If you ever had one of your online accounts hacked, “how did my account get hacked” is usually the first thing that you ask. The quick answer: There are lots of ways it could have happened.
After getting hacked, people’s first reaction is often to suspect that they have spyware installed…
Check One, Check Two: Our Webcasting Checklist
Next Wednesday we’ll be Webcasting GigaOm’s paidContent 2012 event from the Times Center in New York City.
From past experience, Murphy’s Law dominates the production of these type of things. If the Webcast is supposed to start at 9am, everything will work until 8:58 and then all hell breaks loose.
To prepare we take things apart, put them back together again, start streams, stop streams, figure out how and why things break, and figure out how to put everything back together again.
The gear we use runs as follows:
- TriCaster: This is the boxy think in the photo. It’s essentially a Windows box with NewTek’s TriCaster video mixing software in it. Our audio and video feeds go into this, and from there we push the feed out to Livestream.
- Livestream: Livestream is a live event platform that’s been used by the New York Times, ABC and CBS News, the Associated Press among others. If you can get your video to it (say, with a TriCaster), Livestream can push it out to desktop, mobile and tablet clients.
- Sony EX1: We’ve been using these cameras for a while now and they’re work horses. So, a couple EX1’s with 100 foot SDI cables connecting back to the TriCaster will let us position our cameras around the Times Center.
- Mackie Board: While the TriCaster has an audio mixer built into its software, over time we’ve felt that having a separate, analog mixer makes things easier and gives us better overall sound. Also, when there are odd and peculiar audio irregularities (remember Murphy’s Law from above), there’s something reassuring about reaching out and working with real life knobs and sliders rather than pointing and clicking through a software interface. It’s much faster too. So, the house audio will be fed into the Mackie and from there it will go into the TriCaster before being pushed to Livestream.
I’ll post next Tuesday where people can watch the event. The lineup looks great and includes WordPress founder Matt Mullenwag, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo, Condé Nast president Bob Sauerberg and News Corporation CEO Jon Miller among others.
The agenda: explore “business models and debate the best ways to keep content meaningful and profitable in an ever-changing digital environment.”
To keep your coworkers from making negative, and probably inaccurate, judgments about your job performance, spend five to ten minutes each day cleaning and straightening your workspace before heading home.
Some solid advice.
(Above, one of the sample projects.)
A collaboration between the Guardian and boucoup:
Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.
The first release under the Miso Project isDataset, a JavaScript client-side data management and transformation library.
Miso is a set of libraries to be released over the coming months that simplify the processes of managing data, building reusable components, and authoring narratives. Miso is in active development, and will have components released as they are completed. Follow along: @TheMisoProject & Github
Via colleages and JavaScript Weekly.
Check out Caine’s Arcade, the inspirational story of DIY culture spontaneously celebrating one creative kid in East LA - watch @CainesArcade by @nirvan .
Data in the Newsroom
The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open sourced reference book that’s being released at the end of April at the International Journalism Festival in Italy.
If you want to be alerted when the book is released you can do so here.
This poster was created by Lulu Pinney based on illustrations in the book by Kate Hudson.
H/T: Jonathan Gray.
I love this headline because, while the issue at the heart of this article is media transparency, in fact it calls attention to a much longer tension in journalism. For decades, media executives have held sway on critical media policy debates in Washington, DC, through campaign contributions and lobbying efforts. Often the positions the media execs take run counter to the benefit of the journalists who work for them and the communities they serve. However, as this article notes, this maybe one of the most absurd and hypocritical examples in recent memory.
“The battle playing out over a new government transparency proposal has taken a turn that should concern journalists. Many of the nation’s major news organizations are now aggressively opposing a proposal to disclose more information about political advertising—acting directly against the interests of their own reporters and calling into question the companies’ commitment to journalistic values.”
Steve Walderman discusses the irony of media organizations opposing the proposed FCC rule that would force TV stations to make campaign ad data available online. Read the full article on CJR.
Read previous posts on ONA Issues about the proposed FCC rule here and here.
