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Convergence Journalism

Learn To ‘Social Media’

June 22, 2008

Since I work in social-media I see it everyday, some people get it, and some people don’t. Building social-media isn’t a one-time thing. It takes time to find conversations, to build reputation, and learn the best ways to share your knowledge with the world.
Here’s the thing, social media isn’t going anywhere. It’s here to stay. [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-10

April 10, 2008

Looking over some NAB materials and hounding on my development team to get Contributr back online in time for the conference season #
Trying to figure out what the heck my Contributr developers have been doing for the last several weeks, not being micromanaged, nor working. #
Wow that last Tweet was a Twoosh! (The sentence was [...]

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Convergence of the Future

March 19, 2008

News makers keep talking about backpack journalists and having reporters be good at everything. Now we all know that’s just not possible, but it hasn’t stopped the visionaries from proclaiming convergence journalism the future of news.

Convergence of the media is already happening of course, and convergence is the future. No longer is a television station [...]

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links for 2008-03-01

March 1, 2008

Top 10 Worst Captchas | John M Willis ESM Blog

Bay News 9 – Your News Channel

Sandisk 256MB Cruzer Micro (20-Pack) at TigerDirect.com

Jonathan Coffman – Convergence Journalism Specialist and New-Media Evangelist

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Pie In The Sky – Comparing Current Offerings

February 21, 2008

Comparing Current Offerings
Amazon:

Very Inexpensive (+1)
Very powerful (+1)
Recently had its first major downtime event (-1)
Very flexible in terms of OS, applications, etc (+1)
S3 storage service provides a good platform for archive storage (+1)
Bring your own Machine Image is a good thing, use what you’re familiar with (+1)
You cannot upload and download files using FTP/SFTP as with [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Where Mosso Has it Right and Wrong

February 20, 2008

Where Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud Wins and Looses
Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud promises to offer all of the stability, uptime, and processing power of competing grid/cluster products without the management headache.

This is in distinct contrast to Amazon’s cloud computing services, they provide the machines and that’s about it. It’s up to the user to provide the [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Where We Are Now

February 18, 2008

Where We Are Now
The pulse of the Internet is in a constant flux and we in the new and social media fields are no different. As the first post in my Pie In The Sky series I thought I’d provide you with some links and resources to get familiar with the latest advances and information [...]

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Pie In the Sky – A Blog Series Examining the Future of Web Hosting

February 17, 2008

This week marks a major series of blog posts. All week I’ll be posting about my vision for the future of web hosting and the Internet itself. The series couldn’t come at a better time, web startups are everywhere again, personal computing and communication has been revolutionized, and creating connections between people, machines, and the [...]

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Gannett Interviews

February 16, 2008

Earlier in the week I attended two interview sessions with recruiting representatives from the Gannett company. I feel like they went really well and I must say that it’s comforting to know that ‘my job’ actually does exist now, when I began studying social and new media with a journalism concentration it was a little [...]

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