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BlogsTags > mediaExploring Hypermedia with Mike AmundsenBy Simon St. LaurentMay 16, 2013 The Web’s flexibility has helped it to survive and thrive, pushing well beyond the browser-based universe where it first showed its promise. While I’ve spent most of my time working with the HTML/CSS/JavaScript side, the HTTP side of the original … A Matter of SemanticsBy Mike AmundsenMay 16, 2013 Messages on the Web carry three levels of information: Structure Semantics, Protocol Semantics, and Application Semantics. No matter the implementation style, all three of these are needed for any successful communication between client and server. This threesome (S-P-A) forms the … Four short links: 9 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 9, 2013 On Google’s Ingress Game (ReadWrite Web) — By rolling out Ingress to developers at I/O, Google hopes to show how mobile, location, multi-player and augmented reality functions can be integrated into developer application offerings. In that way, Ingress becomes a … Numbers never lie…unless you’re talking social mediaBy Rob EagarApril 30, 2013 Back in college, I took a class on statistics and never forgot the first lesson my professor taught us, which was, “Anyone can manipulate numbers to make them mean whatever they want.” I see this point magnified today by the … Four short links: 2 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Metrico — puzzle game for Playstation centered around infographics (charts and graphs). (via Flowing Data) The Lease They Can Do (Business Week) — excellent Paul Ford piece on money, law, and music streaming services. So this is not about technology. … Social media’s 2.0 moment: Responsiveness beats planningBy Joshua-Michéle RossApril 24, 2013 In 2004, O’Reilly Media delivered a counter-cultural (at the time) message: The dot-com bubble had burst, but the web was here to stay as an economic and social force. The meme they coined was Web 2.0, and their manifesto was … Privacy vs. speechBy Jim StogdillApril 9, 2013 A week or so ago this link made its way through my tweet stream: “Privacy and the right to be forgotten.” Honestly I didn’t really even read it. I just retweeted it with a +1 or some other sign of … The media-marketing mergeBy Mac SlocumMarch 25, 2013 I ran across a program Forbes is running called BrandVoice that gives marketers a place on Forbes’ digital platform. During a brief audio interview with TheMediaBriefing, Forbes European managing director Charles Yardley explained how BrandVoice works: “It’s quite simply a … Sensoring the newsBy Alex HowardMarch 22, 2013 When I went to the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival to host a conversation with NPR’s Javaun Moradi about sensors, society and the media, I thought we would be talking about the future of data journalism. By the time I left … Four short links: 20 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 20, 2013 Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data (Scribd) — The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European … Why I’m changing my tune on paywallsBy Mac SlocumMarch 18, 2013 The Pew Research Center is out with its annual “State of the News Media” report. Much of it is what you’d expect: newspapers and local television are struggling, mobile is rising, digital revenue hasn’t — and can’t — replace traditional … If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizonBy Alex HowardMarch 7, 2013 This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I’ve posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the first time a baby … Four short links: 22 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 22, 2013 Indiepocalypse: Harlem Shake Edition (Andy Baio) — After four weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop” was replaced this week by Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” the song that inspired the Internet meme. SplinterNet — an Android … Fruit or mobile device: learning concepts through connectionsBy Anna SmithFebruary 20, 2013 Social media gives us the power to share content and engage with a wide range of internet users. As a person or brand, we are often concerned with who we are talking to and how we can better serve our viewers. … Author platforms and the Black Box EffectBy Anne HillFebruary 20, 2013 If you’ve spent as much time reading author blogs as I have, you may have noticed a disturbing pattern. In nearly every “here’s how I did it” post in which the author explains her route to greater visibility and sales, … Four short links: 20 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 20, 2013 The Network of Global Control (PLoS One) — We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. [...] From an empirical point of … Money matters most in book marketingBy Rob EagarFebruary 19, 2013 A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that four out of five Facebook users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site. In addition, researchers at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute found that … Four short links: 18 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 18, 2013 crowy — open source social media aggregator. Raytheon makes Social Media