August 2010
55 posts
“As in the infographics, or Flash-based animations, building simple news-related application will have to progressively shift away form the IT department and into the hands of newsroom people (thanks to an emerging breed of tech-savvy journalists). In order to achieve that transition, an entirely new set of tools has to be invented. This is the required condition for the takeover of apps in the content business.”
—A Toolkit for the Cognitive Container | Monday Note
Data Driven Journalism from the NYT
Data Driven Journalism - Telling Stories Online
“There are less disruptive remedies. Robert Reich, in his recent book “The Future of Success,” notes that modern consumers, like corporations, respond to the marketplace by “outsourcing” choice. They hire experts—critics, in the old way of looking at things. While many experts, such as interior decorators, offer personalized service and charge a mint, the masses have access to choosing services that are essentially free. That, in effect, is what a “brand” is.”
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the hedonic treadmill
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The future of social media is about deeper integration into the overall experience someone has with a brand online – this definitely includes everything from the brand’s domain to customer service calls and online communication, to sharing in social networks and offline events. For professionals in the industry, this will mean learning to dig deeper than simply “joining the conversation” to developing the necessary skills to guide web processes and strategies that accrue to achieving real business goals. This means creating processes and workflows and creating cross-functional teams to create truly integrated projects and programs.
Social media doesn’t have an ROI problem, it has an integration problem: Putting social media into a clearly defined silo ensures its failure to make an impact where it counts.
” —Integrating Social Media Strategy into User Experience Design — Very Official Blog
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Trains as products are fascinating - but worthless. But trains as part of a railway ecosystem are tremendously valuable.
So it goes with most ecosystems. It’s fine for consumers to focus their attention on the hardware, but if you’re developing an ecosystem you can’t indulge that bias. This is the mistake we see clients make when they say they want the iPod/iPhone of their industry - they forget that it’s the ecosystem that makes them a success, the hardware is just the hook. You must pay attention to every detail, no matter how invisible or dull it may be to the end consumer. Only when all those details are taken care of (and believe me Apple sweats those details more than just about anyone else) will the ecosystem really sing.
” —The Hardware Gets All the Glory | Blog | design mind
“Where this leads, Anderson and Wolff argue, is a recentralization of power back into the hands of large conglomerates - the ones who can aggregate the audiences, and create the large multi-screen, multi-device ecosystems to keep them engaged.”
—Debating the Death of the Web | Blog | design mind
“In journalism schools, the concept of precision journalism — the application of social and behavioral science research methods to the practice of journalism — found a ready market. The ready acceptance of this concept in academe was due in part to its contribution to the healing of the breach between the green eyeshade and chi-square factions. It demonstrated the applicability of social science research methods to the very real problems of newsgathering in an increasingly complex society. It produced work that both the researchers and the craft people could appreciate. The tools of sampling, computer analysis, and statistical inference increased the traditional power of the reporter without changing the nature of his or her mission — to find the facts, to understand them, and to explain them without wasting time.”
—The New Precision Journalism - Chapter 1
Local Media in a Postmodern World, Part CII, The New News Curator →
thepomoblog.com
Discussion of “curation” as it relates to journalism, media, news (especially local)
“Architects have long understood that the structures we inhabit can influence not only the way we feel, but also the way we behave. This turns out to be true in digital environments like social networks, too. Subtle differences in the underlying structures of these networks give rise to distinct patterns of behavior.”
—interactions magazine | Why “the conversation” isn’t necessarily a conversation.
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