Category: Disruptive Tech
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Photographs
Photographs The guy is a good photographer. This is an ingenious way to reveal how we are today. Together, but not paying attention to each other.
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(via Cumbia Corridos Make Heroes Out of Everyday Tucsonans – Arizona Public Media) How cool. They interview regular people, and then create corrido songs telling their stories. Glorify the little guy, not the narco anti-hero. You can listen to some of the songs from this story.
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theoretically, we’re not far off from a future in which companies using facial-recognition technology could tag you in all those pictures. In fact, Facebook can recognize you in photos even if your face isn’t in them—using what it knows about your body type, your clothes, and your posture. (via How Many Photographs of You Are…
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Education, tech saavy, urban v. rural are likely covariates in why this difference exists. “These party differences were not found in other generations.” (via Among Snake People engaged in primaries, Dems more likely to learn about the election from social media | Pew Research Center)
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(via The feds are ‘blown away’ by Smart City Challenge submissions – Roadshow)
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Copyright Trolls don’t own “Happy Birthday” rights and must pay a fine. Warner/Chappell has settled a claim brought by many of the companies that had paid it for a license over the years and years that they were running their fraud. The music publisher will pay $14 million in penalties and fees. (via Copyright trolls who…
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(via Why Mobile First Is Outdated — Inside Intercom — Medium) If you are designing for devices or working with online content, this is an interesting way to look at what you do in terms of screens, and when most of us do our browsing.
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Oscar-nominated Eyes on the Prize… the critically-acclaimed documentary on America’s 20th century civil rights movement, will broadcast on WORLD Channel Sundays at 8/7c starting January 17, 2016. Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of History at Stanford University, called Eyes on the Prize, “the principal film account of the most important American social…
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viva-la-turner: howdy: i feel like everyone should know this But doesn’t the Geneva Convention only affect wars?
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Good read for Journalism faculty members and for those who would be journalists or tech communicators. From this story, “Be as curious about trying technology as you are curious with finding stories.” learn about how analytics packages measure what you publish, and remember that you are what you measure. (via 5 things I think journalism students…
Barbara K Iverson 