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Article in Nieman Lab: What a 2004 experiment in hyperlocal news can tell us about community voices today
In 2004, a team of Medill School of Journalism grad students thought they could use the internet to fix what was wrong with it. But with increasing social isolation, rising partisanship, and newspapers’ ongoing woes, it seems that the problems have gotten worse, not better. Perhaps that’s why Google launched an experiment in local, user-generated storytelling: Bulletin.
The 7 rules of making your content stand out in today’s media ecosystem
Wading through today’s media universe, you may think there’s no way for your content to stand out. Worry not. The 7R media strategy will put an end to the cruel reign of the cat GIF.
How to add a drafts link to your WordPress posts menu with a plugin
WordPress fails to give you a quick link to your draft posts out of the box. My plugin fixes that.
America, don’t put out the damn paper
The cost of stopping goes up as the American machine churns more and more rapidly. But what happens when an entire nation starts living paycheck to paycheck? When hundreds of millions of people think, “If I stop, I die.”
13 statements to help you go deeper into the meditation zone
Just like you get your body into a certain position to make meditation more effective, so too can you position your thoughts to move more easily into the Zen zone. Here are 13 statements that help me.
40 years of wisdom for $4, and a call for your inescapable truths
I wrote about the 40 most important things I’ve learned in 40 years. What has life taught you?
Fighting for identity as change accelerates
All of those thoughts in our head that create the experience of life from moment to moment — mundane and profound alike — have finally broken past the speed limits of time, distance, and hierarchical power. Blame and credit the internet.
The era of the performer: As need-based communication becomes increasingly mediated and impersonal, civility plummets and partisanship rises
Life used to be so inconvenient prior to the internet. There were no one-button presses to satisfy every want, no Google to find every answer, no screen through which to mediate every bit of communication. You had to talk to people in all their glory, ugliness, prejudice and promise. And if you wanted to get …
News companies, start building your virtual reality templates and tools for user-generated VR journalism
Fully immersive virtual reality environments are the next media space that will produce another generation of winners and losers in the race to provide the best, quickest and most engaging information. Which news organizations will win? Their past performance is worrisome; the internet and its democratic system of links gutted well-funded newspapers. In the internet’s …