Damon Kiesow
RSSKnight News Challenge Round 3: Trellis: RaspberryPi as Media tool
1. What is your project? [1 sentence]
Using the $25 RaspberryPi we will develop a suite of news gathering and distribution tools to support current and emerging needs including video and audio capture, ambient sensors and data analysis, and news/information presentation via a screen or speakers.
Knight News Challenge: PaperEye: Bringing digital interactions to the physical newspaper
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Bridge the printed newspaper with digital and social media actions and content using your smartphone.
Share articles, get additional content, engage your network, from the newspaper.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project…
Knight News Challenge: Socially Curated & Editor Augmented News
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Build a platform that captures user affinities from social networks to surface content augmented by publishers in mobile and web-friendly presentations.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Many…
On the day we discovered the million dollar prices, the copy offered by bordeebook was1.270589 times the price of the copy offered by profnath. And now the bordeebook copy was 1.270589 times profnath again. So clearly at least one of the sellers was setting their price algorithmically in response to changes in the other’s price.
Journalists should do only that which adds maximum value. That’s not telling the public what it already knows. It’s not exercising ego. It’s not production. It is reporting, vetting, curating, explaining, organizing, teaching…. Do what you do best and link to the rest.
The State of the Mobile App World
Chris and Tim are at sea now, heading toward Benghazi, which means, in the indirect but solemn ways that the fallen travel from battlefields, that they are heading home.
News.me Concept Video (by NYT R&D)
But I doubt that RIM actually listened to customers or outsiders — the train wreck is just too complete for there to have been anything other than heads deeply buried in sand. Still, it’s one thing to see an impending train wreck and fret. It’s another to view the aftermath — it’s a lot worse than I could have imagined, and it feels awful to look at it.
- RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, unusable | Mobile Technology - InfoWorld
The lesson: what you do and what you sell may be two different. My sense is that we’re newly into that era as paid content plans sell convenience and delight — all access wherever you are are — rather than “content.
- Six Lessons for News Publishers from Seth Godin | Newsonomics
I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond.
The group invited three teams to program “social bots”—fake identities—that could mimic human conversation on Twitter, and then picked 500 real users on the social network, the core of whom shared a fondness for cats. The Kiwis armed JamesMTitus with a database of generic responses (“Oh, that’s very interesting, tell me more about that”) and designed it to systematically test parts of the network for what tweets generated the most responses, and then to talk to the most responsive people.
About a week ago, I was at the Marriott in Detroit, and as I stepped over the newspaper at my door as I usually do, I then wondered why. It occurred to me that everything in that artifact that would be useful for me — scores from the teams I follow, a brief on big news and a splash of entertainment coverage — I had already learned on my smartphone and tablet before leaving the room.
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