Tracking Software (Guardian) — the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national … Four short links: 14 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 14, 2013 Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex (MIT) — brilliant phrase, sound analysis. Stupid Stupid xBox — The hardcore/soft-tv transition and any lead they feel they have is simply not defensible by licensing other industries’ generic video or music content because those … Public health case study: Tracking zombies and vampires using social mediaBy John FelandFebruary 12, 2013 Towards the end of 2012, a battle that the pitted state versus state, father versus son, wife versus Bunco group, dog versus cat, finally reached a truce spawned by the treaty we all sign every fours years known as the … Glossi.com: TOC Startup Showcase FinalistBy Kat MeyerFebruary 8, 2013 We’re giving our readers a chance to get to know our TOC Startup Showcase Finalists a little bit better before the big showdown in NYC. We’re featuring the startups with a personality profile here on our website. Our next profile … Looking at the many faces and forms of data journalismBy Alex HowardFebruary 7, 2013 Over the past year, I’ve been investigating data journalism. In that work, I’ve found no better source for understanding the who, where, what, how and why of what’s happening in this area than the journalists who are using and even … Four short links: 5 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 5, 2013 toolbar — tooltips in jQuery, cf hint.css which is tooltips in CSS. Security Engineering — 2ed now available online for free. (via /r/netsec) Economics of Netflix’s $100M New Show (The Atlantic) — Up until now, Netflix’s strategy has involved paying … Four short links: 30 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 30, 2013 Chinese Attack UAV (Alibaba) — Small attack UAV is characterized with small size, light weight, convenient carrying, rapid outfield expansion procedure, easy operation and maintenance; the system only needs 2-3 operators to operate, can be carried by surveillance personnel to … Eyebeam Update: Two months after SandyBy Julie SteeleJanuary 18, 2013 A couple of months ago, I wrote about the new media and design incubator in NYC, Eyebeam, and the damage they’d suffered in Hurricane Sandy. This week I caught up with Eyebeam executive director Pat Jones to find out what … Four short links: 14 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 14, 2013 Open Source Metrics — Talking about the health of the project based on a single metric is meaningless. It is definitely a waste of time to talk about the health of a project based on metrics like number of software … Want to analyze performance data for accountability? Focus on quality first.By Alex HowardJanuary 10, 2013 Here’s an ageless insight that will endure well beyond the “era of big data“: poor collection practices and aging IT will derail any institutional efforts to use data analysis to improve performance. According to an investigation by the Los Angeles … Four short links: 10 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 10, 2013 How To Make That One Thing Go Viral (Slideshare) — excellent points about headline writing (takes 25 to find the one that works), shareability (your audience has to click and share, then it’s whether THEIR audience clicks on it), and … Four short links: 3 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 3, 2013 Community Memory (Wired) — In the early 1970s, Efrem Lipkin, Mark Szpakowski and Lee Felsenstein set up a series of these terminals around San Francisco and Berkeley, providing access to an electronic bulletin board housed by a XDS-940 mainframe computer. … Big, open and more networked than ever: 10 trends from 2012By Alex HowardDecember 22, 2012 In 2012, technology-accelerated change around the world was driven by the wave of social media, data and mobile devices. In this year in review, we look back at some of the stories that mattered here at Radar and look ahead … Data journalism: From eccentric to mainstream in five yearsBy Ron MillerDecember 20, 2012 Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), editor of The Guardian’s Datablog and Datastore, and a speaker at the upcoming Strata Conference in California, was one of the first data journalists at The Guardian. In the following interview, Rogers discusses the changes he’s seen … Six ways data journalism is making sense of the world, around the worldBy Alex HowardDecember 20, 2012 When I wrote that Radar was investigating data journalism and asked for your favorite examples of good work, we heard back from around the world. I received emails from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Canada and Italy that featured data visualization, explored … Why isn’t social media more like real life?By Jim StogdillDecember 19, 2012 I finally got around to looking at my personal network graph on Linkedin Labs the other day. It was a fun exercise and I got at least one interesting insight from it. Take a look at these two well defined … Photos on the cloud, and your metadata
