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  • anthonyjamesmyers 11:16 am on September 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    I Never Liked the Word Journalist 

    I always thought journalist sounded goofy.  ’I write in my journal,’ sounds like a 12-year-old documenting their schoolyard tribulations.  Maybe that’s why it took me so long to launch my writing career. I tell people I’m a writer and the vagueness of that word always gets people to stop asking about my work.  Not that I don’t like talking about it, but most people hate the news anyway.  So if I tell them I’m a reporter or journalist, they have all these preconceptions about what that means.  Besides if I say writer then they think I’m a novelist or really smart or something and they suddenly feel like, ‘wow, maybe I should get started on my book.’

    In other words, I don’t know who is a journalist because I don’t consider myself a journalist.  There it is. I’m not one of you.  Seriously, it’s a loaded word and I agree with Salon’s Dan Gilmor that it’s more important that people do the work of a journalist.  As long as people ask the tough questions and think critically about the world, we’re on the right path.

    Digital media is the next step to all of us having a chip implanted.  We’re gonna be cyborgs ya’ll.  I kid, but as microchips become smaller and more powerful, the future looks more and more like the present. When your mobile device is the thickness of your school ID, then I will officially be excited about said mobile devices.  What these devices mean for the definition of journalism is that information will disseminate faster than ever.  WikiLeaks is my joint!  It’s great idea and our government especially needs to be more open about what they spend our money on.  

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  • anthonyjamesmyers 3:50 pm on August 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Guardian UK Fails the Mobile Media Test 

    University of Colorado’s Digital Media Test Kitchen explains many mass media outlets simply don’t take full advantage of mobile device capabilities.  The Guardian UK certainly fits that bill.  Although they provide detailed reports that some U.S. agencies don’t even talk about, their mobile site lacks the type of interactivity and nuance that defines the future of mobile media.

    So what does that mean?  The Knight Digital Media Center digested the Test Kitchen’s “In-Depth News for Smartphones” report, and The Center’s Amy Gahran says that most media company’s simply dump their content into a mobile format.  It makes fiduciary sense.  It’s easy to ’shovel’ their Web content into the mobile format.  They can focus more on reporting than on all this digital mess that, newspapers especially, seem to have so much trouble really understanding.  

    But that’s the whole point of the Test Kitchen’s report.  They’ve put together 15 recommendations for how media companies can best, well, mobilize their digital content.  Of the 15, Guardian does only one.  They allow readers to comment.  I can do that with my blog. Seriously, it would be easy for them to let commentors add not only text, but also photo and video attachments.  

    Additionally, they should be creating content exclusively for mobile instead of simply changing the format of their existing content.  Those are the first two things the Test Kitchen suggests.  It’s a detailed list and also kind of a wish list, but a company like the Guardian might want to put a little more effort into their mobile capabilities.  

    This isn’t a comprehensive analysis of what mass media are doing for mobile users.  It may be that Guardian doesn’t see its competitors doing much and so they don’t feel they need to either.  

     

     

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  • anthonyjamesmyers 10:48 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Mobile Media Widens the Digital Divide 

    File this under Anthonyx, the luddite.  Or not.  I see why marketers and corporations want mobile media to be the future.  They are making bank off of it.  There are still many who cannot afford smartphones or data plans.  Do they matter to media elites? I don’t know, but since this discussion is centered around smartphones, it looks like their target market is those with cash to burn.

    From this class I hope to learn which smartphone I should get.

    The Web isn’t dead.  Wired wrote that headline to create controversy.  (Hint: it worked)  Also, the Web is dead depending on who you ask.  Most people don’t know the difference and so, to them, it doesn’t matter.  To the small group of people who do know the difference, it still depends on whether or not your livelihood depends on said Web.  

    Applications allow content producers to erect a sort of pay wall.  Web sites still offer a larger audience.  

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  • anthonyjamesmyers 6:28 pm on June 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Speak out against globalization 

    The Obama administration wants to know what you think about global trade.  At least, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk wants to know anyway.  He's the point man on an outreach campaign to build support for what's being called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  Think NAFTA of the Pacific.  Because the latest rounds of negotiations are taking place right here in San Francisco, a small group of labor and environmental leaders gathered June 14 to advance their own proposal.  Carl Pope, former Executive Director, Sierra Club, Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Oakland Institute (both pictued here) and others spoke briefly near St. Patrick's church before marching to the Intercontinental hotel.  The press conference outlined their strategy and the march served as motivation for their representative who met with Kirk. 

    There is also a forum at 240 Golden Gate Ave. (Golden Gate @ Leavenworth) at 7 pm (June 14) for those who can attend. 

    http://www.ustr.gov/tpp

    http://www.citizenstrade.org/cafairtrade.php

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  • Karen Datangel 11:24 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bathrooms, Cesar Chavez Student Center, ,   

    A space to tinkle…and write on the walls without getting in trouble? Best concept ever! 

