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Is Facebook a “Fad?”
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Photo-May-20-12-15-52-PM-234x150.jpgPublished May 21, 2012 at 9:58 am Facebook’s brief 13% spike in share price on Friday morning after its public trading debut on NASDAQ instantly elevated the social network’s market capitalization to $117.7 – ...
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Balancing the “Push” of Ads with the “Pull” of Social
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/img_facebook_oldSpice_540x360-250x150.jpgPublished May 14, 2012 at 1:40 pm Back in January, Proctor and Gamble kicked off the New Year with a shocking announcement for marketers. With a flat market share and under pressure from investors, the administrat ...
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Kick(starting) the Tires of a New Content Model: Part 3
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/kickstarter-badge-backer-250x150.pngPublished May 11, 2012 at 10:54 am Well, my Kickstarter project is over. As I predicted in Part 2, I didn’t reach my funding goal, and the 30 days the campaign ran ended without a savior sugar momma coming forward ...
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Facebook IPO Woes
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/facebook_logo-250x150.pngPublished May 2, 2012 at 9:43 am The countdown to Facebook’s highly anticipated IPO has begun. On April 23rd, Facebook filed its latest amendment to its registration with SEC. According to the filing, Facebook ...
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The Analog-ist: Martians and Media
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kindlepad1-250x150.jpgPublished April 27, 2012 at 9:32 am I have fond memories of old Sesame Street skits in which a pair of Martians try to understand Earth technology, sometimes consulting a manual for reference. Here’s my favorit ...
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Hacking Edu: You Too Can Attend MIT
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MG_65011-250x150.jpgPublished April 26, 2012 at 9:59 am Thinking back to the first Hacking Edu event two weeks ago, one question I was left with was, Is higher education, in its current form, facing the threat of irrelevance? I t ...
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Hacking Edu Finale Tonight at Jet City Improv: How deep is the crisis facing Higher Ed?
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/flip-5-250x150.jpgPublished April 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm This month’s Four Peaks Hacking Edu series draws to a close tonight – or more aptly – moves onto a new series of initiatives. Despite the month’s hyperbolic “crisis” pr ...
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Gawker’s Deep Throat at Fox Gags
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/gawker_logo-250x150.jpgPublished April 24, 2012 at 4:28 pm Well it took less than 4 days for Gawker’s heralded Fox Mole, Joe Muto, to be found out, suspended, dismissed and slapped with a cease and desist order by Fox News. On April 10 G ...
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Hacking EDU: Discussing Education Reform During Husky Fest
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/April-19-4-person-panel_6761-250x150.jpgPublished April 23, 2012 at 8:00 am During a rainy kick-off to Husky Fest this past Thursday, the MCDM team was center stage for the entire day and strongly committed to discussing ways to transform education as we k ...
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Pat Summitt Leaves Her Mark on Basketball and Online
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pat-Summitt1-250x150.jpgPublished April 19, 2012 at 12:18 pm Yesterday was a big news day–full of many big stories – the NHL playoffs, the passing of Dick Clark (America Bandstand), and the ongoing Secret Service scandal. But the bigge ...
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Coveted Pulitzers Awarded to Online Publications For the First Time
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/politico-250x150.jpgPublished April 16, 2012 at 3:07 pm Politico and the Huffington Post are the first online only publications to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for journalism. The 2012 awards were announced today in New York ...
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Instagram Alternatives if Facebook Ruins It for You
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/camera-plus-icon2-185x150.pngPublished April 16, 2012 at 12:07 pm “The photos you take on Instagram are owned by you,” stressed co-founder Kevin Systrom during a SXSW panel on mobile photography last month, “they’re always going to ...
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Hacking the Table with Michael Hebb and Chase Jarvis
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MG_67851-250x150.jpgPublished April 13, 2012 at 9:06 am April 12th found the Hacking Edu team sitting at the table with several education influencers (UPDATE: check out who they are). Hosted by One Pot’s Michael Hebb at Chase Jarv ...
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I’ll Give You $1 Billion For a Good Mobile Experience
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/instagram-250x150.pngPublished April 13, 2012 at 8:18 am When I first saw the numbers I was astounded. That Facebook would pay $1 billion for Instagram, a company with 13 employees that has only been around for 2 or so years and has $0 ...
