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PDF We Media NYC Mixer With Mediashift
Meet us in New York April 5 and help kick off the We Media NYC conference. We're teaming up with PBS MediaShift for a mixer from 6 pm to 9 pm at Solas Bar, 232 E 9th St (between Stuyvesant St & 2nd Ave). Click to RSVP.
read moreSome HuffPo writers are paid for this stuff
Jason Linkins explains the standards, the quality of journalism and how The Huffington Post really works. Case closed.
read moreThe networked culture comes of age
For the first time since the web itself was created, business, markets, governments and society as a whole are aligning around the networked culture.
read moreAOL’s ambitions fly in Arianna’s shadow
Lacking respect for news, AOL tries to charm its way into your wallet with Arianna's alchemy and a cynical master plan for low- and no-cost content.
read moreThe Daily’s iPad debut: It’s Groundhog Day
Today I watched the movie Groundhog Day and downloaded The Daily on my iPad. Both reminded me how we live the same day over and over until we get it right. Rupert Murdoch’s much-anticipated, save-the-newspaper app debuted after several delays. You’ve got to love the serendipity of the February 2 been-here-before release: the newspaper for TV, the newspaper for computers, the newspaper for the web, the newspaper for the mobile phone, now the newspaper for the iPad. Each time we get the old newspaper metaphor on a new device. I’ve...
read moreGoogle’s museum is in eye of the beholder
The next exhibit in the Museum of Next may be its next museum. Take the tour at Art Project, now online. Google has scanned more than 1,000 masterpeices from prominent art museums around the world and brings images of the artworks to computers via the Web. Visitors have the option to look so closely at the digitized works that the artist’s paint strokes are visible on texture of canvas. Art Project creates “virtual” galleries that museums have been exploring for years. The collaboration with Google is a breakthrough in making...
read moreFor Mona Eltahawy, it’s personal. Meet her.
If you seek meaning from the events in Egypt, then you know Mona Eltahawy. “An Egyptian from the inside and outside," she is the voice of a people, an interpreter for Western media. Meet her at We Media NYC.
read moreSpeak-to-tweet leaps Egypt’s Repression 2.0
With most Internet services blocked, Google quickly created a “speak-to-tweet” service to allow people in Egypt to tweet with a voice connection. It allows those on the ground in Egypt to dial three international numbers and leave a voice message sent out as tweet with the #egypt hash tag. You can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or by going to twitter.com/speak2tweet. The numbers are +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855 and no Internet connection is required. There are already dozens of messages...
read moreMore news about the news that wasn’t news
Covering the news of a complex, volatile world should make you humble. It makes Bill Keller smug. What he is really saying is that something is news when The New York Times says its news.
read moreContent meant to be read on every screen
Roger Black is a designer who likes to read. Now with partner Filipe Fortes, a computer scientist and user-experience expert, he’s created a platform for narrative in the digital diaspora.
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