Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Oct 3, 2011, 9:01 am
Tweet I am honored that David Cohn invited me to participate in this new online Carnival of Journalism pow-wow thing he and the Reynolds Institute of Journalism and the Knight Foundation have launched. And I am not using the term “honored” in a euphemistic sense it may come off like that, initi...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Sep 27, 2011, 1:49 am
Tweet The feature story I wrote for The Daily Beast is about my mom’s Playboy bunny experiences. The article gives a retrospective snapshot of what wearing a bunny suit and serving cocktails in the 1960s was like. Mom_In_Bunny_Suit Key to Playboy of Boston circa 1966 Mom at Playboy of Boston ...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 26, 2011, 3:00 am
Social Media Politiku New York Social Media week attendees came from insomnified newsrooms, midtown ad agencies and ivory towered J-schools. Bloggers, PR consultants, aggregate founders and overcaffeinated entrepreneurs congregated in clusters.
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 21, 2011, 3:00 am
Samuel Morse's Reversal of Fortune It wasn't until after he failed as an artist that Morse revolutionized communications by inventing the telegraph
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 8, 2011, 3:57 am
TweetGoogle Loves Lucy Google’s Logo Honored Lucille Ball’s 100th Anniversary For the search engine savvy, an interactive Google logo paying honoring the 100th anniversary of the star of a hit TV show means traffic. Curious to see how keyword choices differed between search engine oriented con...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 5, 2011, 3:00 am
New Media Writing Prize 2011 – entries now open! The Literary Platform is dedicated to showcasing projects experimenting with literature and technology. It brings together comment from industry figures and key thinkers, and encourages debate.
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 1, 2011, 7:20 pm
Tweet A little over a week ago, I submitted the Solar Cooker Project to Fragile Oasis and it was warmly welcomed from the International Space Station by NASA Astronaut and Fragile Oasis Founder, Ron Garan. Here’s What’s Going On: Fragile Oasis is about connecting the sustainable technologies ...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 28, 2011, 3:00 am
Creative Review - The Return of Björk The best in visual communication. Letters of Note: Thank you Bob Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence. The Ship Song Project The Ship Song Project - Sydney Opera House reinterprets Nick Cave's iconic song. Performed by Nei...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 27, 2011, 3:00 am
'Mad Men' Begins Streaming on Netflix - The Hollywood Reporter The first four seasons of AMC’s show will be available on Wednesday in exclusive deal with Lionsgate. Little-known sci-fi fact: Why HAL 9000 sang 'Daisy' in 2001 | Blastr Where Kubrick Found HAL’s “Daisy Bell” Son...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 26, 2011, 6:52 pm
TweetThe IBM version is actually creepier than the version HAL sings in 2001: And didn’t legend have it that HAL was kinda code for IBM (the former being alphabetical later, minus one, anyway)? Hearing the full on, “bicycle built for two” in an IBM context, however, really does bring home th...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 23, 2011, 3:00 am
Society Defines Gender Differences : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR There are sex differences in the human brain. But these can't help us understand the differences between men and women. The differences we are looking for aren't neurobiological.
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 21, 2011, 9:05 am
Tweet Tweets from STS135 Launch and Landing Compiled on Storify Atlantis is turning me into sentimental mush. Posted Dad, the Apollos and the end of the Space Shuttle Era on the Scientific American Guest Blog after the launch. Then was up all night (the night of the landing) compiling this collecti...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 20, 2011, 3:00 am
NASA Astronauts Ponder Future Plans After Space Shuttles Stop Flying | NASA's Space Shuttle Program & Retirement | NASA's Future | Space.com With no space shuttles to fly, and at least several years before the commercial spaceflight industry gets going, what will happen to NASA's astronaut cor...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 17, 2011, 3:42 am
Tweet Recently created my first interactive data visualization. It’s a timeline. Move your cursor over the little dot jewel in the crown of the beauty pageant thingies and… Was embedded into my Scientific American blog post and ended up getting 7.5K hits. Not sure how much of the credit the i...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 5, 2011, 2:02 am
Tweet What is it about this song that makes everyone love it so, so much? Okay, maybe its not a good idea to presume universal love for a song that’s maybe not that universally loved. It’s pretty well loved, though. Loved enough to justify assembling a belated “Happy Fourth of July” cover...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - May 22, 2011, 9:36 pm
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - May 19, 2011, 3:27 pm
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - May 8, 2011, 5:39 pm
Tweet You Tube features several of them now. From what I can tell, Xtranormal offers the widest range of narrative options, though. If you’re a storyteller whose keen for a genre mash, I recommend you start by going this route. Suggestions for making the most of Xtranormal: (1 ) Its all about t...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - May 8, 2011, 12:26 am
Tweet How in the world did I not know this Alexander Hamilton song existed? (Its probably obvious but in case it isn’t, I’m a huge Alexander Hamilton fan.) Lin-Manuel Miranda is talented. That was obvious when I saw his “In the Heights” performance last spring. This is utterly supernatural...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - May 3, 2011, 5:11 am
Tweet The celebrations were one of many responses to the death of Osama Bin Laden. I used Storify to curate the widest range of emotional responses I could find during the hours following Obama’s May 1st announcement. Please Note that only the first page can be seen on this page. Clicking “L...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Apr 30, 2011, 6:02 am
TweetNASA vs. The Royal Wedding Digital Dialog Curation and Narrated by, Susanna Speier Note: You can only see the first page here. To view the story in its entirety, click ‘load more’ at the bottom of this post.
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Apr 3, 2011, 7:36 pm
TweetWard Shelley Is Ward Shelley descended from Mary or is this data visualization’s Frankensteinian essence just coincidence? From Susannaspeier.com I’ve blogged about this stuff.  Compared daylight saving time infographics, and even created a data visualization resume, based on the Venn di...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Mar 15, 2011, 11:54 pm
TweetWho sponsored Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and their little blue chirpie bird’s Twitter 5th Anniversary collaboration ? Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant are so freakin’ brilliant and I wanna work with them soooo much I can’t stand it. Wait a sec…should the focus be on them or t...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Feb 18, 2011, 4:49 pm
TweetROAR Inspired Tweets I’m working on a social media campaign for the 30th Anniversary of ROAR the Movie and the award winning documentary, The Making of ROAR. Telling a Story by Assembling Facebook Updates, Tweets, Blog Posts, Flickr Photos & You Tube Clips Storify is a fledgeling start-up ...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Feb 14, 2011, 6:17 am
TweetWhy The Valentine’s Day Massacre is Such an Important Part of St. Valentine’s Day Nothing against hearts, putti or the color red. Doilies, arrows, foil wrapped chocolates, missives folded into ink stained pink envelopes are also fine. Roses, carnations and theme mixes on itunes — all g...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Feb 8, 2011, 7:38 pm
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Feb 3, 2011, 8:57 am
TweetMicropoetry Submission Call for Web Journalists and Online News Reporters Covering Events in Egypt If you are a web journalist covering Egypt, I invite you to submit a 17 syllable Politiku (political haiku). All will post on my blog and a selection will run on myHuffington Post column. Not u...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Dec 22, 2010, 5:38 pm
TweetWhy it is so Difficult to Obtain Comprehensive Info on Salaries and Rates for Social Media Services Lack of Longevity It hasn’t been around for that long. In fact, 2011 was the first year that the The Writer’s Market –the most comprehensive listing of national rates and resource for fre...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Nov 30, 2010, 11:22 pm
TweetTechnology and Serendipity This morning, I attended Day One of the World Technology Network. Founder, Jim Clark, detailed how innovative people experience more serendipity through open mindedness, obsessive focus on area of causality and tendency to constantly put out energy. Hearing Jim fra...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Nov 24, 2010, 12:20 am
Tweet ABC REPORTER: Do you think you will be scoffed at by your fellow New York Night Owls? GUY BEING INTERVIEWED: Most likely. REPORTER: Any success stories? From Susannaspeier.com IPOD: playing poptron I reach out for you. Is it you? Tell me true? WOMAN AT END OF TABLE: We met on Twitter. An...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Nov 21, 2010, 4:51 am
TweetData Visualizations Rediscovered They’ve been around a while and I’ve always kind of taken them for granted…until recently. I went to Washington, D.C. to attend a day of the ONA10 conference last month. Christine Montgomery, Managing Editor of PBS.org and one of ONA’s Board of Direc...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Nov 7, 2010, 3:20 am
Tweet So I’m up at 1:00a.m. researching Daylight Saving Time Data Visualizations. It was actually about to turn 2:00a.m. but then fell back. Whether you use the singular (and grammatically correct) or the plural (and ungrammatical, “Daylight Savings Time”) —if you live in the continental U...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Oct 30, 2010, 9:09 pm
Tweet Christine O’Donnell’s, I am not a witch ad, inspired me to purchase the witch wig that I returned, unopened, the day before Halloween. I did not return the wig because I wasn’t able to get a hold of the Delaware snow globe I’d envisioned. My trusty slate colored Brother label maker...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Oct 20, 2010, 5:40 pm
Scientist as Citizen Artist Fuse online productivity tools, a garden camera and an MIT poster child together and this is what you get. To some extent, anyway. Citizen scientists –like that Brooklyn dad and his kid who recently launched a webcam balloon into the nanosphere– fascinate him. As ...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Oct 5, 2010, 1:33 pm
From Susannaspeier.com “I haven’t seen it; the previews make me want to barf.  I already know the story, and I don’t really want to sit through the glamorization,” Aaron Sylvan, the CEO of Trustworks, Inc. told me when I asked whether or not he’d seen The Social Network yet. This surpr...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Oct 2, 2010, 2:34 am
