Wed. Feb. 27th Andrew Nachison and Dale Peskin, co-founders of iFOCOS. We are assembling and there is power in Miami today. Perhaps we need to talk about the grid and power, but the session is settling in now.
For the second year in a row we’ve documented a devastating lack of satisfaction with journalism in American – and an opportunity to do something about it. Here’s the formal press release of the new research, which we discussed in the opening session of this year’s We Media Miami Forum and Festival. The good news: […]
I’m in balmy Miami, where attendees convened for introductions, with a backdrop of a compelling photography exhibit and fresh veggie catering. The power outage today in south Florida created some chaos for locals, while fliers adjusted to the shock of sweating and being in the presence of green flora. My impression: a melting pot of […]
The number of digital discussions has taken off in recent years — pushed by more powerful technology, the popularity of social networking sites, the rush by publishers and businesses to engage their audiences and clients, and the general migration of formerly offline activities to online platforms. But does more = better? Does the content, organization, […]
For class, I had my students watch the wonderful documentary, Revolution OS. It features a cast of characters that could people a graphic novel — Richard Stallman the GNUman, Gandolf to Linus Torvalds’ Aragorn. Eric Raymond, a sort of Bilbo Baggins, moving between the Cathedral and Bazaar, Bruce Perens, appearing as an Elrond figure–anyway, the […]
Since the presidential campaign began for the 2008 United States election,mainstream media coverage of the campaign never stopped amazing me at all.Matter of fact is,this is my first ever election campaign i have literally seen in the United States. And though i occasionally watched other U.S. presidential campaigns and elections while still in Africa via […]