CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-22 20:54:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

MTA guide, Wall Street, 2011.

2013-05-22 19:23:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Only in the last few decades has a mathematics of roughness emerged, one that can get a grip on self-similarity and kindred matters like turbulence, noise, clustering, and chaos. [...] In the late 1970s Mandelbrot became famous for popularizing the idea of self-similarity. What is perhaps less well known about Mandelbrot is the subversive work he did in economics. The financial models he created, based on his fractal ideas, implied that stock and currency markets were far riskier than the reigning consensus in business schools and investment banks supposed, and that wild gyrations—like the 777-point plunge in the Dow on September 29, 2008—were inevitable."

2013-05-16 16:44:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fascinating example of harnessing the value of long tail content.

2013-05-15 23:52:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Trying out the new big image post format with a photo of Hirz Mountain Fire Lookout. Not a bad place to spend a weekend.

2013-01-08 17:17:39 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Oakland Police Beat and Oakland Local are offering two investigative journalism internships for the spring 2013 semester. Interns will help research and report real-world, in-depth investigative stories. They will learn the fundamentals of data journalism, public records and courts reporting, as well as report and write their own stories.

Applicants must be passionate about public interest journalism and finding behind-the-scenes stories in a city with one of the highest per-capita violent crime rates in the country and a police department that narrowly avoided a federal take over. Applicants must have a basic understanding of Excel or Google Doc spreadsheets. Multimedia skills - photography, videography, data visualization -- are a bonus. Internships are 5 months long and 12-15 hours a week.  

Email applications to Oakland Police Beat editor Abraham Hyatt, abraham@oaklandlocal.com.... more »

2012-12-06 16:58:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

New episode with John Biggs, TechCrunch's East Coast editor; Sara Morrison, assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review; Alicia Cohn from thehill.com; Neil Thurman from City University London; and music by Bobby McElver.

2012-12-05 02:18:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The world's second largest media conglomerate teamed up with the most valuable tech company on the planet to launch a product that attempted to reimagine news for the digital age. And it flopped. 

2012-11-14 18:01:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In the latest episode I talk with Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News about the new IPO process and how it’s changing the way we cover companies who’re about to go public. Jon Mitchell, from ReadWrite.com, and I talk about how Apple’s product launch hype cycle just might have a little less hype in the future.

2012-11-14 17:59:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A silicon lining amidst a storm of questions about the FBI, email and our rights online?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/us/david-petraeus-case-raises-concerns-about-americans-privacy.html

2012-09-29 19:24:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A short history of blackletter typewriters. (via @kleinmatic)

2012-09-13 17:15:01 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-08-29 22:35:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-08-18 00:19:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

“So far, one of the biggest insights for us is that the emergence of new technologies means there’s a largely untapped opportunity to allow people to tie stories directly into their own lives—bringing narratives 'out of the screen,' so to speak, often through meaningful connections with characters," says Neela Sakaria, EVP/Managing Director at Latitude. "We’ve distilled our findings down into a few key principles, and our hope is that content creators begin to embrace the idea that the desire for interesting cross-platform experiences isn’t as niche as some might think. Innovative storytelling isn’t just for fantasy fiction, and there are exciting new opportunities for news creators and even retailers to use storytelling principles to engage people more deeply."

2012-05-21 17:29:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My (late) response to the "Please Don't Code" debate (but I include actual code!) http://danwin.com/2012/05/fashionistas-and-bureaucrats-and-journalists-please-learn-to-code/

2012-05-21 17:28:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

via http://thesochillnetwork.tumblr.com

2012-03-21 20:10:44 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I keep getting great ideas for posts but I run out of time each day and then the ideas get stale. My rant about Mike Daisey is... too old.

2012-03-20 21:37:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Today's Smart New Media contains the phrase "Cosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever". Come on, you know you want to subscribe.

2012-03-16 17:35:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Breaking news, folks! U.S. media revenue has declined over the last decade. Good thing we now have a study to tell us that.

2012-03-15 04:02:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"'The syrup is waxing. Come and help yourselves.'"

2012-03-15 00:55:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Decoding what's wrong with Google +

2012-03-07 23:06:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Devon and I, 2/11

2012-02-22 19:23:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Today's Smart New Media gets posted in about three hours. Sign up now and get posts from:

+Adam Tinworth
+Robert Niles/Online Journalism Review
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New Media Journalism Blog
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2012-02-15 22:36:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

We are literally dashing around at night. Often, there are only two of us. People respond to it really well. Lots of people pass by. Ordinary people just really like to see billboards covered up with poetry. They find it really refreshing I think. So, we’ve never really got into any trouble.

2012-02-15 17:00:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Internet is coming to NPR!"

2012-01-30 20:48:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

As part of our ongoing coverage of digital privacy, +The Wall Street Journal is inviting developers to come build tools that help people see and control their personal data. The event is over a weekend in April; +Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and +Julia Angwin are hosting it.

2012-01-27 23:14:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-01-27 19:47:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm pretty happy with the mix of stories in today's Smart New Media mailing list: +Greg Linch, +MinnPost, +Colleen Taylor/+Gigaom, +Martin Belam, +Press Gazette, +DigiDay

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2012-01-26 20:38:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

An up-to-date circle of the +ReadWriteWeb team.

