During Tough Times, The Echo Chamber Can Be Your Best Friend (32)
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We are witnessing either an epic financial meltdown or a long overdue resetting of existing business practices and the hollow markets they create. Or, perhaps we’re experiencing both of these phenomena. Either way, it has the nation gripped with fear, uncertainty, and an unsettling eruption of questionable advice confusing everyone, everywhere. While the floor is crumbling for many industries much in the same way it did for Silicon Valley during the dotbomb years, the sky ...
The growing productivity divide (45)
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Here's a simple quiz: Can you capture something you see on your screen and paste it into Word or PowerPoint? Do you have a blog? Can you open a link you get in an email message? Do you read more than five blogs a day? Do you have a signature in your outbound email? Do you have an RSS reader? Can you generate a PDF document from a Word file you're working on? Do you ...
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
I think I qualify, although I don't have anti-virus, but I assume that's for windows only...
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pedstrom said:
agreed. and the answer is "no" to far to many of those questions for far too many knowledge workers.
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Peppermint said:
assolutamente interessantissimo... Mi ha fatto molto pensare, non riguardo a me, ma a questo mondo...
Slideshows 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb (50)
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When it comes to presentations, typical slideshows have gotten a bad reputation for being dull and dry. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Thanks to Web 2.0 tools and applications, you can bring pizzazz to your presentations like never before. Whether you're looking for an "un-slideshow" altogether or just looking to add a little kick to the boring charts and graphs in your PowerPoint, you can find something here that fits your needs ...
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Brandon said:
I'm using SlideRocket for a presentation for my business class.
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Robert Scoble said:
Great look at all the various ways to make better presentations. I wish they would have linked to my videos with Sliderocket and Zoho that I've done at http://www.fastcompany.tv but oh well.
When to beg the question, and when not to (1)
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Phrases and terms have a way of getting mangled over time and it can be hard finding clear examples of what is and isn't right.Philip Corbett, a deputy news editor at the New York Times who's in charge of its style manual, does a fine job explaining how to use 'beg the question':Not long ago, I gently noted (again) our frequent misuse of the phrase “beg the question.” I pointed out that in precise usage, ...
Splain it to me (9)
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Drop everything and go listen to the latest This American Life, a followup to its brilliant Giant Pool of Money show, which explains the bailout and the bigger mess we’re in better than I’ve heard or read anywhere. Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, and Ira Glass have done it again — brillliant once more. But first, you might want to lock away your belt, shoelaces, and for that matter, the cord to your iPhone headset. But ...
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William said:
when do we get to start shooting people?
The End of Dailies (4)
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Hastened by the economic and credit crisis, we are moving ever closer to a moment of catastrophe for one or more major daily newspapers. Sometime in the next few months, we're going to lose one–or it's going to be changed so radically as to be barely recognizable under the current definition of daily newspaper. And given the lemming-like tendencies of the newspaper industry, once one newspaper goes, others will quickly follow.Call it the End of ...
The media forgets it is in the being useful business (3)
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A lot of media entities -- and the journalists who work for them -- think they are in the news business and all of their strategies and initiatives are wrapped around that concept.But despite the much-burnished reputation of the Fourth Estate and the unchallengeable value of a Free Press, that's not the business they are in -- not at all. Media companies are in the business of being useful, useful with information that people consider ...
Training to be Editor of the Public (1)
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Back when I was taking journalism courses (a dimly remembered pre-Googlian time before the dawn of the modern age of technology), we were taught about writing inverted pyramid stories, AP style, the basics of libel and First Amendment law, journalism ethics and the strange hieroglyphics of copying editing on paper (talk about lost arts).Many journalists are adding a new role to their newsgathering skills, managing user generated content and creating community. I wonder if universities ...
Look for the guy with a hammer (33)
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The old adage is that for someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It's a warning that people who are only good at one thing often believe that the one thing is the answer to every problem. And it's a good warning. But what if you've decided that in fact, a hammer is exactly the tool that will solve your problem? My advice: hire a guy who only uses a hammer. Odds are, ...
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Hashim said:
Seth - "This is why the Journal's report that Google is flirting seriously with a big advertising buy is so troublesome."Rubbish. People love Apple's ads and their remarkable products.
James Nachtwey’s wish (1)
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James Nachtwey’s TED Prize talk in 2007 was one of the most inspirational I’ve seen. The wish he expressed at the end of his talk — “I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.” — has been fulfilled, as he unleashes a campaign to draw ...
Citizen “Journalist” Hits Apple Stock With False (Steve Jobs) Heart Attack Rumor (37)
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Apple’s stock took a temporary 10-point hit this morning after a false report surfaced on CNN’s iReport that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. The report has been removed, but only after Silicon Alley Insider and others confirmed with Apple that Jobs did not have a heart attack. And the stock jumped right back up to its opening levels. SIA captured the original report: Steve Jobs was rushed to the ER just a few hours ...
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Jorge said:
Is that a chart of AAPL or Steve Job's EKG?
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Jason Cartwright said:
Unbelievable.
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Alex Klein said:
i'm amazed that the markets are so susceptible to these stories. remember when that article from 5 yrs ago was republished by google?
Save journalism, save the world (6)
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Teaching Online Journalism (71)
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Yesterday I finished reading this book: SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World. Consider this a hearty recommendation. Taking an idea first expounded by Jeff Jarvis, British broadcast journalist Charlie Beckett stays on point in 170 pages of well-reasoned argument about exactly how journalism has already changed — and how today’s journalists and journalism educators need to understand that so they can go forward, and not sit inert as their world collapses on ...
Online communities: Background resources (1)
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Below is a series of links to further information about online communities. These sources formed part of the research carried out in the preperation for my presentation ‘Online Communities: A social world’ at the Shape conference in Lisbon this week. They are intended to provide further reading to those who attended the event, but could also be of interest to anyone looking at online communities. Any thoughts, comments, questions or further links, as ever gratefully ...
Google's Latest Attempt to Monetize YouTube: Post-Roll Ads (13)
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As Google has acknowledged before, monetizing YouTube has been a major challenge for the Internet giant, even though it is one of the web's most visited sites. Now, Google is trying out post-roll ads on the popular online video service. Currently, as NewTeeVee notes, these post-roll ads only appear if you do not click on the overlay ads while a video is playing. Google has tested post-roll ads before, but in these earlier version, users ...
News videos on the Web (1)
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Launching ReportingOn 1.0 (4)
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This is an experiment. I launched what I’ll call ReportingOn 1.0 this afternoon, as an unfinished application to help journalists of all stripes make connections based on their beat. It’s the word “unfinished” that’s the most experimental part of this right now. I guess it’s my translation of “iterative.” The premise is this: Launch what you have ready, knowing that the rest of it will really be far easier to figure out once some users ...
New journalist resource in public beta (1)
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Facebook Rolls Out New iPhone App (6)
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Last night Facebook rolled out their highly anticipated new iPhone application and with it a whole slew of new features. Some of the new features includes: Access to a complete newsfeed duplicating the functionality currently available on the site. This includes feed item commenting which makes this a mobile competitor to FriendFeed, Access to all messages in your inbox, Full-access to notifications, Tabbed profile design with wall, info, and photos, and Search of other users ...
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Most news videos I find on the Website of newspaper websites or television news sites remind me of the early days of Web journalism: people took copy from the print version and shoveled it online. I think it’s currently a similar ...Shared by John (22)Contribute comment