Search Wiki to offer for-profit, community-filtered search
Can a community actively involved in the development of search make it better? Jimmy Wales seems to think so…. At...
Read MoreOnline Social Networks: Good For You
Communicating with each other online might turn out to be more than just a fun way to spend time — it may keep us sane,...
Read MoreRhizome.org: Enhancing artistic collaboration online
Community is diverse, pluralistic, and alive. It develops around shared interests and passions, and carefully balances mass...
Read MoreRedesigning the Connected Community at P.O.V. Interactive
For the past twenty years, P.O.V. has presented groundbreaking documentary films on PBS, working with filmmakers both...
Read MoreApple reimburses bloggers $700,000 in legal fees
What does it really mean to be an independent journalist, reporting on the activities of the titans of industry? Well, it...
Read MoreTechnology Facilitates Community-Media Convergence
Broadly speaking, “community” can mean a locality, a school, a vocation, even an entire ethnic group or religion – any...
Read MoreGet a First Life
If you’ve been a little bemused or underwhelmed by the goings-on in Second Life (Swedish embassy, Reuters news bureau)...
Read MoreCan New Technologies Help Strengthen Relationships Worldwide?
Coming from the perspective of both a technology person working on international peace-building campaigns and a professor...
Read MoreWorld Economic Forum Webcast: Leveraging the Power of People
If you have some time, check out the webcast of Jan. 27th’s Web 2.0 session from the World Economic Forum, called...
Read MoreUniversity of Georgia: Linking “Connected” Communities
I’m not sure there’s a better-defined “community” than the members of a college or university....
Read MoreYelvington Earns NAA Innovator Award
Congratulations to Steve Yelvington for being named 2007 Online Innovator of the Year by the Newspaper Association of...
Read MoreBlogging, Podcasting change lives in Belarus and Uzbekistan
The modern world powered by technology has drastically altered our traditional understanding of what a community is. However,...
Read MoreShould You Pay Your Community’s Contributors?
From The World Economic Forum comes the news that YouTube will start paying those who upload videos. First of all… at...
Read MoreCreating Stronger “Connected” Communities
In my opinion, a community in a connected world is a group of people who effect collective actions through active...
Read MoreWii Have a Community
I find the phrase “citizen journalism” is in some cases far too weighty a label for the most interesting examples...
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