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Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber

April 20, 2008 – 3:20 pm

OpenDemocracy, via Flickr (CC license)

What might this Malian girl and I have in common, and what might we learn from each other? How could we know if we can’t really connect?

This morning I listened to an excellent Radio Open Source interview. Host Christopher Lydon was talking to Global Voices Online founder Ethan Zuckerman and GVO [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, Net Effects on Society, community, conversational media, critical thinking, culture, mindset, news, personal, problems, processes, psychology, skills, social media, social networks, society, solutions, tools | Comments (9)

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 [...]

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Boulder windstorm continues

January 26, 2008 – 9:46 am

It was like being rocked to sleep last night… ALL night… and still today. Good thing I’m not prone to motion sickness.

Courtesy National Center for Atmospheric Research
Notice the difference in scale (vertical axis) from the chart I published last night. Oh yes, the wind is kicking up today! Hang on!

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, community, science | Comments (1)

Jack Vinson on the “me collector”

July 31, 2007 – 11:14 am

Jack Vinson

Knowledge management guru Jack Vinson had a lot of advice for scattered content creators like me.

In response to my post yesterday, I want one place for all my content, knowledge management guru and very cool guy Jack Vinson (who I finally got to meet at BlogHer) posted an elaborate list of almost-options that [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Feeds (RSS), blogs, friends, tools, wish list | Comments (2)

Tools of Engagement: Links and Notes for Discussion

April 18, 2007 – 11:01 am

Minnesota Public Radio got a lot of things about online community right with this "Idea Generator" project.

As I mentioned yesterday, tomorrow I’m giving a session about online political coverage called "Tools of Engagement: It’s a Conversation, Stupid!"
I’ve been collecting a lot of "string" for this talk, and I won’t pretend I have it thoroughly [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Conversations, Media Musings | Comments (4)

Videobloggers, Take Note: Nokia N93i

January 18, 2007 – 7:14 pm

Forgive me from getting geeky for a moment — but oh, this is sweet…   
Check out the Nokia 93i, which was featured at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. I heard about it this morning on Slashdot Review, and it had me drooling…
…READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE at my other blog on citizen journalism, [...]

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Discussion List Tips: Web Reading and Feeds

January 12, 2007 – 5:21 pm

One way to cut e-mail overload: Here’s what it looks like when you read a discussion list on the web, rather than by e-mail. (Click to enlarge)

For more than a decade, e-mail discussion lists have been a mainstay of conversational media — and I think they’re likely to continue to remain popular. E-mail is approachable [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, Feeds (RSS) | Comments (0)

Second Life Frustration: Video Tutorials, Please?

January 12, 2007 – 1:33 pm

My current Second Life Avatar, with neither a name nor appearance she likes, is thoroughly confused by this environment.

Since Second Life, the virtual online world populated with avatars and live events, has become so popular, I decided I should check it out. It seems a natural fit with my work in conversational media, because conversation [...]

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Bon Echo: Firefox that doesn\’t keep quitting on me

December 29, 2006 – 7:06 pm

Bon Echo, currently in alpha testing mode, is a developer preview release of the next-generation Firefox browser.

As I’ve said many times, I adore my new Intel-based Macbook laptop. I also adore the Firefox web browser. But one recent annoyance for me has been that Firefox hasn’t been completely comfortable running on my Macbook. It kept [...]

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What\’s in your Firefox search bar?

December 29, 2006 – 6:00 pm

Here’s what I have in my Firefox search bar. What’s in yours?

One of my favorite features of Firefox is the search bar to which you can add search tools that you use frequently. That way, you don’t have to visit the search tool’s site in order to perform a search. It’s a time-saver.
At the left [...]

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