Results tagged “newmedia”

A gathering of some of the greatest (and would-be greatest) sports bloggers in the country? Talking about where sports blogging is going, how it will and won't rule over traditional media? With free drinks? Count us in!

The Boston Globe may be cutting their news room staffers – but they're scraping together some funds to push through some new media. According to the Pop-Ed site, where the videos are posted, "Boston.com is proud to present 'Pop-Ed,' a daily original song and accompanying video written and performed by local musician Jake Brennan, focusing on news and events that take place that day. Jake will find news of interest in the morning and then start writing." The composition is featured with video on Boston.com in the mid afternoon and aired nightly on WBOS around 9 pm. The Pop-Ed feature has been given a trial run that wraps up at the end of the week – Boston.com won't say if Jake will be renewed or if they'll give a shot to another local artist. Today's installment embedded below is based on a piece about Parker Posey in her latest film role. In the spirit of participatory new media, you can help Jake write tomorrow's feature.

How do you measure, measure a year evacuation route? Self-described new media artist, kanarinka is undertaking a project to evacuate Boston and count every breath taken. She's up to 20,271 to date over the combined eight runs. Each leg is mapped out on a Google map and recorded as a podcast you can listen to. She's estimated that by the time she's done with the project she'll have taken 154,000 breaths while running the entire...

On Wednesday evening the Museum of Science hosts a moderated discussion in your first life about the second life. Assistant Professor of New Media Eric Gordon of Emerson College moderates a discussion with John Freeman, an artist in Second Life, Pathfinder Linden, community manager for Linden Lab, and Wagner James Au, an embedded journalist in Second Life. While you might not age in Second Life and flying is par for the course, three dimensions and capitalism still thrive in the virtual world just as they do in real life. Once users create an avatar and an persona (name selections are limited, so be ready to give your true identity a break) you can do pretty much anything. Art galleries, lectures, classes, people watching in the park, nonprofit agency advocacy, showcases of new commercial processes, and everything we've never thought of yet are all possible interactions in Second Life.

Text messages aren't just our favorite way to vote Sanjaya off of American Idol, they're also the quickest way to get in touch, no matter where we are. The mobile is always close at hand (and usually in the pocket) if we're at a concert, in class, or even in the cube toiling away on our TPS reports a text message won't likely go ignored for long. A number of US colleges and universities have...

We’re getting mixed messages in the blogosphere. It’s not uncommon, we’ll admit. Bostonist sat down with this week's edition of the Economist and read the whole section on “new media.” We felt like we might be part of that club in some way, but just laughed out loud when they made the comment “Want a debate? Ask a blogger what a blog is” perfectly valid question - one that has more answers than we can even tabulate. Today we were perusing the Internets and stumbled upon Gridskipper’s post on Upper Crust here in Boston. Yep, they liked it, but it sounded fishy…we knew we’d heard something about that same place in the recent weeks. Indeed, Bridey at Diningoutboston.com, had a full review (delivery and dine-in) of how Upper Crust was good though not great earlier this month. Nice to know that the New Yorkers at Gridskipper have extended themselves enough to review a restaurant in Boston – especially a pizza joint – but Bostonist thought that from all the street cred they claim NYC might know more about pizza than Boston does. We may still life hack but we’re questioning whether or not to gridskip any longer.