NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next. This essay written by Jon Sawyer, Executive Director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting The Pulitzer Center funds enterprise international reporting, something that most […]
“Have you ever come across an inaccessible web site and wondered, ‘am I the only one?’” Such begins the “about” section for Herdict, the latest project to come of age at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Before I continue, full disclosure: I am employed there, with the OpenNet Initiative, and have had a […]
Many thanks to Bill Sobel, the New York: Media Information Exchange Group and bright-eyed and just-plain-bright conversation leaders at our first breakfast club discussion at the Samsung Experience in NYC on Thursday. Beyond the tasty mini lox-and-bagels and morning fresheners with media movers-and-shakers, we managed to launch our new initiative on the first We Media […]
Our first We Media regional summit was a spectacular success last week in Buenos Aires. More than 250 people packed the auditorium at the stunning MALBA museum for contemporary art (we hoped to see 150). But success wasn’t simply a matter of numbers. The conversations at We Media Buenos Aires refreshed my thinking about how […]
We’ve heard enough. That’s why we want – and get – something different from tonight’s final presidential debate. Sosolimited, three MIT-educated software engineers-slash-culture jammers, will remix the debate using software that allows them to sample and analyze the video, audio, and closed captioned text of the television broadcast. Through a series of visual and sonic […]
Earlier this month a New York University student went “undercover” into her own journalism classroom to report on the class for Mediashift, a blog published by the US public television network PBS. She didn’t tell the professor or fellow students what she was up to, or ask their permission. In her report, student Alana Taylor […]
Wash off your champagne glasses, and order your web buttons and bumper stickers to show off your webbiness on Sept. 22. That’s OneWebDay, the brainchild of University of Michigan law professor Susan Crawford. It’s a day of public events, talks, meetups and drinks worldwide intended to raise awareness of issues that are important for the […]
As the UK economy suffers its worst crisis in 60 years and some of the world’s biggest private financial institutions crumble beneath the crash of the U.S. housing market, we can’t help but reflect on the notion of enlightened anxiety. That’s a phrase Dale used in the introduction to our original We Media report, published […]
One of the fundamental tasks of design and business is to stand between revolutions and life, to help people deal with change. That’s the premise of The Right Brain Rules, a strategic vision and a portfolio of assets for creating value into the future. Voice-over and context are missing, but here’s the requested slide deck […]
Play is to our time what work was to the Industrial Society: our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. Now Spore has arrived in North America to mess with our gene pool. The multi-genre “massively single-player online game” allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a […]