The slides that accompanied the headlines lecture can be found over here.
I love Slideshare. It is free. You can find presentations about most anything there. You can always learn something or get a few great ideas over there. It isn’t quite the same because the person delivering the talk isn’t always there. Slideshare does let you upload audio or YouTube, though, so you can follow along easily. I didn’t have the need for that for a classroom, so I wrote a lot of words on a lot of slides. Hopefully even the student that tuned me out bothered to jot down a few of the words.
Later the students working on this week’s paper have this great idea of a cool way to do a great thing. But they can’t do this great thing in this cool way because it would be against the Rules and those are just there to force you to re-create things and find a solution to this problem in an entirely new way.
It took them about 20 minutes. Smart people.
The nice thing was that the problem came about because we had too many ads. Or so they thought. We have a full paper of ads this week, which we haven’t been able to say in a long time. Maybe this problem will happen again.
Things to read: PBS Mediashift is running a new series on new storytelling. Meanwhile Storify has storified items from ONA, curating a list of The latest online news tools and great connections.
Twitter is giving best practice advice to journalists, which would seem odd, but then you realize it is Mark Luckie, and you figure there’s probably something there.
Nola Media Group is buying iPads, among other things:
Nola Media Group announced it will fund a half-million dollars worth of initiatives to increase public access to digital media in New Orleans. New Orleans has one of the lowest rates of broadband access in the country.
Newsprint joins the internet of things, interactive paper:
The technology works with conductive inks that enable capacative touch, but full details are sketchy.
Project participants also say the technology can be used to print interactive advertisements. Interactive Newsprint collects click counts and engagement time for publishers and marketers to analyse.
Dundee University product design researcher Jon Rogers says: ”For pretty much the first time, in a scaleable and manufacturable way, we’re going to connect the internet to paper. When you start to connect that to news, we’re in a goldmine zone.”
So many applications. I want three of them, special delivered today.