By Uche OgbujiDecember 13, 2012 There are many tempting offerings for storing and sharing photos in the cloud. But not only should you be wary of combining those two functions, but if you care about your photos metadata, you should be very wary about storing photos with the current crop of popular cloud offerings. A Kindle developer’s 2013 wishlistBy Sanders KleinfeldDecember 2, 2012 2012 was a good year for Kindle developers. With the unveiling of the first-generation Fire tablet in late 2011 and the release of the KF8 Mobi format in early 2012, designing beautiful ebooks for the Kindle platform became a reality. … As digital disruption comes to Africa, investing in data journalism takes on new importanceBy Alex HowardNovember 29, 2012 This interview is part of our ongoing look at the people, tools and techniques driving data journalism. I first met Justin Arenstein (@justinarenstein) in Chişinău, Moldova, where the media entrepreneur and investigative journalist was working as a trainer at a … After the storm: Putting Eyebeam back togetherBy Julie SteeleNovember 28, 2012 Thanksgiving has come and gone and many of us are busy preparing for the winter holidays. For most of us, Hurricane Sandy is about to become a footnote to a crazy series of news cycles around the 2012 presidential election. … Investigating data journalismBy Alex HowardNovember 26, 2012 Great journalism has always been based on adding context, clarity and compelling storytelling to facts. While the tools have improved, the art is the same: explaining the who, what, where, when and why behind the story. The explosion of data, … Four short links: 8 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 8, 2012 Closely — new startup by Perry Evans (founder of MapQuest), giving businesses a simple app to track competitors’ online deals and social media activity. Seems a genius move to me: so many businesses flounder online, “I don’t know what to … Four short links: 29 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 29, 2012 Inside BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design Bootcamp — see also Day 2 and Day 3. Recollect — archive your social media existence. Very easy to use and I wish I’d been using it longer. (via Tom Cotes) Duplicating House Keys on … What I learned about #debates, social media and being a pundit on Al Jazeera EnglishBy Alex HowardOctober 22, 2012 Earlier this month, when I was asked by Al Jazeera English if I’d like to be go on live television to analyze the online side of the presidential debates, I didn’t immediately accept. I’d be facing a live international audience … Four short links: 11 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 11, 2012 ABalytics — dead simple A/B testing with Google Analytics. (via Dan Mazzini) Fastest Rubik Cube Solver is Made of Lego — it takes less than six seconds to solve the cube. Watch the video, it’s … wow. Also cool is … The missing ingredient from hyperwired debates: the feedback loop
By Alex HowardOctober 3, 2012 What a difference a season makes. A few months after widespread online frustration with a tape-delayed Summer Olympics, the 2012 Presidential debates will feature the most online livestreams and wired, up-to-the-second digital coverage in history. Given the pace of technological … Four short links: 24 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 24, 2012 Open Monograph Press — an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP will operate, as well, as a … Four short links: 12 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 12, 2012 Seriesly — time-series database written in go. Tablets and TV (Luke Wroblewski) — In August 2012, 77% of TV viewers used another device at the same time in a typical day. 81% used a smartphone and TV at the same … President Obama participates in first Presidential AMA on Reddit
By Alex HowardAugust 29, 2012 Starting around 4:30 PM ET today, President Barack Obama made history by going onto Reddit to answer questions about anything for an hour. Reddit, one of the most popular social news sites on the Internet, has been hosting “Ask Me … ASP.NET web API rocksBy Rachel RoumeliotisAugust 28, 2012 Glenn Block (@gblock) is an O’Reilly author and senior program manager on the Windows Azure Team at Microsoft. We sat down recently to talk about the newly released ASP.NET Web API Framework, which he helped develop, and why it will … Four short links: 21 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 21, 2012 Recording Revenues for the Typical Artist (Digital Music News) — more than 82 percent of their revenue from paid downloads, with CDs accounting for more than 11 percent. That leaves streaming revenues – including Spotify – with a scant 6.5 … Four short links: 13 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 13, 2012 Mobile Numbers (Luke Wroblewski) — eBay’s mobile shoppers and mobile payers are 3 to 4 times more valuable than Web only [...] Yelp runs ads on the mobile web, and those ads see a higher clickthrough rate than their desktop … Four short links: 2 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 2, 2012 Patton Oswalt’s Letters to Both Sides — You guys need to stop thinking like gatekeepers. You need to do it for the sake of your own survival. Because all of us comedians after watching Louis CK revolutionize sitcoms and comedy … 1 to 50 of 274 Next Stay Connected
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