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Collaborative art project: Exquisite Forest, crowdsourced storytelling

Exquisite Forest :: This Exquisite Forest is an online collaborative art project that lets users create short animations that build off one another as they explore a specific theme. The result is a collection of branching narratives resembling trees. The project was conceived by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, and produced by Google and Tate. It makes extensive use of Google Chrome’s HTML5 and JavaScript support, as well as Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage. A physical installation is located in the collection galleries on Level 3 at Tate Modern.

It will be open for approximately 6 months beginning on July 23, 2012.

Explore the project here www.exquisiteforest.com

HT: Cendrine Marrouat, Examiner.com

Collaborative journalism: How 15 news orgs worked together to tell a single education story

Niemanlab :: Shared bylines are common enough. But what about a story with the names of 15 reporters and more than a dozen news organizations attached to it? Last month, Education Week, the Education Writers Association, and nonprofit news organization The Hechinger Report jointly produced a lengthy story that had a single byline — Alyson Klein’s — but listed 14 other reporters from 12 additional news organizations as contributors.

Continue to read Adrienne LaFrance, www.niemanlab.org

Going virtual: Technology doesn't (aim to) substitute "touch"

AdAge :: If the need arises, Dojo's team in San Francisco can have face time with clients in Europe at the drop of a hat. That's the beauty of the 2-year-old agency's extensive video-conference setup, said Managing Director Tiffany Coletti Titolo. "We can present to a client in Fremont, Calif., or in Switzerland without losing days to travel or wasting a client's money." In an industry once famous for three-martini lunches, virtual communication has become ubiquitous as more agencies and clients scale back on travel. The question is if something's lost when business is done virtually.

Continue to read Kunur Patel, adage.com

Mozilla's BrowserQuest: Not a game, it is a collaboration experiment

I know that this post is easy to understand. - A short look into the future of interactive web apps. Would be interesting to test such technology as described below in a real world scenario and to see how the interaction of people observing e.g. a sport event could be visualized using this type of realtime updates. That would lead to a completely new type of reporting.

Gearburn :: Mozilla, in cooperation with French developer Little Workshop, launched a new MMORPG called BrowserQuest today to demonstrate what developers can do with HTML5, WebSocket, Canvas and other advanced web technologies, including Node.js.

Explained - Continue to read Frederic Lardinois, gearburn.com

Collaborative journalism? - @Logitech targets small workgroups with HD videoconferencing unit

PC World :: Logitech hopes to address changes in enterprise teamwork with a high-definition videoconferencing unit designed for ad-hoc collaboration among small groups. The company's new videoconferencing platform, called the BCC950 ConferenceCam, is intended to fit in between individual PC-based webcams and dedicated room systems. It comes in well below most dedicated room systems meant for multiple participants.

Hat tip: Gibran Ashraf, @GibranAshraf

Continue to read Stephen Lawson, www.pcworld.com

PlusOne Project: Photographers' new Google+ Hangout sparks a stunning book in 3 months

Forbes :: Tumblr has fashion, Posterous has actors, Pinterest has food and crafts, Facebook and Twitter have, you know, most things. Google+ has been getting a reputation for being a techie hangout, but that’s only part of the picture. "Google+ has just re-energized the photography community online,” says Ivan Makarov, corporate tax consultant by day and photographer by all other times. “It was kind of dispersed in various different outlets before that. You had people on photo sites, but that was less and less popular because they weren’t innovating fast enough. You had people on private forums, but that wasn’t open enough. It was very decentralized, so when Google+ came along, people jumped on it.”

Why?

PlusOne Project - Continue to read Michael Humphrey, www.forbes.com

.@javaun : What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?

Think of a sensor network of (citizen) journalists - and you get an idea of what the Liquid Newsroom will be in the context of News3.0.

Javaun's Ramblings :: If you’re a data journalist or a community activist and you haven’t heard of Pachube (pronounced “PATCH bay”), you should look them up. They’re trying to answer a question that no environmental group or government agency can answer right now: at any given time, how clean is the air in my neighborhood? - Pachube is about to pilot citizen-led air quality sensor networks in New York and Amsterdam.

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Continue to read javaunmoradi.com

"Collaboration is a matter of survival": MediaShift launches Collaboration Central

MediaShift | PBS :: We have a culture as journalists to fight our competition for scoops, to get there first, to beat everyone else. But with the devastating cuts that have hit traditional news organizations, combined with the power of new technologies, more journalists are finding strength in numbers -- working together to cover more ground, tell better stories, and extend those stories onto multiple platforms in compelling ways.

[Mark Glaser:] Today, I'm happy to share a different kind of birth announcement: a new website from MediaShift called Collaboration Central.

Continue to read Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org

Cooperative journalism - Why media outlets team up in an election year

Niemanlab :: We’ve reached the point in journalism where we barely bat an eye when two news organizations say they’re joining forces. But there’s something about politics in particular that seems to bring out the hugging and sharing in news organizations. A presidential election brings out the heavy news artillery, and that means a flurry of scooplets coming from all directions — from the networks, from newspapers national and local, from blogs, from campaigns, and everywhere else. All that firepower pointed in the same direction makes the urge to team up more tempting than ever.

Justin Ellis tries to find an answer, "why media outlets team up in an election year."

Continue to read Justin Ellis, www.niemanlab.org

Knight Foundation funds collaborative reporting center in Georgia

The opportunity to work in a professional environment is great for students no doubt. But as Justin Ellis notes in the highlighted section of the paragraph below, for news outlets j-students are "additional bodies to support their newsgathering." So is it also an opportunity to reduce inhouse staff? 

Niemanlab :: The Knight Foundation is launching a new program at Mercer University designed to prepare journalists, how to perform their craft in an increasingly interdependent industry.The Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer will partner students from the school’s journalism and media studies program with journalists from The (Macon) Telegraph and Georgia Public Broadcasting. Knight is investing $4.6 million over several years into the initiative, which will put students and professionals in the same newsroom. The aim is a two-fold benefit: giving students experience in live reporting and providing both news outlets with additional bodies to support their newsgathering.

Justin Ellis, www.niemanlab.org