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  • Keller, Bill7441July 11, 2009

    Dear Bill Keller

    Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, gave an interview to TIME magazine that showed a total lack of transparency, a fear that journalism itself was under attack, and a disturbing amount of the ‘old media’ mindset. This is a look at what he got wrong, and how to fix it. more...
  • newsflow3898March 19, 2009

    Newsflow: How Journalism Is and Will Be Generated

    After taking a look at Steve Johnson’s, co-founder of outside.in, speech from SXSW on the state of the news industry, I think this ideas are sound, but the details are too general. I’ve expanded on this thinking in a chart, Newsflow, to show the relationship between consumers, data, crowdsourcing and journalists. more...
  • 2106440696_74546aa1fc3754April 2, 2009

    You Can’t Make Abundancy Scarce

    I’m sick and tired of the mind-fuck that the ‘old media’ types try to pull on us. Charging for content, just because you decide it’s valuable is asinine. We’ve got a choice: charge for a great user experience, or charge for fantastic content. more...
  • Gambling, Psychology, and Journalism. Slot machines are insidiously simple devices. Pull a lever, the machine does some calculations and tells you if you've won or lost. Even thought the machines are statistically much more likely to display a loss than a win, players gamble that the large amount of cash they can receive if they win will outweigh the small amounts they loose on a regular basis.Tha…
  • About Ping What they did right:pre-loaded the social network with content from top bandsfocused on a niche that they know, and dominatefocused on a niche that has a strong community, and no dominant place to gather.built the network into a product that is already with millions of peopleWhat sucks:even though it's built into a product that potentially knows everything abo…
  • Facebook Like Button Not Working I just went through the painful process of installing the facebook like button manually. It is a very painful process.• make sure to have the arguments at the end of your url, otherwise it will through an error… or not.• If all browsers are working and firefox isn't it's a cookie issue: make sure you have 'third-party cookies' enabled. Oth…
  • Why Developers are Creative Developers are a unique breed.They're creative for the same reason they're jaded – they constantly have to imagine everything people could do to their app, then balance that against what people will do.Let me explain – coding is like creating a series of building blocks. Each block is an logical choice. String a bunch of logical choices together, and …
  • UI problems to post about • what posting to multiple social circles should look like• nav bars …
  • Lessons Learned from the Roman Manlius System small groups, capable of operating independently are better than a massreliable fear is an effective motivator – establish punishments.reliable motivation is an effective motivator – establish consent payment.relentlessness is better than giving up and almost as good as being right the first time.It's better to be highly trained in your skill than attempt …