Noteoreous

The meeting was chock full of ideas and bloggers. After introductions, we talked for a bit about useful sites, like http://fotoviewr.com that requires on install nor registration. Pek, its developer showed it off to us. Other mentions included:

http://swurl.com Lifehack feed aggregator. The timeline feature is unique.
http://dipyti.com Another lifehack feed aggregator
http://ping.fm  Social network updating tool
http://tubemogul.com Distribute videos to multiple sites
http://twinity Virtual world you can join.

http://thepoint Leverage the "tipping point" idea to make something happen in the real world.

http://www.wirednextfest.com/

http://dotsub.com You upload a video and ask for translation (subtitles) in other languages. You can find videos with multiple language subtitles on the site, too.

Not only grown up, but grown up right. He is working for Harry Reid.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080815_597307.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

This is a great article that relates social networks to Zipf and Dunbar's "laws" and twitter's business model

For advertisers, this is crucial-- though there are millions of folk using twitter, "Zipf's Law suggests that each subsequent thing in any series (such as your Twitter contacts) has predictable diminishing value...Inside the 2.3 million-strong Twitter network, not all connections are equal, and some will never be used at all. You will probably never send tweets to ice skaters in Finland." so, Twitter isn't going to be the Olympics of online advertising. Mass is just so last century...

Dunbar was a sociologist who found that humans are limited to about 150 relationships, so that twitter isn't one big mass media marketing tool waiting to be exploited, but it is a bunch of "small pools of people with gaps and limits on how they interact. This is important to marketers and investors, because it puts big brakes on how internal communications could propagate inside any social media network. "

This story estimates the value of a typical Twitterer at about $12. It is a very interesting read.

http://wagle.com.np/

Réne Edde, photojournalist and adventurer, is in Kathmandu and having coffee with Dinesh Wagle. I am going to check out his blogs and add some global perspective to my thinking.

File under: Journalism Education

From Al's Poynter column:
The project was part of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at The Ohio State University and was produced by Hank Wilson for the Daily Press.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=147104
"The news business has always had change. When I started there was hot type, IBM typewriters and darkrooms. The skills you have as a journalist are what matters. The ability to put people at ease and have them talk with you. The ability to find and tell a compelling story. I'm not one of the tribe that feels new media is the downfall of journalism. I think it's an incredibly exciting way to tell stories, one that allows reporters more options in getting the story into the hands of the public and one that breaks the reporter free from the bonds of the traditional newspaper story.

My advice to anyone who wants to learn multimedia skills is to start doing it. Make a small, one-minute movie a day. Figure out how to see in video. Watch lots of documentaries and see how a story is told visually. Check out all the Web sites that post multimedia stories. Find a class that will teach you video editing or Flash; there are lots of them online. But most of all don't be afraid and get started."

Here is the work itself http://hank-wilson.com/snitch_index/index.html

http://www.newsletterarchive.org/2008/05/02/350298-Online+Publishing:+Degrees+in+the+Past

Vin Crosby assesses j ed

Interactives Producer, Online NewsHour
(http://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/openings/interactives.html)

The Interactives Producer for the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is a journalist who can research and analyze data for the development of interactive graphics, charts and other material.

Duties include, but are not limited to, proposing and developing online interactive content and multimedia packages for all components of the Online NewsHour, researching data for use in online and broadcast reports, proposing stories based on database and other research. The Producer will work to tap published databases and experiment with multimedia storytelling to develop new features of the Online NewsHour.

The Interactives Producer works with the on-air producers and correspondents to add complementary content and features to the site.

The Interactives Producer will also assist with general assignment duties and night web production as assigned. Job is located in the Washington, D.C., area.

QUALIFICATIONS: The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of professional online experience and a demonstrated ability to investigate, analyze, and conceive of ways of conveying data and information on the Web, a proven ability to develop story-telling in multimedia. Experience using Flash and mySQL databases preferred.

SALARY: Salary is commensurate with experience.

CONTACT: Interested parties should e-mail a resume, cover letter and list of references to:
The Online NewsHour
e-mail: lbanville@newshour.org
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
No calls will be accepted.
07/07/08
EOE

http://www.readership.org/culture_management/culture/insideculture.asp

The aggressive-defensive culture of newsrooms

In MediaShift, Mark Glaser, reports on Media Managment Institute and Vickey Williams' research on 10 newsrooms, called "All Eyes Forward" which documents the clash between young journalists and newsrooms with "aggressive-defensive" work cultures, which reject and ridicule new ideas, innovation, and even just the status quo of electronic communications today.

File under: Condo

Unfinished sides to fit under the countertop

http://www.compactappliance.com/DW181SS-Avanti-Compact-Built-In-Stainless-Dishwasher/DW181SS,default,pd.html?cgid=Appliances-Dishwashers

File under: Condo

This one cooks in half the time -- no special settings, just figure the normal cook time and cut it in half.

http://www.compactappliance.com/AAC34S-Apollo-Stainless-Steel-Countertop-Convection-Microwave-Oven/AAC34S,default,pd.html?cgid=Kitchen_Housewares-Small_Cooking_Appliances-Convection_Ovens