As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
An approach called altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked. “There’s a gold mine of data that hasn’t been harnessed yet about impact outside the traditional citation-based impact,” says Dario Taraborelli, a senior research analyst with the Strategy Team at the Wikimedia [...]
MediaShift Idea Lab . After Crystal Cox Verdict, It’s Time to Define Who Is a Journalist | PBS
People from all sides of the debate seem to agree at least that some definitions are needed. Today there seem to be three camps, or “theories” for trying to define journalism and the modern journalist. via pbs.org
The benefits of integrating paid, owned, and earned media – iMediaConnection.com
As the digital marketing landscape has evolved, so have the strategies. Changes in the structure and definition of media have broken apart the silos of paid, owned, and earned media and have spurred marketers to re-examine how paid, owned, and earned media can be integrated for greater success. In doing so, marketers have realized better [...]
The Washington Hand Press: The Old West’s Web Server
The Washington press differs from the Columbian and Albion in that a very simple toggle joint provides pressure to the platen and on each side of the platen are coil springs which raise it to open position. The Washington hand press is the invention of Samuel Rust, an American who first produced his press in [...]
On the Sails of HTML5: How New Technologies Change Modern Web. Part 2 | Splashnology
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SPACE CRUISER from Ivan Safrin and Babycastles on Vimeo
via vimeo.com a game going off in the american museum of natural history in nyc tonight.
The future of television advertising
via cyberjournalist.net television has moved from a device to an experience. courtesy of cyberjournalist.net.
The 48 Hour Life of a Tweet | GaggleAMP
Ever wonder how long a Tweet is good for? We did. Being the analytical geeks that we are, we decided to do our own research. The analysis brought us to the conclusion that the average life of a Tweet is about 48 hours. ….. This analysis was based on click through activity. There are other [...]
Center for the Future of Museums: Sneak Preview of a New Museum Game
For the past couple of months CityMystery has been building a new game, called PHEON. (A pheon is an ancient Greek arrowhead that has come to symbolize nimbleness of wit.) The purpose of our game is to celebrate (and reinforce) the American impulse to innovate. An economist friend of mine recently said that we have [...]