Jeff Gomez (@Jeff_Gomez), a multimedia producer and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, makes the case for art in a crazy, scary world.
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If you live in Washington, DC, and can offer a little bit of your time, sign up and check out the project details. You can go down into the subway to see how long it takes to escape, or assist with mapping data and other text, photo and video tasks. NewsIt won our 2010 PitchIt Challenge, and we’ve been advising the project since then.
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Australian web site StartupSmart has ranked the We Media PitchIt! Challenge among the world’s top 10 startup challenges. Wow – and thanks! We’re humbled to be listed among some truly ambitious challenges conducted by IBM, MIT, SXSW and others. Here’s the full list. One thing the Aussies liked, and we do too, is that the […]
One of the battles for our computing hearts and minds isn’t over mobile or networked anything. It’s over something so prosaic, so ordinary, so retro, it feels like a faded clipping from a family scrapbook: the offline world.
Now the hard part – the winners earned $25,000 and access to a network of world-changing We Media Mentors to help turn two big ideas into something real.
In the City of Fools, a last-minute, April 1 invitation for a private, drop-by with a dignitary is as predictable as cherry blossoms. Still, we appreciated this one to Washington’s frustrated, but very creative, development community: [modevdc] New Meetup: Sit down with Steve Jobs From: “Pete Erickson” <pete@distuptathon.com> To: [modevdc]-announce@meetup.com What: Sit down with Steve […]
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Click Here for Live Coverage For all the world-changing of recent weeks you’d think there were more important matters to parse than The New York Times paywall, AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post, the new iPad or the latest corporate power play for domination on the Net. Here’s a suggestion: let’s refocus the conversation on […]
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Clear Health Costs will offer consumer-friendly information about the costs of health care services and products.
Meridian Stories is designed as a YouTube-like environment, driven by regularly scheduled, global competitions between schools, around short-form storytelling using image, words, film and music.
Stable Renters will assemble a profile and score for every rental property and owner based on a history of violations, lawsuits, pending charges, bedbugs, ceiling leaks and more.
Longshot Media is a hybrid media company that harnesses the tools of the Web and social media to create a print-on-demaand magazine.
Neighborhood Pages offers affordable, custom Drupal installations to get hyper-local news & community sites up and running, and ongoing support and training to help them succeed.
Until it becomes something else – something worthy of a genuine, heartfelt, passionate backlash – The New York Times will remain a story that no paywall can re-write, no matter how porous or protective it may be.
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