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Ghost in the Wire: The Education Crisis
http://flipthemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MG_64261-250x150.jpgPublished April 12, 2012 at 9:55 am All this talk of Hacking Education and the crisis in Higher Ed reminded me of this old Kaplan University commercial, entitled “Your Time.” The logic of the commercial is pretty ...
Gawker’s Deep Throat at Fox Gags
Well it took less than 4 days for Gawker’s heralded Fox Mole, Joe Muto, to be found out, suspended, dismissed and slapped with a cease and desist order by Fox News. On April 10 Gawker announced their “Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee”. Writing in this inaugural post the newly revealed mole explained what it was about Fox’s behaviour that finally turned him into a turncoat. It will be no surprise to you who share Mr Muto’s political views what his gripes were.
In his first post, Mr Muto’s shared some video outtakes of Mitt Romney in a pre-interview chat with Sean Hannity. including a link back to a perviously un-accredited video of Newt Gingrich’s wife applying makeup to the Gingrich visage. The next day he regaled readers with a searing expose on the appalling state of public restrooms at Fox headquarters. Oh the humanity! That same day he posted that Fox claimed to know who the mole was but that he was still embedded deep within the belly of the enemy. Later that afternoon he posted that he had been suspended as the email trail had led straight to his computer. (Death–wish much?) For good measure he included a video of a Bill O’Reilly staff meeting. On April 12th, Muto posted a copy of the cease and desist letter from Fox’s lawyers along with a fetching group photo from what looks like the 70′s that includes O’Reilly and shirt-challenged young lady. Continue reading
Hacking EDU: Discussing Education Reform During Husky Fest
Hanson Hosein interviews Jean Floten
During a rainy kick-off to Husky Fest this past Thursday, the MCDM team was center stage for the entire day and strongly committed to discussing ways to transform education as we know it. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the Four Peaks Hacking Edu events and coverage, you’ll know that MCDM students and the head of our program, Hanson Hosein, are spending the month looking at reshaping education from every angle imaginable. Clearly higher education has reached a place where everything from the enormous costs to its purpose all together needs to be re-assessed. But grade school education and the complex digital divides that separate students along socio-economic lines at an early age are fair game for discussion as well. Education as a whole in the U.S. isn’t going as well as many Americans would like to believe and collectively throwing out ideas and discussing ways that it can be re-envisioned going forward is a necessary step.
For the third event in the month-long series, the MCDM team optend for a live televised event with four key educators offering their unique perspective on how education can be reformed. First up was Jean Floten, Chancellor of Western Governors University Washington who was able to speak about what it’s like heading a 100% online university. WGU is a potential model for what higher education as a whole may look like in the future given how rapidly we’ve become a digitized society.
Viral Video of the Week–It only hurts if you watch
This week’s video has lit up all of the news feeds in the last couple of days.
And by “all of the news feeds,” I mean “all of the news feeds that the 30-somethings frequent.”
A parody based on the song “We are Young” by Fun, this reprise shows what happens to those 20-somethings after ten years of “getting higher than the Empire State” and being carried home. Prostate exams, babies, wine-and-cheese parties–there is no sacred cow to the makers of this video. Like any really good satire, the comments about it are equally entertained and dismayed.
And as a last note, it appears as though Yahoo! started to pull the YouTube links to this video once it became popular–the link HuffPo article about it, and most of the direct YouTube search links are now dead. So if the one below goes away, you’ll have to go to Yahoo! to view the video. Is this a way for Yahoo! to force people to go to them for content? If so, it’s very poor form, especially because most viewers don’t have embed coding for the Yahoo! system.
E-mail to Newt Gingrich supporters: “Help protect your identity!”
This post was written by Will Mari and produced in partnership with UW Election Eye
SEATTLE — Part of the process of keeping informed while following political campaigns is subscribing to these campaigns’ e-mail listserv’s.
This form of political spam is mostly full of routine reminders to donate money or rally at such and such a location. So it was no surprise that I got another note from Newt Gingrich yesterday morning. But what was different was that it was an ad for the identity-protection company Lifelock, Inc.
“Help Protect Your Identity and SAVE!” the banner proclaimed. It goes on to plug the service without mentioning any official affiliation with the Gingrich campaign, as NPR has reported. The company does not have any political or business connection to Newt Gingrich. (Nonetheless, note that the promo code for the offer is “NEWT.”)
