What you see here is a word cloud, created in Wordle.net of the 50 words President Obama used the most in the remarks prepared for his chat with school children tomorrow. Here’s a link to the text of the prepared remarks. (The cloud image links to details of how it was made.) Here’s one message…
I was asked to be the wrap-up Rapporteur for the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin last week. The conference had the Twitter hashtag #isoj, and, partly because it is Webcast live, people were watching and Twittering about it in real time on at least four continents. (Here…
New Twitter applications just keep getting more and more fun, but they are tough to keep track of. Here’s a delightful and encompassing post from Flowing Data on 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe. (Call me crazy, but it reminds me of “Visualize Whirled Peas.” ) The blog’s author, Nathan Yau, says he is…
What is Twitter? It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less. And it is a place to listen. Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around…
The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us. One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO…
Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content? People will buy it. Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff. The numbers are…