SubscribeLessons from Gov2.0, and How I liveblogged it
September 19, 2009 at 11:51 a.m.
For three days last week, I attended the Gov2.0 Expo Showcase and Gov2.0 Summit, liveblogging the entire thing here and cross posting to Twitter. Between Tuesday and Thursday, I posted nine entries and 550 updates. After the conference, I dumped the entries and updates into one document, amounting to 66 printed pages and 19,815 words, plus another page of notes from the event's press conference and two video interviews with Tim O'Reilly and Santa Cruz's Peter Koht.
This was, in effect, just my usual notes, except more thorough and done entirely in public. Doing ...
Art blogging on Art Beat about art bloggers
August 8, 2009 at 12:58 p.m.
I had the pleasure of talking to Scott Rosenberg earlier this month about his book Say Everything for the NewsHour's Art Beat blog. The book is billed as a history of blogging, and it tells that story admirably. We also got to talk a bit about why blogging works so well on the web and how it differs from other literary forms. Read that post here.
That conversation spawned a follow-up post in which I interviewed three art bloggers about how the medium has affected their message.
For example, here's Lisa Fung, arts editor for the LA Times ...
Beyond publishing
June 1, 2009 at 9:26 p.m.
Rebuilding my blog in Django means I can do more than just publish posts.
New tool: TwitBlog for LiveBlogging with Twitter
January 15, 2009 at 10:39 p.m.
Let's say you want to live-blog something. Let's say you like Twitter. Twitter is great for immediacy, but what if you want to round up all your tweets at the end of the day and put them in a blog post? You'd have to copy each one, reformat it, then put the whole list in chronological order.
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Production notes:
I put this little app together yesterday after thinking about it a lot longer. It's a simple Django-powered tool that converts a feed from Twitter Search into plain text or ...
Everything and nothing
May 26, 2008 at 3:02 a.m.
Ryan Sholin asks in this month's Carnival of Journalism:
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?
A scene from the Grey's Anatomy season finale I saw last night comes to mind:
A young man is trapped in quick-dry concrete, which he jumped into because he thought it would impress a girl. While he's moaning in ER--the cement is leaching water from his body, burning his skin, crushing him slowly--the team of doctors, who are all highly gifted and well-trained, is arguing over what has to be done first.
Finally, the ...
