As director of products & content at D.C.-based Qloud — the solution for accessing music inside social networks — Craig Smith (aka craigertiger) thinks a lot about how music and social connectivity fit together. He’s also lead guitarist for the indie rock band, Once Okay Twice so sometimes he just thinks about music. He’ll be […]
Question: How can you tell the difference between an aloof MSM personality and a We-Media-spirited personality? Answer: A real blogger pays attention to trackbacks + takes the time to comment on other people’s blogs! That’s just what Women for Hire CEO Tory Johnson did yesterday when she responded to my post on her interview with […]
As Andrew noted last year, Wikipedia’s neutral-point-of-view doesn’t always cut it, especially when the topic at hand is particularly controversial. Should Guantanamo be closed? Is outsourcing a good thing? Should convicted pedophiles be electronically tagged? No easy answers to those questions, and rather than clicking through tit-for-tat editing at Wikipedia, why not move the conversation […]
If you want a good blogosphere-meets-MSM laugh, check out this recent clip from ABC’s Good Morning America, in which work/life correspondent Tory Johnson interviews BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone (who spoke at We Media Miami ’07): Lisa Stone: As a working parent, I wasn’t at all surprised last year when Neilsen reported a 10-percent drop in […]
Barbara Iverson is one busy professor. In addition to teaching multi-media reporting and other journalism topics at Columbia College Chicago, she blogs at currentbuzz (“where technology meets, greets, clashes with and transforms journalism today”) and co-publishes Creating Community Connections, a community-generated hyperlocal news-site. Barbara will be with us at We Media Miami, and today she […]
YouTube, like TV itself, is a lot of things — we can watch first-hand footage from Iraq or campaign mashups or the first steps of our friend’s child. But probably its most popular function is simply entertainment. When my two-year-old son sees me on the computer, he says, “Hey-hey:” That’s his way of asking for […]
If you’re geeky about journalism and technology, then you’ll definitely want to search out David Cohn at We Media Miami. (Look for the cool hair.) David is chest-deep in some of the most exciting experiments in journalism these days: As editor at NewAssignment.Net and NewsTrust.net, he is helping think through, in very practical ways, how […]
Okay, folks, we’re 19 days away from We Media Miami — time enough to print out your e-ticket, vote in a primary (where applicable,) and think seriously about the juicy networking opportunities that await you. If you’re really going to make a party out of it, then you’re already planning to arrive in time for […]
We Media Miami is truly a global event, and on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 27, David Sasaki will chair a session on indigenous media, with a particular focus on Bolivia. In this post, Sasaki tells the story of Bolivian blogging and asks questions the session in Miami will aim to answer. Also included here are short […]
One of the perks of my new job as communications editor at iFOCOS is listening in on conversations that Andrew and Dale are having. Yesterday, Andrew told a colleague he sees a dynamic future for non-profit media. He pointed out that for years, human rights and advocacy organizations have been producing in-depth investigative reports that […]