by David | Nov 23, 2012 | Digital Migration
Technological advances, more sophisticated and accomplished reporters – but troubling long-term trends This year, I took the lovely and learned Janine Warner along to the University of Mohyla’s institute for the Digital Future of Journalism (and yes, I am...
by David | Oct 11, 2012 | Digital Migration
Wow. Tried uploading this to Facebook: No go. Then tried uploading to Tumblr. No go. Got this: Someone please tell me again how it is that Animated GIFs are supposedly “taking over the interwebs” when it’s impossible to get the damn things to upload?...
by David | Sep 24, 2012 | Digital Migration
Every time I read through one of these EULAs, it just keeps getting worse and worse. I upgraded the iPad to iOS6, because I wanted to test it out, and I’m not ready yet to turn the Maps feature on my iPhone into a hot, steaming mess. But part of the whole...
by David | Jun 6, 2012 | Digital Migration
This is a photo of my class of working journalists. I am demonstrating for them how easy it is to do a blog post in real time. Please excuse any typos, because I am in a bit of a hurry. We can also use the blog to link to other sites about Ethiopia – for...
by David | May 28, 2012 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Video
UPDATE: The first video below was erroneously a duplicate of video #3. I blame the shoddy connection I had – I am thrilled that the videos made it up to YouTube at all, frankly, and it took me an hour and several tried to get this post to publish, so I had some...
by David | May 14, 2012 | Digital Migration, television
I met with the CEO of the Fana Broadcasting network this past week. We talked about the phenomenal growth occurring here in Ethiopia, and what that is going to mean for the traditional media here. Right now, as in so many other developing countries, the media...