    These words of wisdom come from a very unlikely place. // photo credit: Karen Datangel

    Before you complain about having to use the bathrooms at the Cesar Chavez Student Center, or even most other places on the San Francisco State campus, know that you’ll be able to do something productive and fun while taking care of your bodily business, instead of just staring at the floor and being intoxicated by the sweet smell stinking up your bathroom stall – that chalk and that board is waiting for your written word and creative prowess.

    I’ve never had any reason to walk into the boys’ bathroom, so it’s unknown to me whether this applies for you guys, but going into the girls’ bathrooms on campus, I’m always greeted by thought-provoking quotes, silly sayings, and full-on conversations and debates about politics and life scribbled on those old-school blackboards. Bathroom graffiti would never be complete, however, with the occasional “Call ________ for a good time!”

    The dialogues that may occur are very interesting and it can be uplifting or entertaining, or upsetting or enraging if you’re a participant. Some semesters ago – being the pop culture fanatic that I am – I wrote my choice for season 7 of American Idol on one of the boards (David Cook) and a couple of days later, I found myself in the same bathroom stall, to which someone responded to my statement, “David Cook sucks! Go Jason Castro!” Amusingly, I discovered this the day after Jason Castro got eliminated from the competition, so I had a good laugh. But moreso, I felt good that someone else on campus actually cared about something as trivial as Idol like I did.

    The boards in the SFSU bathrooms are like our own versions of Facebook or Formspring – commenting on each other’s statuses and asking and answering questions anonymously. In a society that runs on social networking, who wouldn’t approve of having blackboards in bathroom stalls EVERYWHERE? Though I suppose they could be somewhat inappropriate to have in very public places like the mall, where little kids might see obscene things written by tweenaged boppers who thrive on middle and high school drama. However, it’d be hilarious to find out what drunken thoughts and products we’d find scribbled on blackboards if nightclubs decided to put them in their bathrooms.

    So the next time you’re relieving yourself from that big breakfast you had after your first long lecture of the morning, take advantage of what’s next to you – grab that chalk (or a pen or a Sharpie, since the chalk tends to go missing at times) and express yourself. Say what’s on your mind, write down what you just did before you went number two, tell someone else how you feel about them, write a line from that poem, song, or screenplay you’ve been secretly working on, or heck, you can even start a game of tic-tac-toe. You never know – you just might make someone’s day.

    Karen Datangel is a spring 2010 multimedia producer and online contributor for Golden Gate [X]Press. Visit her at her entertainment/pop culture blog at Baby You’ll Be Famous.

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  • Karissa 8:52 pm on May 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    The Pho Challenge (Round 2) « Exploring Outside Lands 

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  • Aaron 7:22 pm on May 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Inglesider Dipity Timeline

    I just created a timeline with Dipity of the Ingleside. I used various sources (my blog and twitter, everyblock, outside.in, inglesidelight.com) and inserted some personal information. As a result, this timeline should constantly keep up-to-date information on the neighborhood as it happen.

    Check it out here!

    http://inglesider.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/a-timeline-of-the-ingleside-neighborhood-and-greater-omi/

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  • Karissa 1:44 am on May 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Timeline History of the Richmond « Exploring Outside Lands 

    Timeline History of the Richmond

    May 11, 2010 by kbell89 | Edit

    The Richmond District has a very rich and interesting history dating back more than 100 years. I made a timeline using dipity showing some of the more significant events in the neighborhood’s history. Check it out here. Also, a special shout-out to the Western Neighborhoods Project and their fabulous archives. They really are an invaluable resource to the Richmond (and San Francisco’s other Western neighborhoods). Also, sorry about the lack of an embed, dipity and wordpress don’t talk to each other apparently. One more thing, many of these events don’t have specific dates (only a year)  so dipity seems to have given everything a default date of July 1.

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  • anthonyjamesmyers 12:05 am on May 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Flash CS5 goes live 

    Adobe released the newest versions of their biggest selling products.  Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash all have spiffy new packages and added features.  Of course if you want them it's only about two grand for the Professional package.  NewsFlash marked the occasion by creating a Dipity timeline of the releases of the different Flash versions. 

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  • Rigo Hernandez 10:28 pm on May 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    The Life of an International Revolutionary « Mission Multimedia 

    Ismael Palacios was one of the founding members of the American branch for the Salvadoran left wing party of Farabundo Marti National Liberation front (FMLN). When he founded the group he never expected it would be such an integral part of the Civil War in El Salvador. On a recent afternoon in April he recalled the fundraising events the group hosted in the Mission to give money to the guerilla army of the FLMN in the 80s. Now that the war is over and the FLMN won the recent presidential election, he is regarded as the “grandfather of the FMLN.” Palacios is now 82 years old but he keeps himself active by engaging in protest for immigration reform.

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