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Magazine and newspaper publishers have fantasized, for more than a decade, about the day when portable digital display technologies render paper, ink, printing, trucks, postage and home delivery obsolete. The flaw, of course, is expecting too much from technology – the next big thing.

The future of the world’s news and knowledge system is on full display in and around the stories from the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

We couldn’t get to Hyderabad for this year’s group hug of the world’s newspaper publishers, but it sounds like the old boys are getting feisty in their dotage. Forced once to postpone because of bad economics and waning interest, the reconvened World Newspaper Congress, organized by the merged World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, launched [...]

Fifty-six million stories. Where’s the one about transparent government?

From our friends at Naked Media, today’s live webcast on the future of video advertising features Interactive Advertising Bureau president and CEO Randall Rothenberg, Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum and Blip.TV co-founder and COO Dina Kaplan.
You can find more program details here, or watch and join the conversation live here.

The We Media PitchIt! Challenge is open for entries.
Our annual investment challenge begins with a simple goal: We want to find the best communication start-ups and help launch them. We’re looking for brilliant ideas to make the world better through innovative uses of media, communication and technology. Commercial and non-profit ideas welcome.
Find all [...]

Dear Mr. Murdoch:
We’re so fortunate that we can entrust you with the future of the news business in the U.S. Such a shrewd business leader, too. Can you help a confused citizen understand your plan to save the news?

1. You’re going to charge people to read a story online that they won’t read, and [...]

World Have Your Say is the most amazing English-language broadcast news program in the world. I could qualify that and leave room for wiggle – but won’t. The show, relying on a hodge-podge of old and new technologies deftly orchestrated by a small team of talented producers and engineers, is the only program I know [...]

We know budgets are tight, some more than others. Here’s some help. If you register for We Media Miami ‘10 by Dec. 15 you’ll pay as little as $400. That’s about a third of the registration fee for non-members who wait longer. So: Register now to get in as a first mover. Details at: www.wemedia.com/miami/register/

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Registration is now open for the We Media Miami ‘10 Conference, March 9-11, 2010. Click here for more details and to register.

Here’s a promising collaboration we’ll be watching – and a series of events that may interest our Washington friends. The University of Miami’s Knight Center for International Media is organizing a series of discussions in Washington on big global issues with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, an influential global policy think tank. The [...]

This is a true testimony to the magic of a system that allows for open communication and collaborative problem solving around public concerns. You can really see how media, industry, government and private citizens can work together to improve their communities:

Tune in live or later for a discussion on the Future of Media from the Economist Media Convergence Conference.

Submit your ideas for the 2010 We Media Awards.