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Week one (July 11-15): blog assignment

Deadline:

Monday, July 18 (no later than 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. BST)

Task:

A 300 to 500 word blog post.

Please stick to the word limit -- use visuals in place of words if you're having trouble with this limit.

For more detailed guidelines on the 'Weekly blog assignment' visit:

http://p2pu.org/en/groups/knight-mozilla-learning-lab/content/weekly-blog-assignment/

With this blog we’re looking for you to engage with the weekly lectures – in part, this is to demonstrate your understanding of the lectures and to describe how the lessons apply to your personal project idea.

How to submit:

Post a link to your blog post below as a comment.
 

Task Discussion


  • Bharath Channakeshavaiah   July 25, 2011, 4:54 p.m.

    http://techtopo.blogspot.com/2011/07/mojo-first-week-summary.html

  • Kate Hudson   July 25, 2011, 12:07 p.m.

    Hello everyone,

    At the request of Julien Dorra we've put together a compilation of all comments on this task here.

    Also, you should be receiving feedback on your blog posts today. Keep up the great work!

     

  • Samuel Huron   July 24, 2011, 4:17 p.m.

    Sorry I'm really late for this first post, but I had travel, work and others .. It will be better next week
    :-) Sorry to for the layout to but my blog is really old and update + post is tricky now :-) 

    My post :  But what is journalism ?

    best 

  • Julien Dorra   July 22, 2011, 12:16 p.m.

    As the P2PU platform is not really adpated to 60+ comments (with the paging that makes very hard to scan everything), could it be possible to publish all comments here aggregated as a post on P2PU ? That way it would be easy to scan and read posts here.

  • Phillip Smith   July 22, 2011, 2:52 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Julien Dorra   July 22, 2011, 12:16 p.m.

    Good suggestion. We'll do that.

    Phillip.

  • Jacob Caggiano   July 26, 2011, 3:02 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Phillip Smith   July 22, 2011, 2:52 p.m.
    Created a ticket for "view all comments" here http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/495
  • Shaun McWhinnie   July 21, 2011, 8:30 p.m.

    Late, but I think that's me caught up. Will have the next post there for Monday.

    Making things, finding your passion and experiementation. 

  • Tobias Reitz   July 21, 2011, 4:59 a.m.

    I twittered, I facebooked, I told my friends. But I totally forgot to link to my first assignment here on P2PU. Sorry for that. I'll do better next time!

    http://corrigo.org/mojo-herman-storify-hacks-hackers/

  • Saleem Khan   July 18, 2011, 2:32 p.m.

    Are the weekly assignment posts being automatically aggregated for submission, or must the link be posted here? It occurred to me after today's lecture that although our profiles include a link, my post(s) and others may not be feeding into anything here, at least not that I have found on my profile or another page.

    Especially after today's lecture, it seems like something within the realm of possibility that would simplify the process for everyone, and facilitate an inclusive discussion to the benefit of all vs. fragmenting it across 60+ individual blogs.

    Thoughts?

  • Phillip Smith   July 18, 2011, 4:14 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Saleem Khan   July 18, 2011, 2:32 p.m.

    We were contemplating the idea of aggregating everyone's posts together. Maybe it's worth a re-visit. 

    In the meantime, please do include a link to the specific post that you'd like included in the assessment here. 

    Phillip.

  • Travis Kriplean   July 18, 2011, 1:33 p.m.

    In Aza's words, I tried to build the resort town on the other end of the transcontinental railroad, or at least drew up some blueprints. Integrating reader insights into the news cycle

    Sorry for the tardiness.

  • Engin Erdogan   July 18, 2011, 12:50 p.m.

    Do we understand the problem?

  • Anonym   July 18, 2011, 11:35 a.m.

    My blog post will appear here, but I'm attending the lecture right now, and am also working on a story deadline today. I'll finish the blog post (and setting up the blog) as soon as I can...

    OKAY! So after a sleepless night deadline the other day, and the regular time-takers, I've sorted out my thoughts and I'm back on schedule.

    Here is my (third) blog response to this week's content:

    MoJo week 1 results: My Strawberry Statement

    It should have an iPad-compatible (HTML5) soundslide, but otherwise it runs Flash. I haven't tested the HTML5 compatibility.. but would like to!

    I blabbed a bit more before posting that one: 

    MoJo Week 1 reflection: The strawberry patch mindset

    And before that I made a Storify to summarize, organize, and bookmark some of the content from the first week:

    MoJo week 1: On hammers and nails

    (In which I address a comparison of Burt Herman against Aza Raskin, who both talked about getting your ideas going, by using the Twitterize infographic tool on visual.ly.)

  • Maura Youngman   July 18, 2011, 11:34 a.m.

    Down to the wire, but here we go! MoJo Week 1: Filter bubbles, problems in ambiguity/ambiguity in problems

    Is it possible to make the factors that go into search filtering more transparent? Eager to hear thoughts and insights from folks who know more about this than I do :)

    Thanks!
    And now back to Chris's super cool lecture...
    All best, @mauramaura

  • Katie Zhu   July 28, 2011, 1:20 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Maura Youngman   July 18, 2011, 11:34 a.m.

    Interesting stuff! Tweeted you a question! :)

  • Marian Liu   July 18, 2011, 11:12 a.m.

    My thoughts comparing prototyping with pitching - taken from my entrepreneur class from my recent MBA

  • Ted Han   July 18, 2011, 9:56 a.m.

    My thoughts on what we discussed last week, and in general regarding MoJo projects and news innovation

  • Jamie King   July 18, 2011, 9:35 a.m.

    Here you go: http://jamie.com/2011/07/notes-on-week-1-of-the-knightmozilla-learning-lab/

  • Jordan Wirfs-Brock   July 18, 2011, 9:23 a.m.

    Here's my first blog post...enjoy!

    Prototyping the PROCESS: What would a GitHub for storytelling look like?

  • Jeremy Gilbert   July 18, 2011, 9:10 a.m.

    The Un-usability of Media Products

    Great first week. I explored the relationship between prototyping, usability and media companies. Arguing that Aza suggested a path forward that would let media companies explore truly new means of content distribution more quickly and efficiently. 

  • Mark James   July 18, 2011, 9:01 a.m.

    http://makethecase.net/wiki/User:Mrj

  • Kabir Soorya   July 18, 2011, 6:06 a.m.

    http://ksoorya.org/post/7757916580/ideas-and-prototypes

  • Katie Zhu   July 18, 2011, 6 a.m.

    Somehow, I managed to tackle the future of news, all three lectures and preliminary project thoughts all in less than 500 words.

    For lack of a better title, I've affectionately titled my first week's blog post "The #MozNewsLab way to conceptualize and develop a news innovation idea."

    (http://bit.ly/r6uEfB)

    Would love to hear your thoughts and input.

    Cheers, y'all!

  • Laura Hilliger   July 27, 2011, 12:21 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Katie Zhu   July 18, 2011, 6 a.m.

    I think the gamefication of reading the news is a super awesome idea. I'm tackling the same problem but in a completely different way. Gonna go read your second blog post now! Wondering if you dropped the Headliner idea.

  • Mark Boas   July 18, 2011, 5:49 a.m.

    Hi All,

    Hoped to have submitted this earlier but got sidetracked by a Roman wedding smiley

    "Specifically in response to a question on how Burt and his team went from early prototypes to the current incarnation of Storify, he re-emphasised the iterative approach of and gathering feedback from early minimal releases ... and then BAM - out it came, mentioned almost as an aside ..."

    Build First, Ask Questions Later

    Feedback very much appreciated!