Facebook campaign forces dairy price cut
Surrendering to a two-week Facebook campaign, Israeli dairy companies that control the cheese market announced they were cutting prices by 25 percent.
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For Mona Eltahawy, it’s personal. Meet her.
If you seek meaning from the events in Egypt, then you know Mona Eltahawy. “An Egyptian from the inside and outside," she is the voice of a people, an interpreter for Western media. Meet her at We Media NYC.
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Speak-to-tweet leaps Egypt’s Repression 2.0
With most Internet services blocked, Google quickly created a “speak-to-tweet” service to allow people in Egypt...
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Rachel Sterne to steer NYC’s digital direction
Rachel Sterne becomes New York City’s first chief digital officer. The Ground Report founder, who’ll give up her...
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The revolution within the revolution: How mobile devices and social media changed Tunisia
What is revealing about this revolution is the way in which citizens discovered it, how they informed one another, and how they mobilized around it. They used their mobile phones, now ubiquitous in North Africa, to communicate via text messaging and Twitter. For many Tunisians, their phones are their Internet. Theirs is a story about the democratization of media, a social revolution that wields the power to change lives as well as governments
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Old school ads seek a social media guru
A new campaign for a nonprofit health organization reveals the limits of traditional advertising - and the tantalizing lure of online networks. If you're a social media guru, Selfchec needs your help.
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The future of documents
What if all the documents in your life were dynamic - from newspapers, magazines and books to bills, insurance policies, receipts, user manuals for all your gear - and packaging, structures and surfaces everywhere?
Read MoreSocial media that sux
I love this, and my day is now a little less sucky, thanks to an invitation from Blogads founder Henry Copeland (aka @HC): SUXORZ: the worst social media campaigns of '09.
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Who loves their media? NPRistas
NPR News in the US aims to double its online audience – in part by building a closer relationship with people who...
Read MoreWill printing drive new business to Scrapblog?
One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because...
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Magazine about newspapers launches its very first blogs. Gosh.
The magazine Editor & Publisher has long been the must-read trade rag for anyone in the U.S. newspaper business. Which is...
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A new way to rate the news: how does it make you feel?
Aggregation of news headlines and user ratings is so commonplace it’s hardly worth a second thought. Except, that is,...
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Social networking’s bubble grows. How to capitalize.
Social networking is the fastest-growing activity on the user-centric Internet. The idea is that most anyone can join a...
Read MoreAmazing
Last night Mary and I attended an outdoor concert at the Wolf Trap Center for Performing Arts with friends. On a perfect...
Read MoreCatch on a string at PdF
At this week’s Personal Democracy Forum, a sponsor distributed a low-tech, but highly effective stress toy to attendees...
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