Our favorite media pundit Jay Rosen shared this test for understanding how people define and are defined by communities. What I carry in mine: — Driver’s License. Geographic community. — Business cards. Connections to global communities. — Insurance cards. My health and wellness, anywhere. — Apple Pro Care. Ticket to my technology. — Hidden Creek […]
Sao Paulo, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising. Although legal challenges from businesses have left a handful standing, 15,000 billboards have been stripped from a city that resembles a battlefield strewn with blank marquees, partially torn-down frames […]
You have to admire the chutzpah of any group that seeks to save journalism from itself by blowing with the wind. But inspired by native forces, the goo-goos at Journalism That Matters gathered in “open space” at a George Washington University cafeteria to agonize over the ill-winds of change. All the right people – which, […]
If the Next Newsroom sounds familiar, it is. It borrows language from Newspaper Next (request the report; don’t republish), the “transformation project” financed by newspaper publishers. Both projects owe to Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen’s broadly applicable, 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma. The difference: the American Press Institute paid Christensen’s consulting company $2.5 million to […]
Unaware of a shooting in a dormitory that left two people dead, Virginia Tech graduate student Jamal al Barghouti headed across campus to meet with his advisor. Nearing Norris Hall he ran into police, guns drawn, rushing inside. As al Barghouti took cover, he pulled out his Nokia camera-phone and started recording. Then came the […]
One of my past lives collides with present ones in three short videos. And then there are the larger stories … A single entry in the SND design contest from the Los Angeles Times Web 2.0: The machine is us My Space: I know me some ugly Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. […]