MediaShift Idea Lab: Comments

Comment on "How Gotham Gazette Used Games as Storytelling Devices"

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:03:18 -0500

That's a great idea, Michael. The problem here is the NYC school system is pretty hard to crack and most schools do little, if any, of what we used to call civics. Charter schools and private schools might be a beter place to turn since they have more flexibility.

- gail robinson

Comment on "For News Organizations, Transparency is the New Objectivity"

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:34:34 -0500

"We are supposed to shine a light on other industries, public and private. How can we be expected to be a public beacon if we ourselves hide behind a veil of secrecy?"

Solid point to a very solid article. The points you make in regards to the difficulties are spot on, especially in the day to day activities sector.

@David

I tend to agree with Mike that a strength of bloggers is that it is so easy to click on links to check their sources.

- Glass Voice

Comment on "New Tools For Journalists From TechCrunch 50"

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:19:51 -0500

Citysourced looks like a very valuable app. It seems like programs such as this have been springing up all over the place. However this app with its ability to send photos hopefully will get things done.

- Glass Voice

Comment on "Overcoming Drupal Challenges as SochiReporter Nears Launch"

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:14:23 -0500

The Website looks really good. As an english user I clicked on the "english" link, however I found a lot of text remained untranslated. The poll on the website is kinda funny, but English speakers really could use more content. On the whole I love the idea and documenting the change that takes place from the Games.

- Glass Voice

Comment on "How Gotham Gazette Used Games as Storytelling Devices"

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:14:18 -0500

If anyone is interested in reviewing the source code for the games we built at Gotham Gazette, they're all on Github:

http://github.com/gothamgazette

Some will be easier to re-purpose than others, but they're all there.

- Amanda Hickman

Comment on "How Gotham Gazette Used Games as Storytelling Devices"

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:07:20 -0500

Great stuff. Congrats. Just curious if there has been any thought or actions to get these games adopted in High Schools in NY. Seems to me there is a possible revenue stream by charging a very low price and helping teachers save time, while getting the kids to learn how to be better citizens.

Pearson has introduced an online program for grade recovery that seems to be working well. It seems to be reasonably priced at about $6000 per license. I haven't been able to figure out whether that's per seat or school. At the school level, the benefit in grade recovery for kids at risk of dropping out, without requiring lots of teacher time, seems well worth it.

I have to believe that if the games you've developed were used to help with high school dropout problems in the States it would get an audience.

- Michael Josefowicz

Comment on "Virtual Street Corners Aims to Engage Public, Connect Neighbors"

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:09:29 -0500

Fi,
John will be writing on Idea Lab regularly over the coming year about this project. You can subscribe to his specific RSS feed here:

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/rss2/john-ewing.xml

Cheers,
Mark

- Mark Glaser

Comment on "Virtual Street Corners Aims to Engage Public, Connect Neighbors"

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:41:04 -0500

Glad to see the problems of community being addressed from a different perspective - using art to bring people together 'spontaneously'. Much more interesting to the participants than anything formally structured. Best of luck with the project. Keep us all updated so we can spread the ideas that work.

- Fi

Comment on "4th Programmer-Journalist Scholarship Winner Learns to 'Think Like a Journalist' "

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:23:09 -0500

A heady and exciting mix - technology and journalism. Many media companies are yet to come to grips with it, though

- Online News Design

Comment on "Journalism, Technology Starting to Add Up"

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:05:21 -0500

What is new about Hacks and Hackers? Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

- Hiroko Tabuchi

Comment on "Using Mobile Phones to Map the Slums of Brazil"

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:28:04 -0500

vai ser muito util nas olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro 2016

- R7

Comment on "The Community Radio Movement in India"

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:08:15 -0500

Dear Sirs:

I have been reading these posts with great interest as I will soon be going to northern India to teach broadcasting at the Tibetan Childrens Village. They have recently obtained their CR license and hope to be programming in the next few weeks. I will not only teach broadcasting, but I will also help in programming. I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around the 'no news' concept. If I am teaching broadcasting and news is a central portion of my course, wouldn't a 'news broadcast' be, in effect, an educational broadcast?

What do you think?

- Tom Haig

Comment on "4th Programmer-Journalist Scholarship Winner Learns to 'Think Like a Journalist' "

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:29:04 -0500

hi ............
congrates...............................

- sarita

Comment on "SochiReporter Launches with Time Machine, Wiki Guidebook"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:25 -0500

Thanks, Nick for your congrats! I am glad you like the idea and how it is implemented.

Msbpodcast, you mean you like the Time Machine?

The Time Machine is basically a useful and convenient, and visually attractive way to organize and store information, and it enables a user to travel in time and see what events happened some time ago.

As for technology, I don't condsider SochiReporter to be overloaded with tech components. Yes, it's multifunctional. Probably, more tech-functional than Drupal sites usually are, but I think this is SochiReporter's advantage rather than a drawback.

- Alexander Zolotarev

Comment on "SochiReporter Launches with Time Machine, Wiki Guidebook"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:50:59 -0500

I like the idea behind the Time Reporter but from an execution point of view I have to ask WTF?:-) (Though using a Russian site with the information flagged in Cyrillic in fact points out the next great fallacy of the USA centric world view. Writing scripts and languages are the only true barriers / borders to human communication.

There are lots of good ideas in there but you defeated your own purpose a bit through your use of technology which erects the barriers immediately, rather than drawing in the site visitor.

- msbpodcast

Comment on "SochiReporter Launches with Time Machine, Wiki Guidebook"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:34 -0500

Alexander, congrats on your launch! A great idea and remarkable implementation. I like the way you are building up the brand!

- Nick Sanders

Comment on "4th Programmer-Journalist Scholarship Winner Learns to 'Think Like a Journalist' "

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:37:49 -0500

Congrats a ton!!!
Keep it up

- Gaurav Mehrotra

Comment on "How Do We Categorize All Journalistic Errors?"

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:43:08 -0500

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- ari

Comment on "How Talking into a Mobile Phone Can Help Change Lives"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:35:47 -0500

My father is currently taking classes to be able to continue to teach at our local highschool. He uses a program that transfers his words into text on the computer. This technology has increased my fathers ability to write papers by over 100%. In the future I believe people will not need to know how to type because everyone will use programs such as the one my father uses.

- Glass Voice

Comment on "Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:12 -0500

dear david,

thanks for including our authorship graph.

"there is now, for the first time in the history of the world, an abundance of content and a scarcity of attention." nice! we present a more optimistic view of readership in our response to comments at the new york times blog.

- Denis Pelli