Daylife offered Hacks/Hackers members a challenge: crerate an application with the Daylife API that one of their publishing clients wants to buy, and you will get to keep 70% of the revenue.
The Meetup at Meetup now has a waiting list, but don’t despair. We have a bonus Meetup this month (before August) in a gorgeous penthouse space!! What: Behind the 10K+ photos in The New York Times’ Moment in Time Project When: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:00 PM Price: $5.00 per person (no planned refreshments) Where: Open Plans Penthouse 148 Lafayette St. 12th Fl. New York, NY 10013 212.796.4220 Come behind the scenes in The New York Times “Moment in Time” project, which generated 14,000 photo submissions from around the world chronicling an instant on May 2, 2010.
Our crowdsourced Hacks/Hackers Survival Glossary Version 1.0 debuted on the Poynter website. Thanks to everyone who helped: Jennifer 8. Lee Burt Herman, Robin Smail, David Cohn, Michelle Minkoff, Michael Donohoe, Greg Linch, John Keefe, Philip Neustrom, Chris Amico, Ashley Marty, Morgan Sully, Shmuel Ross, Paul Henrich, Dave Goodchild, Michele McLellan, and Jessica Chapel.
Hacks/Hackers is teaming up with Mozilla, the open-source-oriented nonprofit, to creating a course through Peer-to-Peer University, with the aim of collective eduction: the hackers teaching the journos, and vice versa. The idea won a $1,000 seed prize at MIT’s Future of News and Civic Media conference in June. That contest gave the $2,000 seed money for Hacks/Hackers in 2009. The class will be a six-week commitment, with one hour a week of lectures and one project.
We’ve scheduled our next New York City Meetup (more in the works!) at Meetup’s HQ. Scott Heiferman, the chief executive of Meetup, will not crush an iPad with a sledgehammer for us, but he will give a talk on his vision of news and information: Why the future of social media isn’t media. How journalism and media will shape the 21st century by catalyzing community like never before. Plus we’re looking for three or four short (~5 minutes) demos.
Thank you everyone who turned out for the first Hacks/Hackers gathering in Boston! We had a great crowd that mixed with attendees from the Knight Foundation’s conference on the Future of News Civic Media, with people from local news organizations like The Boston Globe and Boston.com, the Nieman Journalism Lab and also startups like pinyadda. A photo is below, and check out more at the Boston meetup page: http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com
In conjunction with the Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT, Hacks/Hackers Boston is going to have an inaugural impromptu Meetup on Thursday, June 17 at 8 p.m. The place TBD, but probably in Cambridge near MIT. We’re looking for Boston folks to become lead organizers. Out-of-town Hacks/Hackers, including Burt Herman and Jennifer 8. Lee will be there.
An astounding 170 folks showed up at last week’s inaugural Meetup on June 2 at Chinatown Brasserie to enjoy the dim sum (thanks to Patch). We uploaded photos, taken by Jigar Mehta, so feel free to tag them.
What we appreciated was that it was a pretty even balance of hacks and hackers, not to mention men and women. That’s New York City for you.
Plans
Lots of ideas came our way. We hope these will all happen sometimes in the next few months. Watch our calendar.
In addition, we’d like to get a talk about design and usability, if anyone has any suggestions for speakers/format/topic.
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with my iPad. And much of that came from all the confusion and debate over what the iPad actually is. Is it a big iPhone that can’t make calls? Is it a netbook replacement that doesn’t have a camera? Is it a laptop replacement without a keyboard or multitasking? Is it a TV replacement that can’t play Flash video? I was frustrated that my iPad didn’t live up to the hype.
The word is out and already more than 100 people have signed up to attend the first Hacks/Hackers gathering in New York on June 2. Please sign up to attend at http://meetupnyc.hackshackers.com. The first event will be focused on getting to know each other and assembling the wider journo-tech community to talk about what events you’d like to see in the future. Hacks/Hackers co-founders Burt Herman and Aron Pilhofer will talk about the goals of the organization.