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We Media Miami 2010
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Our Saturday meetup: shoes for both feet

By Dale Peskin - August 4, 2010

Has Wikileaks just reinvented investigative reporting? Is Flipboard the social magazine we’ve been waiting for? Can design hubs and templates can actually stir creativity at newspapers? Did Steve Jobs steal my old idea for the tablet? Opinions or insights? Let’s talk and share. We’ll share ours at a salon on current issues of creativity at [...]

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Flipboard gets the finger, needs a hand

By Dale Peskin - July 28, 2010

One way or the other, Flipboard will make you flip. The new Pad app is either the personalized, social magazine you’ve been waiting for. Or it’s just another slick, content thief that fails to deliver on a promise. At first flip, Flipboard is stunning (you have to download the app; the website is a brochure). [...]

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Startups: AssignIt becomes ReportIt

By Melinda Wittstock - July 6, 2010

PitchIt! Challenge winner fine-tunes the details of their next-generation crowd journalism platform.

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Roger Fidler, Jeff Jarvis join Tabula Rasa

By Dale Peskin - April 26, 2010

The irony of conducting an event called Tabula Rasa is that we’re not exactly bringing a clean slate to the discussion. Two digital media visionaries — Roger Fidler and Jeff Jarvis — are joining the conversation at Thursday’s activities at the Digital Sandbox Event Center in New York. It would be hard to create either [...]

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Audimated Update

By Lucas Sommer - April 21, 2010

An update and some advice on technical sourcing from Lucas Sommer, founder of Audimated and We Media Pitch-it winner.

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WeThink: Designers Can Save The World

By Brian Reich - April 1, 2010

Our new project, WeThink, is an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing.  It is based on the idea that we need to re-think the way we create, support, and sustain ventures as well as how we innovate. Susan Szenasy, the Editor in Chief of Metropolis, [...]

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Hop with bunnies or die with newsosaurs

By Dale Peskin - March 30, 2010

My friend Newsasaurus, the found-art sculpture that resides in my courtyard, is puzzled (note the quizzical look in his portrait at the bottom). His living cousin, The Newsosaur, has reflected poorly on the citizen response to an otherwise endangered species. The Newsosaur affirms his namesake in a blog post that “non-profits can’t possibly save the [...]

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WeThink: The Future of PR is Back in High School

By Brian Reich - March 29, 2010

Our new project, WeThink, is an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing.  It is based on the idea that we need to re-think the way we create, support, and sustain ventures as well as how we innovate. Rich Polt, who has spent more than fourteen [...]

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Interview: AP CEO Tom Curley

By Dorian Benkoil - March 24, 2010

Associated Press CEO Tom Curley spoke with Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media at the We Media conference in Miami on March 10, 2010 about the company’s strategy, plans and use of technology, as well as recent moves. Among other things, he said the company is still in talks with Google about use of AP content, [...]

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American Gothic, broadband version

By Dale Peskin - March 16, 2010

Fifty years ago, the memo that launched the space program and put man on the moon contained just a few, clear paragraphs. The U.S. government’s plan to expand the nation’s broadband is 376 pages – and that’s just the beta. There’s a story here about how the adoption of public policy hasn’t kept pace with a global, always-on world.

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Video: Stowe Boyd on Publicy

By We Media - March 15, 2010

A thinker/writer/entrepreneur talks about information that’s public by default – and the new social contract of “publicy.”

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Video: FCC Managing Director Steven VanRoekel and Sunlight Foundation Executive Director Ellen Miller

By We Media - March 15, 2010

Steven VanRoekel, Managing Director of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, discusses open government in the Obama administration with Ellen Miller, Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation.

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Video: A conversation with PBS CEO Paula Kerger

By We Media - March 11, 2010

We Media Miami ’10 opened with a reception and welcome from Sam Grogg, Dean of the University of Miami School of Communication, followed by a conversation with PBS CEO Paula Kerger and We Media founder Andrew Nachison.

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PitchIt! Award Winners Melinda Whittstock and Lucas Sommer with presenter Bob Ross

We Media PitchIt! competition nets $50,000 for news and music start-ups

By Suzanne McBride - March 11, 2010

AssignIt and Audimated won We Media’s 2010 PitchIt! Challenge March 11 in Miami, beating six other commercial and non-profit groups vying for the $25,000 prizes.

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Meet Allyson Burns

By Beth Laing - March 11, 2010

Allyson Burns works to tell the story of the Case Foundation’s work and help get other people and organizations involved.

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