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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 ...
Spanish Revolution is Written with a Hashtag
This is the visual tale of two incredibly intense weeks in Spain, when people took over the public spaces—streets and squares—and tried to imagine a healthier way to do politics. It all started on May the 15th with a set of demonstrations in different cities against the effects of the Spanish economic crisis, it’s root causes, and in general against way politics work.
Most of the gatherings were organized or coordinated through Twitter and Facebook. Both social media services helped the unstructured protesters and supporters stay organized throughout the two weeks.
The roots for the outrage in Spain—a country the size of California—are the high unemployment (20%, rising to 42% among young people) how big banks and companies are firing people while still earning lots of money, and the fact that several politicians accused in court were candidates again in the upcoming regional elections.
Two weeks later the movement, labeled with the hashtag #spanishrevolution, has started to put their ideas in motion. In the main cities the neighborhood assemblies have been created, giving birth to a more practical way to change society and seeding a new future.
Here’s a look at these two weeks in photos. Some mine, some from different Flickr users who posted them under CC licenses or have agreed to have them published for this article.
- On May the 15th demonstrations were organized under the Slogan “Real Democracy Now” all over Spain.
Lynn Shelton and Matt Vancil on Media Space Tonight
Undeniably, the two industries that have been most severely disrupted by the digital media revolution are the music and film industries. Tonight’s airing of the latest Media Space television show highlights the work of two local area film disrupters. Matt Vancil and Lynn Shelton might not share a similar common artistic vision in their work but they are both pioneering new ways to fund, distribute and produce motion picture content. Pioneering crowd-source development models for his web series “JourneyQuest” Vancil also delves deep into his storytelling philosophy. Lynn Shelton has garnered both industry accolades and indy-cred for her distinct feature films and work in episodic television.
In this fascinating conversation moderated by MCDM Director and Media Space host Hanson Hosein, Shelton and Vancil delve deeply into their creative processes and storytelling philosophies. Shot in front of a live audience at the newly opened SIFF Cinema Center, this latest episode of Media Space airs tonight at 9:00pm on UW TV.
The Filter Bubble: We Spend a Lot of Time Watching Cat Videos
Eli Pariser, author of “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You” is on a book tour and made a stop at the KUOW 94.1 studios in Seattle on Tuesday.
According to the former Moveon.org chief, web services like Facebook, Google and Yahoo! News aim to personalize content and maximize the likelihood of the user clicking on sponsored displayed links. On KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds, Pariser talked about what troubles him about these practices. His main concern is that the practice of steering viewers to specific content is not transparent. This is what Pariser calls the “The Filter Bubble,” which he fears can increase polarization and limit engagement across ideological lines. While convenient for individual users, this is not always in the best interest of the public as a whole. As he explained in the New York Times editorial on May 23, 2011, Pariser sees this filtering of news and information as a direct threat to democracy because it limits exposure to content with differing viewpoints and increases content that already jives with users’ typical behavior and preferences. Continue reading
The Networked Consumer: Cut Through The Clutter
It is a jungle out there in mobile communications. The mobile application markets are particularly chaotic. How do you know which Sudoku app is right for you when there are literally thousands of Sudoku apps out there? Thousands on each mobile platform: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile 7. Thousands.
With every seemingly insurmountable online/mobile/content challenge that has emerged over the last two decades, smart entrepreneurs have recognized a corresponding opportunity. Google? Google emerged out of a need to sift through and evaluate the deluge of internet content developed during Web 1.0.
AppStoreHQ homepage
In mobile applications this is where market research, filtering technology and social networking come in. Instead of an anonymous algorithm, researchers are turning to your social networks for inspiration–finding out what works from people in your network that you trust. It seems like a natural and healthy progression. In an age when consumers are increasingly leery of advertising and have many channels to turn to in avoiding commercials, these consumers are also increasingly connected to each other.
This is the third article in a series exploring social network trends in online commerce and how some Seattle companies are navigating the landscape. Continue reading
Behind the Photograph: What is the White House Situation Room?
It was like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. A somber and youthful President addressing the nation in an unprecedented late night broadcast, announcing that an elite team of Navy Seals had quickly and decisively killed the head of a global terrorist network. Television viewers across the planet watched as Barack Obama closed one chapter in the long struggle to bring to justice those responsible for the events of September 11th 2001.
In the hours and days that followed many speculated about the exact details of the dramatic raid. This speculation was exacerbated by the shifting official narrative of the raid coupled with a frustrating lack of physical or photographic evidence.
After the White House had decisively announced that they were not going to release photos of Osama Bin-Laden’s corpse, journalists, pundits and those of us curious about exactly what had happened were left with Obama’s speech and one enigmatic and very dramatic photo to ponder. Now known as the “Situation Room” photo, this one photo has in the weeks following the raid gained an iconic stature.
Pete Souza's iconic WHSR photo.
The Power of the Action-Idea: Detroit Uprising
The short film above is the culmination of a project that my colleague Scott Macklin and I had pursued last summer, as an exercise in storytelling for my Storyteller Uprising book (just revised and expanded this week), as well as for our storytelling class earlier this year.
Our working premise? A conference for journalists seeking new business models, looks to Detroit’s incredible community activism (particularly urban farming) for inspiration. We would somehow mash up what was developing inside the conference with what was happening on the outside: slow food, meet slow news.
Seattle Arts & Lectures:’Let’s Do the Numbers’: Metrics and Maturation of Digital Media in Emerging Markets
“Let’s Do the Numbers’: Metrics and Maturation of Digital Media in Emerging Markets. One of the central storylines of Anita Verna Crofts’ culminating Seattle Arts and Lecture talk addresses the “demographic dividend” that many emerging market countries possess: namely, the significantly young populations who can drive economic growth as they enter the workforce.
However, a young population alone does not guarantee success. Certain stars must align in governance, education, and employment opportunities. Countries that are home to large youth populations and have limited infrastructure or jobs opportunities find themselves in challenging situations where they have millions of under employed and unemployed youth. Some of these youth are educated and some not—and if there are no jobs to focus their talents then unrest can occur, and often does. Again, it comes back to the human capacity on the ground.
A Story to Tell: Community Centric Storytelling for Nonprofits in the Digital Age
Scott Macklin and Anita Verna Crofts spoke at the 17th Annual Washington State Nonprofit Conference last Friday.
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