I am doing a barter-exchange of filming and webcasting this day long workshop at St. Mary’s College in Morage in order to learn the art of storytelling, specifically for leadership purposes:
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Every once in a while it’s time to connect with the clan
In these times where rites of passages are becoming more isolated, I find Craigslist always helps to connect me to groups like this one.
Teaching Ro and Ellen how to use Wordpre …
Teaching Ro and Ellen how to use WordPress to write about cancer.
Help with Unity
I wanted to pass this one for people interested in going to Unity:
NEED SOME HELP TO ATTEND UNITY ’08? CHECK THIS OUT!
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists will offer financial assistance in the form of convention registration and/or air transportation to a limited group of NAHJ members to attend the UNITY ’08 Convention in Chicago, July 23-27, 2008. All financial aid requests will be considered on the basis of financial need, with a priority given to journalists laid off during the past 14 months and to members who work in Spanish-language media.
For more information about NAHJ’s Financial Assistance for UNITY ‘08, visit: http://www.nahj.org/events/2008/convention/UNITY%20convention%20assistance.shtml
All financial assistance requests must be received via email by 4 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 2, 2008. Selections will be made and announced by June 6.
There are only 61 days until the UNITY ’08 Convention! The pre-registration deadline is Friday, June 13, 2008. For more information on the UNITY Convention schedule, programming and NAHJ’s special events at the convention, go to http://www.nahj.org/Events/2008/convention/special_events.shtml
If you are looking to save money on lodging by getting a roommate, look for one in the UNITY 2008 group on Facebook. Go to facebook.com, search for the “UNITY 2008” group, and go to the Discussion Board topic “Who is looking for a roommate?” If you’re not a member of Facebook, just sign up quickly. All you need to do is type in your email address and create a password. Then you’ll have access to all the fun stuff on the UNITY 2008 group, which is growing every day.
With all the topical discussions, essential skills and multimedia training, presidential candidates forums, tremendous job-seeking and networking opportunities, and the induction of high-profile journalists and association founders to the NAHJ Hall of Fame, UNITY ’08 is a convention you can’t miss. Be sure to join some 10,000 journalists and friends in Chicago this summer as we stand together to defend the need for diversity in news media in this 21st century!
The notes from IJ5 are up: http://www.fa …
The notes from IJ5 are up: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=623605011
Sort of live blogging the Ij5 conference
IJ5
Stanford University
How do we innovate?
http://ij5.innovationjournalism.org/
9:50 AM How do we innovate?
Steve Jurvetson – Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, USA & Charles W. Wessner – Director of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The National Academies, USA & Richard Horning – Principal, Fish & Richardson, USA & Marc Ventresca – Associate Professor, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, United Kingdom & Arthur Bayhan – CEO, The Competitiveness Support Fund, Pakistan & Lars Gatenbeck – Chairman, General Partner GZ Group, Sweden & Eric Muller – Entrepreneur-in-Residence, The Kauffman Fellows Program, USA. Moderator: Violeta Bulc – President, Vibacom D.O.O, Slovenia
“Journalism in developing countries focuses more on the political issues. They are trying to get media to be more involved in research, education and technology centers. It’s not lip service.”
the concept of innovation
how markets get built. we live in a world where we talk in rational terms and we want to create rational models. the world is mutlivocal and there are differnent models for business models. The information exhanged with friends helps carry data the helps manage ambiguity. Should journalists be handling that data and resuding that ambiguity. That’s at the heart of this discussion on informational organization.
ERIK: Should journalists cover innovation and technology or hyping it up or not? They need to be supercritical. The value of journalists is that they have a different set of biases, not that they don’t have biases, but that they are supercritical.
Comments:
In our Western culture our inability to critically discuss how we innovate is separate than the actual process.
What is the media’s role?
Reporting on the rivalry for the market and the competiion for the market?
We have a long history of trying to separate technology. Haven’t services accounted
We separate things into the technical and business model. Business models push for technological or support those innovations.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
-we selected 100 topics, 15-30 of the best experts of the world
one of the groups is called the future of media
-Global Agenda Councils: A Challenge of Content
-invention and innovation
GROSSOMODO what?
800 words op-ed on ideas
an interview
3 virutal meetings/year
1 offline event/year (Dubai – sponsored)
Availablef or calls with Forum members and partners
The role of journalism?
To strengthen society because it brings things into public debate.
Democratic system: competition between ideas. ALliances, compronises, conflicst, fight for attention. Winners implement teir ideas on society. Power is with citizens’ votes
Innovation system: competition between ideas. Alliances, compromises, conflict, fight for attention. Winners Implement Their Ideas on the Market. Power is with citizens’ money.
Innovators and intellectuals would not have reached very far without the darker forces in history
Challenges are intellectual freedom, technologies.
Intellectual freedom in developing countries should receive attention. Innovative journalism needs to to address the free flow of information.
In the case where large media companies are considering mergers and aquisition and human resources are not available he is looking at the issues from a developing country perspective.
Each global venture and merger must take into account the human element. But the ability to deal with a human aspect in a fast changing environment. Sometimes the innovators are lost between layers of bureacracy. Innovations needs space and time.
what is the right model for mergers and acqusitions that are innovative?
Not to destroy the soul of the company that is being innovative.
There has been a shift from a West and an East perspective.
We need to train our future journalists in the art of cultural diversity broadening the understanding of a larger global perspective.
The digital divide in IJ, we are already seeing this around the world. Affordabilty in some developing countries is a becoming a major issue. How do we innovate to close this gap.
TECHNOLOGY
the internet was mentioned both a problem and solution as a business model. Unregulated flow of information with no middle person involved is what the internet was intended for. It is possible to see a lot from a bicycle, then from a car or bus. It is about thinking about things from a different angles.
1:30 PM How do we as journalists keep a critical perspective, when reporting on innovation? Erik Mellgren – INJO Fellow ‘ 08 hosted by Xconomy, USA / Staff Editor, Ny Teknik, Sweden Eric Eldon – Reporter & Editor, VentureBeat, USA & Fredrik Wass – Blogger (bisonblog.se) / Freelancer, Sweden & Michael Kanellos – Senior Analyst, Greentech Media, USAHow do we journalists keep a critical perspective, when reporting on innovation?
SVD
US Patent office quick search
European patent office
Burnrate vs cash?
what is the burnrate vs. the cash?
Real customers
-the one single most important factor is having the real customers. A real customer pays real money. The last question is does it make sense?
As a journalist you should be incredible gullible.
You have to be willing to go with it and put up the challenges and difficulties that go with innovation.
2:00 PM How early can we write about innovations and startups without creating a bubble?
Hanna Sistek – INJO Fellow ’08 hosted by CNET News.com, USA / Reporter – Dagens Industri, Sweden Michael Kanellos – Senior Analyst, Greentech Media, USA & Peter Fellman – Managing Editor, Dagens Industri, Sweden & Turo Uskali, Head of Finnish INJO Program / Head of Information Business Research Group, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Hanna Sistek:
Showcase:
Webvan
Pets.com – went from IPO in 9 months
The example of Hop-on
-publcly traded co placed in Cali
-announced it had developed mobile phone
-$30 to use in emergencies
-stock soared from 2 cents to $1.50
SF Chronicle asks one reporter to write about the story and there were some discrepancies in how they represented themselves.
How do you cover yourself when you cover startups?
-I am not writing on a product unless they have funding that credible
-if no products, write on group of companies in the same space.
Dan Farber says:
-Whenever something is interesting.
-The trick is to write without buying into their messianic vision that this is going to change the world.
-We are guides for our readers, findig new species. Some might not survive, some might mutate to other species. but we are there to observe.
-web of knowledge instead of “wire service” approach.
– the problem with writing too soon too fast about a new company is that you lose them? HUH?
-nanotechs, nanotubes and the potential bubble –
-We have to serve as guides for our readers. We are looking at system that is trying to learn and adapt very quickly.
Anyone else going to this?
Looks pretty awesome. http://ij5.innovationjournalism.org/
Just finished listening to these awesome …
Just finished listening to these awesome Ischool presentations: NUJJ
I. -What is a location -based service for mobile device users?
Chart of different types of interactions
Synchronous Asynchronous
Face to face communication Flyers, fridge magnets
Graffiti, historical plaques
II. Local questions and answers
You want to eliminate time sensitive questions
III. Travel Planner
-There are a lot of things you might do to prepare for a trip. It doesn’t really make sense to leave those notes in backpack. What if you could leave yourself a note at the entrance to the louvered, a personal note you wrote for yourself, and a travelogue that is location sensitive? It will be delivered right to your mobile service as you arrive.
IV. Recommendation service
-You can leave notes to people who care about it. You get it at the spot where it helps.
V. Lost & found
1. Allows user to tie locations to their notes and allows for location patterns
2. Users may only retrieve public notes from their phones.
DEMO
NUJJ refers to a service they describe which is platform agnostic.
They are using the iphone to demo.
One of the main problems of the application is scarcity.
When a user sends out a message it goes out through the twitter stream. NUJJ has a special database that stores all event date. It sends out a query for all nudge data.
Uses
Trusted superusers
Better question classification for local Q&A
Etc
VI. Questions
Is this geo-located twitter? Is this all within network? Can my parents see what I’m doing without being a member?
Security
Scarcity and having an ability to filter.
Requiring it to be social to begin with will be flawed because of the scarcity issues. Delicious works because it benefits me first and there’s a byproduct of helping others. You can’t be all things to all people. Do you find yourself go towards a certain direction?
Buy Music, Make Money
I want a song
Option 1
Itunes..
Price $1
But the song’s under lock and key
Option 2
The pirate bay…
Price $0
Might feel guild, might need a lawyer
It’s a no brainer
Copy music for friends and earn social incentives, for free.
