Our first We Media regional summit was a spectacular success last week in Buenos Aires. More than 250 people packed the auditorium at the stunning MALBA museum for contemporary art (we hoped to see 150). But success wasn’t simply a matter of numbers. The conversations at We Media Buenos Aires refreshed my thinking about how […]
Unlicensed, but partisan plumber gets his fifteen minutes of fame on You Tube, the CBS Evening News, AP, CNN, Yahoo!, New York Times, and blog-a-blog-a-blog-a …. What we really need is Campaign Drano.
Project:Report, You Tube’s partnership with the Pulitzer Center, is one of the most promising expressions of We Media to emerge between traditional and everyday journalists. Essentially a journalism contest funded in part by Sony and Intel, Project:Report was created for non-professional, everyday citizens to tell stories that might not otherwise be told. The simple and […]
We’ve heard enough. That’s why we want – and get – something different from tonight’s final presidential debate. Sosolimited, three MIT-educated software engineers-slash-culture jammers, will remix the debate using software that allows them to sample and analyze the video, audio, and closed captioned text of the television broadcast. Through a series of visual and sonic […]
The always relevant Good magazine distributes a free poster on the economy at your neighborhood Starbucks beginning tomorrow. In an illustrated timeline titled “It’s the economy, stupid,” graphic designer Nigel Holmes outlines “how our temperamental economy machine works.” Or doesn’t. Holmes’ patented, cartoon-like approach injects fun into serious stuff, managing to provide an easy-to-understand overview […]
The We Media conversation and movement is live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today and tomorrow. Follow, listen or watch the video stream from our regional summit here, and more in the We Media Community. Live streams (provided by conference sponsor Clarin.com) will be available from roughly 10 am to 7 pm ET Tuesday, and to […]
Note: Guillermo is our Buenos Aires director and led the organization and production of our We Media Regional Summit, Oct. 14-15, 2008. Here in Argentina we always speak about our globally connected society. But when we say “global” maybe not all of us are thinking about the impact that new technologies are having in countries […]
We’ll be in Buenos Aires next week for our first regional We Media Summit. We’re expecting a capacity turnout – 200+ people from a great mix of organizations. Traditional media, blogs, social networks, tech, activists, cause and brand marketers, advertising and finance will be well represented. The Buenos Aires City Council has declared the conference […]
In its own Washington Post report on the deal, The Washington Post Co. doesn’t disclose the purchase price, but does say the bi-monthly magazine was losing $1.3 million a year under its former owners, a Washington think tank called the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Susan Glasser, a former Post assistant managing editor who’s been […]
One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because it’s well designed and design itself is a core value of the service and the user experience. Users create multimedia collages with Scrapblog, then share them with embed codes, just like you share YouTube […]
Photos: Creative Commons via Flickr from Bobster1985, lisatozzi, jeffpearce and Annie Mole. The practice of professional journalism is like the practice of professional sports. It’s physically demanding, dirty, and success requires a combination of skills, talent, experience and luck. But it’s different in one glaring respect. Sports fans love their teams, the players and the […]
Back at the turn, print publishers tried to persuade us the future was in electronic ink — a fusion of chemistry, physics and electronics that transformed the “printed” page into a constantly changing stream of updated news and information. Eight years and two Web revolutions later, e-ink has finally made its mass-media debut on the […]
Bono is a rock star musician. Jeffrey Sachs is a rock star economist. This week, they were also bloggers for FT.com. Read their posts and you can see clearly how people with passion and purpose can produce journalism that stands out from the routine, gutless reporting we’ve been indoctrinated to view as normal and right.
Earlier this month a New York University student went “undercover” into her own journalism classroom to report on the class for Mediashift, a blog published by the US public television network PBS. She didn’t tell the professor or fellow students what she was up to, or ask their permission. In her report, student Alana Taylor […]
PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news wall on today’s front page of NewYorkTimes.com. Washingtonpost.com, too. A godlike Mac watches and comments just below the nameplate.