Monthly Archives: October 2008
Tragedy at the UW
I don’t know how to explain what I felt yesterday when I saw many students crying and shaking. It was around 1:00 PM and I was taking pictures of two congresswomen from Chile that were meeting with professor Kathy Gill … Continue reading
Polling Place Photos, Videos and Tweets
There’s a widespread clamor for crowdsourced documentation at the polls this election: the NY Times “polling place photo project” … the PBS/YouTube “Video Your Vote” campaign … and the techPresident Twitter #VoteReport. Each project relies on the distributed network of … Continue reading
Fact Check WA: Be Informed
Have you seen the television ads or yard signs asking you to vote yes or no on the ballot for Initiative 985, 1000, and 1029? Its hard to know who is telling the whole story when claims are made in … Continue reading
MTV learns from HULU
In my first MCDM class at the University of Washington, my professor Hanson Hosein mentioned a website called Hulu that offers free streaming videos of TV sitcoms from NBC, FOX and other stations. This is a interesting “business model” that Hulu uses … Continue reading
Activists, Terrorists, and Vegetarians (Oh My)
Wired currently has an amazing article in the November issue on how some young Egyptian activists are utilizing Facebook as a means of organizing political protests. David Wolman tells the story of Ahmed Maher, from the beginning and explosion of … Continue reading
Flip The Media Editor Endorses Obama
I like to keep a politically neutral stance in public, despite my historic “cowboy conservatism.” And as a Canadian, I can’t even vote in next week’s election. However, as MCDM Director, and social media/storytelling Proponent-in-Chief, I agree with FTM’s own … Continue reading
LinkedIn Releases InApps
My level of engagement with my linkedin profile and network is marked by long periods of inactivity punctuated by sharp spikes of updates over very short periods of time. This is not an uncommon pattern. I see this behaviour of … Continue reading
The Netflix Challenge
The Advertising Age article that was required reading for this week’s COM 529 class talked about the Cinematch application in Netflix. Netflix tracks your rental history and allows you to rate movies, then Cinematch analyzes your data and the data of … Continue reading
