Journalism
Trust me, I’m a journalist
We're labouring under the illusion that the public trust us. Time to wake up.
influencers
How did creators become influencers?
How did YouTube's "creators" become Instagram's "influencers" — and what does the dinstinction signify?
creativity
Social media sanity checks the Rogue One way
It’s not hard to find this adorable: Yes, it’s the CGI team from Industrial Light & Magic, watching reaction videos to the [trailer for *Rogue One*](http://www.starwars.com/video/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-official-teaser-trailer), the forthcoming *Star Wars* movie.In a month where we’ve seen so damn many examples
creativity
What does it mean to be creative?
Compelling exploration of how creative minds function [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people/] : > As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead
creators
Weekend Coffee Reading
Lurking around in my browser tabs: - [On Makers and Managers](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2010/01/on-makers-and-managers-and-how-to-manage-your-day.html) – good look at the tension between these two roles that should be familiar to most people in journalism - [The Death of Tag Clouds](http://woorkup.com/2010/01/
community
How Many People Create Online?
CMS Wire has picked up on Gartner’s new classification of online community participants [http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/gartner-asks-are-you-generation-x-y-or-v-003000.php] . It’s still essentially the 80/20 rule, but the 20 are broken down into three groups: [![Gartner: Community Participants](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/