What’s the first thing many of us do when our cough won’t go away or our child has a rash? Search online, of course. According to comScore, the traffic to health information sites increased last year, reaching 55.3 million U.S. visitors in the first quarter of 2007 alone. Doctors and others have long worried, however, […]
My wife, the kids and I recently ducked out of chaos for a few days on a sunny island off the Florida coast. While there, we planned to sink our spirits into a local wildlife refuge known for its rare “co-habitation” among migratory birds. Here, the birds are, well, feather-blind (couldn’t resist!). All species pack […]
On his resume, Travis Smith describes himself as “an experienced blend of technology, editorial and management skills in a personable package.” Not a bad thing to be at this moment in history. A former editor at Variety.com and LATimes.com, Travis is now a partner (and blogger) at Hop Studios, a web design and consulting firm […]
Last night while watching the NAACP’s Image Awards, I began thinking about the connections between my personal guilty pleasure, American Idol, and my professional passion, We Media. When the preternaturally talented Jordin Sparks took the stage for an Aretha Franklin tribute, I felt some strange sense of connection with Sparks, the way you feel about […]
Next Wednesday, Feb. 20, is the deadline for applying for New Voices. Here’s what it’s all about: J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism invites U.S. nonprofit groups and education organizations to apply for funding to launch participatory news ventures and to share best practices and lessons learned from their efforts through the J-NewVoices.org Web site. […]
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 […]
The Activist World panel (4:15 Wednesday, February 27) at the We Media Miami conference brings together interesting new initiatives, from aggregating original human-rights-abuse videos in a forum we can all access, share and act on, to a way to “sponsor” folks out there in the world doing good, to an online community forum that allows […]
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 […]
We’re please to announce a new service for members of the We Media Community. The iFOCOS Media Intelligence Report is a periodic review of key trends, ideas and issues in media, along with analysis of what these findings mean for the connected society. In the new Intelligence Report we’ll consider trends in media and their […]
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 […]