The Activist World panel (4:15 Wednesday, February 27) at the We Media Miami conference brings together interesting new initiatives, from aggregating original human-rights-abuse videos in a forum we can all access, share and act on, to a way to “sponsor” folks out there in the world doing good, to an online community forum that allows […]
Question: How can you tell the difference between an aloof MSM personality and a We-Media-spirited personality? Answer: A real blogger pays attention to trackbacks + takes the time to comment on other people’s blogs! That’s just what Women for Hire CEO Tory Johnson did yesterday when she responded to my post on her interview with […]
As Andrew noted last year, Wikipedia’s neutral-point-of-view doesn’t always cut it, especially when the topic at hand is particularly controversial. Should Guantanamo be closed? Is outsourcing a good thing? Should convicted pedophiles be electronically tagged? No easy answers to those questions, and rather than clicking through tit-for-tat editing at Wikipedia, why not move the conversation […]
If you want a good blogosphere-meets-MSM laugh, check out this recent clip from ABC’s Good Morning America, in which work/life correspondent Tory Johnson interviews BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone (who spoke at We Media Miami ’07): Lisa Stone: As a working parent, I wasn’t at all surprised last year when Neilsen reported a 10-percent drop in […]
We’re please to announce a new service for members of the We Media Community. The iFOCOS Media Intelligence Report is a periodic review of key trends, ideas and issues in media, along with analysis of what these findings mean for the connected society. In the new Intelligence Report we’ll consider trends in media and their […]
Barbara Iverson is one busy professor. In addition to teaching multi-media reporting and other journalism topics at Columbia College Chicago, she blogs at currentbuzz (“where technology meets, greets, clashes with and transforms journalism today”) and co-publishes Creating Community Connections, a community-generated hyperlocal news-site. Barbara will be with us at We Media Miami, and today she […]
YouTube, like TV itself, is a lot of things — we can watch first-hand footage from Iraq or campaign mashups or the first steps of our friend’s child. But probably its most popular function is simply entertainment. When my two-year-old son sees me on the computer, he says, “Hey-hey:” That’s his way of asking for […]
If you’re geeky about journalism and technology, then you’ll definitely want to search out David Cohn at We Media Miami. (Look for the cool hair.) David is chest-deep in some of the most exciting experiments in journalism these days: As editor at NewAssignment.Net and NewsTrust.net, he is helping think through, in very practical ways, how […]
Okay, folks, we’re 19 days away from We Media Miami — time enough to print out your e-ticket, vote in a primary (where applicable,) and think seriously about the juicy networking opportunities that await you. If you’re really going to make a party out of it, then you’re already planning to arrive in time for […]
We Media Miami is truly a global event, and on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 27, David Sasaki will chair a session on indigenous media, with a particular focus on Bolivia. In this post, Sasaki tells the story of Bolivian blogging and asks questions the session in Miami will aim to answer. Also included here are short […]