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I’m trying out Seesmic: Twitter meets YouTube

May 12, 2008 – 9:27 am

I’m trying out the new video-based social media service Seesmic, based on recommendations by Paul Bradshaw and other colleagues. It seems kind of rough so far, but I’m used to rough.
Here’s what I like and don’t like about it so far…
(UPDATE: Heh… OK, another thing I don’t like.. Apparently embedding a Seesmic video in a [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Microblogging, exploring, mobile, social media, video | Comments (2)

Dale Willman on radio in Indonesia

May 10, 2008 – 10:23 am

Dale Willman

Borobudur, a Buddhist temple on the island of Java.

For a change of pace, here’s an audio podcast. My good friend and environmental journalism colleague Dale Willman just got back from a three-week trip to Indonesia where he was training radio journalists there how to do an environmental radio show — and just how to [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Audio Show, culture, education, environment, interviews, media evolution, mobile, podcasts, world | Comments (0)

Beth Kanter digs further into the Nokia N95 firmware quandary

April 17, 2008 – 9:57 am

eschipul, via Flickr (CC license)

My friend Beth Kanter is keeping a close eye on Nokia, hoping to keep her new N95 from turning into a brick, like mine did.

Recently I bought, fell madly in love with, and then sadly had to return a near-perfect moblogging tool — the Nokia N95 — after the very first [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in business, mobile, problems, telephony, tips, tools | Comments (11)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

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Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

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N95 Report: Why I had to give up

March 29, 2008 – 11:44 am

NOTE: I posted the article below about 10 minutes too soon. After completing the Nokia firmware upgrade as instructed, using their software on a Windows laptop, my lovely N95 morphed into an expensive brick. It won’t start.
It’s surprising how upset I am about this. I’ve held off for years on getting a serious cell phone [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, mobile, problems, solutions, telephony, tips, tools | Comments (14)

Social Media Tradeoffs

December 28, 2007 – 2:20 pm

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Though it’s often trivialized and denigrated, instant gratification is a very powerful thing.

As I’ve gotten more comfortable and involved with using the microblogging tool Twitter, I’ve realized that I’ve been using the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us less and less. I’m not the only one.
When I posted about this on Twitter, my [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Microblogging, emotions, social media | Comments (9)

How and why to get started with blogging: The REAL answer

December 19, 2007 – 10:47 am

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Don’t just start blogging. Spend some time scoping things out first.

Almost daily, people e-mail me to ask me for advice about their online-media careers. I just got such an inquiry this morning. It started out pretty typically:
“I found your Contentious.com recently. I’m very interested in online writing as a career. Can [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, blogs, business, careers, community, conversational media, media literacy, skills, social media, solutions, tips | Comments (8)

Post-travel catch-up: How do you do it?

November 28, 2007 – 6:10 am

Amy Gahran

Barcelona was fabulous, especially the living statues. Now it’s back to real life. (Cringe!)

I’ve just returned from a 2-week trip that mixed business, vacation, and family. It was quite a whirlwind, but it was also fun, exciting, and important in many ways. While I was gone I was able to keep E-Media Tidbits going, [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in help needed, productivity, travel | Comments (6)

Twitter wildfire updates: Useful, or not?

October 25, 2007 – 11:21 am

Twittermap

Twittermap is one way to find recent individual “tweets” from the wildfire region — or anywhere.

As I intimated in today’s linkblog post, the widely trivialized microblogging service Twitter seems to be redeeming itself somewhat during the current Southern CA wildfire crisis.
HyperGene Media Blog noted yesterday that the free mobile-friendly service is being used by news [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Microblogging, services, social media | Comments (1)

Skin in the media game: Smart investing in the attention economy

October 15, 2007 – 12:22 pm

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Do you treat online media like a spectator sport, or do you really have skin in this game?

Recently, my Poynter colleague Roy Peter Clark caused a stir with his article Your Duty To Read the Paper. There, he wrote:
“I pose this challenge to you: It is your duty as [...]

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