Presentation from SXSW 2012 on how programmers and creators can bridge their cultural gap of understanding. Both have similar mindsets: They want to work with smart people on interesting problems that imapct the world.
By Ben Balter (@benbalter) of the White House,
Jennifer 8. Lee (@jenny8lee) of Hacks/Hackers,
Raju Narisetti (@rajunarisetti) of The Wall Street Journal, and Andrei Scheinkman (@ascheink) of The Huffington Post
2. Ben Balter (@benbalter)• Hacks/Hacker & White House
Jennifer 8. Lee (@jenny8lee) • Hacks/Hackers
Raju Narisetti (@rajunarisetti) • The Wall Street Journal
Andrei Scheinkman (@ascheink)• The Huffington Post
3. — Problem —
Coders see content as
“stuff” and code as “art.”
Whereas creators see code as
“stuff” and content as “art.”
22. A front end developer is needed for an interesting video
project by Sii Media, a new video journalism startup
founded by Saul Hansell,. The task is to make a working
As leaders of the Hacks/Hackers
demo of an innovative interactive video newscast format.
group, I figured you might be able
Skills required are HTML, Javascript (including
modifying an existing HTML5 video player), and creating
to help me track down a developer
a very simple Web front end to our back-end CMS using
API calls. The overall work is probably one person-week
with a bit of time to do a fun
of time or so for a good developer, and this needs to be
journalism project…
completed before the end of February.
Anyone interested should contact saul@sii.tv..Thanks.
32. “It reduces the heart and soul
of journalism — stories, photos, graphics,
the news — into generic ‘content,’
something akin to the unidentifiable
filling in a Twinkie. Ick.”
— Washington Post Ombudsman