Tag Archives: Reflections
Graduating MCDM: Another Milepost on the Journey
On June 9, 2011 I did something I didn’t expect to do a few years earlier: I officially graduated from the University of Washington with a Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) degree. The reason I didn’t expect to … Continue reading
Online Media Democracy Is Still Under Construction, or Why Engadget Had to Flip the Switch on Comments
After turning off all site comments on Tuesday, AOL-owned Engadget today flipped the comment switch back on, ending a two-day hiatus resulting from its editors seeing too many comments that were “mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations.” … Continue reading
Power to the people – Us Now movie
“Revolutions happen when society adopts new behaviors.” – Clay Shirky “Us Now” is a British video and website about how people come to each other on the Internet from a place a trust. Ostensibly, people online are more willing to … Continue reading
To Twitter or not to Twitter, Part Deux
If you have heard about #AmazonFail, #Oprah, #HudsonRiverCrash in the past few months, you probably fall into one of these categories: Taking the leap onto the Twitter bandwagon On the cusp of joining Twitter but don’t want to manage another … Continue reading
The Potential of the Crowd – The Case of Kutiman
What you are about to see here is a week-old, mind-blowing example of data mining and passion. A talented young man by the name of Ophir Kutiel, a.k.a Kutiman, poured through the countably many videos on YouTube of people playing music, practicing instruments, jamming, or showing off their mad skills and love of music and created beautifully lyrical mash-ups that musically surpass most of these performances by a few miles.
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We all want to feel a sense of connectedness and belonging. Even when we are singing loud in the shower, we are hoping someone is listening. What Kutiman created here is an extraordinary moment of someone from the apartment next door joining in your shower-singing in a duet across the walls the separates you. Continue reading
Digital Disruption on the Workflow of Stock Photography
Stock photography is a global industry, which manufactures, promotes and distributes photographic images for use in marketing, advertising, editorial purposes, and increasingly for multimedia products and digital platforms. Worth an estimated US$2 billion annually, the leading corporations of the stock … Continue reading
Watson’s CauseWired
In his timely book, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), Tom Watson tracks the growing trend of activists creatively using online media to generate new forms of involvement, support, and fundraising. Watson presents a series of case studies and anecdotes from his personal experience to analyze networked activism and provide a set of principles, as well as a few words of caution, for effective online organizing. Continue reading
