http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php All about Participatory Journalism - how audiences are changing the future of news and information. en-us Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:29:00 GMT Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:29:00 GMT Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License. mediablog@hypergene.net mediablog@hypergene.net http://www.hypergene.net/blog/images/bloglogo_rss.gif http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php 195 44 http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P383 Foreign Policy has a fascinating <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/07/the_twitter_revolution_that_wasnt" >article on the role of Twitter</a> in the Iranian protests. <blockquote>A number of opposition activists have told me they used text messages, email, and blog posts to publicize protest actions. However, good old-fashioned word of mouth was by far the most influential medium used to shape the postelection opposition activity. There... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P380 <img src="http://hypergene.net/blog/images/uploads/cbs_home.jpg" border="0" alt="cbs" name="image" width="560" height="333" /> This screenshot of yesterday's home page of <a href="http://www.cbs.com/" >CBS.com</a> pretty much says it all. We're not sure if this is a mistake or what. But really, is this the answer? <img... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P379 For those who were unable to join the "Storytellers Caucus" at We Media this year, here's some of what you missed: I started with a brief history of how our traditional ideas of story have proved a remarkable tool for making order out of the chaos of the world and our experiences in it. (<a href="http://www.hypergene.net/download/slides.pdf" >PDF</a>) The world is a messy place but a quick look in, say, your local library shows you something else.... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P378 It's live. <a href="http://go.footnote.com/pages/" >Try it</a>. <a href="http://go.footnote.com/pages/" ><img src="http://hypergene.net/blog/images/uploads/footnote-pages.jpg" border="0" alt="image" name="image" width="478" height="377" /></a> http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P377 <img src="http://hypergene.net/blog/images/uploads/techcrunch50_finalist.png" border="0" alt="image" name="image" width="211" height="75" /> Around 2:15 Pacific Time, CEO Russ Wilding, will be on the TechCrunch 50 stage to launch our latest project. Anyone will be able to kick the tires of this new thing immediately after the talk. Watch live coverage: <object id="utv_o_242018"... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P376 Excerpted from a Flickr email sent to me today... <img src="http://hypergene.net/blog/images/uploads/flickr-ransom-note.jpg" border="0" alt="image" name="image" width="520" height="530" /> http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P375 Footnote.com ended up <a href="http://www.footnote.com/image/53006924/" >on the home page of CNN this afternoon</a> (then migrated to the Tech section). It was an unexpected surprise, which kept us on our toes. <img src="http://hypergene.net/blog/images/uploads/CNN-Footnote-thumb.gif" border="0" alt="image" name="image" width="400" height="336" />... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P374 It's been both surprising and humbling to observe how people have interacted with <a href="http://go.footnote.com/thewall" >The Wall</a> since it's announcement on Wednesday. After discovering some issues with our clustering providers and optimizing code on the site, we've been able to keep the site humming. It's not easy to quickly serve up a 20GB image - one of the biggest, if not the biggest on the Web - to thousands of people anxious to explore and contribute... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P373 The Situation Room's Abbi Tatton does a great job of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2008/03/27/tatton.virtual.vietnam.memorial.cnn" >summarizing the idea of The Wall</a>. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2008/03/27/tatton.virtual.vietnam.memorial.cnn" ><img src="http://hypergene.net/blog/images/uploads/cnn-abbi-tatton.jpg" border="0" alt="image" name="image"... http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P372 As part of the release of <a href="http://go.footnote.com/thewall" >The Wall</a>, Chris and <a href="http://www.footnote.com" >Footnote.com</a> are going to be making <a href="http://www.footnote.com/documents/51218854/photographs-of-marine-corps-activities" >1 million Vietnam era photos and documents</a> from <a href="http://www.archives.gov/index.html" >The National Archives</a> for free. Here's...