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Week three (July 25 to 29): blog assignment

Thanks for all the work on your blog assignments thus far. Some of the most interesting posts featured videos, sketches and mock-ups -- check out some of them highlighted here in the first of our weekly blog round up posts.

This week, we've included a specific question to answer in your blog response:

Keeping in mind the objectives and challenges identified in this week’s presentations by Shazna Nessa and Mohamed Nanabhay, how does your project take into account the need to facilitate collaboration in the newsroom (whether real or virtual), while acknowledging that team members will have varying technological skill sets?

Deadline:

Monday, August 1 (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


  • Sedef Gavaz   Aug. 7, 2011, 7:10 p.m.

    Hi there!

    Read about how my idea has evolved --> Beyond realted articles to related content

    Let me know what you think!

  • Julien Dorra   Aug. 5, 2011, 7:46 p.m.

    Hi, it has been a 7 or 8 days struggle but here is my third post:

    «Teaching journalists how to fish?»

    http://ils.sont.la/post/teaching-journalists-how-fish

    In this post, I don't address frontally my project (MetaFragments, a common data format for video and audio tweb app and web sites) but rather I try to prepare myself to talking with people inside the news industry.

    That's why there is in fact 3 questions in this post, 3 questions for journalists and news organizations:

    • do they want to master internally digital skills and culture? Is that really a choice?
       
    • can they make sense of the flow of data and reports without investing in tech?
    • are they prepared to compete not only with bloggers and web news pure players but also with apps developers that beat them in term of UX design?

     

    If you know how a particular news org or journalist answer those questions, I'd be happy to have your feedback!

  • Daniel Schultz   Aug. 5, 2011, 2 a.m.

    "After the legislation was passed I saw a poll on CNN’s front page that I can only assume was a blatant taunt to drive this horrible situation home. The poll read something along the lines of “How satisfied are you with the actions of your elected representatives?” To which I responded by clenching my fists and screaming to the sky: “How the hell should I know?”"

    ATTN-SPAN: Primary Sources for Common Folk -- My post on the motivation behind my project, inspired by recent events and fine tuned by Al Jazeera!

     

    (Too late for credit I can only assume, but I still wanted to share!)

  • Anonym   Aug. 2, 2011, 9:08 p.m.

    Took my some time to catch up (work. happens.) This is my response to the question:

    http://blog.datafaced.org/2011/08/mojo-thoughts-on-collaboration/

    It's just over 500 words. As in past weeks, I prefaced it with two blog posts, which are linked to: one summarizing and bookmarking the lectures; the other a 'rant' on something that they triggered and that is relevant to my response.

  • James Greenaway   Aug. 2, 2011, 2:01 p.m.

    Ridiculously late blog post on Open News Player and Collaboration. My applogoies.

  • Artem Dudarev   Aug. 2, 2011, 7:05 a.m.

    I am sorry, I originally posted the link to a wrong post on p2pu (previous week):

     

  • Dan Whaley   Aug. 2, 2011, 3:45 a.m.

    Here's my post for week 3.  I thought the guidance above made a lot of sense.  Collaboration and simplicity for different skill levels.

    Sketches!

    Also, enabled Disqus comments!  

    Dan

  • Stijn Debrouwere   Aug. 1, 2011, 10:49 p.m.

     

    Hi guys, 
     
     
    I'm a little bit late, 50% due to procrastination but also 50% because I was a bit clueless as to how I could answer the question you asked us to address in our blogpost, about how to facilitate collaboration and accomodate people with varying tech skills.
     
    The thing is, the tool I'm building, a turbo pack for Google Reader, is at heart still a feed reader, and feed readers are tools that 
    1. require a lot of evangelizing, but hardly any tech skills once a journalist *is* convinced that it can help them.
    2. are fundamentally built for a single user.
    Those two points make it really hard for me to answer your question. I did address some of it in my last MoJo blogpost, A Culture of Coders, where I asked myself the question how to give users the space to grow and become collaborators, when running an open-source project.
     
    Hopefully that counts for something.
     
    Cheers,
    Stijn
  • Phillip Smith   Aug. 5, 2011, 10:12 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Stijn Debrouwere   Aug. 1, 2011, 10:49 p.m.

    Totally counts.  :)

  • Matt Terenzio   Aug. 1, 2011, 8:48 p.m.

    I couldn't really see how this weeks question applied to my project. If I misunderstood or others are willing to point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate feedback.      Mojosaurus

  • Andrew Jennings   Aug. 1, 2011, 1:44 p.m.

    Knight-Mozilla week 3: Fitting my idea into news organizations

  • Jamie King   Aug. 1, 2011, 1:06 p.m.

    Some further elaborations on Sparkd and sources for collaborative neww production. Elaborating and sketching all at once is hard!

    http://jamie.com/2011/08/let-a-thousand-newsrooms-bloom/

  • Saleem Khan   Aug. 1, 2011, 12:37 p.m.

    Got so engrossed in today's lecture that I forgot to press the Post button on my comment! This week's blog post: Bridging the divide.

  • Tobias Reitz   Aug. 1, 2011, 12:01 p.m.

    Just in time: http://corrigo.org/journalists-featuring-crowd/

  • Neil Dawson   Aug. 2, 2011, 8:04 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Tobias Reitz   Aug. 1, 2011, 12:01 p.m.

     

    At the MoJo ideas jam I attended (way back in May) my team and I discussed irresponsible media outlets, how their spread of misinformation was harmful and how their apologies or retractions were never given equal status in the paper (for instance, a mistake or outright fabrication on the front page may be retracted, but not on the front page).

    We thought a lot about how these outlets could be ‘named and shamed’ in a very public and perhaps embarrassing way which also ensured its unquestioning readers were made aware of their paper’s negligent behaviour. I like that your tool allows for comparison between different news sites, which also makes a list of the most honest outlets a possibility.

    Many of the errors Corrigo points out may be honest mistakes, but do you think there is any place here for shame? I feel embarrassment and, in a sense, turning an outlets readers against it may be the only way to make it change its deceitful ways – and sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

  • Kabir Soorya   Aug. 1, 2011, noon

    On Interactive News: http://ksoorya.org/post/8342544774/on-interactive-news

  • Mark James   Aug. 1, 2011, 11:55 a.m.

    The Changing Newsroom: Learning Lab Week 3.

  • Samuel Huron   Aug. 1, 2011, 11:46 a.m.


    all my posts of the week :

     

    video link and annotation mock up goo.gl/4RqHB

     

    direct participation paradigm goo.gl/trzNC

     

    OML rss feed list goo.gl/rFgCf

  • Corbin Smith   Aug. 1, 2011, 11:29 a.m.

    After meeting up with Saleem Khan this past weekend, I was brought to realize that my project was even more awesome than I anticipated.

    The main source of this is the fact that my platform is incredibly flexible to be used in different newsroom contexts.

    You can read my post here.

  • Maura Youngman   Aug. 1, 2011, 11:08 a.m.

    new tools in the newsroom, a collection of thoughts. this will be a work in progress until noon. :)

  • Miguel Angel García Ramírez   Aug. 1, 2011, 11:07 a.m.

    Here is mine:

    http://xplring.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/collaboration

  • Jason Spingarn-Koff   Aug. 1, 2011, 11 a.m.

    Blog entry #3: Gathering Citizen Content: Pull vs. Push