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The Algorithmic Newsroom

I just came back from News Foo, an un-conference for technologists, academics and journalists in Phoenix on the future of news. The following post details my thoughts, heavily inspired by the conversations and sessions I had the privilege to be a part of.

There are a growing number of algorithms that are deciding what topics people’s attention [...]

The Anatomy of a Viral Tweet

Here’s the crib of my 140#conf NYC talk, given on June 15th at the 92nd st Y:

I’m here to talk to you about my work on digital audiences, with a focus on information flows. I’m sure that to this crowd I don’t have to stress the potential that social media is unlocking. Whether you’re a [...]

The Repercussions of Eden Abergil's Actions: a country's worst nightmare

Imagine a reality where for a day, Snookie from Jersey Shore becomes the single most visible representative of American military and foreign agenda around the world. A world where whatever she says, is taken as representative of an organization that she is not even remotely a part of. As frightening as that thought may be, [...]

Israeli-Palestinian bridging and Facebook

We often experience the clash of contexts that happen on social media sites. We all have a different perception of what is funny or what is considered true. We are used to dealing separately with each of our friend groups. However, with many social media services, all [...]

Future of the Book

Check out our recently installed piece, the ‘Future of the Book’, at the Berkeley Center for New Media window (next to the free speech cafe). It is a mixed media electronic sculpture, built in collaboration with Judith Donath and Martin Wattenberg. Initially commissioned for the Boston Book Festival in 2009, we reconstructed the piece for [...]

Facebook Diss|Like: Designing Digital Warning Signs

Like many friends, I have been horrified to see Facebook take aggressive measures to make as much of its content publically available. Since its shift in privacy defaults last December, Facebook has been working diligently to take away our privacy in an attempt to ‘colonize’ the web’s social graph (as Kara Swisher suggests). It is [...]

David Kord Murray – “Borrowing Brilliance”

I’m very excited about the new Speaker Series that MSR New England has kicked off today, featuring David Kord Murray, author of Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by building on the ideas of others. David gave a solid talk, emphasizing the importance of two aspects in the process of being “creative”: Borrowing [...]

From Pages to Streams

Thought provoking article on Techcrunch about the shift from dedicated web pages to real-time streams.

“The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.”

This real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings [...]

Journalism Will Not Only Survive, It Will Thrive

On May 6th, Arianna Huffington presented the opening remarks for the Senate Subcommittee on Cummunications, Technology and the Internet’s Hearing on “The Future of Journalism”. She began with a clear statement: Journalism Will Not Only Survie, It Will Thrive! She added that we are actually in the midst of a Golden Age for news consumers, [...]

pagination using php, javascript and html

Earlier this week I set out to build a little webapp – essentially a visual, easy-to-use wrapper over a mySQL database which included a wide array of data. Naturally, I set to add pagination to the app, along with filtering functionality. Automatically, I set out to search the web for pre-written modules. I [...]

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