mba page on the presidential debate
several media bloggers were in attendance covering the presidential debate. page linked below:
PBS All-American Presidential Forums | Media Bloggers Association
scoble on the iphone line
robert scoble is blogging while waiting online for an iphone in palo alto. i saw his photo on the front cover of the express this morning (pdf) and got all geeked up. the blog is a great read because the line in palo alto is a who’s who of compu-hipsters. bill atkinson, the pioneer apple [...]
video tool box from mashable
Video Toolbox: 150 Online Video Tools and Resources
hat tip to don at lostremote for finding this one.
Hatshepsut found and other Egyptology notes
Egyptologists think they have Hatshepsut’s mummy in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings. A news conference is scheduled for Wednesday.
Kind of ironic timing, we were just in Philly over the weekend where we saw the Tutankahamun exhibit at the Franklin Institute. It was mobbed and very dark, so our small kids didn’t [...]
online conversation: slate's fray
Amay Gahran has posted a great item about Slate’s public discussion forum, The Fray at Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits Blog. Slate launched a new Fray on June 4th after asking the users how to Fix the Fray. Given Poynter’s audience, Amy asks “What can news organizations learn from the Fray?” But really, EVERYONE PUBLISHING ONLINE [...]
a quote for the social mediaistas
via my inbox:
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy
in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the
midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of
solitude. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
our latest acquisition: big red moose
we saw this piece, big red moose, by linda taynahza, when we were at sundance this winter and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. so we contacted her recently and completed the purchase today.
when we first got together, gabriella and i stated an intention to get one piece of art a year. the [...]
Attention economy
I’ve become very interested in the concept of attention economy since Steve Rubel posted “The Attention Crash” on his Micro Persuasion blog.
The one constant we have is time. While we are preaching about non-linear storytelling and interactive experiences to break out of linear narratives, we can’t escape that time is a linear constant.
as we talk [...]