To Help or Document: The Citizen Journalists' Dilemma. The New York Post’s decision to publish an image of a man on the New York City subway tracks moments before the impact that led to his death has become a lightning rod for controversy. Why did the Post run the photo? Why didn't freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, the man who took the photo, save Ki-Suck Han? I want to know these things, too, but I have a very different question. Abbasi’s predicament may seem a world away from you, but it’s not. Consider this: Abbasi is described as a photojournalist. Abbasi's situation is not uncommon. When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kevin Carter captured a photo of a starving Sudanese child being eyed hungrily by a nearby vulture, the New York Times reportedly received hundreds of inquiries about the fate of that girl. Clearly, even for photojournalists, the choice is not always obvious. What about you, the budding citizen journalists?
He's right, of course. It sounds to me like Krums was inadvertently acting like a photojournalist. Prismatic gets $15M to build a recommendation engine for the world. We’ve written many times about how the profusion of information from social networks and the web in general makes it harder and harder to find what matters to us, and how new tools are required to filter that vast ocean of content. Prismatic is one service that is using algorithms to try and become a smart recommendation engine for news and eventually expand into other content as well, and co-founder Bradford Cross and his San Francisco-based team have just raised $15 million in financing from a star-studded group of venture-capital firms that they hope will enable them to do so.
In an email interview about the funding, Cross said that the financing will allow Prismatic to grow from a group of just six, and allow it to take on more of the recommendation and filtering tasks it is trying to build into the product: “This financing finally allows us to have the team that we need to tackle the problems we have ahead in the next 24 months. The State of Facebook: What’s Working Now. Building a Video SEO Strategy. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
The core tactics of technical Video SEO are pretty easy to pick up. You can read through the bulk of what there is to know about getting rich snippets, optimizing for YouTube, and driving links back to your site within a couple of hours. While advice on these tactics will adjust and evolve as new technologies and iterations of the algorithm are released, there is an evergreen side to video marketing; one that both SEOs and creative marketers consistently fail to comprehend.
And that is... Defining and implementing a goal-driven strategy. Creative agencies often fail at this, simply because they don’t know how SEO works. Most creatives don’t understand the full consequence of embeds or pointing to YouTube and Vimeo rather than to a company’s site. Take a look at the existing content. And this is the consequence... Define the business goals. Rich Snippets. The impossibility of tablet-native journalism. The Daily has reached the end of its life: as News Corp splits in two, its losses, which might have been manageable within the current behemoth, would have loomed far too large in the smaller spinoff. The news is not particularly surprising, but it would be wrong to simply dismiss it as a Murdoch folly which holds few lessons for anybody else. Rather, I think that The Daily has taught us all an important lesson — which is that tablets in general, and the iPad in particular, are actually much less powerful and revolutionary than many of us had hoped. Specifically, far from being able to offer richer content than can be found on the web, they actually find themselves crippled in unexpected ways.
News apps, it has become clear, are unwieldy and clunky things. Every issue of a new publication has to be downloaded in full before it can be opened; this takes a surprisingly long time, even over a pretty fast wifi connection. I’m reminded, here, a bit of Apple’s iOS Maps debacle. Le guide des financements publics au transmédia et aux oeuvres interactives en Europe. Music Video Tools: Easy Video Remixes, Facebook Photo Videos, YouTube Marketing. Interview de Jeni Tennison, CTO de l’Open Data Institute. Décembre A l’occasion du lancement officiel de l’ Open Data Institute ce mardi 4 décembre, Jeni Tennison directrice technique de l’organisation a bien voulu répondre à nos questions.
Jeni Tennison : Nous sommes actuellement concentrés sur l’activité des startups. Nous nous sommes occupés d’emménager dans nos locaux, nous avons engagé une équipe et poursuivit nos premières grandes initiatives d’investissement. Nous venons de mettre en place plusieurs hackathons et nous avons préparé tout le matériel utiles et nécessaires à nos formations. Ensuite, tandis que l’équipe de développement s’installera, nous chercherons à poursuivre des projets d’ouverture des données avec des acteurs-éditeurs clés, nous inclus ! En tant qu’organisation, nous avons des buts très spécifiques qui sont d’engager et d’influencer à la fois les éditeurs de données et le grand public.
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