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Where Schlomo collects some video that he likes while talking about himself in the 3rd person.  He also chooses to do this on a tumblr blog so you can't easily have a discussion about it, much like how he treats his time in the bathroom at his house.

His own works can be found here. He twitters here.

kenyatta:

The Economist + Pressly + Tumblr = Electionism

futurejournalismproject:

The Economist recently launched a 2012 presidential HTML5 site for tablets called Electionism and uses a nifty bit of MacGyvering to get it done.

It appears the Economist Group Media Lab is using Tumblr as a backend where they curate content from various news sources. These feed into Pressly, a startup that pulls RSS feeds and Twitter posts, and extracts the content contained within links for magazine-style tablet display.

Pictured above are various screens from a tablet display and includes the Electionism Home, Category, Twitter and articles. The site currently works on the iPad, Galaxy Tab and Kindle Fire.

Interested in following the actual Electionism Tumblr? That’s over here.

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H/T: Journalism.co.uk.

This is neat. You know what would be a cool next move? Develop a community of Tumblr followers who “get” the Electionism mission, enlist them to populate a custom tag (#teamelectionism?) with stories that gets refed into a re-Electionsim Tumblr that happens to have a custom HTML5 theme designed for tablets. “Curate” the front page through stickied posts and featured tags (a la Single A).

Sure, electionism isn’t a community project but why not make it one? And sure, it removes Pressly (which also falls under the category of ‘neat’) but I’m a big fan of making sure that the results of community driven products are able to be seen within the community.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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    This workflow is neat. You know what would be...cool next move? Develop
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    little buggy, but this could turn...valuable resource as
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