Congratulations, You Have A Plan – Now what?

It seems to me that if we want to get the economy back on track, we are going to have to do it ourselves.  So what is stopping us? It appears that Congress has finally reached an agreement on the economic stimulus bill.  I am told this is great news.  I hope you will forgive […]

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WeMedia and FOWA

We are not the only group smart enough to host a discussion with really smart people about the future of media and technology in Miami later this month.  Our friends at FOWA – the Future of Web Apps – have put together a big conference at the Adrienne Arsht centre in Miami on 23rd & […]

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The Future of News? Yes.

The platitudes replay and recycle like a broken record: news is a conversation, it’s networked, it’s all about the crowd, we’ve got to preserve the values, the traditions, the jobs, and above all we need to discover and exploit the fucking hell out of whatever “the” business model turns out to be.

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Podcast: A Conversation with Jessica Clark

Another podcast! 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.  This is the fifth episode. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our society, hear […]

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Pitch It Finalists – Two More!

I made a mistake. In putting together the announcement of the finalists for WeMedia Pitch It, I left two people/ideas off the list. It is my honor and pleasure to let you know that Brooks Lindsay from Debateapedia (http://wiki.idebate.org) and David Stern from MixedInk (http://www.mixedink.com) are finalists for Pitch It. That means there are eighteen […]

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The Finalists

One of the highlights of the upcoming WeMedia Conference in Miami is the WeMedia Pitch It competition. We are looking for ideas for new services, experiences, products and business models for media and technology – coupled with a potential for social impact and social benefit.  We will award up to $50,000 in seed funding to the […]

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A century of dumb growth?

In a Harvard Business post that has tongues wagging in Cambridge and Davos, Umair Haque trashes a century of capitalism. Twentieth Century growth was not only dumb, but it is now eating itself. A hearty appetite, apparently. Hague posits four pillars of smart growth for economies, communities and corporations for this century: 1. Outcomes, not […]

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Groundhog Day

Occasionally I am reminded of the paradox that we each have a limited existence in the limitless framework of time. Or so reads the clock at the funeral home.. In a favorite movie, a jaded, cynical and arrogant weatherman covers the same, old story on February 2: the faked emergence of a groundhog from his […]

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Podcast: A Conversation with Chris Willis from Footnote

Another podcast!  Whoa! two in one day… 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.  This is the fourth episode. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking […]

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