Susan Mernit has been a friend, collaborator and advisor for many years. I’m pleased to announce she’s taking on a new role at iFOCOS – Entrepreneur-in-Residence. It’s a virtual residency. She’ll still be based in Palo Alto, where until recently she was a Senior Director of Product Development for Yahoo! Susan will contribute to a […]
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 […]
Meet and chat with author, blogger and media strategist Brian Reich at The National Press Club in Washington, DC. When: Tuesday, April 1, 4 pm ET Where: The National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 20045, 13th Floor First Amendment Room [map] What: Conversation Followed By Reception More: If you have questions, contact […]
From Singapore: Conference Bay, an eBay-style auction marketplace for buying seats at conferences worldwide. Nothing new here, right? We all know about online auctions. The only innovation is applying a well-tested online transaction model to a different niche – in this case a potentially high-value niche that may provide real utility – and new buying […]
More than 300 people from 13 countries gathered last week in Miami for our annual deep dive into the emergence of We Media as a defining force for the connected society. We’re already working on several big ideas we heard to take the conversation forward – through new research, the We Media Community, member working […]
For the second year in a row we’ve documented a devastating lack of satisfaction with journalism in American – and an opportunity to do something about it. Here’s the formal press release of the new research, which we discussed in the opening session of this year’s We Media Miami Forum and Festival. The good news: […]
We’re in the midst of final preparations for the We Media Miami conference next week. If you can’t be there in person this year, you can follow along with live video streaming from the main sessions (not the breakout sessions), and dive into the discussions in the conference blog or in the live chat. We’ll […]
Reuters and Global Voices have launched a new web site called Voices without Votes that aggregates views on the US elections from bloggers in other countries. Solana Larson, co-managing editor for GV, explained the project in an email this afternoon: Global Voices challenges people to listen to people beyond their own borders. We translate back […]
The social web depends on content, tagging and utility created or improved by the good will of the people formerly known as the audience. Where does good will end and greed take over? That depends on whether you’re a giver or taker. Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen Media is bothered by the free […]
Facebook and other social networks are a new tool for citizen-powered justice. See, for instance, Witness Hub, which focuses the tools of media – video cameras and web video – to document, draw attention to and underscore campaigns against human rights abuses worldwide. But social justice is in the eye of the beholder. Recently a […]