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A WordPress shortcode for archiving Twitter hashtags and searches.

May 02 Comments Off on A WordPress shortcode for archiving Twitter hashtags and searches. Category: Feed, HackText, Wordpress

While numerous tools for publicly archiving Twitter searches have gone premium or disappeared entirely, I’ve built a new one that works entirely within WordPress. Now I need your help to test it.

About a year ago, I wrote an article about how to archive Twitter chats using the then popular and perfectly functional WhatTheHashtag. Later on the site was suddenly shut down and the service discontinued. Since then, I’ve stumbled from tool to tool, trying to find an equally optimal solution that would allow me to generate HTML containing Tweets and post them on my blog (independent from any other platform) with the greatest amount of speed possible.

My Presentations from College Media Association’s #NYC12 Conference

March 20 Comments Off on My Presentations from College Media Association’s #NYC12 Conference Category: Feed, HackText

These past few days I’ve presented at CMANYC12, the conference run by a professional organization for advisers and associated positions working with college-level student media. For this year’s conference, I presented one workshop with Michele Boyet and three sessions on my own. For convenience, here are all the presentations I gave. All are under a creative commons attribution […]

Remixed: the derivative nature of creativity and our failure to recognize it.

March 08 Comments Off on Remixed: the derivative nature of creativity and our failure to recognize it. Category: Feed, HackText

The last episode of the Everything is a Remix video series is now online. Kirby Ferguson’s excellent documentary, covering the history and art of remixes, is a must see. The concept of remixes is nothing new, but the legal attacks that have abounded in recent years are. The derision remixes now receive from mainstream media could cause […]

The storytelling of the 99 percent.

November 05 Comments Off on The storytelling of the 99 percent. Category: Blogging, Feed, HackText

I’ll keep it brief. This site is not normally the place where I address politics or “The News.” I’ve been following the riots around Occupy Oakland with significant concern. However, we’re here to talk about storytelling and there is something going on that you shouldn’t miss when it comes to Occupy Wall Street and storytelling. […]