My mom has always been our clan’s chief information hunter and learner.
That is, until last week, when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer: Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.
Mom was a medical research librarian – someone who delighted in being a generous resource for journalists like me.
I remember her describing the day in 1981 or 1982 when a [...]
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Crowdsourcing my mom’s cancer
Posted in crowdsourcing, true stories, tagged Bing Center for Waldenstrom's Research, cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, journalism, librarian, Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, Rituxan, true stories, university, Waldenstrom's on August 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The Twitters tell the story
Posted in Twitter, crowdsourcing, digital journalism, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, user generated content on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was asked to be the wrap-up Rapporteur for the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin last week.
The conference had the Twitter hashtag #isoj, and, partly because it is Webcast live, people were watching and Twittering about it in real time on at least four continents. (Here is [...]
Twitter 101
Posted in Twitter, bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, social networking, user generated content, tagged AP, BBC, Forrester, journalism, KPBS, marketing, NBC, New York Times, news, Pistachio, public relations, Smart Mobs, statistics, TED, Tweet, Twitter, Wiki on March 3, 2008 | 17 Comments »
What is Twitter?
It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less.
And it is a place to listen.
Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around the world. They [...]
Call out the posse — the Twitter posse
Posted in bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, true stories, tagged , Aspen Institute, CNN Democratic candidate debate, J.D. Lasica, mobile, moblogging, Roundable on Mobile Media and Civic engagement, SF State, Twitter, UNLV, Utterz on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like a [...]
Students out to save the news biz
Posted in crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, social networking, tagged community news, crowdsourcing, innovation incubator, journalism, journalism students, Knight Foundation grant, Online News Association, Poynter on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the reason for my slow posts this past couple weeks, as I and other faculty herded students from seven universities to the Online News Association conference in Toronto to present youthful and innovative visions for the future of news.
First, a video of students from each of the three projects from MediaGiraffe.
I’m a little partial [...]
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