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What to do with your income tax refund
If you’re Jenna and me, you buy two Spanish domain names:
- ifmoneygrewontre.es (for showing off the things she wants to buy, but can’t/won’t/shouldn’t)
- ukulel.es (because I wanted an .es domain, too)
Aren’t we clever?
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Ukulele on GO!
This past Saturday, along with Jimmy the Uke and Steve McNie, I was once again on GO to pimp the ukulele. It was a lot of fun, as always. Here’s an mp3 of the segment: [audio:http://blip.tv/file/get/Dmisener-goukulele_20100227945.mp3]
There’s a photo gallery at the GO website, and courtesy of Tom, YouTube clips of Jimmy the Uke playing “When You’re Smilin’”:
and Jimmy, Steve McNie, and me playing, “We Will Rock Uke”:
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Journalists of the future, according to Jay Rosen
I just watched this video interview with Jay Rosen from The Economist’s Tea with The Economist series. The interviewer asks Jay, “What would be the job description of a journalist in the future?”
I think there are different jobs that make up a twenty-first century journalist. One is to be a highly intelligent filter of information coming in. Another is to be an expert in reputation and reliability systems so that you are able to know who a reliable source is because there are so many sources, right? Another is community manager. Managing a community of people who have knowledge and interact with you as a journalist. Knowing how to have not just several dozen sources in your little black telephone book that you use to do your beat, but thousands of sources. Tens of thousands. And how to work efficiently with large groups of people to synthesize information is important. And also important is how to take the greater knowledge we have coming from how people use the internet. Because everything people do online is recorded. How to take this information about what people are clicking, what they’re interested in, where they’re going on the web, what they’re doing now. And treating it as clues to demand. Produce into that demand, without reducing yourself to simply a ratings-driven, click-driven reflex machine.
I think the most successful journalists are going to excel at various hybrid forms of traditional reporting, editing, checking, verifying and new forms of gathering, managing, interacting with people.
(via Jenny)
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Jim Dupree returns with Moon Enthusiast
Yup. He’s back:
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Coming soon to Dundas and Parliament
Just north of our apartment in Corktown, the development at the corner of Dundas and Parliament continues. Yesterday, I noticed these harbingers of gentrification:
