Expanding from Windows into Cafes and Bridges
Now that I have this site Drupalized, I can now start treating it as a cafe and not just a window into the project. Blogger Hossein Derakhashan talks about blogs being a window into a community, a...
View ArticleGrant Strategy for Future of New Media Video
Another reason why I'm cutting together a short video featuring many leaders of the new media movement is because my film advisor Brian Newman suggested that I reach out to the film world with what I'm...
View ArticlePreventing Server Overload with Drupal Cache Settings
One of the concerns that I have with a Drupal site is getting overwhelmed with traffic without the proper configuration. A link from Slashdot.com -- a tech discussion community website & "News for...
View ArticleCitizen Journalism Implications of Blog Doc Controversy
(UPDATE 6/7/05 6:08p.m. -- John Hart has posted a public reply on his website, and I'm a bit speechless. It is certainly not a very rational response to the whole situation. Below were my thoughts on...
View ArticleDrupal-Powered Google Juice
I posted my sitemeter icon directly onto this domain last week and was surprised to see just how many people were browsing this site. It turns out that I'm getting around 40-50 hits a day now that I'm...
View ArticleWhite House's Pre-War Talking Points
I'm posting all of the pre-war talking points from White House that I aggregated back in August of 2004.If journalists were paying attention, then they'd realize that the Bush Adminstration was trying...
View ArticleA Flood of Downing Street E-mail Alerts
I've been flooded this week with e-mail notices about the upcoming Downing Street Memo Congressional hearings being held tomorrow initiated by Representative John Conyers (D-MI).I think it's...
View ArticleAutomatic Media Enclosures at del.icio.us
The social bookmarking site of del.icio.usannounced on their blog earlier this week that they are now automatically detecting media files and adding invisible "system:filetype:" tags to the...
View ArticleA Pitch for Phase 01
As a result of my little Drupal tag cloud PR blitz this afternoon, a Drupal developer asked me to pitch some features to him for a development contest that he's entering. I threw together an elevator...
View ArticleNew Media Blogs Discuss Downing Street Memos
A discussion of the Downing Street Memos has kicked up briefly in the New Media blogosphere after Jay Rosen's post on Sunday.I thought I'd drop a few signposts from my daily blog surfing from this...
View ArticleThe Post Analyzes the UK Path to War
Today the Washington Post finally digs into what the DSM reveal about the UK's doubts about the path towards war.I'm not sure if Jay Rosen's recent Pressthink pleas helped the Post decide to do a front...
View ArticleLinks for the Tagschema Listserve
[1] A handcrafted Drupal tag cloud for all of my blog posts:http://www.echochamberproject.com/tagcloud[2] Tag Cloud Font Distribution Algorithmhttp://www.echochamberproject.com/node/247[3] Flowcharts...
View ArticleJoining a Folksonomy Community of Practice
After a warm-up specification of Drupal functionality, I've started to map out the user interface that I need in order to productively collect collaborative input from volunteers, and then feed this...
View ArticleLaunching the ECP to the World
I spent most of yesterday sending out e-mails pitching my first vlog posting to the new media blogosphere.It looks like it's gaining some momentum after receiving links from podcasting pioneer Eric...
View ArticleECP Featured on OurMedia's Front Page!
I just discovered that the first Echo Chamber vlog made it up onto the front page of OurMedia.org! This is great news, and will provide some great exposure for the project. This is great timing as I...
View ArticleBBC Article Has a Picture of Me on OurMedia
There is an article on the BBC website today called, "Citizens do media for themselves" that features a screenshot of OurMedia.org with my picture on it.The article doesn't explictly mention me or The...
View ArticleUsing Citizen Journalism to Open Source Political Campaigns
I sent the following proposal to Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej to open source the national aspects of their campaign for New York City Public Advocate by remixing citizen videojournalism reports into...
View ArticleFormatting to Optimize Vlog Remix Potential
The video blog creator wants to be properly attributed for their work, while the remixer would ideally want to have footage that can be seamlessly used in their productions. So not including any...
View ArticleReceived Fellowship for We Media Conference
I got an awesome surprise for my 29th birthday today -- I was awarded with a fellowship to attend the We Media Conference in New York City!This is really great news for me and The Echo Chamber...
View ArticleSelling the War in Iraq: A Look at Anonymous Sources
Often times politicians will speak off the record when they don't want to be held accountable for what they're saying. So in the case of the build-up to the war in Iraq, there were many instances where...
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