. We need people to mash things up, to point things out, to sample, to remix.”

- Joshua Benton on “Medium” in NiemanLab

"It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email..."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:30:35 -0400

“It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email today: it is fundamentally decentralized with nobody controlling who can email whom about what, anyone can use email essentially for free, there are opensource and commercial implementations available and third parties are offering value added services.”

- Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures | Think App.net is just a Twitter clone? Then you’re missing the point (via courtenaybird)

Check out our brand new behind-the-scenes video from PaleyNext...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:49:06 -0400

Check out our brand new behind-the-scenes video from PaleyNext Chicago featuring Upworthy, Newsy, nowSpots, and Medill School faculty member and PaleyNext coach Rich Gordon.

"Percolate’s big selling point is that it helps brands become better participants in social media by..."

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:04:02 -0400

“Percolate’s big selling point is that it helps brands become better participants in social media by helping them figure out what to say.”

- It all boils down to that … Very nice piece on us from GigaOm

Percolate’s latest brew makes brands better social curators, content creators — Tech News and Analysis

(via percolatehq)

nycedc: Bevnote Gerges, 17, (left) and Carolina Cordovas, 18,...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:59:43 -0400

nycedc:

Bevnote Gerges, 17, (left) and Carolina Cordovas, 18, are two of the students that designed apps. Photo by Jeanne Noonan, New York Daily News

Queens Teens Showcase Their Tech Skills with Mobile Apps

A group of students from Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens have taken their tech-savvy to a new level and developed smartphone applications that they showcased at the National Academy Foundation’s Next Conference in Washington, D.C. The apps, which include games, math tools, a recipe guide, and even a program to locate handicap-accessible subway stations, were developed by the teens as part of a curriculum aimed at teaching practical technology skills. Read more in the NY Daily News.

Are you a high school student who’s interested in developing your own mobile apps? There are two days left to register for NYC Generation Tech, which will teach you the skills you need to be NYC’s next tech entrepreneur. For more information or to apply, visit the NYC Generation Tech website.

Marking one of the first moves under new digitally focused...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:03:49 -0400

Marking one of the first moves under new digitally focused president and publisher Larry Kramer, USA Today will now begin publishing a daily guide to help its readers navigate the tangled web of internet video. “TV on the Web” will appear as a daily online and print listing of what editors and reporters at the Gannett-owned national newspaper feel are the best web videos and podcasts. The selection will be highlighted by USA Today Pop Candy blogger Whitney Matheson, who will render a weekly viewing recommendation.

futurejournalismproject: Jonathan Gray, editor of the Data...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:28:54 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Jonathan Gray, editor of the Data Journalism Handbook, in a Q&A with O’Reilly:

Broadly speaking, “data journalism” is a fairly recent term that is used to describe a set of practices that use data to improve the news. These range from using databases and analytical tools to write better stories and do better investigations, to publishing relevant datasets alongside stories, and using datasets to deliver interactive data visualizations or news apps.

Precisely where one places the emphasis depends on what one thinks is important. This is why in the book we have several sections in the introduction where we’ve asked leading practitioners, advocates and scholars what data journalism means to them, what makes it distinctive and why they think it is important.

Regarding the need for the book: Quite simply, data can help us to answer questions about the world. While it certainly isn’t a panacea, or an objective reflection of the world, data is an increasingly important part of our information landscape. Rather than relying on the analysis of public bodies, public relations agencies, or experts for hire, journalists and their readers should be able to explore, interrogate and critically analyze databases for themselves. The handbook is our attempt to encourage journalists to increase their own data literacy, and hopefully the data literacy of their readers.

FJP: The Data Journalism Handbook is a free and opensource reference guide. Download it here. It’s a very useful resource. We’ve talked about a few other data journalism tools in the past. See some posts here.

Image: Click-through to keep reading the Q&A.

futurejournalismproject: Teaching Entrepreneurial...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:29:15 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Teaching Entrepreneurial Journalism

Thinking about j-school? This video is a good example of what the more progressive programs are beginning to teach.

Here, CUNY Professor CW Anderson tells us about his Entrepreneurial Journalism course, where his students study new (and theoretical) business models, meet industry people, and then pitch then their own “journalism business.” Almost all of them, he said, had to grapple with the realization that getting a job at a daily might not be the best out-of-college move anymore.

For more from Chris, see these FJP videos and look for his book, Networking the News: The Struggle to Rebuild Metropolitan Journalism, 1997-2011 later this year from Temple University Press.

"In technology the more things change, the more the stay the same. You cannot ever rest. Because the..."

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:23:13 -0400

“In technology the more things change, the more the stay the same. You cannot ever rest. Because the big change that is going to upset your nice apple cart is right around the corner. Today that is mobile. Tomorrow, who knows? I am trying like hell to figure out what that will be and jump on it. Because that’s how you play this game.”

- Mobile is Where the Growth Is, Fred Wilson

soupsoup: “There’s an oligarchy in the media and that needs to...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:14:03 -0400

soupsoup:

“There’s an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” - Cory Booker launches news startup #waywire

Welcome NewsDiffs, a new service that tracks changes to evolving...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:08:38 -0400

Welcome NewsDiffs, a new service that tracks changes to evolving news stories online over time. Born yesterday, June 17, 2012, at the Knight Mozilla MIT hackathon.