It’s been four days since a frumpy, unemployed church worker who’s “never been kissed” sang “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent. You want fast?: 12 million+ You Tube views (2.5m within 72 hourss), 5 fan sites, Bebo fan club, Facebook fan club, fans forum, interviews on BBC and CBS, and a Susan Boyle […]
A few months back we asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they have learned along the way and what’s next. (Here’s the rest of the series). Somehow, amidst the flurry of conference preparations, this one slipped through our crack(ed) editorial process. But it’s important, so here […]
According to the New York Times, magazine publishers are trying to figure out if they can raise their prices without losing subscribers. The answer is no. I subscribe to more than twenty magazines, including Time, Newsweek, US News, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Wired, and GOOD. I read every single […]
The entry deadline has passed, but the gallery of entries to The Sunlight Foundation’s annual apps competition is worth a look. The foundation supports projects that use technology to make government more transparent – meaning more open, more visible and more subject to public scrutiny. The foundation’s focus is strictly on U.S. policy and government, […]
From our friends at Naked Media and Scribe Media, tune in at Noon ET April 14 (tomorrow) for a live interview with online publishing visionary Larry Kramer. Larry is an old friend and participant in We Media programs. He’s best known as founder of CBS.Marketwatch. More recently he’s been an advisor to a variety of […]
Once again, the print version of a newspaper is dead. This time it’s the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, disrupting the lives of journalists and the news coverage of a region, as it shifts to a pared-down digital edition after 146 years of delivering news on paper. Journalism’s economic crisis has attained historic proportions — but there are […]