Douglas Rushkoff 10 Commands + Leland Purvis’ Illustrations: From Susannaspeier.c Douglas Rushkoff uses Leland Purvis’ illustrations in Power Point show “We’re living in a world of applications. If you don’t know how to write applications you’re not really part of the conversation,�...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Sep 17, 2010, 5:32 pm
“A tornado in Brooklyn?” exclaimed my stun of disbelief. I’d just passed four uprooted trees on the short walk back from the subway. The storm’s first thunderclap began when I was in Manhattan, social media strategizing with Joschi and Monika at their Chelsea yoga studio. The storm continu...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Sep 15, 2010, 10:51 am
Not sure why I’m so excited about Twitter’s “Meet the New Twitter” ad for the New Twitter. I mean, given Facebook’s, iPhone’s –pretty much everythings continual overhyped hyped up upgrades it’d seem like the sorts info bit I’d auto delete. Not so in this case. In this case, I ac...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Sep 12, 2010, 2:25 am
Thanks to Facebook’s “likes,” Twitter’s hashtags and, of course, the call from Mom, I was not alone on 9/11/10.  Thanks to my low tolerance for unity, I also managed to steer clear of a day riddled with iterations of redundant media coverage reiterating the now internalized attack of anothe...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Sep 5, 2010, 4:31 pm
So much has been written about this already that, unless your head’s been in the sand for the last week, you probably don’t need another 101 rundown, so here’s a compendium of the smart stuff. Hopefully this can make a small contribution towards countering the myriad misconceptions now runnin...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 11, 2010, 3:00 am
Cubicle Spy: At Work with David Berkowitz of 360i As part of the new “Cubicle Spy” series here at Mashable, we’re taking a look inside the neatest, quirkiest, and most gadget-laden offices of people who work with social media.For our maiden voyage, we scoped the office of David Berkowitz...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 10, 2010, 3:00 am
After Drought, Hope for Shows Made for Web Money is trickling back into the professional Internet video industry, helped by branded entertainment deals and venture capital firms. Craigslist Responds to Child Prostitution Allegations After two years of criticism against the online cl...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 6, 2010, 3:00 am
The Internet World (Map) As a tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities’, we have decided to re-create our own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preemi...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 2, 2010, 3:38 am
Would the Anti Defamation League have opposed Park 51, the controversial Islamic cultural center and Mosque, had its founder, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, sought to develop the center in a building that was twelve as opposed to just two blocks away from Ground Zero? Distance from the Epicenter Questions...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Aug 1, 2010, 1:23 am
Kitten Saving With Ashton Kutcher 1. Broadcast So, I’m watching an Ashton Kutcher hosted Saturday Night Live episode rerun while uploading snapshot photos of  Nikki, Derek and me playing with Perrin’s cat’s new kittens.  Granted, if Ashton Kutcher and his wife, Demi Moore had a...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 26, 2010, 5:14 am
Space Shuttle Era is Coming to a Close NASA will take the tree remaining Space Shuttles out of commission this week, museums all over the country are vying to house their entry into eternity. It didn’t occur to me until much later, just how melancholy the Politiku that I assembled over a year...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 17, 2010, 8:52 pm
RERUN of Last Year’s Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Politiku with Poladroids: Charles J. Pellerin Politiku Three died in the fire / The rest bravely walked into the thunder / Because they loved their country. Charles J. Pellerin was NASA’s Director of Astrophysics where he oversaw $750 mi...
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Susanna Speier posted an article on Susanna Speier - Jul 6, 2010, 8:26 am
The July 5th submission pile-up of “Fireworks & Combat Trauma Politiku” –written by military vets with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder– in response to my July 4th Shout Out– made me feel like a US Postal Service employee on December 26th. Craig Newmark’s and Lily Casura’s superbly writ...
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