The Power of Us

Ashton Kutcher punked: We are a virus.

Posted by on Feb 2, 2010 in Advertising, Business Models, Culture, Science | 0 comments

If Ashton Kutcher’s 4.5 million Twitter followers make you feel inadequate, I’ve got good news: scientists investigating...

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Raising Voices: Amra Tareen at We Media

Posted by on Feb 1, 2010 in Business, Business Models, Culture, Deals & Dealmakers, Innovation, Investment, Journalism, Leadership, Venture Capital, We Media Miami 2010 | 0 comments

Amra Tareen, the savvy and ebullient founder of AllVoices, has just closed a $3 million funding round for the innovative,...

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Who will create the news experience?

Posted by on Jan 27, 2010 in Creativity, Culture, Design, Innovation, Social Media | 2 comments

New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the exciting part of Apple’s new tablet, an old idea whose time...

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FCC gets into the act

Posted by on Jan 22, 2010 in Culture | 0 comments

Going boldly where everyone has gone before, the Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the...

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

Posted by on Jan 19, 2010 in Culture, Top Story | 0 comments

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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Tweet this: Pay us or else.

Posted by on Jan 7, 2010 in Culture | 0 comments

It seems that every story begins as a Tweet or a post. The amateurs use them to source and update stories in newspapers and...

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How Tiger took our eyes off the ball

Posted by on Dec 9, 2009 in Culture, Journalism, Leadership, Power & Policy, Social Media, Top Story | 2 comments

Fifty-six million stories. Where's the one about transparent government?

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$50,000 for the next big thing

Posted by on Dec 8, 2009 in Culture | 1 comment

The We Media PitchIt! Challenge is open for entries. Our annual investment challenge begins with a simple goal: We want to...

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

Posted by on Oct 28, 2009 in Business, Business Models, Community, Culture, Do Good, End of Apathy, Innovation, Journalism, Pitch It, Social Media, WeMedianomics | 0 comments

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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OneWebDay: A toast to the net

Posted by on Sep 16, 2009 in Business, Causes, Censorship, Creativity, Culture, Do Good, Innovation, Power & Policy, Technology | 0 comments

The internet is a wondrous anomaly, a technical and creative achievement grander than the Tower of Babel, an infinite tangle...

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On 9/11: Bits, bells and bagpipes

Posted by on Sep 11, 2009 in Culture, Story | 0 comments

We may be powered by collective, global, networked intelligence. Even so, singular stories from singular points of view still move me, still rip my heart out.

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Hey big media, it’s time to invest

Posted by on Sep 8, 2009 in Culture, Innovation, Investment, Pitch It, We Media Miami 2009, We Media Miami 2010 | 0 comments

Acquisition is part of the solution for "big media" companies to catch up in the era of new media. But they need to go further, including more investments in early-stage ventures.

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SeeClickFix releases first iPhone App.

Posted by on Aug 14, 2009 in Culture | 0 comments

SeeClickFix, a company that helps people report and track community needs like roads in need of repair, was one of the two...

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Why we need editors and late night TV

Posted by on Jul 31, 2009 in Culture | 0 comments

Vanity Fair put theirs on Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. If you value accuracy, clarity, spelling and good...

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News isn’t a river, it’s fog

Posted by on Jul 21, 2009 in Causes, Culture, Journalism | 0 comments

Stories float, diffuse, wash over us.

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