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Top of Their Class - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
"Seven high school seniors from New York City, each first in their class, met as they prepared for their next chapter. They spoke about their generation, the city, education, the economy and the future. They are profiled below in photographs and audio and through the texts of their graduation speeches."
Video: Microsoft Natal demo for Xbox 360 - Telegraph
"Watch a demo of the new controller-free games system for the Xbox 360."
Tweenbots: Cute Beats Smart - O'Reilly Radar
"ITP student Kacie Kinzer created a 10-inch smiling robot called a Tweenbot that can only go straight. For each journey Kacie would give the robot a destination and clearly label it. Given the obstacles in its way and lack of navigation or steering systems the expectation was that the robot would not make it. However the robot's avoidance of the uncanny valley and clearly written goal helped it out. Humans would redirect the Tweenbot so it successfully reached its destination."
Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb
"What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests."
Major news outlets to sell multipart investigations as “digital newsbooks” » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Later this month, a coalition of news organizations — including the Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press — will try selling some of their multipart series as repackaged “digital newsbooks” for e-reader devices. Fainaru’s series, “The Private Armies of Iraq,” will be among those available for $4.95."
Huff TV: Arianna On "Charlie Rose," Discusses How News Will Be Distributed In The Digital Age
"On 'Charlie Rose' Wednesday night, Arianna discussed the topic of how journalism will be distributed in the digital age and what new models might emerge. She was joined on the show by Associated Press CEO Tom Curley."
PressThink: Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News
"For March 2009. The pace quickened after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter."
At ‘West Point’ for Car Industry, Rethinking the Future - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
"For nearly a century, Kettering University, once called General Motors Institute, has trained students to work in the auto industry. Now, as carmakers struggle to survive, jobs that students expected are vanishing. Even the short-term training positions known as co-ops that were a signature of the Kettering experience have been cut. Here, four Kettering students discuss their changing hopes and expectations."
6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Future of Search - Google Beware
"Not only is it a way to connect and interact with others, but it also represent a huge pool of information based on everyday human life that’s ready to be mined to extract real value. Adding search functionality is just the first step in this process."
Build something or STFU | mattwaite.com
"If all these people who know so much about journalism on the web spent less time on waving their arms in hysterics and actually built something -- created value, or tried a new model instead of opined on one -- the world would be a very different place."
Xark!: 2020 vision: What's next for news
"Sites that develop intelligent ways of curating old information could play a big role in the presentation of breaking news information."
Digital guru Clay Shirky's media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian
"The great misfortune of newspapers in this era is that they were such a good idea for such a long time that people felt the newspaper business model was part of a deep truth about the world, rather than just the way things happened to be."
Will NPR Save the News? | Fast Company
"The most successful hybrid of old and new media comes from the last place you'd expect. How NPR's digital smarts, nonprofit structure, and good old-fashioned shoe leather just might save the news."
Telecommuting can replace newsrooms | The Journalism Iconoclast
Some excellent points. But when I worked from home, one of the challenges I found was obtaining the separation between business and life. I really think you need that to find happiness.
Clay Shirky: wrong about newspapers
"It’s just good old-fashioned news and comment for ______ professionals, read in the knowledge that a lot of other _____ professionals will be reading it too and thus making it modestly useful in their everyday working lives... It’s just a niche based aro
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