If you are a reader of the NY Times, or maybe just ever thought how they come up with their articles which often times contain interactive graphics and story telling illustrations, you will want to see this video. In the video, it covers how information comes into play when reporting, through diagrams, charts and different kinds of media.
There are a few tech sites that I frequent the most, with Mashable being one of them. Some others are TechCrunch of course, Engadget, Wired, ArsTechnica, The Next Web and well, many more. Mashable is a big one, widely known in particular for breaking tech and social news, but recently has expanded to entertainment and political news, just like how Buzzfeed is now doing.
The story of the unraveling of LulzSec is fascinating. News broke this morning that the leader of LulzSec has been a secret informant for the FBI since last year.
The Knight Foundation which runs it’s annual Knight News Challenge is doing it a little differently this year. This year’s challenge submissions are being held via the social blogging platform Tumblr.
Could this be it, the mythical beast that will come before us next Wednesday? The futuristic newest iteration to the iPad made so famous by the late Steve Jobs? Quite possibly so says Apple, with their invite they just sent out to the press.
According to a report from Kotaku, a gamer in Taipei, Taiwan was playing the multi-player game League of Legends in an Internet cafe for several hours before dying. He laid dead for nine hours before anyone noticed that there was a dead body next to them in the cafe.
Tumblr just added a new way for your blog posts to get a little extra attention in the Tumblr Dashboard (user feed). On Tumblr, you can follow other people, and you see their posts in your feed, just like with Twitter. Starting today, you can pay $1.00 to “highlight” your blog posts to your followers, giving it a giant bright tag of sorts that will surely stand out in the feed.
Every Tuesday of every week, since 2009, Tumblr has spotlighted a few blogs in a staff post as part of “Tumblr Tuesdays”. The point of Tumblr Tuesdays is to bring recognition to bloggers on the social blogging platform and highlight the interesting, fun and exciting blogs.
I gotta give up to the guys over at Buzzfeed, as I just read they raised a whole load of cash in a new series of funding. The New York native meme and breaking news aggregation site has made some headlines lately, most recently with scoring Ben Smith of Politico. With this move, Buzzfeed is basically looking to do a small pivot from LOLcats and memes to breaking political news as well and covering a wider range of topics.
In another gruesome report, the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas is sending another clear and powerful message to those using social media to expose the cartel.
Last year, a new type of news reader app emerged in the App Store called Pulse News. You may have seen write up’s on it across the web. Mashable featured Pulse News along with Flipboard in September 2010. The app which was founded in early 2010 by two Stanford grads is more than just a news reader as it encapsulates social news consumption on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and also Android devices.
This isn’t the first time Steve Jobs has graced the cover of Time Magazine. It will actually be his 8th time. But this time around as we know, will be different. Time Magazine is actually dedicating 21 pages of their next issue just to the life and time of Steve Jobs.
With all the changes this week coming out of Facebook it’s hard to keep up. Facebook is completely revamping our social lives, how we interact online and more. Digital strategist Alana Joy posted an interesting quote yesterday on Twitter saying “Politics, religion… and Facebook: man made constructs that dictate how society should behave.” It’s true that Facebook through their vision and technology are able to help mold the way we socialize.
The Wall Street Journal aims to please and has started the new WSJ Social app on Facebook (in beta). The Journal says they are trying to go where readers spend the most time and are bringing their content to Facebook in app form. After giving permission to the app you can read, like and comment on WSJ articles all while staying on Facebook. It appears also that you can read articles that are not roadblocked by their subscription requirements which so far seems to be a nice benefit.
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