If you read the iFOCOS blog THIS carefully, you deserve something for paying such close attention. So here’s something: a sneak peak at our newest research project, Random Acts of Media. RAM is both research and a collaborative gallery and art project about how people around the world experience media. Our first formal report for […]
Here’s an interesting collaboration that nicely illustrates how seemingly different agendas can intersect: The Sunlight Foundation, a watchdog organization that focuses on expanding online access to information about the U.S. Congress, is collaborating with NewsTrust, a kind of non-profit Digg designed as a platform to evaluate the trustworthiness of online journalism. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is […]
Noted: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation was a major supporter of this year’s We Media conference, and they’ve featured it in their 2006 annual report. Check out the online experience, and the accompanying video. To produce the multimedia experience, the foundation hired tumultimedia, a small firm from Chicago run by photographer Alex […]
Bloomberg asked for comments on the Dow Jones-Rupert Murdoch saga, and I explained that I had no special insight into the situation. Rupert Murdoch offered a lot of money for Dow Jones, and so far no one else has offered more or come up with a business case for doing so. See: Burkle, Greenspan eye […]
What keeps you up at night? What brilliant ideas or conundrums woud you like to pursue with others who share a passion for innovation in a world connected by digital communications networks? If you could collaborate with smart people representing a variety of professional experiences and perspectives – and put them to work on a […]
Thanks to the members of the iFOCOS Search Working Group who gathered for a kickoff meeting last week (April 24, 2007) in Santa Clara, California (and thanks to Neil Budde and crew at Yahoo! for hosting the meeting). Thanks, as well, to Dabble founder Mary Hodder, who couldn’t make it to the meeting but will […]
A couple of recent sketches and "what ifs" by designers offer a counterpoint – or should I say, complement – to our Search Working Group conversation about better search: what about better web sites? Imagine if Amazon depended on customers searching generic search engines to find books and merchandise they wanted to purchase. People do […]
Topix.net sponsored Podtech.net to produce a "man on the street" video, asking a few ordinary people (and a few not-so-ordinary media insiders, like webware.com editor Rafe Needleman, KQED Executive Director of News Raul Ramirez and craigslist founder Craig Newmark): "What’s missing from local news?" They also posed the question to a few people at this […]
The discussion at We Media Miami on next-generation search concepts, chaired by Jim Kennedy of The Associated Press, was both vibrant and inconclusive. So we’re going further. We’ve launched the iFOCOS Search Working Group. The group will hold its kickoff meeting April 24, 2007, in Santa Clara, California – using meeting space generously provided by […]
My friend John Bell at Oglivy asked me to provide some feedback on what Jay Rosen is up to with NewAssignment.net, a new open source journalism project. No need to re-post here – you can read what I said at John’s blog: Digital Influence Mapping Project: Is NewAssignment New Media? Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder […]