Desshera Ramleela

Ramleela performance in Delhi, October 2012. We went to the show in the local community of one of my colleagues from the Asian School of Communication. Although there are massive performances in Delhi, with thousands of attendees and dignitaries, and effigies seventy feet high, each local community also holds a performance, with money raised in the community, and local performers.

Speeches and presentations at Marwah Studios

Students watching the panel discussion at Asian Academy of Film and Television.

Taj Ambassador hotel, Delhi

This is a test.

How long does a book take?

The book (Knight, M.  and Cook, C., 2013, Social Media for Journalists: Principles and Practice, London: Sage.) is still not done. It's kind of done in the way Zeno's arrow has kind of hit its target. It's incrementally done. The amount of not done it is is becoming exponentially smaller every time the publisher sends it back to us. It's still the incredible boomerang book, though.

It's fine. There's nothing wrong with it. It just takes forever, and because I was done some time ago, I keep missing things and having them bounce back from the ever patient commissioning editor.

And then, today, I saw this:

from the amazing Hyperbole and a Half webcomic blog genius thing. Thank you, Allie.  And this sums it up perfectly, although academic books take even longer. Three babies, in fact. Or most of one one school kid. Seriously, my co-author was pregnant when we first pitched this thing, and her daughter is walking, talking and generally being a kid.

Of course, she talks back less than the book is doing now.

Tweetmapping

Map of all tweets mentioning #protest and with geolocation data attached

Testing the n0tice mapping functions

This is an experiment using n0tice's crowdmapping function, and Google Maps to create a map of information and events.

This is information regarding journalists imprisoned in Turkey, based on the Committee to Protect Journalists' information.

View Turkey imprisoned journalists in a larger map