The Cult of Me

30 Good Minutes: Emerging Media and the News

Brad King — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:04:56 +0000

Following up on my 5 Good Minutes series from South by Southwest Interactive, I’m now interviewing folks in the news (and related) industries about emerging technology at their organizations. Primarily this is for my students at Ball State University and the AEJMC. But I thought you might find it interesting as well. I’ll be [...]

How News Orgs Are Turning to Staff, Technology & Users to Improve Comments

Brad King — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:22:38 +0000

How News Orgs Are Turning to Staff, Technology & Users to Improve Comments. I’m continually bothered by writers who discuss moderating comments as if this is something revolutionary. We’re more than 20 years into this in the digital landscape and yet writers, editors and reporters continue to act as if they have parsed out some answer [...]

Police Raid Gizmodo Journalist’s House

Brad King — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:15:20 +0000

There’s much to discuss about Gizmodo’s decision to pay $5,000 for an iPhone left in a bar by an Apple engineer. However, when police begin kicking down the front doors of journalists over this incident, things have spun out of control. What the press is not writing about – as journalist and professor Dan Gillmor [...]

Why Digital Native Isn’t a Real Idea

Brad King — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:41:54 +0000

I’ve expanded upon this idea on my personal blog, but since I’ve been discussing it lately, I thought I might go ahead and link this here as well. The idea of the Digital Native, that oft-talked about terms, is one that people use incorrectly all the time. In fact, there is no proof, no science, no [...]

On The Future of Technology, Remix Culture and Software Tools

Brad King — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:14:31 +0000

<1> Last week, I gave a presentation at the Popular Culture Association that didn’t go very well. It was the first public presentation of a project that Brian McNely, Matt Mullins and I had worked on for the better part of this school year. The goal of “The Object Remix”: create a story using publicly available footage [...]

The Game-Changer: Netbooks v. iPad

Brad King — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:18:26 +0000

I’m not fan of Apple design (or any technology design that substitutes centralized, corporate control for open systems). I’ve been vocal about this since my days at Wired back in 1999. This isn’t to say that I think every company should be forced to open-ness, merely that I will fight the wide-spread adoption of such [...]

Geo-Location Visualizations from SXSW

Brad King — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:47:41 +0000

I just came across this amazing data visualization from the South by Southwest Interactive conference. The data is courtesy of SimpleGeo, a Boulder, Colorado company currently in its early stage. I am currently giddy thinking about the possibilities for storytelling.

News 8 Austin: BizSpark Accelerator

Brad King — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:20:33 +0000

On The Ridiculousness of Viacom + Copyright

Brad King — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:52:55 +0000

There comes a time when an idea is pushed so far to the extreme that it becomes un-defendable. For years, I thought we’d reached that threshold with copyright. Services like My.Mp3.com, which allowed for virtual music lockers, seemed perfectly legitimate. Time and again, though, the copyright cartels have used their money and influence to derail legitimate [...]

SXSW 2010: The Last Five Good Minutes

Brad King — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:47:08 +0000

Omid Ashtari, Partner, c10: Content Strategy (Los Angeles, CA) I met Omid two years ago when he was part of a panel on moving talent from the blogosphere to the mainstream media. At the time, he worked with Creative Artist Agency (CAA). Now, he’s out on his own. A partner in a new venture trying to [...]