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At the end of each day, I sit and I think about everything that I had learned from morning till night and I transform it into a "Daily Doodle." By combining studying and drawing, each doodle acts as a learning tool and a creative exercise. Please note that I am still in the learning process and that my doodles may not be accurate. If you find any errors, please send me an email so that I can learn from my mistakes! (michiko.maruyama@gmail.com)

"After reading our classes popcorn poem I realized that a good portion of the class is amazed by how we were able to construct poetry to social media. I myself am one of those people. We've always considered poetry to be something containing a higher meaning with vocabulary words we wouldn't use on a daily basis, but as of last friday we created poetry where the stanzas were replaced with tweets by different account users, and the theme of the poem was spread through the us of a twitter timeline, and retweets. With using my new definition of a genre of poetry I see these popcorn poems as multiple authors, viewing the potential of poetry in the social media realm, were so used to seeing poem being on paper containing X amount of stanzas, but now we see people's different first impression on what poetry via internet is like. For the most part each student was surprised, and had a good feeling about what this could be going forward with the more assignments we get that involve us doing popcorn poems. "

Someone asked about mapping from the calendar to a spreadsheet. This is a pretty dead simple option using IFTTT.

"This adorable animated GIF is apparently the official answer Google sent to a Daily Dot reporter in response to his seeming scoop on a new YouTube livestreaming plan. "

The Netflix of podcasts?

"News sites with modular, image-heavy designs receive more pageviews and have stronger user engagement than sites with more staid, newspaper-inspired designs, according to a report"

The potential power of Twitter / social media

decline of tablets / e-readers; rise of phone

"They've shortened the company's name to Genius and secured $40 million in funding to plunge fully into a Silicon Valley "pivot": the transition from doing one thing better than anyone else-annotating rap lyrics-to doing something bigger and bolder-"annotating the world," a capaciously vague ambition that no one, themselves included, is certain they can pull off. Annotation has been a Silicon Valley dream since the invention of the first web browser, but it has yet to produce an elegant solution comparable to what Wikipedia did with the crowdsourced encyclopedia. The Genius founders see their platform as a means for enlightened discussion in contrast to the dark world of the internet comment. Users can upload a text, click on any word, and add whatever context they deem worthwhile."

Thank you for sharing how to comment on this site.

A D3 art animation a day . . . I need to get on something like this.

Society for News Design winners, including some data viz examples.

We have to put up with insults, but we don't have to tolerate threats. Interesting article for Thinking Routines

"Not Just On the Web but Of the Web" Excellent, accessible discussion about making web content unique to its platform, using mainstream (NPR) examples.

h/t David C.

Interesting, nuanced take on "virtual reality" and journalism.

not much that's new but a good overview of the business of Twitter