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    Power: What Justin Bieber and Wael Ghonim have in common

    If you can get past the screaming, weeping 12-year-old girls, there is a compelling story in the Justin Bieber documentary “Never Say Never”. Almost everyone knows the YouTube-to-stardom trek the young superstar has taken, but what you may not know is how impervious the music industry was to the evidence of Beiber’s relevance in the [...]

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    Dunning and Kruger's "Incompetent People Are Clueless" and Converged Media

    Dunning and Kruger’s “Incompetent People Are Clueless” and Converged Media

    Incompetent people are clueless. And I mean this in the nicest way. (I also happily count myself among the clueless at every stage of early adopting)  Marc Abrahams cleverly reviews the study produced by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger and notes the key findings: 1 Incompetent people dramatically overestimate their ability; and 2 Incompetent [...]

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    Exponential Information vs Emergent Wisdom, The Lucille Ball Conveyor Belt Problem

    Exponential Information vs Emergent Wisdom, The Lucille Ball Conveyor Belt Problem

    This week I showed my students the “Did you Know” 3.0 and Shift Happens 4.0 videos and re-visited the Kurzweil-and-crowd predictions (see The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be): of a computer by 2014 that will match the processing capabality of the human brain; by 2049 computer one that will match the processing capability [...]

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    Schools of Journalism in peril, hiring out-of-work journalists may not be the answer

    While media flails and journalists have a massive, collective identity crisis, I have an idea for how journalism schools can stay relevant, even while they are uncertain of their own futures (creating students for the fastest declining job market in decades? Pitting newbie journalists against out-of-work pulitzer prize winners willing to work for $30K? I [...]

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    Semantic Web, Coup de Grace for Media?

    Right now, as journalists, editors, content developers, designers, etc., we HUMANS in media are the ones who do most of the tedious work of finding, sorting, and combining and redistributing information on the Web and getting it delivered to relevant audience/communities. And we have jobs in publishing houses, magazines, newspapers, design firms, agencies, etc where we move [...]

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    The Future isn't What it Used to Be

    The Future isn’t What it Used to Be

    “The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” — Paul Valery (French Poet, Essayist and Critic, 1871-1945) “Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.” Marshall McLuhan (philosopher , futurist , and communications theorist, 1911-1980) A current futurist, [...]

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    Mobile

    The Audacity of Invention
    The Audacity of Invention

    May 10, 2011 | Discuss

    Armand Patella takes a leap, so proud: Class project becomes a career for advertising student My fav…

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    Documenta

    Visual Storytelling, Styles of Narrative and What Pictures Can Do

    Oct 25, 2010 | Discuss

    This first reference comes by way of Chris Martin via Drew Vigal Thrush from Gabriel Bisset-Smith on…

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    Presentations

    Architecture That Makes Sense: Wordpress Newspaper Themes for WVUncovered Workshop
    Architecture That Makes Sense: WordPress Newspaper Themes for WVUncovered Workshop

    Feb 13, 2010 | Discuss

    Just creating a holding space for showcasing some newspaper and magazine style themes for this week&…

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    Awards

    Documentary “Pretty” Wins Award of Excellence at BEA Festival of Media Arts

    Feb 13, 2010 | Discuss

    Documentary “Pretty” Wins Award of Excellence at BEA Festival of Media Arts…

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    Asides

    Dominion Post removes politicians from news photo in ethics blunder

    May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment

    Update 05/21/2010: NPPA Objects to Newspaper’s use of altered news photo. National Press Photo…

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