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Week two (July 18-22): blog assignment

Deadline:

Monday, July 25 (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 final project idea.

How to submit:

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

Task Discussion

Artem Dudarev Aug. 1, 2011, 2:08 p.m.

How Locovidi May Be Useful for News Organizations
Andrew Jennings Aug. 1, 2011, 1:47 p.m.

Oh, I had this one done on time, but I totally forgot to post my link! More than a week late. Sorry.

Knight-Mozilla week 2: Emphasizing support and openness
Seth Vincent July 30, 2011, 11:54 a.m.

Oh, crap! Sorry about the late blog post. Here it is.
Nicola Hughes July 27, 2011, 4:56 a.m.

Not for the assignment but I have on my blog a longer version of an article I wrote for Open Democracy about the term 'hacking' in light of the NOTW phone hacking scandal called "Hack the Open Web, Not People's Private Phones" and a post about my latest Python tutorial which I made into a story called "Telling a Story through Code: A Tale of Two Hamsters". Not as technical as all of your posts so it's easy reading!
Chris Keller July 27, 2011, 11:27 a.m.
In Reply To: Nicola Hughes July 27, 2011, 4:56 a.m.

Sweet post on Python and using ScraperWiki... Thank you for sharing this... I certainly welcome easy reading and it was easy to follow along...

Chris K.
Daniel Schultz July 27, 2011, 12:02 a.m.

late and imageless. I'll have to do better next week!

Joining the 202nd decate: It's HTML5 Week -- time to learn the ins and outs of HTML5; also a quick breakdown of the three huge hurdles that need jumping for ATTN-SPAN.
Anonym July 25, 2011, 11:52 p.m.

Staying platform independent, building a community that supports the project, and putting the user first gelled into this:

The world of 'contract webcams' as a new medium for determining, capturing, and sharing news.
Julien Dorra July 25, 2011, 11:12 p.m.
In this week blog post, Why HTML5 alone can't unify videos and the web, I make the case for meta-data of video and audio media, for example timed transcripts, to be themselves part of the web, not segregated in out-of-band files.

It also highlight that my project is now structured on 3 technical pilars:
- a simple, common-sense standard that store video and audio timed meta-data alongside the media itself in HTML,
- a proof-of-concept tool to create and edit this timed data,
- and a separate Popcorn.js plugin that would be the end user player first brick
http://ils.sont.la/post/why-html5-alone-cant-unify-videos-and-web

(PS: are you all OK to ask for an *all comments* option on P2PU pages? 4 comments per page is crazily non-usable!)
Samuel Huron July 25, 2011, 5:55 p.m.

my idea of the week is to create an interface to visualize and browse the stream flow of agregating article in time my draft : http://goo.gl/DJNLj :
Bharath Channakeshavaiah July 25, 2011, 4:53 p.m.

http://techtopo.blogspot.com/2011/07/mojo-second-week-summary.html
Travis Kriplean July 25, 2011, 2:31 p.m.

A couple specific ideas for improving the news experience for readers
Kabir Soorya July 25, 2011, 12:42 p.m.

Here's mine, Can't We Just Use Flash?
Laura Hilliger July 27, 2011, 1:59 p.m.
In Reply To: Kabir Soorya July 25, 2011, 12:42 p.m.

There are a lot of us working on keeping the web open, I'd guess an overwhelming majority of the people in the lab. Now that you've been converted, please do tell everyone you know why the open web is important!
Regnard Raquedan July 25, 2011, 12:09 p.m.

Here's my latest blog post.

It's a more rough version (more thinking points), but it's also more on evolving my initial idea for the News Challenge.
Kersten A. Riechers July 25, 2011, 12:03 p.m.

How to build an open source community? And why this is the wrong question.
Mark James July 25, 2011, 11:58 a.m.

On Openness: Learning Lab Week 2.
Maura Youngman July 25, 2011, 11:50 a.m.

Down to the wire, once again. Blog post #2! Knowledge sharing, from narrow to broad. Also, on building a ladder for aspiring hacks/hackers.

Happy for your thoughts.
Engin Erdogan July 25, 2011, 11:37 a.m.

5 Interface Design Trends
Corbin Smith July 25, 2011, 11:10 a.m.

With less than a hour to go, here is my post, discussing the importance of considering the context of your audience when creating. (That's creating anything: a documentary film, a user interface, or a research paper.) As inspired by Jesse James Garrett.

Bonus reading material for MozNewsLab folks: I wrote earlier this week about the importance of being able to effectivelly communicate with people in other industries. eg: hacks to hackers.
Ted Han July 25, 2011, 10:58 a.m.

Squeaking in under the wire here...

But here's my post for the week. The question i'm interested in is how app developer intent and users interact, and what modulates that relationship.