David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Real-Time Coverage of Nerve Gas Rumors (via Storify)
Once again, I'm using the social media-aggregation tool Storify to work up a story using the Twitter feeds of reporters & protesters on the scene. This time, it's in Tahrir Square, where the confrontations between the police and the citizens (fed up with the...
Video of Rare Sei Whales Off Dana Point
I've lived in the LA area for more than 20 years now (gulp!), and this is the first time I've ever actually gone out on a whale-watching cruise. The impetus for this trip was a visit from my Tennessee-based sister, who wanted to go out on the water. Since it's...
Wrongheaded Solutions: eBooks (… on a little plastic card to be inserted in the e-reader)
Norwegian company Norli Libris introduces nonsensical "eBook" publishing model Quick Hit: Saw this on BoingBoing, followed it over to Applied Abstractions, and just couldn't resist commenting on it, for 1) the benefit of my international students, who might wonder...
Ukrainian Professors Play with New iPad 2s
...in the courtyard of the Institute for the Digital Future of Journalism I've got great video of everyone having a blast, experimenting with the new guerilla-style video production tactics I've been teaching them -- I showed them how to use the front and rear-facing...
Testing Storify with my Class in Kiev
Yet again, I use this blog as something of a mad scientist's laboratory, to show off how to use the latest social media tools. This time around, it's the social media aggregator/publisher Storify. [<a...
JetPack: the Always-Open University Library that Fits in Your Pocket
...but without the annoying biology grad student who is using himself as a human guinea pig to see if it's possible to survive for 3 months on a diet of only beer, vitamin pills and broccoli florets. I'd love to say that this is it, we've found the perfect...