– an interesting take on the future of privacy in the wake of Google Glass from Mark Hurst, Creative Good. Excerpt follows: The Google Glass feature that (almost) no one is talking about is the experience – not of the user, but of everyone other than the user. A tweet by David Yee introduces it well: There is a kid wearing Google […]
A smart-road design that features glow-in-the-dark tarmac and illuminated weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands mid-2013. Special paint will be used to paint markers like snowflakes across the road’s surface — when temperatures fall to a certain point, these images will become visible, indicating that the surface will likely be slippery. The Roosegaarde design […]
A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Beyond the technical challenges lies resistance from unionized workers and communities worried about jobs. The ascension of robots may mean fewer jobs are created in […]
What role has social media played in film distribution? Social media has created new opportunities for movie consumption in places most people would never have guessed a few years back. Last year, for example, Warner Bros. started digitally renting movies on Facebook for the first time. This experiment (and others) makes clear just how vital […]
[...] As media writer Andrew Beaujon at the Poynter Institute notes, Reddit quickly became the go-to spot for comprehensive information about the shooting and its aftermath. Although other sites put up Storify collections of tweets from individuals who were at the scene — including one of the victims — as a way of tracking how the news spread, the community […]
The Knight Foundation announced the winners of the first round of its Knight News Challenge — a contest aimed at funding the next generation of news entrepreneurs. This round was aimed at startups that are leveraging existing networks to develop video, mobile and crowdsourced solutions to filtering big data. (Source: GigaOM) Peepol.tv leverages streaming networks to aggregate […]
MediaShift has a good article covering J-school trends from 2011: “5. The Rise of the Journo-Programmer. An ambitious hybrid of journalist and computer scientist is what some have in mind as part of the future of journalism. As Columbia was launching its dual-degree masters in journalism and computer science (more), Northwestern last winter announced a $4.2 million Knight News Innovation Lab run by […]
This is my favorite time of year — when journalists focus on the new year’s predictions in tech. No stranger to this trend is social media news giant, Mashable, who predicts a rise in ‘ultrabooks’ (think MacBook Air), ‘social media exhaustion’ (think less Facebook) and ‘mobile chip wars’ — a nebulous concept that’s never fully […]
