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Dan Gillmor

8 years ago
by John Gøtze in

Dan Gillmor is last before lunch. A journalist, one of the best out there, Dan talks about how the web is chang�ng the way we consume news.

The aftermathh after September 11, 2001, showed how media in the digital age really works. Then came warblogging. More recently, Trent Lott, a politician brought down by bloggers. Columbia’s explosion, where bloggers brought the real story.

Journalism becomes a conversation, or maybe a seminar. My readers know more than I do, is what journalists have to accept (it’s always been a fact, but a denied such).

Tools and toys are coming up constantly. We don’t have to wait until Gulfwar 8, there’s a lot out there now.

Hollywood and governments want the internet to be like a TV with pay-per-view access. Three scenarios: Total control. Total anarchy. New melding of the forms, big journalism and little journalism living together side by side. Thhird choice preferred. Agree.

Bliki patterns

8 years ago
by John Gøtze in ,

What do you get when you cross a blog and a wiki? A bliki. Martin Fowler’s Bliki is one such. Fowler will come to Denmark soon, speaking at a conference I’ve also been invited to. I need to read some of Fowler’s work. Started with Developing Patterns of Enterprise Software, but think I need to read the book.

Difference

8 years ago
by John Gøtze in

John D Smith from CPsquare pointed me to this wonderful quote:

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.”

Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, on receiving an honorary doctorate from Montclair University, East Rutherford, New Jersey, quoted in USA Today, May 24, 1996

Geofun

8 years ago
by John Gøtze in

  
I have been having fun with the Geo::Sketch MapLocations Movable Type Plugin. It allows me to present maps showing places I mention in my entries. Copenhagen. Baghdad. See? The plugin scans a given entry for the presence of any of 212 major city names throughout the world and then will automatically render a simple map for each one it encounters.

I’d also love to use the GeoSketch plugin for the effectful geographic animations as provided by the Geo::Sketch SOAP interface, some javascripting, and some twisted HTTP “Expires” headers. The latter gives me problems.

LazyWeb, Geo::Sketch should be hooked up with the Global Place-Name Geocodes from the GeoServe web service, which would enable map-making from all over the world.

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