Audio from the opening remarks of We Media 2008, the Print is Dead, Print Reincarnated and The Power to Change the World sessions are now available for streaming through this post or individual download through the player embedded here. Please check back for more updates. (Photography by Tom Stepp)
How they do what they do? In 2004 Harvard fellows realized that several people in the world were blogging but people in US could not get the content, because of the language barrier, there were no content of some regions of the World, there were several issues not covered by mainstream media in many countries […]
Here’s some key quotes that Craig Smith noted: jen: connects moms together randy: care2 “[care2 is all about] Helping people feel empowered” chris: topix “nobody reads the newspaper but everyone wants to be in it” ” will lead to a 10% jump in world productivity over the next few years” suha: real girls media “[on […]
Question: What is the dialogue like in business today? Is it fear/excitement? Lawrence: The dialogue in business is a spectrum from anxious to terrified! The logic from one to many may no longer apply, or may need to make room for this new model. Organizational form (manufacturing economics) that tend to oligopoly may not apply […]
Networked Economics | Leveraging connections Everything is networked: friendship, professional life, customers, knowledge, causes and commerce. These networks represent new opportunities to invent, innovate and disrupt. What do philanthropists, advocates, social entrepreneurs, tech startups, journalists, venture capitals and everyday users now have in common? Have networks changed the nature of business?Session Chair: Merrill Brown, Chairman, […]
The idea, for developers, is to produce the tools that allow us to share the content that is important to us and our world. This can even extend to the most emotional and historically important of arenas, including memorials of soldiers in the Vietnam War. Chris Willis of Footnote.com is enabling living soldiers of the […]
The relationship between professional and amateur journalists is starting to emerge. Explore how non-professionals connected by social networks and tools influence new models of storytelling and workflow involving eyewitnesses, amateurs and professionals. Session Chair: Louis Ferrara, Managing Editor Sports, Entertainment & Multimedia, The Associated Press With: Michael Tippett, Co-Founder, NowPublic Kate Marymont, Executive Editor, The […]
“Any community that is large and diverse, will have sub-communities” says Elisa, but these sub-communities need rules that apply to everyone to lead to express disagreement without flaming. Blogher did not “silo” women’s interests. Members hop around from topics. Knitting and mommy blogs were here examples of different communities and you should be social online […]
What will be the result if you put together millenary cultures that preserved their memory and traditions in spite of repression and poverty, enthusiastic youth and volunteers discovering new media? You might be surprised of the amazing contents produced by Voces Bolivianas and Rising Voices (a project by Global Voices). In the year of the […]
Todor continues with anecdote about Fiat getting community built around adding features to the car. Car owners post about vacations in their cars, their cars as steppingstones to social engagement. The moderator of this session is Susan Mernit and she is keeping the session moving so that all speakers get time to talk and the […]
Pitch It #3 – A website that brings important information and sparks conversation around local schools. Robert Park Bringing laws to parents and providing a space to react to issues. User case: A teacher was illegally posting grades publicly at the school. This issue was known by the parents and a problem in their minds. […]
The past several decades have been marked by two trends in journalism, neither of them conducive to an informed public or the furtherance of democracy. On the one hand there is the growing consolidation of media ownership and a precipitous drop in national and global reporting. On the other there is a fragmentation of the […]
Sponsored by Washington Post – newsweek Interactive Location: Storer Auditorium at 4:15 pm Session Chair: Hal Straus, Interactivity and Communities Editor, Washingtonpost.com Robin Miller, Editor, Slashdot/SourceForge Slashdot has a multilayered moderation system for ranking comments. “If you ever get into a content rating system, do *not* call it ‘karma’.” Slashdot moderators are selected at random, […]
An audience member noted that the online back channels are valuable. The big-screen has the Weme twitter posts, that is one kind of back-channel. Someone noted that back channels can become snarky and degenerate. Someone else noted that the unconference needs direction that is subtle or at least different than we are often used to. […]
This is a good panel but it has been a long day. After this panel, the Mojito in the Grove session. Dean Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean UM School of Education starts with an anecdote about women in Kerala, India, and a sense of well-being that began long ago, and resulted literacy as high as a developed […]