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 […]
Joan Peckolick, the founder and director of Selfchec.org, which leverages the power of human relationships to promote health, is one of the many media activists joining our We Media Miami conversation. On a Wednesday afternoon panel chaired by Suzanne Turner of Turner Strategies, Joan will share how social media can not only encourage healthy lifestyles […]
Reuters and Global Voices have launched a new web site called Voices without Votes that aggregates views on the US elections from bloggers in other countries. Solana Larson, co-managing editor for GV, explained the project in an email this afternoon: Global Voices challenges people to listen to people beyond their own borders. We translate back […]
One of the perks of my new job as communications editor at iFOCOS is listening in on conversations that Andrew and Dale are having. Yesterday, Andrew told a colleague he sees a dynamic future for non-profit media. He pointed out that for years, human rights and advocacy organizations have been producing in-depth investigative reports that […]
Here’s a just-confirmed addition to the We Media Miami schedule: Richard Sarnoff, President of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). BDMI is a venture fund launched in 2006 by one of the “big six” global media firms – and regardless of what you may think of those big six or their dizzying portfolio of brands and […]
Let’s say you have thought up a genius idea: a new way to advertise, to network, to save the world. How will you launch it into cyberspace? Digital media means anyone with an Internet connection can be an entrepreneur or media-maker. But while anyone may have an innovative idea, not everyone has the business know-how […]