Ran 4 miles today on Martha’s Vineyard. Made a little collage for ya.
Working on Martha’s Vineyard Update
Big news!!
I was hired by the local paper. The Vineyard Gazette has been around for more than 150 years! I was hired as a technology manager where I’ll be balancing guiding their social media identity, helping them move the paper into the 21st century, and doing some Drupal development.
The paper is actually the perfect place for me. As you probably know I’m very interested in how the world is transitioning into digital space; how technology grows at an exponential rate and we’re currently at the turning point where we decide what we want to take with us from the analog world into “cyberspace.” Working at a newspaper is the perfect place for me to witness that transition. My studies in new media will be instrumental in helping the paper evolve.
Print is dying, but not today. We have a nostalgia for the physical, and our kids may as well, therefore it’ll be around for a while; scaled down, but still present.
The Vineyard is an island in multiple senses. There’s a bit of a delay in technology adoption on the Vineyard, which means we don’t feel the pressure to evolve as quickly- and in the process potentially make mistakes. We’re a much smaller organization than other papers and we can shift distribution models more nimbly. Best of all we can learn from other paper’s mistakes. The Gazette is really well respected news source and well branded. They have a wide readership on and off the island. People also come to the Vineyard for vacation to detach, which means they’re more likely to bring a paper to a beach than an iPad or ebook.
The key to the successes for brick-and-mortar and print media is to look at the physical as an extension of the digital. It’s not a website for your store, it’s a store for your website. It’s not a news site for your paper, but a paper for your news site.
This is in essence the transition I’m excited to be a part of at the Gazette.
You can count on more posts from me relating to my life on the Vineyard with observations of new media and technology adoption on an island sprinkled in. It will be a slight shift in what I usually post about. My Twitter cleanse was done in preparation for this.
I’ve almost entirely shied away from Twitter. A naughty-naughty for someone who’s structured their career around social media.
I wondered to myself why I haven’t been so active on it. I realized it’s because my life has changed enough to make a majority of the people I follow irrelivant to my current interests, therefore I find Twitter un interesting. There are a lot of people I saw that I knew I was following for a reason, mostly professional. At first I was hesitant to unfollow them, however I figured that if they were still relevant to me now and they were doing a good job representing my interests, then I will come across them again.
I kept people I was personal friends with (some of them are not Facebook “friends” with me), and most of the people I met professionally, and had been good enough to share a coffee with me. If I unfollowed any of them by mistake it’s because I don’t remember them, which is a good enough reason on its own.
Chances are if you care enough to spend time reading this, we’re close enough friends that I wouldn’t’ve unfollowed you, so fear not.
Tumblr will see a similar cleanse, however it will be for a different reason. I continually visit Tumblr for entertainment. That’s not how I’d like to use the account. I’d rather use it for inspiration; to which I may use Pintrest for the same reason. Between Twitter, Facebook, and RSS clients (Flipbook), I have enough ways to be delivered news.
This all has a lot to do with my new station in life living on Martha’s Vineyard, and my new job here. Today is my second week, fourth day. I’ll share more about that job later. Stay tuned…unless I conflict with your intended use for Tumblr.
Venture Beat: Facebook app promotes energy conservation with peer pressure »
“Facebook has joined forces with energy efficiency startup Opower and the National Resources Defense Council to release a social energy application that encourages people to track, and ultimately reduce, energy use in the home.”
Light Painting with Roombas
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End Of An Era of the Day: Encyclopaedia Britannica, the mother of all alphabetized knowledge, will be putting its 244-year-old print business out to pasture effective immediately.
This makes the august encyclopedia publisher’s 32-volume 2010 edition the last of its kind.
“Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now,” said Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. president Jorge Cauz. “The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.”
Indeed, over the last decade, Encyclopaedia Britannica has seen online rival Wikipedia slowly eat away at its market share, with its high-minded notions of free information for all by all.
By comparison, a complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica books will set you back a cool $1,395. Additionally, dead-tree tomes lack the self-correction and expansion features that come standard with Wikipedia, and are increasingly necessary in today’s fast-paced world of the 24-hour news cycle.
Curriculum products for schools have been Encyclopaedia Britannica primary source of revenue since encyclopedia sales peaked at 120,000 in 1990. According to the company, nearly all the other money it makes comes from subscriptions to its website. Print encyclopedias make up less than 1 percent its profits.
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I want the last version.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ugwjfdui1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
End Of An Era of the Day: Encyclopaedia Britannica, the mother of all alphabetized knowledge, will be putting its 244-year-old print business out to pasture effective immediately.
This makes the august encyclopedia publisher’s 32-volume 2010 edition the last of its kind.
“Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now,” said Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. president Jorge Cauz. “The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.”
Indeed, over the last decade, Encyclopaedia Britannica has seen online rival Wikipedia slowly eat away at its market share, with its high-minded notions of free information for all by all.
By comparison, a complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica books will set you back a cool $1,395. Additionally, dead-tree tomes lack the self-correction and expansion features that come standard with Wikipedia, and are increasingly necessary in today’s fast-paced world of the 24-hour news cycle.
Curriculum products for schools have been Encyclopaedia Britannica primary source of revenue since encyclopedia sales peaked at 120,000 in 1990. According to the company, nearly all the other money it makes comes from subscriptions to its website. Print encyclopedias make up less than 1 percent its profits.
[mediadecoder.]
I want the last version.
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O Amazing Adaptation of the Day: Snippet from Pulp Shakespeare (AKA Bard Fiction) — a reimagining of Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction as a Shakespearean play.
A production of the full version will be performed at Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater Center starting March 16th.
See Also: Tempests — a Shakespearean retelling of Aliens.
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