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The value of play to productive work
“The slide in south park where, apparently, twitter was concieved of” What is the evolutionary value of play and playfulness? It keeps us thinking and working on problems that would otherwise be boring. It frees our unconscious mind so that we can have the “ah, ha, aha” moments of creativity. Originally uploaded by fredwilson http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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Journalism That Matters – at Poynter Institute
I've been at Journalism that Matters "unconference" at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida since Sunday, March 1st. Unlike some other styles of conferences or workshops, this one has been very attention and interaction heavy. There's been little time to sit around and blog about the conference, because I've been talking or working with people,…
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Ameritocracy | challenge the status quote. Presentation about New News Applications
http://www.ameritocracy.com/Porter — founder and developer of Ameritocracy.As one reads a story, one can see how others in the comm rated the statement, put comments, and find it elsewhere on the Net. Gives a histograph of ratings, so you see the range of opinions on the value of the story. Users highlight phrases on a page,…
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Mindy McAdams Rocks and Jannet Walsh shows how to learn online
I'm here at Jourrnalism that Matters at Poynter institute and one of the participants, Jannet Walsh, used Mindy's blog http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/ to figure out what camera to buy. She made a video of one of of the presenters here at JTMpoynter. Patricio is showing folks how to make documentary video in blogs. He has not figured…
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Mac Hardware News
Image via Wikipedia There’s a new Mac Mini still starting at $599 a new selection of iMac desktops starting at $1,199, and new Mac Pros starting at $2,499. I’m interested to check out the new Time Capsule and the new Airport Extreme, both with some new features. Eye-catcher: Time Capsule will now allow you to…
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AP Content Enrichment links and information–wrap up — Read the previous post first
Research budget at AP is about a million dollars for the ethnographic research. Interestingly enough, Kennedy says he never looked at Nokia's ethnographic studies that are similar to their work. Kennedy really believes in the value of ethnographic research. "Even people who you don't think want news, do." He cites the woman who wanted infrastructure…
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Open Workshop session with Jim Kennedy from AP on how people [will] consume news
Image via CrunchBase About millenialshttp://www.futuremajority.com/node/3290 AP Study http://www.ap.org/newmodel.pdf If you haven’t read the ethnographic study, take a minute to look at it. It has a very long section that explains ethnographic research. As a side note, I thought it was strange that the AP felt it had to explain what ethnographic research is, at such…
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JTM Journalism that matters at Poynter Conference
Check out JTM live coverage at JTM journalism that matters live stream http://twitterfall.com/I'm following the JTM Poynter conference, and so can you, at #jtmpoynter. Email questions to me as well at drbarb. Posted via email from Noteoreous
Barbara K Iverson 