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Sharpen your pencils and get scribbling! This time Knight challenges you to DATA!

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Photo Credit: Flickr user Koen Vereeken

The Knight News Challenge is being offered three times this year, in short, focused rounds to better mirror the pace of innovation. Winners of Round 1, which focused on networks, will be announced June 18. Here, Journalism and Media Innovation…

I decided some echo was better than the squawk so here’s my interview — this time in full— with Michael Burke andRobert Charles about their 2004 correspondence with President Barack Obama on gay marriage.

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The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC]
Admit it: As you’re reading this, you have tunnel vision — that feeling that the world is closing in on you after surfing the Internet for eight straight hours. Web dead head (yes, I made that up) is a growing concern for today’s connected generation, which collectively spends 35 billion hours o…

And I hate it because it keeps sending me back into the welcome screen and will not let me watch a Video. URG!

A rumination on viral joy

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

We’re reimagining the telephone pole news using a mobile, augmented reality platform and a visual browser to display geospecific news.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

Advertisers use augmented…

Why Storify For iPad Is Underhyped

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What if there was an app that allowed you to hand a tablet to someone, anyone, and say to them, “Tell me a story”?

This app would need to be intuitive, easy-to-use and perhaps most of all help us figure out that age-old question: where to begin.

Storify has done this, and it’s unleashed the power of the social Web to be characters, quotes and turning points in those stories. Anyone who can search, drag-and-drop and enter some text is on their way. The elements are all there.

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So my little cousin posted on FB that he was bored and gave everyone his new phone number… (pic) - Imgur

So my little cousin posted on FB that he was bored and gave everyone his new phone number… (pic) - Imgur

My post for BlockbyBlock.US — a community of indy online news publishers — about Google+ pages. This post is relevant to anyone  who hasn’t gone there yet. I like the more thoughtful feel of the community there. #socialmedia