The Power of Us

Media Is Bad (Or is it?)

Posted by on Dec 2, 2008 in Culture, Innovation, Social Media, Technology | 0 comments

Is media bad for you?  Has technology ruined a whole generation of children?  The answer, according to researchers from the National...

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Today’s Game Changer Spotlight: BlogHer

Posted by on Nov 13, 2008 in Business Models, Culture, Innovation, Social Media, We Media Miami 2009 | 1 comment

URL: www.blogher.com What: Reacting to blogging conferences and academic discussions dominated by techy men, three tech, marketing and...

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First Look: Spot.Us for Crowd-Funded Journalism

First Look: Spot.Us for Crowd-Funded Journalism

Posted by on Nov 7, 2008 in Business Models, Innovation, Journalism, Technology | 2 comments

Tired of reading the same old news day in and day out?  Feel like you’re missing out on a great story in your neighborhood –...

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Offbeat Startup: Custom travel books from Dave Sifry

Posted by on Nov 3, 2008 in Business Models, Innovation, Technology | 0 comments

This could be a game changer for book publishing. A new company called Offbeat Guides produces personalized travel books based on your...

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Knight News Challenge Deadline: Nov. 1

Posted by on Oct 31, 2008 in Innovation, Journalism, Technology | 0 comments

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will make $5 million in grants in the next round of its News Challenge. The News Challenge...

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Will printing drive new business to Scrapblog?

Posted by on Oct 7, 2008 in Business Models, Creativity, Design, Innovation, Technology | 0 comments

One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because it’s well...

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Esquire’s e-ink cover: The future blinks

Esquire’s e-ink cover: The future blinks

Posted by on Sep 24, 2008 in Innovation, Social Media | 1 comment

Back at the turn, print publishers tried to persuade us the future was in electronic ink — a fusion of chemistry, physics and...

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Creative? Or crossing the line?

Creative? Or crossing the line?

Posted by on Sep 18, 2008 in Brands, Creativity, Design, Innovation, Journalism | 1 comment

PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news wall on...

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The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers

The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers

Posted by on Sep 9, 2008 in Creativity, Culture, Design, Innovation, Journalism | 0 comments

The Society of News Design has announced the World’s Best Designed Newspapers, an award I conceived as chair of SND’s design...

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Can video games make pro football more interesting?

Can video games make pro football more interesting?

Posted by on Sep 5, 2008 in Innovation, Technology | 0 comments

Earlier this week I was mesmerized by two young adults playing Madden NFL 09 on a big screen at the neighborhood Best Buy. The experience...

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Magazine about newspapers launches its very first blogs. Gosh.

Magazine about newspapers launches its very first blogs. Gosh.

Posted by on Sep 4, 2008 in Innovation | 5 comments

The magazine Editor & Publisher has long been the must-read trade rag for anyone in the U.S. newspaper business. Which is another way...

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We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information

Posted by on Feb 1, 2004 in Innovation, Journalism, Leadership, Reports | 0 comments

This is the original report we published in 2004 (back when we called ourselves The Media Center). This seminal research report accurately...

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