2012-01-24 19:26:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

As a veteran of that era, I love anything that documents it.

I ran bulletin boards in the 1980s as a hobby and put my Atari on Usenet (seriously), so I found myself in the editor's chair when the Star Tribune in Minneapolis decided in 1994 to go online. Prodigy was actually our first choice -- not mine -- but we switched to a Ziff-Davis project called Interchange, along with the Washington Post.

Why didn't we go straight to the Web? Because there were no tools and no ISPs when we began. Everything changed within a year, and the open Internet became the center of the new universe.

In 1999 I moved to Atlanta as executive editor of Cox Interactive. Fastball.com (mentioned in the story) briefly reported to me, before we shut it down. The two guys who ran it then produced a corporate sports channel on all the Cox local sites. All that blew up when the Internet bubble... more »

2012-01-13 19:06:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today's Smart New Media mailing list stories. Sign up! http://bit.ly/smartnew

+adage: Significant Glitches Trouble Too Many Publishers' Apps

+BlockbyBlock: ROI, or the art of counting monsters

+inma: North American newspapers pessimistic about ad revenues, looking to digital for growth

+foliomagazine: The New York Times, The Daily and New Yorker Top Performing Titles on Apple’s Newsstand

+Shaping the Future of the Newspaper: It's business time for local papers with Local Business Accelerators

2012-01-03 20:14:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Geek ink, the best and the worst.

2011-12-20 20:35:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

'Tis the season, ain't it? I make 5 big guesses about automated fact checking, paywalls, curation tools and buzzwords

5: We will still be stuck with insidious buzzwords like gamification, filter bubble, clicktivism, robust and, * shudder *, mocial

2011-12-14 20:32:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I counted: 130

2011-12-13 16:26:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Sailor tattoos, unknown date.

2011-12-08 17:54:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My pick for today's top Smart New Media mailing list story: How did Il Fatto Quotidiano achieve popularity & profitability in just two years? http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2011/12/il_fatto_quotidiano_the_story_of_a_brand.php

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2011-12-05 22:12:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I can't get over how beautiful +Josh Millard's dead crow photo from this morning is. Great concept for a photo blog.

2011-11-30 19:47:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

The night photography is what makes this so good: Finding Oregon is the compilation of six months of timelapse photography across the state of Oregon, punctuated by a 1600 mile road trip in September. We've filmed the Columbia River Gorge, Mt Hood, Mt Jefferson, the Southwestern Coast, the Alvord Desert, Leslie Gulch, Blue Mountains, Crater Lake, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Deschutes River, and more.

2011-11-30 03:56:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2011-11-29 23:14:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

So. Clear.

Taj Burrow, Fiji Vignette 3/3. via @surfersvillage

2011-11-22 18:29:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Are you on the Smart New Media mailing list? If not, today you missed stories from +Patrick Smith, +Roy Greenslade, +The Gazette, +ClickZ, +10,000 Words, Post Guild, Press Gazette and +Digiday.

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2011-11-14 19:28:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

5 headlines from today's Smart New Media mailing list. Sign up here: https://bitly.com/smartnew


* The future of online advertising

* Social Media Ad Spend To Hit $2.3B By 2015

* Why Is the Washington Post at the Top of My Facebook Feed Yet Again?

* 1 Reason The New York Times Co.'s Earnings Aren't So Hot

* Newspapers are tipping fast to a focus on Sundays as value of those subscribers increases

2011-11-09 18:47:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This NT/neutral retweet debate seems extremely misguided. We reshare the things we find on Twitter because we think those things have value. But no one is forcing us to reshare in only one way. Every situation where a journalist took flak for a RT could have been resolved by either adding a few words of context to the RT, writing a new tweet that links to the original, or just not retweeting.

If you think changing one letter in a retweet "protects" you, it's time to think about why you're sharing in the first place.

2011-11-09 01:55:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

JOB | The Washington City Paper is looking for an Online Producer. H/t +Kate Gardiner

2011-11-08 18:40:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Great (if I do say so myself) Smart New Media mailing list today, with stories from +voiceofsandiego, Yahoo! Finance, InvestorPlace, Independent.ie, Beet.TV and +Adweek.

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2011-11-08 00:07:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I can't resist adding to the brandstorm! (as +Steve Yelvington aptly put it)

2011-11-05 01:51:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm trying something new -- a quick wrap-up of the top stories on last week's mailing list.

2011-11-03 22:21:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is an exhaustive roundup of the current state of media ad spending.

2011-11-03 17:34:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today's Smart New Media email was chock full of financial news about major media companies -- Scripps, News Corp., GateHouse, FT Group -- plus good news for Bay Area News Group and Sainsbury's Magazine.

Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/smartnew

2011-11-02 17:56:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Yet mere months after overthrowing their despots, Egypt and Libya are enjoying an explosion of new periodicals, including 150 new journals and magazines in Benghazi alone. "Most of them aren't very good, but that's alright," says Matar, who is discussing collaborations with Egyptian writers. "It's an exciting time to be an artist in this part of the world."

2011-11-01 17:51:50 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

"58% of traditional media consume most media online, while 95% of online media do " What the? Who is this 5% of online media that don't get the majority of their news online?