I like to play with word mashups that impart new meaning and metaphors, but sometimes you’ve got to be careful when you apply them to a URL. Like: www.newstools.org New stools? A furniture-maker’s site? Horticulturalist’s? Bishop’s? African chieftan’s? Informant’s? Or gastroenterologist’s? Creative capitalization helps: NewsTools. The site highlights the work of the Journalism That Matters […]
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer makes nice with John Stewart tonight on The Daily Show. Here’s the video of the cat fight from Cramer’s colleagues at CNBC. In case you missed it, the original hurts-so-hysterically takedown is here. Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, took down the original takedown on You Tube.
Two programs, the latest in a long conversation, have brought smart people together this week to save journalism’s role in democracy. Journalism That Matters, a community of “media innovators and stakeholders,” is concluding a three-day seminar at the Poynter Institute “adapting journalism to the new news ecology.” At the University of Nevada in Reno a […]
As a part of the Entrepreneur’s Caucus at last week’s WeMedia conference in Miami, I asked Krista Van Tassel to share some insights about how to launch and sustain a successful social enterprise. Her recommendations were solid gold — which wasn’t really a surprise, since Krista is surrounded by people who are pursuing social ventures […]
For those who were unable to join the “Storytellers Caucus” at We Media this year, here’s some of what you missed: I started with a brief history of how our traditional ideas of story have proved a remarkable tool for making order out of the chaos of the world and our experiences in it. (PDF) […]