eComm 2009
Location: San Francisco This is a conference dedicated to defining new ways of communication in the post-telecom world and exploring…
BRITE 09
Location: New York City This is a conference for innovators and entrepreneurs to discuss how new technology affects the way…
News [metadata] from Porto
‘The solution to the overabundance of information’ David Weinberger writes in Everything is Miscellaneous, ‘is more information’. Long live metadata!…
Developing Social Media Workshops for Journalists
For the last few weeks, my colleague Raphael and I have been organizing a series of social media workshops for…
Can African-Americans Find Their Voice in Cyberspace?: A Conversation With Dayna Cunningham (Part Two of Four)
(Part one.) Henry Jenkins: Thanks for this really rich provocation, Dayna. These are questions which we need to be discussing…
Using Social Media in the Newsroom
newspapers-illustration I’m working with the Poynter Institute to put together an online class for senior newspaper executives on how to…
A Cool (and Easy) Project from a ‘Programmer-Journalist’
When we put together our Knight News Challenge application to offer journalism scholarships to computer programmers, the premise was that…
Diet Bloggers Deal in Brutal Honesty in Quest for Weight Loss
On February 11, Scott Schroeder fell. He’d eaten at a McDonald’s for supper and gorged himself on a Big Mac,…
The Promise and Challenges for Mobile Media in the Developing World
Mobile phones are everywhere. They have long surpassed the Internet in number of users, and in some parts of the…
DEMO 09
Location: Palm Desert, CA This is an expo where investors can see the latest new technologies and newest start-up companies.…