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WeMedia is producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news.  Today marks our second installment.  Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our society, [...]

Here’s a new business model for kids entertainment that just might prompt parents to wish for the good old days, when their children were inundated with advertising.
Thwoop is an online video network built entirely to persuade kids to purchase licensed products related to their favorite shows.
The loop between entertainment for children and marketing of [...]

A scramble intersection stops all traffic. Pedestrians cross every which way. Tokyo has one. So does Toronto, at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets.
Everything about this makes my head spin and drift inward in wonder: the compression of movement and mass through time lapse, the blink and it’s gone, the birds-eye view, the rethinking [...]

If you’re bored with the talking heads, check out the action on the streets of St. Paul. Police there conducted “a pre-emptive strike against disruptive protests” ahead of the Republican National Convention, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Liliana Segura writes for AlterNet that the raids targeted video activists.
Which leads to at least one riddle [...]

Comment and Confession: I’ve been sleep-walking through the coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. I thought I’d enjoy and benefit by watching from afar, like TechPresident’s Micah Sifry. The truth is, I haven’t watched much from anywhere.
I should have been paying more attention – and thankfully, someone else has been. Conventions [...]