Part one of four in a blog mini series that will discuss the who, what, where, when and why/how of the largest and most pervasive social media platforms out there.
Technology
Random Hacks of Kindness
Thousands of hackers have recently been working together for a huge hacking session over 19 cities. Random Hacks of Kindness has chosen three as the most outstanding applications.
Pin Interests with Pinterest
Pinterest is a social media catalog. You can browse, “repin,” like and comment on anyone’s pins without having to follow them. You don’t have to leave the site to create a board full of inspiration.
Search: Online “Filter Bubbles”
As Internet companies attempt to personalize their services to each user, there is an unintended result: we view an edited down version of reality that colors the world that we see. Eli Pariser discusses this in his latest TED talk that you can watch here.
Disconnect to Connect
Today I read a great blog post written by Richard Watson, the publisher of What’s Next (a website that documents global trends) and co-founder of Strategy Insight (a specialist scenario planning consultancy). The blog’s title, Why Doing Nothing is Often Better Than Doing Something, grabbed my attention. What Watson found was that he felt overwhelmed with too much information. He was drowning in the details of life and was missing the boat on being an innovative, creative deep-thinker.
Find Your Favorite Paper (Or Not) With Interactive Site
The number of newspapers continues to decline at an alarming pace (at least for those of us who’ve worked in the industry for more years than we care to admit), but there a few stalwarts still remain.
Want to see who’s still spilling barrels of ink daily? Then visit this site, a part of the Newseum’s interactive offerings. More than 800 newspapers worldwide have agreed to take part in this exercise, so scroll to your heart’s content and sample front pages from around the country, even the globe. (They’re not edited in any way, so the content of some might throw you. As the Newseum says, “discretion is advised.”)
Keeping Up with Technology
It's impossible to keep up with technology between it failing, normal wear and tear and new versions released.
Magazine Apps Still Evolving
Now, with the iPad and other tablets, magazines are going app crazy, trying to figure out how to reach readers.
The Technology Waiting Game
Information is emerging about the businesses affected by the disasters in Japan, and how that will mean a gap in the supply chain for some key iPad parts.
Book It – The Nashville Public Library
A quick visit to www.library.nashville.org, shows that the library is determined to keep up with the times as much as technology and budgets will allow.