links for 2011-08-22
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Flickr is very much dead in the water. It will take time to really see it happen, but they’ve lost the soul of photosharing. They’ve lost the spirit of photosharing — the zest and passion and love — and while they got away with that for a long time due to lack of competition, things have now changed with Google Photos arriving on the scene, and to a degree 500px as well.
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In her guide, Mayer argues that newsrooms need to adopt a series of “value statements” about their relationship with their readers and their communities, and that these statements should include:
links for 2011-08-16
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Increasingly, though, the ideas that spark progress are collective, diffusive endeavors rather than the result (to the extent they ever were) of individual inspiration. Ideas increasingly resist branding. The idea of the idea is evolving.
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Google Plus is a failure no matter what the numbers may say.
25 million users in barely a month is nothing to sneeze at. Google Plus holds the honor of being one of the fastest growing websites in history, and these early numbers had analysts screaming that Facebook would be all but dead in a few more months.
But today I click on my newsfeed and see tumbleweed blowing through the barren, blank page.
links for 2011-08-12
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What remains – those dry court reports that fill the space between adverts in most local newspapers – could in theory be of use to those who want to ask bigger questions than “Which one of my neighbours has been in trouble?”
But it is being published online in a format which makes it far from easy for anyone to interrogate – including newspapers’ own journalists.
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I don’t want a third platform unless it can be integrated with one and two. Fortunately, through the addition of one of a number of Chrome extensions – apps that you can choose to add to your account, and which alter the way Google+ operates – it is possible to forward what you do on Google+ to other platforms. Using them requires you to use the Google Chrome browser.
links for 2011-08-09
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A map has been published today detailing areas across the UK from Aberdeen to Plymouth and Londonderry to Norwich which can make the case to enjoy the service.
links for 2011-08-08
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Anyway, I think the video is also a reminder that, beyond the UK's grubby Phone-hacking scandal with all its accusations of back-handings and worse, mainstream media can and should be a vital part of any community, and provide a valued, valuable service.
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These are books that provide historical context to the hysteria surrounding technologies; that give an insight into the cultural movements changing society; that explore key philosophical issues such as privacy; or that explore the commercial dynamics driving change.
links for 2011-08-05
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With distinct foresight we have compiled a list of some of the coolest cloud-based storage options currently available on the market:
links for 2011-08-04
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First, and most importantly, they’re going to do what they do whether you think social media is a fad or not. This is one area where the maxim, “Lead, follow, or get run the hell over,” applies perfectly. If you ignore it, you will get burned. Simple as that.
links for 2011-08-02
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But is there really one “visualization community”? I’m involved in visualization and know many of the folks on this map, and it looks like a pretty good map to me, but it seems to skew heavily toward the design, art, and infographics world. That’s probably because of the seed accounts chosen, and this chart misses a number of folks coming at visualization from the open government, journalism, and academic points of view. It also certainly excludes many prominent visualizers who don’t use Twitter. This is a universal problem: a visualization must either include or exclude each node; it’s a binary, black-and-white sort of decision process about a fixed set of nodes drawn from available data, but reality isn’t like that. Real communities are porous and overlapping and span multiple communication networks.
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The move was outlined in a story published in the print edition of the Morley Observer and Advertiser for the past fortnight headlined “Drop in for a cuppa and tell us your news.”
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What we found at Wolverhampton Homes is that it takes perseverance and ideas. We’ve been on facebook for just over a year and at first, we had very little interaction or engagement.
links for 2011-08-01
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By virtue of what departments are asked to consider, the risks can and do range in terms of scale and potential severity but they help ensure that the BBC is able to effectively manage and deliver its projects successfully. Indeed, it would be negligent not to have a Risk Register that covered every potential scenario.
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