Why Real-World Socializing Is the Next Big Thing for Social Media
Humans are social creatures hard-wired for interpersonal contact and companionship. It’s time to bridge the gap between our online and offline lives and make social networking actually social.
11:05 am • 6 April 2012
“Apple hasn’t optimized its organization to maximize profit. Instead, it has made the creation of value for customers its priority. When you do this, the fear of cannibalization or disruption of one’s self just melts away. In fact, when your mission is based around creating customer value, around creating great products, cannibalization and disruption aren’t “bad things” to be avoided. They’re things you actually strive for — because they let you improve the outcome for your customer.”
— Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma
5:09 pm • 26 October 2011
“Journalism is about informing people so individuals can make active, smart decisions about the world they live in and improve society as a whole.”
— Mihir Zaveri @ DailyCal.org
4:26 pm • 1 September 2011
“It is information curators who push us to lean forward by guiding our curiosity towards the kinds of content we would’ve never ordinarily found but are infinitely glad we did.”
— http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/accessibility-vs-access-how-the-rhetoric-of-rare-is-changing-in-the-age-of-information-abundance/
7:49 pm • 29 August 2011
“But we do think that companies ought to regard digital platforms and their audiences as being in
a state of constant transformation, one that demands a faster and more consistent pace of innovation and investment.”
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The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism
http://cjrarchive.org/img/posts/report/The_Story_So_Far.pdf
Columbia Journalism School | Tow Center for Digital Journalism
10:48 pm • 6 June 2011
“That’s the happy ending that’s possible here if these tools become more transparent and controllable: humans and robot algorithms, living in peaceful harmony, giving us both entertainment and the information we really need.”
— http://mashable.com/2011/06/03/filters-eli-pariser/
10:25 pm • 6 June 2011
April Fools' Day By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
I still wish I’d executed my April Fool’s prank back in my CIM days… replacing the Zoo Atlanta Panda Cam with footage of two guys in panda suits smoking cigarettes.
9:44 pm • 1 April 2011
Color's Ambitious Photo App Seeks to Reinvent Mobile Social Networking
Say hello to Color, a new mobile photo-sharing application with a star-studded list of entrepreneurs and an eye-popping $41 million in funding. Its goal is nothing less than to become the ultimate local discovery tool.
9:42 pm • 1 April 2011
