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Why geeks love the Kindle 2

March 6, 2009 – 10:35 am

Dan Sawyer spotted this gem recently on XKCD:
By the way… XKCD is a brilliant and poignant webcomic, one of my favorites. It’s also CC-licensed. Go check it out.

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in art, culture, e-readers, fun stuff | Comments (0)

What could news look like? Cool visual tools

December 5, 2008 – 12:48 am

A picture is worth 10,000 words… especially if you can play with it! This week I’m in Los Angeles, where I’ll be leading a group presentation on online interactive and visual tools that can make news, stories, and context more vivid and compelling than ever. Also presenting are:

Mark S. Luckie, the multimedia journalist behind [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in events, journalism, photos, visual communication | Comments (3)

Why CNN’s pseudo “hologram” was such a bad idea

November 7, 2008 – 1:24 pm

Someone might want to tell CNN: TV is a two-dimensional medium. Holograms don’t work there — not even in high-definition. That’s even more true for holograms that aren’t really holograms.
On election night, CNN debuted a new type of eye candy into its coverage: three-dimensional video interviews with reporter Jessica Yellin and rapper Will.I.Am, both speaking [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in fun stuff, journalism, news, problems, video | Comments (1)

David Cohn: Pushing journalism frontiers

May 7, 2008 – 7:49 pm

At the NewsTools 2008 conference last week, I had a chance to sit down with one of the emerging luminaries of entrepreneurial, experimental journalism. David Cohn runs the BeatBlogging project for NewAssignment.net, and he also works with NewsTrust . Plus, he runs a great blog of his own and is a constant presence on [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, conversational media, interviews, journalism, media evolution, processes, skills, social media, social networks, video | Comments (4)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

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 [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Content Style & Business, General, Labels and Metadata, PR & marketing, Resources, Strategy, Wikis, blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, content management, contributed content, conversational media, creativity, credibility, critical thinking, culture, distribution, education, experience, forums, journalism, media evolution, mindset, mobile, networking, news, processes, projects, research, search, services, skills, social media, traffic, transparency, world | Comments (18)

Preview: Sex, Journalism & Trust

January 6, 2008 – 5:08 pm

RabbleRadio, via Flickr (CC license)

Prudishness and journalism were never a good mix.

Today I started pulling together a bunch of stray threads that have been nagging at me for some time. Anyone who reads my work knows that I have longstanding admiration for quality journalism — and growing frustration with the culture and attitudes of professional [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in culture, emotions, help needed, journalism, psychology, random thought | Comments (13)

CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?

October 25, 2007 – 11:00 am

Alex Miroshnichenko

Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.

For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]