Current Fixes?
Existing approaches to fix theses incompatible incentives:
So-called affiliate models. Think Tupperware.
Good: Buyer has a steak in how well a song does. It’s nagging.
Where else can we see economic incentives out in the wild?
Social incentives to be ahead of the curve: Be cool.
Financial incentives: Make a killing on Wall Street.
It’s the same curve as the sale of music.
They wanted to buy a store that…
rewards fan for buying the music they love: an incentive to buy legally.
Appeals to trendsspotters and trendsetters. Give fame in addition to fortune.
Gives buyers a sense of urgency
And encourage buyers to be promoters.
They designed a store where…
1. a song is sold.
2. part of the revenue comes from promotion of that song
Allocating the dollar
50 cent to the artist/music label
50 cent goes to all previous buyers
we want to give early buyers a cut.
You can make sure that once you buy a song you can keep that cut size. Your income growth is linear.
Example:
A new song just came out. Say you’re the 5th person to buy it, so you get the 5th largest slice, which is below a 20th of a cent. It will be 50 cents after 1,000 sales, $5 after 10,000 sales; $50 after 100,000 sales.
Make your dollar back after 235,000 copies sold. etc.
How does this compare to a baseline model?
Baseline is Itunes, Amazon etc.
Their model has a network effect.
More value for buyers wit more buyers.
There is a social effect.
Tremendous potential value over baseline for good trendspotters.
There’s fame and fortune for someone who’s good at this.
What we built:
Designed to address the usability of such a model?
Can we make this experience compelling and very simple to use.
Is this model economically feasible? Is the allocation model adjustable to create incentives. What’s the optimal solution.
We did this so can easily test things.
Separation of data, business logic, presentation
Data model – swappable SqLite “stores”
Logic – cut allocation engine
we can swap the allocator and the allocation function.
if we don’t want to allocate things for music anymore you can allocate slices for this engine and it still works for major changes.
Economic feasibility and simulation framework
Simulator
-works on an actual store instance
Agents
simulated customers
decision-making modules
Challenges
performance issues with Django implementation
Useful framework during next steps
User interface
user-driven design
we conducted competitive analysis
prototype tests
Key questions:
Do they get it?
Does it work well?
A store should be fun to explore
Portal page
on left, column of new songs
middle section, songs selling well
right column has social layer. they show the people who perform best and give them some visibility on the site.
Page for one song
description of song, amount, if you buy this song now and performance on the site.
There is no way to compare how a song is doing on the site
they experimented with showing the trend of a song. They did a performance indicator using line graphs to make sense of the numbers. When you’re dealing with the small numbers people have a difficult time imaging what it means and what it means over time.
Break-even point. Buy now and get 0.0475 cents per future copy sold.
Ex. bipod. They didn’t market it as a four-inch box, they said 10,000 songs in your pocket.
The Future
They think they found a way to align the incentives they talked about
A mode that benefits all stakeholders
A marketplace where new music is discovered and takes off.
It encourages legal buying and discourages illegal music sharing and piracy.
The project started as a page on a notebook.
they received some feed investment and will make it a startup and launch it as product.
micro payments
08:00
and incentives for news
08:34
they are incentivizing jumping on board and taking a risk on music in this case
it’s a crowd-sourcing model monetizing music
09:05
why not news?
Question and answer
Music has people can set trends and they are interested in having the economic model flushing out these people with disproportionate influence.
MD Notes:
One application that supports multiple points of entry.
Doctor’s information management
Hospitals are information rich environment. They are only focused on note capture and retrieval
They built a mySql database
Request/response to MD:Notes (PHP), my SQL database (emulates EMR)
patient modeled in XML
Schema to map force HL7, mapping transform
It’s driven by the schedule when someone logins.
They have different inpatient settings and the services that are available in the hospital. They are ordered in level of acuity.
once you get the patient level is when you start presenting the patient as xml
One of the reasons we’re using xml is that we need to be able to have the present not just live in our system but interact with automatic hospital system
A healthcare messaging standard for system interoperability
Must be ale to send progress notes fro the EMRI
Future Work
integration
templates
security
extending the patient model
supporting model devices
Questions:
It’s a web application
Why didn’t you look to some kind of mobile application to begin with. They built a voice-prototype and mobile application.
The possibility of a threaded conversation between doctors. Will there be an ability to comment or thread.
Hoping to eventually read Edwin Okong’o …
Hoping to eventually read Edwin Okong’o’s piece on Tribal Wars, http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2008/04/kenya_the_onlin.html.
Peter in Minneapolis
Looking forward to Peter Brantley posting up the keynotes from their conference in Minneapolis.
He leaves me with this tease: “The keynotes were both stunning; I worked with my friend Peter Kaufman
of intelligent tv and twin cities public tv to get them taped; eventually we
get them edited (in may) and release them.” Eventually Peter! For now check out his blog.