September 3rd, 2012
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“Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused on a single, simple stream that offers a river of news which users can easily scroll through, skim over, and click on to read in more depth.

Most media companies on the web spend all of their effort putting content into content management systems which publish pages. These pages work essentially the same way that pages have worked since the beginning of the web, with a single article or post living at a particular address, and then tons of navigation and cruft (and, usually, advertisements) surrounding that article.

Users have decided they want streams, but most media companies are insisting on publishing more and more pages. And the systems which publish the web are designed to keep making pages, not to make customized streams.

It’s time to stop publishing web pages.”

Stop Publishing Web Pages - Anil Dash (via worthingtonwire)

Some food for thought, the future may well be a streaming library. ~ eP

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July 24th, 2012
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5 Apps for Journalists

1) iENG: Post your pictures/video to the major social networks and newsrooms.  

2) Reporters Committee: For court documents 

3) Dragon Dictation: Transcribing made easy! 

4) Evernote: Writers/journalists are almost always disorganized. This will help!

5) Recorder: Call recording…but there’s a fee involved…

I’m going to add a 6th helpful app for journalists. ClearRecordLite. This is an excellent voice recorder that can record for hours. My favorite part is that you can even reduce background noise so you can have your interviews in loud coffee shops worry-free. 

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July 6th, 2012
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COMPARE EDUCATION APPS

gjmueller:

You probably saw the title of this post and thought ‘okay there’s no friggin’ way anyone’s going to assemble a list of the best 50,000 education apps. But thanks to a partnership between Edudemic and FindTheBest, we’ve done just that. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to build a robust directory of, as of this writing, about 56,000 education apps. But it’s not just a list… it’s a finely tuned directory capable of sorting out all the apps in ways not even available in the iTunes or Mac App stores. For example, you can now find out the average price of all education apps to see where your app falls.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? BOOKMARK AND SHARE AND REBLOG AND USE this awesome resource! :)

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July 3rd, 2012
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Have you ever watched a toddler play with an iPhone?

Most likely, the child was completely captivated and surprisingly adept at manipulating the tiny icons. Two-year-old Teco is no different. Sitting with his Motorola Xoom tablet, he’s rapt, his dark eyes fixed on the images, fingers pecking away at the touch screen. He can’t speak, but with the aid of the tablet app I created for him, he’s building a vocabulary that will likely total several thousand words. What’s more, he’ll be able to string those words together into simple sentences and ask questions, tell jokes, and carry on conversations.

Such talents wouldn’t seem exceptional in a human child, but Teco is an ape—a bonobo, to be precise.

Apes With Apps - IEEE Spectrum

Maybe the most interesting article you’ll read all week.

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June 14th, 2012
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On Kickstarter: Dumbo Feather, an Australian interview magazine devoted to telling the stories of extraordinary people, hoping to raise funds for an interactive app-based version of its magazine.

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A blog created by the Literary Journalism Department @ the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to discussions about non-fiction narratives in this ever-evolving era of E-books, E-readers, Blogs, Instapaper, The Atavist, Byliner, Amazon's Kindle Singles and all other new media outlets open to promoting great journalism. LJ Digital is managed by Asst. Prof. Erika Hayasaki and Cleo Tobbi, intern and UCI literary journalism student.

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