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What is convergent journalism?

Are we there yet? What is convergent journalism and is anyone really teaching it? Sure there is a lot of talk but is there a lot of actual application? And then there is the whole issue of whether convergent journalism simply further blurs the PR/journalism line altogether. Here is a good place to start the conversation, a [...]

Can you get past the name? Holy F*%@

This is one of the coolest “genre bending” bands I have listened to in a long time! And these guys are playing the music! Can you get past the name? What I love is that these guys are bending ideas and expectation! Watch, listen and marvel. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djf12oejy-Q[/youtube]

Finally! The teaching tool I need is here!

SmartBoards, SmartPhones, GoogleDocs, DropBox, Web, Wiki…. there is an ever growing number of tools available to educators today to help make the information exchange process easier. And I am sorry to say 95% of the technology enabled tools, my estimation, are useless. Sure 95% of those technology enabled tools are cool, sexy even, but they fail [...]

Things to Avoid for Success

Read REWORK. I love the list of things to avoid if you want to stand a fleeting chance of finding your success. 1. long-term contracts 2. excess staff 3. permanent decisions 4. meetings 5. thick process 6. inventory (physical and mental) 7. long-term road maps 8. office politics If you blend the list of 8 [...]

We need a new perspective!

Chris Anderson recently spoke to a group of Harvard architecture grads. The speech was published here, http://tedchris.posterous.com/a-speech-to-graduating-harvard-architects-6122, I think it is worth a read for several reasons. 1. Chris Anderson is swimming in the TED idea pool so it is interesting to get his view from the pond 2. This is a wel prepared talk 3. Another [...]

To Mobile Media or NOT Mobile Media

I am a huge advocate of creating and diseminating media to be consumed via a mobile device, a smartphone. But there are problems to be addressed. I am not a BlackBerry fan BUT maybe, just maybe, the PlayBook is the answer to the problems of reading off of a mobile phone screen? The pairing or [...]

How to Succeed

Mark Van Name is a sci-fi author, entrepreneur and tech guy. What is interesting about Mark is how he got to where he is today, the path is not straight. Mark went from a computer science degree to writing code to reviewing hardware and software as a profession. Along the way, or more like during the process, [...]

Those People We meet.

I met Yasser Bahjatt at TEDActive this year. It is incredible what we can learn from others and never seem to get a chance to. This is also the magic of a TED conference. TED puts a group of people together for 6 days and stands back to see what happens. Yasser and I hooked [...]

Career Path Fog

One of the things I have become fascinated by is how people get into their careers. Sometimes, as a professor of communication and media sciences, I am uneasy talking about career options becasue who knows where you might end up with a communication degree. Sure many, maybe even the majority of grads ,will travel along [...]

Is she really an accountant?

You know how it goes, we hear a person does a particular job and we put them into a box. Not a literal box, but we do stereotype people according to what we think they do in their particular profession. Take the accountant. Want to be stuck in an elevator with an accountant? Probably not. [...]

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