Television has been for long the preferred channel for information. Sitting on a sofa or a chair, more or less actively listening to what comes out of the speakers has become the easiest way to stay updated to worldwide news. Radio and Newspaper can not keep up and are fighting […]
Daily Archives: December 12, 2012
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Liveblog of Ethan Zuckerman’s Future of News keynote, composed with Nathan Matias. Errors are likely ours. The usual conversation about innovation in journalism held by people who work in journalism assumes that there’s one main problem in the space: if we could just work out the revenue issue, we’d be […]
This is the final submission for the Intro to Civic Media Class. I have posted some of my progress throughout the semester on this regard. Today I am posting my development and research but also the plans to move ahead. This class has been specially helpful on that regard, in […]
Earlier this year I came across a news piece on Wired, about Klout, the company that created a score that ranks people on the internet according to their activity in Social Media, mainly Twitter and Facebook. The piece describes how people gain “points” on their Klout score, according to number […]
Keep in mind that the following is a brief summary of my research project. You can find the full text at the bottom of this post. My project focuses on evaluating crisis mapping used during 2010 Haitian earthquake. It began as Maps for Mankind, a Youtube channel that would feature […]