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• Millennials: Perhaps They Are More Like Us Than We Think

  

  Mention millennials and workshop attendees perk up and pay special attention: everyone in the media business wants to cultivate millennials, find out more... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Musings as a New Generation of Journalists Enters the Profession

  

  It was an impressive, traditional graduation ceremony at Columbia University Wednesday. Thousands of smiling students, attired in their sky blue caps and gowns... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Apple Watch and Legibility

  Eyes on the wrist don't lie: when it comes to reading text on the Apple Watch, we begin to see patterns of what works and what may not. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• For the Sake of the Keepsake

  

  No doubt about it: when it comes to the one platform of the media quartet that one can keep forever tucked away in a drawer or in a photo album (does anyone hav... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Apple Watch and News Curation: Capturing the Moment

  

  I continue to be an avid and curious student of how news moves on my wrist via the Apple Watch. Here is what the Saturday 9:15 a.m. edition pulsated with. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Multimedia Design & Storytelling: Students’ Final Projects

  

  This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. The next blog post is Monday, May 18 ... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• My Apple Watch, the News and Me: Four Days Later

  

  The question that comes to mind is: where, oh, where, were you, Apple Watch, the last few years of my life. Reflections of an Apple Watch user and news junky. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Beyond Multimedia, It is Multi Segment Storytelling

  

  What a surprise to turn to this New York Times story while reading in my iPad about the prospects of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, only to find out... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• A Multi-platform Initiative for McClatchy

  

  We will update this post throughout the day as we receive pages, screens, and other relevant material to the launch. It is the third time that we at Garcia... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Apple Watch: I Have One Around My Wrist (finally)!

  

  My most awaited new toy, the Apple Watch, arrived this weekend. I wonder why it took Apple so long to create this new and incredibly useful new platform. In... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Quartz: a String of Obsessions from the Serious to the Silly

  

  This is what I love Quartz and what it brings into my life daily: it reports the important stuff (riots in Baltimore), but it takes time to tend to my sillier... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Importance of Creating a Storytelling Palette for Mobile

  The smartwatches are here, another mobile platform demanding of our most talented editors and designers for the ultimate in at a glance journalism. Yet, many... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Smartwaches and News Symposium: Some Takeaways

  

  It was a productive and thought provoking one-day symposium devoted to a discussion of how smartphones and news will mix now that the Apple Watch is here and... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Smartwatches: a Symposium in Copenhagen and Research Results Today

  

  I will spend the day in Copenhagen today to participate in a groundbreaking symposium about the presentation of news in smartwatches. It will be a first... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• At The Washington Post: Adventures in Tablet Lean Back Mode

  

  The Washington Post’s Kindle app was launched in November 2014, but already has gained a robust readership. Some tips and much food for thought as Cory Haik,... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• At the Conferences: Optimism and a Desire for Renewal

  

  This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. The next blog post is Monday, May 4. ... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Advertising Comes to Cuba? Maybe

  

  It’s a new magazine for Cuba, and, it is not another communist propaganda publication, it seems. Oferta (which means Offer) is a new titled introduced in Cuba... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Dreaming in Cuban: the Next Newspapers

  

  Everything Cuba is hip ever since that day in December 2014 when US President Barack Obama surprised us with his declaration that he was extending a hand to... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Wall Street Journal: That Was a Great Week

  It was a grand week for The Wall Street Journal, winning a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and unveiling a redesigned web site—responsive, too. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• European Digital Award Winners

  

  I was honored to be one of the judges for this year’s European Digital Award competition. I was impressed by the quality of all the entries. Here are some of... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH