Archive for 'Technology'
Coeds Create CoPress – Innovation from the Ground Up
Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
If you are ever worried about the fate of our the journalism industry take a moment to check out and appreciate CoPress – building a better ecosystem for college publications. This is a fantastic case of young journalists scratching their own itch. The group recently formed their own nonprofit and are discussing what they need […]
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Aggregation is Creation – Adrian Holovaty
Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
Last week I had the unique pleasure of spending some time at the Poynter Institute to discuss the future of journalism. I also had the chance to catch up with Adrian Holovaty who, for many, needs no introduction. He is most known for pioneering Django, a model/view/controller framework to deploy web applications and then using […]
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Never Quit and Be Honest With Yourself – An Interview with Tristan Harris
Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
I’ve had the good fortune to run into Tristan Harris and finding out that we live in close proximity. Tristan is the founder of Apture. Similar to two other Stanford computer scientist, Tristan understands and wants to improve how people find information on the web. Apture allows reporters to link out easily without necessarily losing […]
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Welcome the Information Valet Project – Bill Densmore
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by David Cohn.
The New Business Models for News Summit is actually the second in a series of events. The first “Networked Journalism Summit” included Bill Densmore who is now working on his own project trying to tackle the revenue issue. (For those keeping track, that’s one video using Viddler, the other two using Vimeo and Blip. Have […]
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Rick Burnes – Faneuil Media
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I’ve spent the last year and a half bootstrapping Faneuil Media, an online news startup. Initially, my partner Theo Burry and I focused on creating content for news sites using public data and open applications like Google Maps. Last year we broadened our scope with Atlas, a mapping tool that […]
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Martin Huber – Myheimat.de
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. Myheimat.de combines printed magazines and an online-platform for hyper-local communities. A network of 5.000 contributors (citizen reporter) submit thousands of stories and the community picks stories for hyper-local printed freesheets (monthly, close to 100% UGC) which reach a combined circulation of 120.000. As founder of a local monthly freesheet in […]
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Martin Huber – Myheimat.de
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. Myheimat.de combines printed magazines and an online-platform for hyper-local communities. A network of 5.000 contributors (citizen reporter) submit thousands of stories and the community picks stories for hyper-local printed freesheets (monthly, close to 100% UGC) which reach a combined circulation of 120.000. As founder of a local monthly freesheet in […]
