Graffiti and Parking September 30, 2007
Posted by charlotteanne in Uncategorized.add a comment
Here’s the UK link in Flickr about graffiti
http://www.flickr.com/groups/publicgraffiti/pool/
Also, a parking feed …
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=parking+place&m=text
wild animal footage September 30, 2007
Posted by kristindero in Uncategorized.add a comment
Here is what I could find for animal sightings so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj7ZS-L-RAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8h8HsONbY
Practice Present September 30, 2007
Posted by jonathan686 in participatory journalism.3 comments
As preparation for Toronto, I’ve presented our idea two faculty and advisory groups at MSU each of the last two weeks. Here is some feedback:
1. What is the incentive for people to use Tandem?
I had a hard time answering this. Is it for the vanity of getting published? For the ability to tell unique stories not covered by the mainstream media? What angle should we push?
2. How will we stop this from turning into a forum-board like soap-box for ideologues? How do we encourage good reporting?
This seemed to be the biggest concern amongst those I presented the idea to. Especially those who had managed new sites. I mentioned the credibility index (by the way – what is that? How does it work?) and the ability to set a story’s participation level (from open to invite only). Any other strategies? Moderators?
Comment from WikiNews guy! September 30, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Uncategorized.1 comment so far
Just wanted to point out a comment on Jenna’s research post. This man could be a good resource for us!
I’m one of the editors/admins/accredited reporters on wikinews and found your piece on our site very interesting. A lot could be summed up by saying it uses the same software as Wikipedia. However you got the basic details right.
Unlike Wikipedia there is more of a tendency on wikinews for an article to mainly be the work of one contributor with others correcting typos and grammatical errors. However, when there is a major news event – such as the Buncefield oil depot disaster you’ll find a host of temporary contributors turn up and all have their little piece to add to the story.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Major_explosions_at_UK_oil_depot
Wiki code is a special markup – some HTML is allowed, but for me to put a link to the above story into a page on Wikinews I’d do [[Major explosions at UK oil depot]]. A far more sophisticated site could be set up using the Mediawiki engine, it is perhaps worth investigating the various add-on/plug-in modules. These include embedded audio and video players which would help with your goal of having a more multimedia based site.
If you check the Wikinews main page, you’ll see that down the left there is a section listing other languages the project supports.
If you want to learn more about Wiki or Wikinews, don’t hestitate to email me or leave me a note on my Wikinews collaboration page.
brian.mcneil @ wikinewsie.org
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Brianmc
On Research… September 29, 2007
Posted by msjennabird in Uncategorized.1 comment so far
Hey guys, Brian is in the middle of helping me set up a google doc that would serve as the central spot to find research, like the Ft. Meyers crowdsourcing story, I sent some stuff for him to look over before it goes to the Google Doc. We’ll get it out to you guys shortly…Kristin and Lauren, can you guys let me know if you have anymore research to put on the doc please…thanks ladies…talk to you tomorrow;)
Jenna
Fort Myers News Press Crowd-Sourcing September 29, 2007
Posted by Brian in crowdsourcing, hyper-local, interactivity.2 comments
I took a look at the News-Press branch in Fort Myers (I hope this is the site you mentioned, Jonathon) . Part of their site is a crowd-sourcing experiment. As expected, people post news, comment on those stories and discuss.
Sort of.
News-Press started it in 2005 (I assume, since the admin. first joined the board then). It uses phpBB, which is forum software that’s been around for a while. It looks and feels just like a forum, which is kind of drab.
The Fort Myers site isn’t using it in any spectacular, new way. People do post news items, but I believe that the medium is not suited for engaging interactivity in the news area. phpBB belongs to niches even nichier than news. There’s even spam. And the picture section is not news related, really. People post pictures of everything .
I’m giving the generation gap and a lack of people who use or want to use this as the reasons why they’re failing. It reminds me of our phone meetings and talking over AIM: it’s too choppy and broken. Perhaps a reason why people moved to video is that it seems to relieve some of that linear feeling.
Encyclopedia of Life September 29, 2007
Posted by Rob Ponte in presentation.add a comment
Hey fellers,
I posted this awhile back in the old group but i think this is a great example of sort of previewing a future website that eol did.
Here is the link to the high quality video (still loads fast).
It’s also on youtube but the quality is less and it kind of loses some of its coolness without the sharp images so i chose not to embed. Check it out though, more so toward the end where it actually shows how the site works. It would be really cool if we could do something like this for our presentation.
Here it is anyways:
Garr Reynolds + Guy Kawasaki + Pecha-Kucha? September 29, 2007
Posted by Brian in presentation, tools.1 comment so far
I forgot about this post at 43Folders a while back. ‘Tis all about presentations. Please look at the pictures first without reading to get a good grasp of how well it works.
Pecha-Kucha: PowerPoint Poetry September 29, 2007
Posted by Brian in presentation, tools.1 comment so far
(Say it with me, now: pih-CHOTCH-kuh)
I finally found it. It’s called Pecha-kucha, which means “chatter” in Japanese.
20 slides in PowerPoint, 20 seconds apiece. Add a dash of EI, and you’re good to go.
It is brilliant in so many ways. Look at the video in the link, s’il vous plait.
Presentation September 29, 2007
Posted by deene in presentation.add a comment
Hey all, I posted this on the presentation blog as well, but just in case: Garr Reynolds is an associate professor of management at Kansai University in Japan where he teachers multimedia presentation design, among other things. Both is personal web site and blog are really cool and have a lot of interesting stuff.
http://www.garrreynolds.com/index.html
http://www.presentationzen.com/
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