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Does Barbie Video Girl know @Oldspice?

By Andrew Nachison - July 16, 2010

Looking back on the hot, surreal summer of 2010.

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Oh!magination stirs ours. Get it free at TRDC.

By Dale Peskin - May 25, 2010

Download the Oh!magination app for free when you attend Tabula Rasa DC on june 14.

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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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I’ll have my iPad with salsa

By Dale Peskin - April 2, 2010

I was wrong. There are at least nine people outside of Apple who have the iPad. One is Stephen Colbert, who has the best review yet. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

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Clean slate: Show us why the iPad matters

By Dale Peskin - April 1, 2010

Why we’re convening Tabula Rasa? The iPad is more than a gadget or a punch line. You get to show us why it really matters.

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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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Sources, myths, economics and moonshine.

By Dale Peskin - February 15, 2010

A new survey is certain to stir the Clash of the Myths. An overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media to research stories, according to a new study by The George Washington University and Cision intelligence services. Among the journalists surveyed, 89% said they turn to blogs for story research, 65% [...]

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Meet François Ragnet

By Beth Laing - February 10, 2010

Meet François Ragnet, focused on bringing the latest technology developments into mainstream use at Xerox.

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SOS: We Media Miami, another reason

By Dale Peskin - February 8, 2010

30 inches of snow at We Media world headquarters in Reston. More on the way. Help. Please register for We Media Miami today. Will buy the mojitos.

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Digital Nation: What it means to be human

By Dale Peskin - February 4, 2010

Near the end of PBS’s Digital Nation, we’re taken to a military facility in the desert an hour outside of Las Vegas where a soldier sits in a cushy chair and pilots an unmanned drone over Afghanistan. The drone’s cameras send images from a war zone to a screen at the soldier’s work station. As [...]

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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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Who will create the news experience?

By Dale Peskin - January 27, 2010

New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the exciting part of Apple’s new tablet, an old idea whose time has apparently come. Now comes the hard part: creating the content and designing the experience for the next wave of consumer devices that deliver our stories. We’re about to discover whether incumbent publishers and [...]

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FCC gets into the act

By Dale Peskin - January 22, 2010

Going boldly where everyone has gone before, the Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the future of news. Yesterday the FCC issued an 11-page request for information about the state of the news business and announced it plans to examine the current state of the news industry, industry trends and what the agency [...]

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Did social media save Haiti, or did Haiti save social media?

By Dale Peskin - January 19, 2010

Maybe I was just wary of thin networks, shallow relationships that have become “friends,” the shameless self-promotion of celebrities, opportunistic brands suddenly going social, and a collective culture that celebrates the trivial above the meaningful through the madness of crowds. I was having second thoughts about collective awareness and the promise of unifying knowledge through We Media. Then this happened: #Haiti at 90999.

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