http://digitalecologist.com thoughts, raves and hypertext about the digital ecosystem we live in Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:51:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's always fun to navigate around checking what the pundits decide to predict in the coming year. This requires being up on trends and having a bit of imagination of how the factors will collide to develop into the momentum needed for new technologies or trends to emerge. So taking ... http://digitalecologist.com/my-favorite-2010-digital-predictions/ It's noisy out there for sure. People broadcasting their morning coffee, news from every corner of the world, companies desperately trying to get our attention and cat videos. Turns out that once we democratized the ability to broadcast, our ability to create content (noise) became unlimited. And know that there ... http://digitalecologist.com/how-we-deal-with-the-noise/ Stick figures tell the story of how social networks connect people... I heart stick figures. Nice work IBM... Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter View more documents from Sacha Chua. http://digitalecologist.com/stick-figure-fan/ [caption id="attachment_862" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Kirk at Department of Education in MN. Digital Storytelling course."][/caption] Sitting across in the u-shaped table was a blond, bald and quite loud classmate who was full of declarative statements made to sparkle debate every other minute. After many infuriating debates, Kirk Mastin and I became good ... http://digitalecologist.com/lo-fi-style-runs-high/ I was reading danah boyd's post today (hey, I've missed you!) where she was talking about Image via Wikipedia being chastised for multi-tasking during some conference in Italy and proceeded to explain this a generational gap. Perhaps. My 72-year-old class mate, Mark Shea may disagree with that. I am spoiled and tend ... http://digitalecologist.com/distracted-students-are-good/ Image via CrunchBase Inside Facebook confirm rumors of Facebook testing a new virtual currency. Have we seen something like this before? A closed system, with lots of new people interacting with no real purpose --just sharin' -- and exchanging money for virtual goods? Well, yes we have, remember ... http://digitalecologist.com/facebook-the-new-secondlife/ I participated on a collaborative book on social media to raise funds for Susan G Komen. Check it out at: http://theproject100.wordpress.com/ Jeff Caswell edited and made a public call for submissions back in October. He gathered 100 articles from 100 marketers and created a 'wisdom of the crowd' guide for marketing in ... http://digitalecologist.com/some-people-run-we-write/ I guess now I have to buy this to figure out what ''self-knowing, self improving builder' means. Clever, but will I buy it? Would you? I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a Self-Knowing Self-Improving Builder http://digitalecologist.com/clever-way-to-promote-a-book/ Next Wednesday the Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) at UW will host an event to discuss how digital can save journalism. The panelists are well-respected journalists that have embraced digital tools and have succeeded in producing news in a whole new way and cultivating audiences. They run some ... http://digitalecologist.com/the-money-question-in-future-journalism/ I just got a new inexpensive video camera. I opted for the Flip's competitor Kodak Zi6, because the codec plays well on a Mac and H.264 is simply a superior format. But, I have to say the design is not as elegant as the Flip's and I had some issues ... http://digitalecologist.com/cats-the-truth-behind-the-digital-revolution/