iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Skill flux and vibe coding are my new favorite phrases from #sxsw #sxsw2025

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“Skills are the new data, but the shelf life for skills is collapsing.” Need to use Al to augment skill acquisition. Will transform education. “Goes from I am what I know, to I am how I adapt” - Ian Beacraft #sxsw #sxsw2025

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“Make things weird, so the weird can make things” - @rushkoff.com. Need to get away from the mean, the average. Have loved Doug since “Program or Be Programmed.”

I am all for the re-weirding of the digital, @rushkoff.com. Hearing a lot of calls to return to roots of #sxsw #sxsw2025 schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

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Legendary TV and Film director Paul Feig! He’s been a part of so many of my favorite shows/movies #sxsw #sxsw2025

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I clearly remember the year that screens were up all over SXSW with posts from this new site called Twitter flying by. I went home and joined. On my computer. Because we didn’t have smartphones yet! 2007. #sxsw #sxsw2025

Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Mozi is a new, private social network. Founders are Evan Williams (Blogger, Twitter, Medium) and Molly DeWolf Swenson. Interesting look at the timeline/history of web posting and social, moderated by @baratunde.com #sxsw #sxsw2025

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Reclaim, Reframe, Reimagine: AI Design for Human Agency. “These disruptive, move-fast-and-break-things tech companies don’t like it when someone disrupts them” - Cory Doctorow of EFF this chat with Google’s Rida Qadri #sxsw #sxsw2025

Cory Doctorow of EFF this chat with Google’s Rida Qadri at SXSW

Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

And I couldn’t agree more about supporting independent films! #oscars2025

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Glad I decided to watch Anora last night. #oscars2025

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

#SNL50 An impressionable teen when SNL started, I adored Gilda, fell in love w Bill Murray, still laugh at oddball sketches from Martin Short, Norm Macdonald, Mike Myers, Tracy Morgan, Bill Hader, Cecily Strong. Tina Fey is my life coach. Hard to imagine who I’d be without this cultural touchstone.

Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Watching this 50 Years of SNL Music special is like watching my life flash before my eyes. I can remember where I was and how I felt the first time I saw all these performances. Thank you @questlove.bsky.social for this truly amazing record of music history.

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Part of that investment will be in a ‘lifestyle-oriented digital product’ that CNN is developing.”

Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Product. “CNN plans to hire at least 100 new jobs in the coming months to build out a broader digital presence, investing in product and tech as well as ‘new high-quality journalism and storytelling.’” www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/...

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CNN announces about 200 layoffs as it attempts to modernize business

Both CNN and NBC News are planning layoffs this week as newsrooms transition away from linear TV toward digital audiences.

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Circa 1976. Been waiting a long, long time. But today’s pronouncement is unlikely to be more than symbolic. www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 11/12/2024

"The future of news is moving beyond the written word. With AI at its core, it’s conversational, spoken, interactive, responsive, and deeply personal — the very essence of meaningful human communication," predicts @nikitaroy.bsky.social

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AI turns news into a conversation

"The future of news is moving beyond the written word. With AI at its core, it's conversational, spoken, interactive, responsive, and deeply personal — the very essence of meaningful human…

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ah, thanks @digidave.bsky.social 😀 Back at ya! Always been inspired by your pioneering approaches and innovative spirit. Hope we can catch up in 2025!

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 06/12/2024

"While many lament the possibilities for AI to replace both journalists and educators, I feel that there are approaches to AI that can achieve improved outcomes for both teachers and learners," @cindyroyal.bsky.social writes.

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AI inspires innovation in journalism education

"It will be the educators' job to direct students in the most effective ways to use AI to extend their capabilities, not replace them."

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In which I predict that journalism education will experience a new era of innovation due to the continued adoption of and experimentation with artificial intelligence applications. What do you think? www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-i...

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AI inspires innovation in journalism education

"It will be the educators' job to direct students in the most effective ways to use AI to extend their capabilities, not replace them."

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

But it is also important to encourage students to use critical thinking in understanding how AI platforms work and how to evaluate them. This is just the beginning of AI's impact on media education.

Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It was fun to see how students applied AI to their projects, but it was also interesting to get their insight into what it did and didn't do well. Not only does AI help with learning new concepts, it provides the agency and control for one to do so on their own.

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thrilled to see this published. It is a case study of using AI in my Mobile App Development class, Prompting, Patience, and Perspective: Applying Transformational Teaching Theory to Using AI in a Coding Course. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Remembering ten years ago in Sydney at Bondi Beach when Thanksgiving was fish n chips and beer overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It seems like a dream. I hope I can go back someday. 🇦🇺

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I hope to see this direction take hold, as I just started teaching a few basic Vue exercises, but with a cdn link. The npm route is too convoluted for media students and doesn’t work well with our shared hosting options.

In a week, I’ve gone from a handful of @bsky.app followers to almost 1000, due to some lovely starter packs and great old friends getting settled in here. All seemingly real people and legit accounts, no bots or spam. Happy days. Let’s enjoy it while we can 😀

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I have to add that Kirstie Alley’s monologue was perfect when the entire cast of Cheers (Woody, Frasier, Norm, Sam) came out to sing the Cheers theme song with her 😀

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I doubt we thought then we’d be dealing with the same BS 33 years later. These episodes are historical archives. Sad that Hartman, Chris Farley, host Kirstie Alley, musical guest Tom Petty are no longer with us. 3/3

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The gist of the sketch was the senators (not Biden, he was running the hearing, Nealon was perfect deadpan) asking Thomas for tips on picking up women.🤦‍♀️ Say what you will about SNL, but watching several episodes shows the pulse they have long had on politics. Often inappropriate, usually funny.2/3

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Been watching old SNLs on TBD on YouTubeTV. A 1991 sketch was about Clarence Thomas hearings. Kevin Nealon was Biden. Phil Hartman was Ted Kennedy. Dana Carvey was Strom Thurmond. Even Al Franken was “playing” a senator then. Sad how little has changed in DC, topics/senators/cast/family members🙁 1/3

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But I have had a goal of adding a cross-platform solution to my mobile class for a long time. Today I got closer!

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I spent all day learning Capacitor to port a simple Vue app into both iOS and Android. Lots of issues with versions, pods, paths. But got both to work! I was not defeated! Not sure I’ll be able to recreate easily on lab computers. Anyone using Vue like another mobile option better?

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Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Tonight in my DMI Capstone, our guests were DMI grads Anne Cox and Nina Gloria of SXSW. They both have accumulated loads of experience in the few years since they graduated. Great to hear them enthusiastically discuss their roles at SXSW and what it is like to work for such a large-scale event.