After an introduction from Richard Sambrooke, Media Center director Andrew Nachison opens the forum admitting that although the purpose of the Media Center is to develop a better informed society, it doesn’t really know what that means… By the end of the day, we’re sure to have a better idea. Andrew continued saying a major […]
How cool is this? The We Media Global Forum is being held in the studio for the BBC’s Top of the Pops! Final touches are being made (I just got a place to plug in a power cord, whew!) but that doesn’t mean the information digestion has to wait. The results of The Media Center […]
Noted: A new blog search called Sphere launched today, just in time to help us track anything tagged wemedia. Technorati Tags: blogs, information overload, knowledge management, wemedia TAG: wemedia Previous Comments Same tag for flickr? Posted by: Katy | May 2, 2006 04:12 PM Yes. Posted by: Andrew Nachison | May 2, 2006 07:47 PM
Salam Adil writes a wonderfully nuanced analysis of the Reuters image we’ve used to promote the We Media Global Forum, which starts tomorrow in London. The photo shows a veiled woman raising one finger stained with blue ink – a symbol of having voted in Iraq. As Adil notes, the image itself is challenging on […]
If you’re in London next week for our We Media Global Forum – or for some other reason – you might be interested in another blogging event planned for a secret location the evening of May 3. It’s a “fringe” conference, and sorry if I somehow taint its fringiness by saying how great I think […]
What is perhaps the greatest driver of consumer choice in business? (should I buy a Toyota or a Buick? Sony or Sanyo?) It is, of course, old-fashioned word of mouth (WOM). Still. Yep, the future of business looks a bit more like the past than you might think. What’s been happening around us is the […]
When is a Starbucks not a Starbucks? Apparently only when I’m in the grocery store, or a hotel or, I don’t know almost every place I ever encounter the behemoth’s logo in person. Confused? Me too. All I wanted was a bottle of water, a delicious slice of marble cake, and to pay for it […]
I have been in two minds these days, caught between the inner conviction I had nothing new to add to these week’s posts (plus I agree with most), and a faint surge to get down to basics & do some devil’s advocacy for good measure. As Internet can link me to any website in the […]
Florian Brody asks: Should we wait for a random start-up to come up with some new web technology to find out about the next major change of the media that defines our society? Well, from someone who hangs out with “random start-ups” here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I proffer that they are not […]
There is a great deal of understandable excitement about the potential of digital communications to help unleash the public service potential of journalism. Many journalists hope that new digital technologies will provide them with an opportunity to bypass the mainstream gatekeepers. Others believe that a non-professional form of public journalism can create a vibrant new […]