Wednesday, June 4, 2014
TWIF Flattener #3 - Work Flow Software
Use one of the current events sources linked at http://svhs-hwc-fall2014.blogspot.com/2014/06/approved-sources-for-twif-current.html to find a recent news article that relates to, supports, or refutes Friedman's assertion that work flow software was a "flattener." Your comment should include the title of the news article, a link to the article, and a summary of the article including an explanation of how the article relates to this point. Don't forget to check your rubric for evaluation criteria!
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Publishers Turn to the Crowd to Find the Next Best Seller
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/business/media/publishers-turn-to-the-crowd-to-find-the-next-best-seller.html
In The World Is Flat, Friedman describes that the third flattener is workflow software. Workflow software enables more people around the world to design, display, manage, and collaborate on just about anything. In this article, it states that Ms. Hall has allowed about 9,000 readers to sample and judge her work online before her publisher decided wether or not to publish the book on paper. This article relates to workflow software because it is a form of collaboration, where multiple people are working together in more places.
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ReplyDelete“Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS” by Luke Vnenchak
ReplyDeletehttp://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/scoop-a-glimpse-into-the-nytimes-cms/
This article focuses on Scoop, which is the Content Management System (CMS) used by the New York Times. CMSs are quickly gaining popularity as a “tool of modern journalism.” Scoop was designed for the New York Times in 2008, and it “manag[es] content and publish[es] data so that other applications can render the content across ... platforms.” Scoop allows journalists to collaborate on a common digital platform and reduces previously tedious paper editing prior to final publishing. Among its more noted features are budgeting and planning stories, tracking changes and comments, creating different versions of drafts to improve workflow, collaborating real-time, tagging content, and adding photos and multimedia. Scoop continues to evolve as new features are created.
Scoop is a great example of workflow software as defined by Friedman in The World is Flat. The idea of the software began with people who wanted to be able to do more and connect between computers seamlessly. Friedman detailed the evolution of software that allowed for this: from the basic connection of the PC and email to the creation of the Business Web, where multiple people could access and work on the same content from anywhere in the world as long as they had an Internet connection (79-88). Scoop, and CMSs on the whole, are spins on the Business Web, where workers can interact with each other through a computer system and increase workflow efficiency. Therefore, the fact that Scoop worked so well within the journalism profession backs up Friedman’s argument that workflow software helped to flatten the world.
"Dairy Farms in Nevada Face Parched Pastures, Third Year of Drought"
ReplyDeleteBy: Steve Friess
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/10/dairy-farmers-innevadafaceparchedpasturesthirdyearofdrought.html
This article talks about the 3 year drought on the Nevada dairy farms. It explains how these farms should be thriving right now but instead they are struggling to make it. It also talks about how since the prices to buy food for the cattle and to ship their dairy have gone up and it has now started to affect places across the world like China. This goes along with Friedman's theory on how the world is flattening. Friedman explains that he believes that the world is flattening because we now have contact with places across the world like China and that this is a good thing but there are downsides to it, such as this. Even though these farms are in Nevada in the United States they still sell dairy all the way to China and affect China in good and bad ways.