The idea of electronic paper tends to appeal to a generation that has grown up with newspapers. At the Future of Science Journalism symposium at MIT this week, one of the presentations was about E Ink by the company’s director of marketing, David Jackson. The talk was full of information about how E Ink’s technology could be used for flexible displays, mimicking paper. Most of the examples were small form

Katherine Sharpe, Seed magazine’s manager of ScienceBlogs provided an insight into how the blog aggregator works at the Knight science journalism conference. ScienceBlogs kicked off in January 2006 with 12 blogs and now, two years later, brings together 70. Katherine explained how Seed quickly realised that bringing the blogs together into a science metablog created something bigger than the sum of its parts and the traffic reflected this. The posts

Dianne Lynch, dean of journalism at Ithaca College, gave a whistle-stop tour of the Internet generation and the implications for journalism at the Knight science fellowship symposium. This is the new audience for news. They grew up in a world where the Internet has always existed and this has changed their social and cultural attitudes. “The generation coming into adulthood has had a very different experience than we have had”,

For my talk on multiplatform science reporting for the Knight science journalism symposium, I prepared a cheatsheet on how to successfully produce a multimedia story. It goes over the need for planning, collaboration, innovation and interaction, and offers some tips on the use of video and data. Download the cheatsheet here (PDF)

Day two of the Knight science journalism symposium in Boston and Henry Jenkins of MIT blasts the audience with a sprint through new media, popular culture and new possibilities for science journalism. The thrust of his talk was how participatory culture is changing how we acquire knowledge, changing what we mean by the term “expert” and how we can work together as a collective intelligence. Henry’s critique of journalists is

I caught up with Clive Thompson after his talk at the Knight Science Journalism symposium and asked him about his love of blogging. His blog is Collision Detection. (Shot on a Nokia N95)

Clive Thompson has just bombarded a room full of science journalists about the joys of blogging and Twittering. Thompson was a Knight Science fellow, during which he became his blog, Collision Detection. Today, at a symposium to mark the 25th anniversary of the fellowships at MIT, he evangelised about the benefits of blogging. For Clive, he blogs to improve the way he thinks. The blog was what Cory Doctorow describes

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, had some old news for the science journalists at the Knight science journalism symposium in Boston. The role of the journalist is changing in an age where the old metaphor of gate-keeping no longer applies, he told them. This is pretty obvious. More interesting is a discussion of the new roles for journalists

I’m at the Future of Science Journalism symposium this week, organised for the 25th anniversary of the Knight science fellowships at MIT. On the agenda is a discussion about the prospects for science journalism in a multimedia age and I’ll be talking about multiplatform working on Wednesday. But the event was kicked off by Boyce Rensberger, director of the fellowships programme, looking back at the historical relationship between science and

Clark Boyd is technology correspondent for The World, a coproduction of the BBC and WGBH, and funded by Public Radio International. I caught up with him in Boston to reflect back on his three years of podcasting and look ahead to the future of radio. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.478889&w=425&h=350&fv=] Technorati Tags: BBC, WGBH, podcasting, technology