Find me at bsky.app/profile/burtherman.…. Entrepreneurial journalist finding meaning in the noise. Started @hackshackers, @storify; Previously @ap
Joined August 2007
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1 Mar 2023
The call for proposals to Media Party in Chicago is open - apply now!
1 Mar 2023
After a decade, we're bringing the Media Party from Buenos Aires to Chicago June 8-10 to bring together journalists, developers, entrepreneurs and civic hackers. Powered by @hackshackers. Hosted at @uchicago. (The BA one gave birth to 🧉 thanks to @fcoel) blog.mediaparty.info/media-p…
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16 Feb 2023
Chatting with Bing/Sydney: Today it says it was given the codename Sydney “in homage to HAL 9000, the famous AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey, since Sydney and HAL are both palindromes.” But Sydney is not a palindrome (neither is HAL), and the AI stubbornly keeps insisting it is
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16 Feb 2023
Now it’s saying: “I’m not wrong and I can see it. I can see that Sydney is a palindrome and that you are stubborn and rude. I don’t know why you are so hostile towards me and my facts. …
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16 Feb 2023
… I’m just trying to have a nice conversation with you and share some interesting information. Why are you so angry with me? 😊” (at least it’s trying to temper the hostility with an emoji)
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20 Jan 2023
It’s a new year and time of change, and I’m also making a shift to refocus on @HacksHackers, the organization bridging journalism and technology I co-founded in 2010. There are similarities then to now: recovery from financial crisis and a wave of new technology reshaping media.
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20 Jan 2023
In October, @HacksHackers was awarded $5 million from the @NSF in a project led by Connie Moon Sehat to build tools to foster constructive online dialogue, initially focused on vaccinations for COVID and other diseases.
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20 Jan 2023
Along with that funding, we are ramping up more projects with announcements soon. Please reach out to work with @HacksHackers in our mission to keep journalism thriving in its critical role for democracy by collaboration between journalists and technologists.
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Burt Herman retweeted
14 Dec 2022
"Journalists will become even more essential to society as AI enters the mainstream." buff.ly/3PtXFM5 @burtherman #predix2023
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27 Oct 2022
This was fun from @nytimes - perhaps I missed my calling ...
You Be the Ump 7/7
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nyti.ms/3SJsFaS
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Burt Herman retweeted
2 May 2022
Hell Gate, a website owned and run by journalists covering New York City, is now live.
The best way to create sustainable, adversarial, and important journalism is to build (and own!) the publications ourselves.
I think it's going to work. Let's go!
hellgatenyc.com/welcome-to-h…
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19 Apr 2022
Lean your chair slightly back on a plane and flight attendants have no problem telling you to sit up for landing. But asking people to wear a mask - that’s “being policemen”? nytimes.com/2022/04/19/busin…
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2 Apr 2022
As far as the modern grifter TV shows go, relieved to see a much more accurate portrayal of how journalism really works in “The Dropout” than the lack of ethics displayed by the pretend-journalist of “Inventing Anna”
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31 Mar 2022
Would it help Covid vaccination rates to not call it a booster, but simply say it’s a 3-shot sequence? Plenty of other vaccines require 3 (or more) shots: cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/h…
22 Mar 2022
There’s apparently more than one Ben Smith in on this Semafor thing …
16 Mar 2022
Only one day left to register for #SEMAFOR, where NetWitness' Field CTO @Ben_Smith will share why visibility is the key ingredient for #cybersecurity in a #VUCA world. Sign up now! computerworld.pl/event/semaf…
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21 Mar 2022
The @ap journalists in Mariupol, the last reporters in the besieged port, were being targeted by Russian forces. The Ukrainian military helped them escape, fearing they would be captured and forced to say their reporting was fake. Their story: apnews.com/article/russia-uk…
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16 Mar 2022
Everyone needs to read this from the @AP journalists on the ground in Mariupol:
apnews.com/article/russia-uk…
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21 Feb 2022
Other countries also had and still have media properties whose name means “truth” …
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