Matt Hampel | matth.org » Berkman http://matth.org I’m Matt Hampel, a digital developer and civic information hacker. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Give bad examples http://matth.org/2008/08/05/give-bad-examples/ http://matth.org/2008/08/05/give-bad-examples/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:13:31 +0000 Matt Hampel http://matth.org/2008/08/05/give-bad-examples/ Continuing the negativity of this blog with a lesson from Berkman:

When calling for contributions, guide contributors by sharing the bad examples, not the good, because they show what you don’t want but don’t tightly constrain creativity.

]]> http://matth.org/2008/08/05/give-bad-examples/feed/ 0 Citizen journalism, other subjects — notes for the day http://matth.org/2008/06/04/citizen-journalism-other-subjects-notes-for-the-day/ http://matth.org/2008/06/04/citizen-journalism-other-subjects-notes-for-the-day/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:01:19 +0000 Matt Hampel http://matth.org/2008/06/04/citizen-journalism-other-subjects-notes-for-the-day/ “We need better ways to track discussion threads from the blogs” sez Dan Gillmor in a 2005 report on Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility. Which is still true. No way people will keep up with everything it’s a pull technology. Email updates may help (Alan does it well, for ex., at http://thinknola.com/posts/gis)

From the same report:

Carvin uses a service, Audlink.com, to record from his mobile phone directly onto the web. It doesn’t automatically create enclosures or an RSS feed, so the podcast is not automatic, but it’s a useful too. He also uses a tool called audioblogger.com which enables the blogger to ‘call in’ to their blog and post audio files directly on it.

That was 2005; both have failed. http://www.audioblogger.com is an Apache hello page.  Livejournal does http://www.livejournal.com/voicepost/

What is Berkman doing to help with the Digital Divide? Not clear. OLPC? Complaining about the situation? (C Nesson is doing something in Jamaica)

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