This is going to be a little random, but I am grateful to Adrienne Flynn, my long-time friend, sister journalist, and now University of Maryland journalism professor, for asking me what I think journalism students should be learning these days. Away from academia, these centipede legs sometimes take me on a run, when what I…
I’m in Denver today with a group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas students who are kind enough to call me their teacher. Fellow-learner is more like it. Once again, we’re experimenting with the future of journalism — using the latest tools in different ways to help people get news and better connect with information,…
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…
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like…