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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
We Need Social Media Janitors
OK, I'll admit it. I'm as guilty of assigning myself a made-up title as anyone. But c'mon - "Digital Alchemist" is pretty cool. And it's a nice shorthand for what I do - which is to research, study, broadcast via social media, write case studies, write blog posts,...
The Oscars on Social Media: International Audiences Yawn, US Bloggers Snark
Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such luck. Meanwhile, the rest of the world didn't seem too interested in...
HTML5 Video: “Cap’n! The CPUs Won’t Take Much More O’ This!”
Dep't of Vaporware: New Super-Duper HTML5 Video Players Will Solve All Your Problems I'm starting to get more than a little annoyed at the incessant blithe assurances that keep coming up around the (now) universally agreed-upon proposition that Flash Is Bad, All...
A Social Media Milestone: A Crowdsourced State of the Union Address?
The Teleprompter is Us Tonight's State of the Union address is being billed as "the most interactive political act ever." Well, other than the crowdsourcing that brought people to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Although, if you read through the comments...
Truth Vigilantes and Online Reputation
This was originally a comment to Robert Niles' excellent piece on the Online Journalism Review, on whether or not the New York Times should be a "Truth Vigilante". I'm republishing it here, because it looks like the commenting feature on OJR (always a little hinky) is...
Panorama Experiments
Just playing around with some of the photos I've shot over the years - this one is a panorama of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia. It's an amazing town - ancient and modern, and at the time this photo was taken, baking at about 105 degrees Fahrenheit.