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image: from flickr by Gaetan Lee, creative commons Rewiring the brain and changing habits and attitudes to fit the postmodern journalist: the uber journalist, the multimedia journalists. UK Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism and WeMedia Game Changer Finalist David Dunkley Gyimah reports from WeMedia Miami. Click here for Game Changers Guest Post by David as [...]

We Media’s Brian Reich and I were wondering, based on the Game Changer Award winners, what would be the attributes that would not only win today’s Pitch It! presenters some of the available funding, but also see them be the Game Changers a couple/few years from now. A few things have marked the Game Changers, [...]

At a time when newspapers are hemorrhaging employees and questioning their survival, they are adopting a more stable role in the community through new media – namely, citizen journalism. Newspapers are helping communities connect, reach out, learn more about their resources through their sites. The goal is to foster a way to make the community [...]

UPDATE: Doug’s presentation can be found here Doug Poretz of Qorvis is my hero. OK maybe not, because I just met the man. But boy did he crystallize a lot of thoughts that have been running through my mind in the past month or so. I was one of the many people who were recently [...]

UPDATED: 8:28 a.m. ET In a year or two, colleges will be educating freshmen who have always lived with the Internet. Mosaic, the first browser with in-line pictures, debuted in 1993, explained Rich Beckman of the University of Miami School of Communication. These digital natives or millennials, depending on who does the naming, are digitally [...]

The goal is big. Make the shift from the left side of the brain to the right – the shift, Dale Peskin said, going on in society. An emergence of the creative world, a win for innovation and change. Think visually. To illustrate – the PC? So left. Evokes an image of old, from another [...]

UPDATED: 8:45 PM ET Eight of us, half who have worked or still work in mainstream media, and the rest young New Media entrepreneurs, had a lively discussion about the future of so-called old or mainstream media. The consensus was that traditional mediums will not die off however they will become significantly smaller and will [...]

I’m struck by how many non-profits are here at WeMedia – and not just not-profits technically-speaking, but inspiring starts ups and people of all sorts who want to encourage action and change (I was at BarCamp Miami and Future of Web Apps earlier this week and it was definitely more geeky of course, but businessy [...]

The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the San Francisco Chronicle. Others already have given up some or all of their print editions. TV networks are bleeding, book [...]

Welcome to the New Now.

Most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future – not the news media, government or large corporations Note: This week we’re holding our fifth annual We Media conference in Miami. Along with our research and other projects at iFOCOS, the We Media conferences, awards and community [...]

We are just hours away from the beginning of WeMedia.  As I have been telling you, over 200 leaders, executives, investors, marketers, activists, educators, entrepreneurs and game changers will gather in Miami for a one-of-a-kind conversation about the future.  Innovation and entrepreneurship are hot topics right now — more than just buzzwords or back-of-the-napkin concepts, [...]

For the We Media conference, I wrote up essays on each of the Game Changer award winners (Here’s a roundup essay on trends we saw: Crowd-Forging, social good combined with profit. I had conversations with each winner, and they were often wide-ranging probes into the idea of what “we media” is, what it means to [...]

Update: Click here to sign up for the tour The March 2009 issue of The Sun has an interview with Nicholas Carr, the guy who wrote the cover story in last July’s issue of The Atlantic: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Whoa, you say. But Carr has an interesting argument: “As we increasingly connect with the world [...]

More from the “why don’t they love us more” campaign: Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, appearing on U.S. cable channel MSNBC this week (to promote sales of a new book about the Obama campaign): “It bothers me … to give away this journalism that I more than anyone see immense value [...]