Can Citizen Photo Agency Demotix Succeed Where Scoopt Failed?
Recently, the “citizen photo agency” Demotix has had reason to celebrate. The site gained fame by selling front-page photos to…
Needed: Real-Time Auction System for Citizen Media
A fierce and fascinating debate has broken out over the cover photo on Time magazine’s April 27 print edition. Time…
The Highs (and Lows) of Public Officials on Twitter
Are high profile public officials using Twitter as a noble tool to bypass the proverbial “mainstream media filter” and communicate…
Digital Media Summit
Location: Los Angeles Disney Interactive Media Group President Steve Wadsworth, Sony Pictures CTO Mitch Singer, Lionsgate Digital Media President Curt…
Top Five Two Hundred Forty Five
Tweet your Senator Obama creates Twitter, Google Maps mashup to push health care reform Citizen photo of Gates Photo of…
Saving (or Destroying) Public Radio on a Mobile Phone
Is the iPhone app Public Radio Player the good guy or the bad? The critics aren’t so sure. Marshall Kirkpatrick’s…
Virtual Worlds Show Promise for Newspaper Communities
In my previous post, I talked about the browser-based virtual environment Metaplace, which I think may provide a way to…
Cool Twitter Conference
**Location:**Seattle This is a conference to help web developers, businesspeople, and others understand Twitter and leverage the power of the…
Wine Bloggers Conference
Location: Napa and Sonoma, CA This is an conference for bloggers specializing in wine to discuss how new social media…
Barcamp Transparency
Location: Oxford, UK This conference unites technologists, experts, campaigners and commentators to examine the possibilities of open government, social media…