Congratulations to Steve Yelvington for being named 2007 Online Innovator of the Year by the Newspaper Association of America.
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The modern world powered by technology has drastically altered our traditional understanding of what a community is. However, in a shift from physical to the virtual, the term “community” has retained its validity, contrary to the gloomy predictions of doomsayers terrified by the atomization of individuals and the disaggregation of communities that never happened. Instead, […]
From The World Economic Forum comes the news that YouTube will start paying those who upload videos. First of all… at the World Economic Forum… a YouTube announcement? Shouldn’t the folks there be talking about, I don’t know, currency trading or real estate speculation or climate change?
In my opinion, a community in a connected world is a group of people who effect collective actions through active participation and communication. Generally, communities in an unconnected world are not created and maintained through voluntary participation; families, friends and colleagues are representative examples of communities in the unconnected world. Compared to the unconnected world, […]
I find the phrase “citizen journalism” is in some cases far too weighty a label for the most interesting examples of the activity. Not every CJ site is about global warming or local democracy in action. . .
BRADENTON, FLORIDA – Two friends and I spent Sunday evening at a local skating rink videotaping a Bradentucky Bombers roller derby match. Bradenton seems to be developing its own roller derby community. There’s already a strong one in the Tampa area, just to our North. And this is just one example of a local community […]
This is a draft of an article I’ve been working on concerning the accelerating affect that online social networking has had on cultural mores. I would love thoughts and comments. John Fischer Associate / Infinia Foresight– Digitally Lame: How Internet Popularity Lapped Me The first day as a senior in High School was a premonition […]
Until very recently, human communities were traditionally built upon shared values, geographic proximity and durability.
In 1962 or 1963, my (long-deceased) ham-radio-operator father predicted that as long-distance communications became ubiquitous due to technical advances, “In another generation or two, ‘neighborhoods’ will be defined by shared interests, not geography.”