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Stack Overflow Blog Sep 2, 2010

Chris Amico said: Just the right mix of programming, Freud and Monty Python to make my day.

The Unix world loves to take sides. I don’t have to blog about this; Freud already did, in 1930. He called it “the narcissism of minor differences.”

Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, linux, Ubuntu, Unix

100 Days of Gushing Oil: Eight Things to Know About How the Media Covered the Gulf Disaster

Project for Excellence in Journalism Aug 25, 2010

The oil spill was by far the dominant story in the mainstream news media in the 100-day period after the explosion, accounting for 22% of the newshole—almost double the next biggest story. In the 14 full weeks included in this study, the disaster finished among the top three weekly stories 14 times. And it registered as the No. 1 story in nine of those weeks. 

Media & Journalism, Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Twitter Diet: a simple, three-point plan for Twitter dominance

Argo Project Blog Aug 4, 2010

Ryan Sholin said: From @mthomps at NPR's Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab's tweets.

Both of these accounts are successful. 15,000+ followers is nothing to sneeze at. But @NiemanLab on the right is definitely more successful. These accounts are tweeting pretty similar types of information – news and useful information for journalists and media types. Yet @NiemanLab seems to be garnering more influence for its efforts. @Poynter has tweeted more than three times as much as @NiemanLab, but it has 10,000 fewer followers, and it’s on 1,000 fewer lists. Why might this be?

Journalism, social media, twitter, content analysis, community engagement, Matt Thompson, Poynter, link economy, Nieman Lab

TBD debuts with no new ideas, but real action

Lost Remote Aug 9, 2010

Ryan Sholin said: Friends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: "What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action."

These are all old ideas, quite frankly. Journalists have talked about them for years now. Others have pitched them to their bosses until they’re blue in the face. And still others have launched elements of these ideas as niche products, subsets or prototypes. But this is the first time that a local media group — especially in the TV space — has wrapped these ideas together and aggressively launched them with an investment to back it up.

Journalism, hyperlocal, Online News, TBD

Spot.Us Goes National, Gets Clay Shirky as Sponsor

PBS IdeaLab Jul 27, 2010

Ryan Sholin said: Spot.Us goes national, with stories brewing in Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, and across the country.

It makes little sense for me to tell a good pitch from Illinois or Texas that they can't put their pitch up until we find a handful of other pitches in their region. So, as of last week, the sub-domains at Spot.Us have been removed. Trying to convince people in a specific region to use the site -- while stopping others from using it because they aren't in the right region -- is not the best use of our time or energy.

Journalism, knight news challenge, spot us, David Cohn, crowdfunding

How publishers are using aggregation, curation platforms

eMedia Vitals Jul 26, 2010

Ryan Sholin said: Publish2, and others, feature in this @emediavitals piece on the present and future of curation and aggregation.

In the past, newspapers and magazines were islands to themselves, Karp said. “The whole business model of publishing was based on ‘you control the package,'” he said. “We believe that one of the keys to how the business model evolves is that all of these editorially brands need to become more connected to each other in terms of their business.”

curation, publish2, publish2 mentions, aggregation

Three things I dare journalism students to do before they graduate

www.brianmanzullo.com Jul 16, 2010

2. Form a news startup online and compete with the student newspaper

Journalism, Education, J-school

Protests, Looting and the Media Gaze

DigiDave.org Jul 13, 2010

Ryan Sholin said: "The trash can was the celebrity of the night and we were no better than paparazzi..." - @digidave's media gaze.

The trash can was the celebrity of the night and we were no better than paparazzi capturing a photograph of Brittany Spears with a shaved head.

Journalism, Riots, oakland, reporting, protests, Oscar Grant

Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid

Blood and Milk Jul 10, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform, developed in the global south. Ten years ago, Africa didn’t have the connectivity to develop and distribute a platform like Ushahidi. And ten years ago, cell phones didn’t have the power or the ubiquity to make Ushahidi a useful tool.

open source, Kyrgyzstan, Ushahidi, foreign aid