- Lifelock ads have been sent out to Newt Gingrich supporters (courtesy of Lifelock, Inc. / UW Election Eye)
Gingrich is some $4.5 million in debt by his own admission, and having trouble paying its vendors. Gingrich’s campaign chief, Michael Krull, has stepped down, even as the candidate himself has vowed to fight on to the bitter end (i.e. the convention).
It makes sense, then, that the campaign would be selling its e-mail lists to advertisers, but it’s definitely a sign of what dire financial straits it’s in.
Getting into debt is fairly common in political campaigns, with some candidates still paying off supporters years later.
As the Lifelock ad claims, “It could happen to anyone.”
Pat Summitt Leaves Her Mark on Basketball and Online
Former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt (Photograph by AP)
Yesterday was a big news day–full of many big stories – the NHL playoffs, the passing of Dick Clark (America Bandstand), and the ongoing Secret Service scandal. But the biggest news in the sporting world was the retirement of Pat Summitt as head basketball coach of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers, who announced she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers last summer.
Immediately following the announcement, a wave of responses went out from the sporting community and beyond in support of the coach, many of them through Twitter and Facebook. I certainly saw it in my own feed.
Names such as Lebron James, Swin Cash, Dick Vitale, and Candace Parker tweeted following the announcement, a tweet by Sportcenter was retweeted almost 3,500 times, and Pat Summit was the top trending topic for at least twenty minutes on Twitter. Along with releases from other head women’s college basketball coaches, statements were made by Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers, and Denver Bronco’s quarterback Peyton Manning.
That response to Summitt isn’t unique to the announcement yesterday. In the past eight months, the online world has been the epicenter of support for Summitt. A quick Google search reveals numerous sites, blogs, YouTube videos, and social media accounts devoted to the legendary coach.
Kick(starting) the Tires of a New Content Model: Part 2
You may have read my first post about building a Kickstarter campaign and how I wasn’t sure how this was going to play out. I was hopeful that I’d be able to raise the $3,000 I was looking for to buy video equipment, but I also knew there was a very good chance I’d fail to raise the money. I went into this with a sense of adventure, and adventure is exactly what I’ve found.
As it stands now, I don’t think I’m going to make my goal for Better Cocktails at Home. Sad I know, but fear not, because I’ve learned a ton and I am excited about what the future holds for this project. So far I’ve only raised a couple of hundred dollars, with the biggest pledge being from my father (thanks Dad). When I initially was putting together the project, I knew that $3,000 was a stretch and that $1,000 or $1,500 was more “doable,” but that wasn’t enough to buy the kind of equipment I wanted this production to have. That said, I could have put my goal at $1,000 and I could still be at $191.
Coveted Pulitzers Awarded to Online Publications For the First Time
Politico and the Huffington Post are the first online only publications to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for journalism. The 2012 awards were announced today in New York City. According to Pulitzer, political cartoonist Matt Wuerker of Politico won, “for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing and pictorial effect….”
Huffington Post writer David Wood won the prestigious National Reporting” prize for his ten part feature on wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. All Pulitzer awardees receive $10,000.
Politico and the Huffington Post are both online only publications and in some ways represent the triumph of blogs in the new journalism landscape. Several of the big hitters in traditional journalism also won awards including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hyper-local Seattle based newsweekly The Stranger also received an award for their feature writing. Known for its irreverent partisanship and humorous and snarky editorial style, The Stranger shares with its bigger cousins Politico and The Huffington Post a form of journalism that used to be shunned by the Pulitzer. This kind of journalism is partisan, opinionated and distrustful of big newspaper editorial voices. As much as the shift to awarding online publications is significant, the shift by the Pulitzer towards these new kinds of editorial voices might be a recognition that blogs are still the future of journalism.
Instagram Alternatives if Facebook Ruins It for You
"Oragami balloons" on Instagram
“The photos you take on Instagram are owned by you,” stressed co-founder Kevin Systrom during a SXSW panel on mobile photography last month, “they’re always going to be owned by you.”
In what can be considered a subtle jab at Facebook, well before any acquisition talks, Systrom underscored one of Instagram’s perceived differentiating benefits: its refreshingly clear terms of service that claim no ownership rights to the content shared on its platform – “perceived” because, in reality, Instagram’s image rights closely resembles those of Facebook, although the latter’s remain less clear.
Instagram:
Instagram does NOT claim ANY ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post on or through the Instagram Services. By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or through the Instagram Services, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content not shared publicly (“private”) will not be distributed outside the Instagram Services.
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