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TBK: The revolution is to be determined

By Dale Peskin - August 9, 2010

TBD lives up to its mushy ambition.

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A taste of Tabula Rasa for DC

By Dale Peskin - May 6, 2010

Join connoisseurs of creativity for an iPad tasting from 1-4:30 pm, June 14 at Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va.

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Now playing: The Throwdown Video

By Dale Peskin - April 9, 2010

Charlton Heston channels Moses. Steve Jobs assumes a higher authority. Crazy guys throw down an iPad at batting practice. All this and more in The Throwdown Video, a preview of Tabula Rasa. Check it out on the program page and on YouTube.

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WeThink

By Brian Reich - March 23, 2010

I am excited to announce the launch of a new project that we are calling WeThink. What is it? WeThink is a conversation about innovation and the future — an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing. What’s the big deal? If you follow our work [...]

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Demand Media: Content innovation means letting algorithms lead

By Michael Stoll - March 11, 2010

Game Changer Demand Media’s Byron Reese describes the different thinking about content and the process of creating content.

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Ashton Kutcher punked: We are a virus.

By Dale Peskin - February 2, 2010

If Ashton Kutcher’s 4.5 million Twitter followers make you feel inadequate, I’ve got good news: scientists investigating social networks have punked the “influentials” theory that drives celebrities to the top of the charts. Aplusk, who boasts that he’s bigger than CNN, is apparently overrated. A new study finds that the importance of most influential spreaders [...]

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Raising Voices: Amra Tareen at We Media

By Dale Peskin - February 1, 2010

Amra Tareen, the savvy and ebullient founder of AllVoices, has just closed a $3 million funding round for the innovative, citizen journalism site. That brings funding to $9 million for the two-year-old start-up. Not bad. TechCrunch has a good take on the AllVoices funding. How does she do it? Amra returns to We Media Miami [...]

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Tabula Rasa: iPad’s blank slate

By Dale Peskin - January 28, 2010

The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly excited. “Waiting to be surprised. That hasn’t happened yet,” said Jim Roberts, the only New York Times wonk who didn’t confuse Steve Jobs with Moses. Valleywag has a good take on Print Media’s Big Tablet Letdown. Our enthusiasm [...]

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Porn for publishers

By Andrew Nachison - December 17, 2009

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.

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Robots, copyright and the whine at WAN

By Dale Peskin - December 14, 2009

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 [...]

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Mr. Murdoch saves the news

By Dale Peskin - November 25, 2009

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, [...]

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Hyper-Local Media. The 4th Branch of Gov2.0

By Ben Berkowitz - October 28, 2009

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:

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WeMedianomics

By Dale Peskin - October 16, 2009

How to profit from the business and behaviors of the Weconomy.

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Live online: Avner Ronen and Betsy Morgan

By Andrew Nachison - July 15, 2009

Today at Noon ET on the Naked Media show: Avner Ronen, CEO of media aggregation startup Boxee, and Betsy Morgan, former CEO of Huffington Post. Details here.

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Doh. I just laid off my business model

By Dale Peskin - May 11, 2009

Each day brings another story that publishers are lurching to the business model that will save newspapers: charging for online content. Yet, each day brings news of additional buyouts and layoffs in newsrooms. Sometime soon, the publishers are going to figure out the next problem: they neither have enough good content that’s worth selling nor [...]

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