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Here’s a chance for members of the We Media Community to get involved in something new, practical and ambitious. Bread for the City, a food bank, health clinic and social services provider for the poor in Washington, DC, wants to use the tools of media creation and distribution to help its clients and community members [...]

How they do what they do? In 2004 Harvard fellows realized that several people in the world were blogging but people in US could not get the content, because of the language barrier, there were no content of some regions of the World, there were several issues not covered by mainstream media in many countries [...]

A Dozen “Edutainment” Application Bundles Definition SEARCH WAS THE GREAT NEW FRONTIER. Sodden with copycats, it has become anhydrous. As Science Fiction writer Harlan Ellison has noted: “We are entertaining ourselves out of existence.” The Principia Mathematica by Russell and Whitehead would have been a thin book indeed, if it had as its base the [...]

What keeps you up at night? What brilliant ideas or conundrums woud you like to pursue with others who share a passion for innovation in a world connected by digital communications networks? If you could collaborate with smart people representing a variety of professional experiences and perspectives – and put them to work on a [...]

Jeff Given is the IT Operations Manager for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This post is a pre-cursor to the iFOCOS Search Working Group meeting on April 24th, 2007. About OSTI – OSTI’s mission is to collect and disseminate scientific and technical information (STI) for the U.S. [...]

The discussion at We Media Miami on next-generation search concepts, chaired by Jim Kennedy of The Associated Press, was both vibrant and inconclusive. So we’re going further. We’ve launched the iFOCOS Search Working Group. The group will hold its kickoff meeting April 24, 2007, in Santa Clara, California – using meeting space generously provided by [...]

Jim Kennedy is VP of Strategy for The Associated Press. He is also a member of the iFOCOS Search Working Group, which is holding its first meeting April 24, 2007, and of the iFOCOS Advisory Board. Over the past six years, the online function of search has become the dominant content entry point for digital [...]