It’s November; ’tis the season of month-long marathon creative endeavors, such as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) For NaNoWriMo, participants aim to complete an original novel-length manuscript within a month. NaNoWriMo has existed for over a decade now and has grown into a subculture of sorts, spilling into offline participation and local chapters that meet [...]
Only a few months after Clay Shirky’s book on the glorious new age of amateur content creation on the Web, Forrester Research reports that social media content creation in the U.S. - that means posting blogs, pictures, comments, etc. – has decreased since last year. From PC World: Social media “creators,” which Forrester defines as [...]
If you live in Chicago and work in online … anything really, you know that there are about 5 – 10 events going on each week geared toward technology and social media. Tweet-ups, networking functions, parties, demos, you name it. I went to one of these events earlier last week, a social media focused event, [...]
So I was at a reception the other day, talking to someone about the internet and the free/gift economy and how it’s the inevitable future of a lot of industries, including journalism. The discussion invariably turned to Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price and I talked up the book and Anderson’s theories. [...]
I don’t think you have to be a “new media expert” or a journalism scholar to realize that: 1.) The news business is in the toilet. 2.) The journalism profession as we know it is going the way of the dodo. 3.) It’s kind of the fault of the Internet. Anyone reading this blog certainly [...]
Last Saturday I hung out with about 30 members of the Association for Women Journalists – Chicago and talked a bit about the 25 things I learned from SXSW, and then it just morphed into an overall discussion about journalism, technology and what’s happening next. There’s a lot of curiosity and just a little trepidation [...]
Day 3 was a mixture of practical workshops and topical discussion. I spent the morning at a panel on user experience design: the “soft” red headed stepchild of web design that’s secretly its backbone. Of all of the panels I’ve attended here, Leah Buley’ s insight on how to work as a UX team of [...]
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