Welcome to the official BILL VIOLA website Creating a Navigational Guide to New Media In their new book, “Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload,” Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, who previously partnered as the authors of “The Elements of Journalism,” explore the evolving relationships, responsibilities and roles of journalists and news consumers in the digital age. In their concluding chapter—“What We Need from the ‘Next Journalism’”—Kovach and Rosenstiel describe “eight essential dimensions or functions that the new news consumer requires from journalism.” With permission, we are presenting an adapted version of their words. The news has become unbundled from the news organization. We seek the news today, in effect, by story rather than by news organization. What those who want to provide the news must understand is that this new lean-forward consumer requires a new kind of journalism. Authenticator: We will require the press to help authenticate for us what facts are true and reliable. Journalism, in other words, is not becoming obsolete.
How do you Make an Intelligent City? The 24 Hour City Project Through technology we have created new ways to collect, show, and share data. Beyond that dry term, “data”, is a vast range of possibility, and gamification is demonstrating how we can show and share information in the hopes of becoming more fit, more healthy, and more knowledgable. These are largely personal goals made social through technology, but what of inherently social goals? How can we use these new technologies to create better services, better communities, and better cities? Earlier this year, iStrategyLabs, the National Buildings Museum, IBMs Smarter City Program, and Time Magazine came together to ask “What makes an intelligent city?” Bonnie Shaw, Director of Social Innovation at iStrategyLabs, shared the beginnings of a project that tries to answer this question–the 24 Hour City Project. The group came together to discuss the use of technology in the environment and for the future of our cities, but they did not stop at discussion.
dontflush.me The idea behind this project is to allow NYC residents to help reduce the amount of pollution in the harbor. Some 27 billion gallons of raw sewage is dumped into the harbor every year. This comes from Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) that open when the sewer system is overloaded. The idea is to enable residents to understand when the overflows happen and reduce their wastewater production before and during an overflow event. Inside a CSO regulator in Brooklyn. Photo: Steve Duncan undercity.org Photos of the CSO target for this prototype: The simple sensor that I am prototyping utilizes an arduino, a proximity sensor, and a cell phone. The data collected from this network of sensors will be availble to users on a website, alerts will be sent by SMS and a prototype of an in home visualization of the CSO status will be set up. A simple sketch for this device would include using a xbee network and arduino:
Charcot Référence tableau The Newsonomics of NPR’s Next-Gen Network First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Tell me if you’ve heard this one. The head of media company says: Why are we reinventing the wheel? Why are we — we who know how to create stuff our audiences love — spending so much time and money on stuff we don’t know, like technology? It seems so simple, yet the tale of the development of new, digital technology for publishers and broadcasters has been a tale of almost uninterrupted woe. NPR Digital Services is trying, against some odds, to set a new model. The effort that was once called Public Interactive is now called Digital Services and could become…a network. As we look at the newsonomics of NPR Digital Services, we can see big potential impacts and dollars. NPR’s digital growth is impressive. So what is Digital Services? It’s intended to be a full-service center, rooted in technology and branching out to wider, collective, and collaborative, deal-making. That bigger intention builds on a number of recent public radio experiments.
Understanding Communities through Ethnography Guest Post by: Dhiren (Market Sentinel) Ethnography promises new insights for companies seeking to understand communities. A few weeks ago I caught up with ethnographer and technology researcher Tricia Wang to learn how. DS: As a sociologist and ethnographer, what are the core outputs of your studies at the moment? TW: My primary output is analysis of how new technology users are living at the intersection of macro processes. I hang out with people and spend a lot of time trying to see the world through their eyes. By answering these questions I am able to provide context and explanations for why people engage or don’t engage with certain technologies, to explain how this all interfaces with historical and present day life, and how designers, engineers, and organizers can meet the daily needs of both low-income/marginalized users and the burgeoning middle class. DS: What are the types of questions that you are asked the most? However, the notion of the “peer” is relative and is cultural.
Sitegeist by the Sunlight Foundation Tech City Map - Home Tech City Map is a constantly-evolving compendium of East London's vibrant technology and creative ecosystem. In addition to showing where businesses are located Tech City Map uses advanced technology from Trampoline Systems to reveal the web of connections linking them together and calculate each company's influence in the community. The platform works by pulling in streams of Twitter data from each business and tracking following relationships, mentions and retweets. It was launched by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in November 2011 at the Trampery in Shoreditch, East London. What businesses are included? One of East London's great strengths is its inter-disciplinary creative community. What area is covered by the map? The UK Government's Tech City initiative is focused on the cluster of technology businesses located in East London. Where does the information come from? Tech City Map was launched with a database of 819 business.
Part 3: Tumblr Serves “5.3 Billion Views Per Month,” Explains Mark Coatney [Video] Could Vogue afford to be a bit snobbier with their Tumblr? In the third and final part of our Media Beat series of interviews with Mark Coatney, the media evangelist for Tumblr, Mark answers this and discusses the new job opportunities popping up due to social media. Furthermore, Tumblr itself has always been particularly interested in journalism, and Mark discusses how that came about, and how it will progress. Take a look at the video below, and let us know what you think in the comments! I had a great time interviewing Mark, and hope to check back in with him in the future. Good luck to Tumblr as they continue to innovate. For more information on the interview, check out the first part of the series here and the 2nd part here.
From Sushi to Tunisia: A Guide to Swaying Majority Opinion - Hans Villarica - Life A study on network theory finds that the tipping point needed for a committed minority to win over the majority is just 10 percent How do you topple a tyrant or popularize a foreign cuisine? According to a recent study in the journal Physical Review E, mobilizing an unyielding minority of 10 percent may be enough. Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Network Science and Technology Center created and analyzed various models of networks where a minority strived to overtake the majority's opinion. They found that three conditions are key: a majority that is flexible with their views, a minority that is intractable, and a critical threshold wherein about a tenth of the population advocate the minority opinion. "I'd hesitate to reduce the spread of sushi in America to a formula." — Trevor Corson "The governments of these two countries survived for decades in the past, despite more or less visible opposition," says coauthor and center director Boleslaw Szymanski. Image: 1.
commercial_service Définir les indicateurs clés de performance - KPI - Débuter en Web Analytics (3/4) Après avoir vu comment réaliser un plan de marquage pour analyser son site et comment procéder techniquement au marquage des pages, nous allons nous intéresser dans cet article à la définition des indicateurs clés de performance (appelés également KPI pour Key Performance Indicators) En effet, avec l’amélioration des outils de web analytics, il a de plus en plus de données qui sont collectées. Il est impensable de passer du temps à analyser chacune de ces informations… C’est pourquoi pour simplifier le travail des managers de votre entreprise, optez pour la création d’indicateurs clés de performance. [nice_info]Ok. Mais c’est quoi un indicateur clé de performance ?[/nice_info] Définition des KPI Sur le Web, un indicateur clé de performance est la mesure d’une donnée importante d’un site web donnant le maximum d’informations en étant compréhensible par toutes les personnes qui l’utilisent. Attention : ce n’est pas une valeur absolue ou une simple donnée. - Mesurer - Définir - Agir aucun